FORMAT Portfolio Review March 2015 Reviewer

FORMAT Portfolio Review
March 2015
Reviewer Biographies
Thank you for your interest in the Portfolio Reviews. Please read the information on the FORMAT site carefully
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pages you will find a biography for each of the Portfolio Reviewers. Please note, reviewers may be added or
changed at any time.
List of Reviewers:
ÁNGEL LUIS GONZÁLEZ FERNANDEZ – Founder, PhotoIreland, Ireland
ÂNGELA FERREIRA – Director/Curator, PhotoFestival Encontros da Imagem, Portugal
ANNE BRAYBON – Independent Creative Director, Photo Historian and Lecturer, UK
BARRY W. HUGHES – Director at SMBHmag, Writer at HotShoe, Photographer, UK
BRIDGET COAKER – Director of Troika Editions; Picture Editor for The Guardian and Observer newspapers, UK
CAMILLA BROWN – Independent Writer, Curator and Lecturer, UK
CARINE DOLEK – Artistic Director and Co-Founder of Le Petit Espace & one of the Founders of the Festival
Circulation(s), France
CHRISTIANE MONARCHI – Founding Editor of the online magazine, Photomonitor, UK
CLAUDE HUDELOT – Curator and Art Collector, France Due to unforeseen circumstances, Claude will have to
withdraw from reviewing.
DAGMAR SEELAND – Picture Editor, stern Magazine, UK
DEWI LEWIS – Publisher, Dewi Lewis Publishing, UK
DIETER NEUBERT – Co Founder and Director of the Kassel Fotobook Festival and Founder of the Kassel
Photobook and Dummy Awards, Germany
EMMA BOWKETT – Photo Editor, Financial Times Weekend Magazine, UK
ENRICO BOSSAN – Editorial Director at COLORS Magazine, Italy
ERIK KESSELS – Artist, Curator and Creative Director of KesselsKramer, Netherlands
ERIK VROONS – Editor-at-Large, GUP Magazine and Newdawn Paper, Netherlands
FEDERICA CHIOCCHETTI – Curator, Writer and Founder of The Photocaptionist, UK
FIONA ROGERS – Global Business Development Manager, Magnum Photos, UK
FRAZIER KING – Advisory Board Member, FotoFest and on the Board and the Exhibitions Committee of the
Houston Center for Photography, USA
GEMMA PADLEY – Freelance Journalist (for organisations including BJP) and Editor, UK
GWEN LEE – Founder, Singapore International Photo Festival, Singapore
HARRY HARDIE – Founder of Here Press, UK
IDA KIELMANSEGG – Curator, Anzenberger Gallery & Agency, Austria
JOHN DUNCAN – Co-editor, Source Photographic Review, Ireland
KRZYSZTOF CANDROWICZ – Director of the International Festival of Photography in Lodz, Poland
LARS WILLUMEIT – Curator, East Wing, Dubai
LIHUI BAO AND BECKY BAO – Art Director of Dali International Photography Exhibition, Chief editor of Mino
Photo magazine and International Liaison Director of DIPE and Mino Photo magazine, China (Bio will be added)
LISA BOTOS – Independent Curator, Singapore and Hong Kong
LORENZO FUSI – Director, Open Eye Gallery, UK
MALCOLM DICKSON – Director, Street Level Photoworks, UK
MARIAMA ATTAH – Programme Curator, Photoworks, UK
MARTIN BARNES – Senior Curator of Photography, Victoria & Albert Museum, UK
MINDAUGAS KAVALIAUSKAS – Founder and Artistic Director of KAUNAS PHOTO Festival, Lithuania
NUNO RICOU SALGADO – Founding member and chairman of Procur.arte Associação Cultural e Social,
Portugal
PHILIP PRODGER – Head of Photographs, National Portrait Gallery, UK (Bio will be added)
PIERRE BESSARD – Founder of Bessard Editions Publishing House, France
SHANNON GHANNAM – Content Strategy and Development, Reuters, UK
SHEYI BANKALE – Curator and Editor, Next Level Projects and Next Level, UK
SIAN BONNELL – Artist and Curator, UK
STUART SMITH – Co-Founder of GHOST Books, UK
SUE STEWARD – Broadcaster and Independent Photography Curator, UK
TIM CLARK – Editor and Chief and Publisher at 1000 Words Magazine, UK
W.M HUNT – Photography Author, Dealer and Teacher, USA
WANG BAOGUO – Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Chinese Photographers Magazine, China
ZELDA CHEATLE – Independent Curator, UK
WILLIAM EWI
Angel Luis González
Fernández
Founder and Director,
PhotoIreland, Ireland.
Type of work
interested/not
interested in: I am
taking part as a reviewer
to help photographers
and artists with their
practice in any stage, and
guide them on particular
projects, no matter the
level, quality, or content.
Ángel Luis González Fernández is the founder and Director of
PhotoIreland. The organisation celebrates Ireland’s International
Photography festival every July. He launched in 2011 'The Library
Project', a publicly accessible collection of publications around
Photography, holding today over 1200 key items from 220 publishers
worldwide. Today, The Library Project premises are also host to an Art
bookshop and a gallery. Ángel won the David Manley Entrepreneur
Award 2011 in the Arts category. He has reviewed in festivals like Les
Rencontres d'Arles, and published books like ‘Martin Parr's Best Books
of the Decade’ in 2011, and ‘New Irish Works’ in 2013. He has designed
books for photographers such as Miriam O'Connor and David Farrell.
http://photoireland.org
Ângela Ferreira
Director/Curator of Photo
Festival Encontros da
Imagem, Portugal.
Type of work
interested/not interested
in: Angela is especially
interested in documentary
and photoessays oriented
work as well as compelling
work addressing
contemporary issues
whether abstract or
concrete. She is looking for
well-edited portfolios to
include in the Festival
Encontros da Imagem in
Braga, as well as for the
purposes of nominating
work for other photography
institutions.
Ângela Ferreira is the director/curator of the Portuguese Photo Festival
Encontros da Imagem, Braga, a international festival specialized in
exchange of fine art photography, finding and introducing contemporary
artists around the world. This year the Festival celebrates 25 editions, in
a edition entirely dedicated to POWER and ILLUSION.
Ângela is professor of Photography Department at ESAP (School of
Fine Arts- Porto- Portugal) and just finnished the PhD thesis in Visual
Communication at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She
is graduated at Utrecht School of Arts-Holland (European Media Master
in Digital Photography). She received the Master in Curatorial studies
and art direction from Esap_Guimarães, Portugal
She has contributed with articles to diverse magazines, interviewed
international artists, and introduced their work to the Portuguese Scene,
based on her professional background, and expertise, in the field of art
photography.
www.encontrosdaimagem.com
www.angelamferreira.me
Anne Braybon
Independent creative
director, photo historian
and lecturer.
Type of work
interested/not
interested in: Anne
would like to see
portraiture and still life.
As an award winning editorial art director Braybon worked in
Amsterdam, Paris and London before joining the National Portrait
Gallery in 2005 as a consultant. Her brief to commission an annual
themed series of photographic portraits was amended in 2008 when
she was invited to direct the creative approach to a major three-year
project Road to 2012.
Working together with seven photographers Braybon produced over
one hundred new photographic portraits as a record of the London
Olympic and Paralympic Games. It was exhibited in the Gallery between
2010-2012 and edited to become the Gallery’s first outside exhibition
touring to Cardiff, Edinburgh and Birmingham. Braybon returned to the
Gallery to curate the programming for Bailey’s Stardust. She recently
collaborated with Maurice van Es on Rooms of Now.
Braybon writes and leads courses on photography for public and private
sector clients including Tate Modern, the Photographers' Gallery, and
Sotheby’s Institute and lectures internationally. She is currently
finalising research on Snap! This acclaimed and eventually censored
touring exhibition was conceived by the Welsh Arts and opened at the
National Portrait Gallery in 1971.
Barry W Hughes
Photographer and founding
director of
SuperMassiveBlackHole
online photography
magazine
Type of work
interested/not interested
in: Barry is interested in
fine art photography that
engages digital technology
and/or sculpture in new
ways. Conceptual work
that incorporates found
images is also of interest.
But is not interested in
seeing landscape,
documentary, reportage or
community centred work.
Barry W Hughes is a photographer and founding director of
SuperMassiveBlackHole online photography magazine. He has been a
regular contributor to HotShoe magazine since 2012, interviewing and
writing about some of contemporary photography’s biggest names. He
has also been a nominator for the British Journal of Photography’s
‘Ones to Watch’ issue on several occasions. Hughes has delivered talks
and reviewed portfolios for the likes of The Photographers’ Gallery,
Belfast Exposed, PhotoIreland festival, Sirius Arts Centre and others.
http://smbhmag.com
http://barrywhughes.com
Bridget Coaker
Director of Troika Editions;
Picture Editor for The
Guardian and Observer
newspapers
Type of work
interested/not interested
in: Bridget prefers to see
work that is completed and
is ready for publication or
exhibiting. It can be either
journalistic or art based,
but clear in its intent and
purpose. She also prefers
to see prints rather than
laptop slide shows, unless
pertinent to the
presentation of the work.
Her advice will centre on
the work shown with
recommendations of how
to take it forward to
publication and/or
exhibitions and offer
suggestions about social
media and traditional forms
of marketing projects and
provide advice on career
progression.
Bridget Coaker is a picture editor based in London, where she works for
the Guardian and Observer
newspapers and is also Director of Photography for the contemporary
photography gallery Troika Editions, which she co-founded in 2008. She
has curated a number of exhibitions and in 2009 was Director of the
Hereford Photography Festival where she presented the photography of
European photographers working with the image of the child in "Seen But
Not Heard" and curated the retrospective show of photojournalist and
filmmaker John Bulmer. Bridget is a visiting lecturer at UK Universities,
including the University for the Creative Arts, University of Derby and the
Hereford College of Art. In 2011 she joined the steering committee of the
FORMAT International Photography Festival and participated in the North
East Photography Network Symposium Photography Publishing and the
Future of the PhotoBook. Bridget has also written about photography
including for the online art photography magazine, 1000 Words, The
Daily Telegraph and is a contributing writer for the book "Exhibiting
Photography"published by Focal Press.
www.troikaeditions.co.uk
www.theguardian.com
Camilla Brown
Curator, writer and lecturer
on contemporary art,
specialising in photography
Camilla Brown trained as an art historian completing her BA studying
with Professor Griselda Pollock at Leeds University she then studied for
her MA at the Courtauld Institute of Art. She is a curator, writer and
lecturer on contemporary art, specialising in photography.
Type of work
interested/not interested
in: My current research
area is focussing on
contemporary women
photographers practice
and work that is engaged
with political activism.
For ten years she was Senior curator at The Photographers’ Gallery,
London her shows there included Sally Mann: The family and the land;
Jordan Baseman Dark is the night; Dryden Goodwin Cast; Once more
with feeling – Recent photography from Colombia; Ori Gersht The
Clearing. Previous to which she was Exhibitions Curator at Tate
Liverpool where she curated Willie Doherty Somewhere Else and the
Tate Collection displays Urban and Violent Incident.
Since 2012 she has held an academic post as Senior Lecturer in
Creative Industries at Middlesex University, and gives talks at
universities, museums and galleries. She regularly writes for artists
monographs and history of photography books and recent publications
include contributions to Photography the Whole Story- Thames and
Hudson. She has also been featured in books about her curatorial
practice including Image Takers, Image Makers Thames and Hudson;
Exhibiting Photography; A practical guide Focal Press. She is currently
developing a chapter on exhibiting photography for a forthcoming book
for Focal Press. She has also been developing a series of essays about
contemporary women photographers with essays published on
Photomonitor.co.uk on the work of Bettina von Zwehl; Anne Hardy; Sian
Bonnell and Gayle Chong Kwan.
Examples of her work appear on her website at
www.camillaebrown.co.uk.
Carine Dolek
Artistic director and cofounder of Le petit
espace, Paris
Type of work
interested/not
interested in: Carine is
interested in seeing all
types of work except
documentary and fashion,
with a preferance for
works linked with social
media, and newcomers
as for Circulations.
Carine Dolek is the artistic director and co-founder of a photography
gallery in Paris, Le petit espace, open in 2014, May.
Le petit espace exhibits photographic works bringing more questions
than answers.
She is one of the founders of the festival Circulation(s) in Paris,
dedicted to emerging european photography, and also works with
magazines and different structures linked to photography as journalist
and social network manager.
http://lepetitespace.com
http://www.festival-circulations.com/
Christiane Monarchi
Founding editor of the
online magazine
Photomonitor
Type of work
interested/not interested
in: Christiane is interested
in seeing bodies of work
that lend themselves to a
dialogue, work in progress
welcome. Not interested in
seeing already-wellpublicised work.
Christiane Monarchi is the founding editor of the online magazine
Photomonitor. She also writes on photography for other
publications, organises artist talks and symposia, conducts portfolio
reviews and judges art prizes.
www.photomonitor.co.uk
Dagmar Seeland
Photo Editor, Stern
Magazine
Type of work
interested/not interested
in: Dagmar would like to
see work from a wide
range of photographic
genres, provided it has a
strong narrative which may
appeal to a mainstream
international readership.
Photojournalism,
documentary, street
photography and
portraiture are her main
focus. She is interested in
conceptual and fashion
photography too, though
generally not in
architecture.
Dagmar Seeland is the UK Photo Editor of the German weekly stern
magazine. She proposes story and feature ideas, commissions and
buys work for stern and contributes to its associated titles such as the
monthlies VIEW, VIVA! and GEO Saison. Last year she launched the
photography blog stern weitwinkel where she writes about
photography and the British Isles, and where she champions new talent
under the renowned stern brand.
http://blogs.stern.de/weitwinkel/
www.stern.de
Dewi Lewis
Publisher, Dewi Lewis
Publishing
Type of work
interested/not interested
in: Dewi is interested in
looking at any project that
has potential as a book.
However, he is not
interested in bodies of
work which are simply
collections, in travel
photography which is
primarily illustrative, or in
collections of nude
photography.
Dewi Lewis established his publishing house in 1994. Internationally
known, its authors have included photographers such as Martin Parr,
Simon Norfolk, Pentti Sammallahti, Paolo Pellegrin, Sergio Larrain, and
Anders Petersen as well as many younger emerging photographers. He
works in close collaboration with a number of European publishers and is
a founding member of The European Publishers Award for Photography,
now in its 21st year.
An Honorary Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society, he was awarded
the Society’s inaugural RPS Award for Outstanding Service to
Photography in 2009, and in 2012, the Kraszna-Krausz Foundation
presented him with an award for Outstanding Contribution to Publishing
at the Sony World Photography Awards.
In 2014 Dewi Lewis Publishing received the PHotoEspana’s prize for
Outstanding Publishing House of the Year.
He has acted as Jury member for several major competitions and as a
portfolio reviewer at innumerable international photography. He was a
‘Master’ for the 2009, 2010 & 2011 World Press Photo Joop Swart
Masterclasses. As well as his own book, Publishing Photography, he
writes occasional texts on photography and has curated exhibitions
including a survey show of the famous UK magazine, Picture Post, for the
2010 Atri Festival in Italy.
www.dewilewis.com
Dieter Neubert
Co-founder and director of
Kassel Fotobookfestival
Type of work
interested/not interested
in: I am most interested in
unseen personal and
original photographic work
presented in print- or
bookform.
Emma Bowkett
Photography Director of
the Financial Times FT
Weekend Magazine
Type of work
interested/not interested
in: Emma is interested in
reviewing photo essays,
book dummies and
documentary photography,
as well as portraiture, still
life and landscapes.
Dieter Neubert studied photography and visual communication in
Darmstadt and Kassel, Germany. He is cofounder and director of the
Kassel Fotobookfestival and founder of the Kassel Photobook and
Dummy Awards. He is currently preparing the 7th edition of the Kassel
Fotobookfestival, to take place between 4th to 7th July 2015.
www.fotobookfestival.org
Emma Bowkett is Photography Director of the Financial Times FT
Weekend Magazine. Also a visiting lecturer and regular participant at
international portfolio reviews, awards and festivals she has the
experience of looking at photography from an editorial as well as an
artistic standpoint.
Emma has a Masters degree in Image and Communication from
Goldsmiths University London. Prior to this Emma worked as first
assistant to a commercial London photographer. She joined the
Financial Times Weekend Magazine in 2009 and was involved in the relaunch in 2010.
Enrico Bossan
Editorial Director at
COLORS Magazine.
Photographer Enrico Bossan has been leading editorial projects for
years. He has discovered young talents and has been mentoring them in
their creative research. Having started his career as a photojournalist 30
years ago, Bossan's works have been published in important
international magazines. He has published around 10
photobooks (Pechino-Parigi, sulla strada con l’Italia, 1989, Exit, 1992
with Roberto Koch, Esodo, 2000, about terminally ill AIDS
patients, èAfrica, 2003) as well as organizing and curating exhibitions. In
2011, in New York, Bossan directed the Festival Hope Between Dream
and Reality with Elizabeth Biondi. Since 1998 he has worked as a
communication consultant for Medici con l’Africa Cuamm. From 2003 to
2006 he curated the social and cultural communication project of the
health agency in Rovigo. He taught Photography at the University in
Padua and at several Masterclasses. Since 2005, Bossan has been
head of the Photography Area at Fabrica Research Centre and in 2006
was appointed Editorial Director of Colors Magazine. Since January
2014, he has been in charge of the Editorial Area. During his time at
Fabrica, Bossan conceived the FFF Award, curated the exhibition 6x6
Women and realized the performance of the installation of the Peace
Dove by Erik Ravelo in Tripoli on 24 December 2011, when Libya
celebrated its Independence Day after 42 years of regime. As Editorial
Director at Fabrica, he has also published a series of books: Beautiful
gene, Bail Bond, Miracle Village and Lipadusa and he has curated the
multimedia projects Sciabica and Lok Sabha.
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Erik Kessels
Artist, Curator and Creative
Director of KesselsKramer
Type of work
interested/not interested
in: Erik has no preferences
to the type of work he sees
Born in 1966, lives and works in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Erik
Kessels is since 1996 Creative Director of communications agency
KesselsKramer in Amsterdam and works for national and international
clients.
As an artist and photography collector Kessels has published several
books of his 'collected' images: Missing Links (1999), The Instant Men
(2000), in almost every picture (2001-2013) and Wonder (2006). Since
2000, he has been an editor of the alternative photography magazine
Useful Photography.
For the DVD art project Loud & Clear he worked together with artists
such as Marlene Dumas and Candice Breitz. Kessels writes regular
editorials for numerous international magazines. He lectured at the
D&AD Presidents Lecture and at several international design
conferences such as in Singapore, Goa, NY, Toronto and Bangkok. He
has taught at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy and at the Amsterdam
Academy of Architecture where he curated a celebration of amateurism.
Kessels made and curated exhibitions such as The European
Championship of Graphic Design, Graphic Detour, Loving Your
Pictures, Use me Abuse me, 24HRS of Photos and Album Beauty . He
als co-curated an exhibition called From Here on together with Martin
Parr, Joachim Schmid, Clement Cheroux and Joan Fontuberta.
In 2010 Kessels was awarded with the Amsterdam Prize of the Arts and
in 2012 elected as the most influential creative of The Netherlands.
kesselskramer.com
Erik Vroons
Freelance writer, researcher
and teacher in the field of
photography.
Type of work
interested/not interested
in: Erik would ideally like to
see work in the field of
documentary projects and
art photography.
Erik Vroons (1976, The Netherlands) is the former Chief Editor of the
print edition of international photography magazine GUP. Currently, he
is functioning as Editor-at-large for both GUP Magazine and Newdawn
Paper, an initiative of the same editorial team to establish a freezine on
contemporary photography in The Netherlands. Furthermore,
he is a freelance educator on a private academy - The Fotofactory in
Amsterdam - and he organizes workshops and masterclasses in the
development of creative authorship in art and documentary photography
projects.
www.gupmagazine.com
www.newdawnpaper.nl
Federica
Chiocchetti
Curator, writer and
founder of
Photocaptionist.
Type of work
interested/not interested
in: Fictional photography,
staged documentary,
image-text projects,
photo-literary series,
multimedia storytelling
and performance. Hoping
to spot new talents to
feature on the platform,
and potentially on the
British Journal of
Photography endframe
column, as well as to work
with for our off line
projects, such as
exhibitions and talks.
After obtaining an MA in comparative literature at the University College of
London, Chiocchetti is currently working on a PhD in photography and fictions
at the University of Westminster, London. She is also a curator, writer and
founder of the photo-literary platform the Photocaptionist. Her recent projects
include Amore e Piombo [Love and Lead]: The Photography of Extremes in
1970s Italy, exhibition and book co-curated and co-edited with Roger
Hargreaves, for the Archive of Modern Conflict and the Brighton Photo Biennial
2014; H. said he loved us by Tommaso Tanini, exhibition curated in
collaboration with Discipula at the Kunsthalle Budapest for the Hungarian
Month of Photography 2014; Hungry Still photo-cook-book and Slideluck
London retrospective at QUAD Derby; and the forthcoming online
exhibition Amateur Unconcern for FORMAT15, inspired by George Bernard
Shaw's play Heartbreak House and featuring unseen material from AMC. With
Professor and photo-artist David Bate (University of Westminster) she
organised the symposium 'fiction & photography' as part of the public
programme of Joan Fontcuberta's exhibition Stranger Than Fiction at the Media
Space of the Science Museum, London. She has written
for Photoworks, Objektiv, Photomonitor, 1000 Words, The Photographers’
Gallery Blog, The BJP, Café-Crème and Hotshoe. She has given talks on
'photography & the supernatural' at FORMAT PhotoForum and PhotoIreland,
and on Italian 1970s press photography at the Brighton Photo Biennal. She
reviews portfolio internationally (Encontros da Imagem, Portugal; Photoport,
Hungary; Contact Festival, Canada; GRAIN, Birmingham; Kaunas Photo,
Lithuania) and is invited to nominate emerging talents for magazines and blogs
('Ones to Watch' issue of the British Journal of Photography, Fotografia
Magazine, Urbanautica, and RAI punctum blog). In 2015 she joined the Victoria
& Albert Museum as assistant curator of photographs for a year, working on the
V&A display Facing History, about contemporary portraiture, and on an
exhibition of Peter Henry Emerson at Nottingham Castle, opening in November
2015. She is also currently curating for the Photocaptionist the endframe
column of The British Journal of Photography.
Fiona Rogers
Global Business
Development Manager,
Magnum Photos
Fiona studied at Surrey Institute of Art & Design, beginning her career in
photography at a London gallery in 2004. She moved to Magnum Photos in
2005, and until mid-2014 worked as the Cultural & Education Manager,
creating Magnum’s education department in 2006. Fiona has extensive
experience as a project manager, producing global exhibitions, cultural
projects, and photographic assignments for a variety of clients.
Type of work
interested/not interested
in: Fiona is interested in
seeing any long term
documentary work (men
as well as women)
She has worked to represent Magnum's photographers within the fine art
market for nearly 10 years, and has a strong knowledge of commercial
sales. In late 2014 she became Global Business Development Manager for
Magnum International, working to implement new business strategies and
partnerships. Fiona is also the founder of Firecracker, an online platform
supporting female photographers.
www.magnumphotos.com
www.fire-cracker.org
Frazier King
Advisory Board Member,
FotoFest
Type of work
interested/not interested
in: In general, Mr. King is
interested in all kinds of
work but the primary focus
is on current trends or
themes and developments
in new approaches and
processes. He is not
interested in viewing
commercial work.
As a portfolio reviewer, Mr.
King is able to offer
participants guidance
regarding professional
development and various
opportunities to show work,
to discuss the work in
particular, and to provide
insights into the programs
and interests of HCP.
Frazier King is member of the Art Advisory Board of FotoFest International,
founded in 1983 as an international, non-profit organization based in
Houston, Texas. FotoFest created the first and longest-running international
Biennial of photography and photo-related art in the U.S. FotoFest’s
acclaimed Biennial and related programs are known for their commitment to
social issues and the presentation of important contemporary and historical
art work that is not widely shown by mainstream arts organizations.
FotoFest sponsors year-round art programs and a classroom-based
education program, Literacy Through Photography, which uses
photography to strengthen student writing and learning skills. In addition to
its exhibitions, FotoFest sponsors one of the most respected international
portfolio reviews for artists as part of its Biennial programs. It also organizes
conferences around art and civic issues, artist forums, workshops,
collectors’ events, and an international biennial Fine Print Auction.
As a collector of photography, Mr. King exhibited his collection in the
second FotoFest Collector’s Eye Exhibition shown in FotoFest headquarters
from October through December 2012. In addition, Mr. King is a widelyshown photographer and has participated in FotoFest and other
international reviews since the 1980s.
Mr. King also serves on the Board and the Exhibitions Committee of the
Houston Center for Photography (HCP), a nonprofit organization founded in
1981 offering year-round exhibitions, workshops, publications, outreach
programs, lectures, and classes. HCP's mission is to increase society's
understanding and appreciation of photography and its evolving role in
contemporary culture, and produces 15 - 20 exhibitions annually on and offsite, balancing work by regional and internationally acclaimed emerging,
mid-career, and established artists. HCP also produces SPOT magazine, a
bi-annual journal of photography that includes artist portfolios, interviews,
exhibition and book excerpts, and highlights on HCP members' work.
Mr. King has been on the HCP Board for ten years and was Chair of the
Exhibitions Committee from 2008 until September 2012. He continues to
serve on the Exhibitions Committee and participates in the process of
selecting exhibitions. Mr. King has also provided curatorial input and most
recently served as curator for HCP’s 2010 show entitled Created and Found
Maps.
http://home.fotofest.org/
Gemma Padley
Freelance journalist and
editor specialising in
photography
Type of work
interested/not interested
in: Gemma is interested
in seeing bodies of work
that have a clear subject
or story to tell, which the
photographer explores in
an original way. This
could be within
documentary, portraiture,
still life, fine art or fashion
photography - I’m open to
seeing any/all types of
work as long as there is a
clear focus and the
images are tightly edited.
Gemma Padley is a freelance journalist and editor who specialises in writing
about photography. From 2012 to 2014, Gemma worked at British Journal
of Photography as the title’s senior reporter, contributing long and shortform features to the monthly print and iPad editions, and daily articles,
including interview-based features and news stories, to the website,
www.bjp-online.com.
Gemma currently works on a freelance basis for BJP as the magazine’s
Projects Editor, and is also a contributing writer. With seven years’
professional writing experience, Gemma has also written for The Telegraph,
Photomonitor, Nowness, 1000Words, IMA Magazine (Japan), Amateur
Photographer, Digital Camera, and N-Photo. Gemma recently founded the
Too Many TasteMakers blog, (http://tmtm-online.tumblr.com) an
online platform that focuses on showcasing new talent and photography
news.
Gemma regularly takes part in photography talks and panel discussions.
She has presented at LCC, Hackney Picturehouse, the University of
Westminster, and Goldsmiths, University of London. She also chaired a
panel discussion at the 2014 Guernsey Photography Festival. Most
recently, Gemma judged the first Open Call at One Eyed Jacks Gallery in
Brighton, and co-judged 2015’s ‘30 under 30’ competition, organised by
Magnum Photos and The Photography Show. She is on the advisory board
for this year’s Flash Forward Festival in Boston, and is involved in
organising the talks programme at Belfast Photo 2015. In addition, Gemma
is part of the Photo-Forum team where she helps to organise monthly talks
with photographers.
http://gemmapadley.com/selected-articles
Gwen Lee
Founder of Singapore
International Photography
Festival.
Type of work
interested/not interested
in: Gwen is interested in
seeing long-term project
pertaining culture and
identity. She welcomes
lens-based works
stemming from
contemporary art
practices, which includes
installation and video
works. She loves
photobooks, and
encourages individuals to
donate photobooks to the
only community
photobook library in
Singapore.
After 6 years of experience in museum industry, Gwen Lee went on to
pursue her first love for photography. Since then, Gwen has tumbled down
the rabbit hole into the Wonderland of silver halides. Together with the new
friends she made, a photo gallery known as 2902 Gallery was established
in 2008. However, curiosity got the better of her and resulted in a biennale
photo festival in 2008 which is commonly known as Singapore International
Photography Festival (SIPF), an international photography platform in
Southeast Asia. For her daring vision, she received a Creative Talent Grant
from Creative Community, a government agency and an award from Japan
Chamber of Commerce & Trade for her contribution to the Singapore arts
community. In 2014, Gwen created a brand new creative container art
space, DECK to provide platform and residency programme for
photographers. Since 2008, she curate & organised close to 25
photography exhibitions both in Singapore and overseas. Despite her heavy
schedule, she gives talks on professional development for photographers,
conducts portfolio review in Asia and Europe, and develops programmes for
emerging photographers.
Harry Hardie
Founder of Here Press.
Harry has been working in photography for over 10 years, starting as the
assistant to the director of photography at The Times, then as the photo
editor for The Times Luxx Magazine. After The Times, Harry worked as
director of HOST Gallery, London before founding Here Press, a company
that publishes books of photography that explore new forms of documentary
practice. Harry is also director of cultural projects for Panos Pictures,
has curated numerous exhibitions of contemporary photography and is a
Senior Lecturer on the MA Documentary Photography and Photojournalism
at the University of Westminster.
www.herepress.org
Ida Kielmansegg
Curator for
Anzenberger Gallery
Type of work
interested/not interested
in: For Anzenberger
Gallery and Agency, Ida is
interested in conceptual,
documentary and
handmade photography
(exhibitions at the gallery)
and storytelling,
conceptual and
documentary photography
for editorial (magazines
worldwide). Ida is also
very interested in
photobook dummies.
Not interested in nude and
advertising photography.
Ida Kielmansegg is curator for AnzenbergerGallery in Vienna, Austria and
coordinator of AnzenbergerMasterclass and ViennaPhotoBookReview, part
of the ViennaPhotoBookFestival.
Anzenberger Gallery shows contemporary conceptual, storytelling,
documentary and handmade photography (mixed media and old
techniques). Anzenberger Agency represents photographers for the
worldwide editorial market (stories and artistic concepts).
www.anzenbergergallery.com
www.anzenbergeragency.com
www.viennaphotobookfestival.com
John Duncan
Editor of SOURCE
Magazine and
Photographer
Type of work
interested/not
interested in: The
magazine is particularly
interested in seeing new
personal work.
John Duncan studied photography in Newport and Glasgow School of Art.
He has been one of the editors of Source magazine since 1994. He also
continues to make his own photographic work and his book Bonfires was
published by Belfast Exposed/ Photoworks / Steidl in 2008. To give it focus,
on its portfolio pages, Source magazine only publishes work by
photographer's from Ireland or the UK or by photographers living there. The
magazine publishes a wide variety of work examples of which can be seen
Source likes to publish
previously unpublished
work, but are happy to
consider work that has
appeared in short run
(less than 500 edition)
artists books or online
When reviewing portfolios we prefer to look at prints, if you have a project
as a book dummy please also have a set of loose prints so that we can
make an edit of the work. We only publish around 8 -10 images from any
project. We do not want to look at work on laptops or ipads.
www.source.ie
Krzysztof
Candrowicz
Founder and Artistic
Director of the
International Festival of
Photography.
Type of work
interested/not
interested in: All types
of creative and
documentary work
Krzysztof Candrowicz is the founder and Director of the International
Festival of Photography in Lodz, Foundation of Visual Education and Lodz
Art Centre. As a director of the festival, in 2004 he established a network
of 30 European festivals of photography, called Photo Festival Union.
Krzysztof is also working as a guest curator and visiting lecturer in
numerous organisations, museums, schools and festivals in Europe and
worldwide. In January 2014 he became Artistic Director of Triennial of
Photography in Hamburg.
WWW.FOTOFESTIWAL.COM
WWW.PHOTOTRIENNALE.DE
Lars Willumeit
Curator, East Wing, Dubai
Lars Willumeit (born 1974) is a German anthropologist and curator with
interests in photography, documentary, regimes of representation and
visual cultures currently based in Zurich, Switzerland.
At present he is studying for an MA in Curating at the Zurich University
of the Arts and works as freelance curator and photography educator.
Lars trained as a photographer and received a BSc in Social
Anthropology at the LSE in London. Lars jointly curated the group
show at FORMAT Festival 2015 at QUAD Gallery with Artistic Director
of FORMAT, Louise Clements.
Curatorial projects and collaborations:
Yann Mingard, Deposit (2013) a collaborative, research-based
exhibition and book project containing a substantial glossary by
Lars Willumeit, reflecting on the scientific, political and anthropological
contexts of Yann Mingard’s photographs.
Tanya Habjouqa, Occupied Pleasures (2014) a solo exhibition
curated for East Wing in Dubai in May/June 2014. The series observes
the small, but far from insignificant moments of daily life in the occupied
Palestinian territories, revealing a narrative which stands in stark
contrast to mainstream-media reporting focussing on violence and
conflict.
For Future Reference (2014-15) a group exhibition attempting to build
agoras of contention about science and technology through
photography. It was shown by East Wing at UNSEEN and Paris Photo
with works by Yann Mingard, Regine Petersen, Robert Zhao Renhui
and Jules Spinatsch.
www.larswillumeit.com
www.east-wing.org
Lisa Botos
Curator and Photography
specialist.
Type of work
interested/not
interested in: I am
interested in both
photography and video
works that are created
from an art perspective.
Also, photographic and
video works that
incorporate other
materials in the practice
or are conceptual in
nature. I am also
interested in
photographers and
artists exploring issues
in creative ways. I
would prefer not to see
commercial work.
Lisa Botos is a curator and photography specialist. In 2012 she founded
Botos, an arts-related, project-orientated initiative with a focus on
independent and collaborative curatorial projects, art-related publishing,
writing and advisory. Along with curating exhibitions and producing
catalogues and monographs, she also develops and manages art
projects, programming and events in Singapore, Hong Kong and
Southeast Asia.
In 2008, she co-founded Ooi Botos, a Hong Kong-based contemporary
art gallery. In her role as gallerist-curator, Lisa worked with both
established and emerging artists including Xing Danwen, Chen Man
and Wei Leng Tay. An advisor to the WYNG Foundation (Hong Kong),
she counsels on the development and management of the WYNG
Masters Award, an international, issue-focused photography award. As
former Picture Editor of TIME (Asia), Lisa collaborated with
photographers and photo-based artists across Asia and beyond the
region. She and her team were recognized with numerous international
awards.
In 2013, Lisa served as guest international curator for the Vladivostok
Biennale of Visual Arts. In Singapore she has curated a number of
gallery exhibitions including Nobuyoshi Araki All women are beautiful,
POV: Alternative Perspectives in Asian Contemporary Photography,
and Ken Gonzales-Day Profiled. Lisa has been a regular contributor to
Punctum and was invited as guest editor for the Spanish photography
quarterly Ojodepez where she featured a number of artists connected to
the Asian region. Since 2013, she has been a curator for Artist Pension
Trust (APT), a global contemporary art trust.
Lisa holds a Master of Arts in International Communications with a
focus in Visual Communications. She works between Singapore (where
she currently resides) and Hong Kong.
Lorenzo Fusi
Director, Open Eye
Gallery, UK
Type of work
interested/not interested
in: Interested in reviewing
portfolios and discussing work
that questions the role
photography plays in shaping
contemporary visual culture.
Practitioners whose work
positions photography outside
its comfort zone are particularly
welcomed. Preference is given
to lens-based practices that
focus on the individual and
collective political body, and
operate at the intersection
between fine art,
documentation and
photojournalism. Additionally,
Fusi is interested in reappropriation and use of
archival materials, topics that
are areas of his research and
expertise.
Lorenzo Fusi is the Director of Open Eye Gallery, one of the oldest notfor-profit photography galleries in the UK. He is also the Artistic Director
of PIAC, the International Contemporary Art Prize of Foundation Prince
Pierre de Monaco.
Prior to Open Eye, Fusi was the International Curator at the Liverpool
Biennial, for which he curated the 2010 and 2012 renditions,
titled Touched and The Unexpected Guest. Between 2001 and 2009 he
was the Chief Curator at Palazzo delle Papesse Contemporary Art
Centre, to then became the Contemporary Art Curator of the Santa
Maria della Scala museum hub in Siena (Italy).
Over the years, Fusi has commissioned almost 200 new works to artists
from around the world at different stages in their career, curated or cocurated over 50 exhibitions (between solo presentations, group shows
and retrospectives), and written and edited numerous publications. His
latest publishing endeavour, The Piers From Here, has been just
released as an e-book and features contributions by Jessamyn Fiore,
Robert Reid-Pharr and Jonathan Weinberg.
Other recent titles include Changing Difference: Queer Politics and
Shifting Identities (a collection of essays accompanying the eponymous
multi-venue exhibition at the Galleria Civica di Modena) and the
monographic book Alfredo Jaar, both published in 2012.
Fusi regularly lectures at UK universities and internationally. He sits in
the Board of Directors of LOOK, Liverpool International Photography
Festival, and is a Board Member of the Nouveau Musée National de
Monaco (NMNM).
www.openeye.org.uk
Malcolm Dickson
Director, Street Level
Photoworks, UK
Type of work
interested/not interested
in: Interested in viewing
bodies of work by
artists/photographers who
take a versatile approach to
‘documentary’; are socially
driven; linked to different
artforms or disciplines;
constructed and surreal;
lyrical and narrative; and
which push the boundaries
of image-making.
Malcolm Dickson is a curator, writer and organizer, and as Director of
Street Level Photoworks, he coordinates a programme which embraces
different genres of photography in its galleries in the art hub Trongate
103 in Glasgow. It works to extend the reach of its exhibitions through
local community venues, regional art galleries, and national and
international partners. Recent projects at Street Level include ‘Commen
Ground: New Documentary Photography from Scotland and Wales’
featuring Document Scotland and A Fine Beginning photography
collectives; ’Digital Play; Wendy McMurdo, Collected Works (19952012)’ as part of the national programme Generation: Celebrating 25
Years of Contemporary Art in Scotland; solo exhibitions by Arnis
Balcus, Johan Nieuwenhuize as part of Glasgow International 2014,
and the reciprocal exhibition exchange with VU Photography Centre in
Quebec City, featuring work by Martin Hunter, Alicia Bruce, CharlesFrédérick Ouellet and Normand Rajotte. With partners in IPS (Institute
for Photography in Scotland), Street Level are co-organising a Season
of Photography between May and September 2015.
http://www.streetlevelphotoworks.org/
Mariama Attah
Programme Curator,
Photoworks
Mariama is responsible for developing and programming Photoworks
exhibitions and events, including the Brighton Photo Biennial.
Type of work
interested/not interested
in: Mariama is interested in
seeing projects in
development, complete
projects and projects for
their online showcase.
She completed her BA Photography at Wolverhampton University and
gained an MA in Museum Studies from University of Leicester. Mariama
has worked with a number of national and international artists and
previous work roles include Exhibitions and Events Manager at Iniva
and Assistant Officer, Visual Arts at Arts Council England.
http://photoworks.org.uk/
Martin Barnes
Senior Curator of
Photographs at the
Victoria and Albert
Museum
Type of work
interested/not interested
in: Martin is interested to
see all types of creative
photography that is well
thought-out, edited and
presented, but is
particularly interested in
work made for personal and
poetic expression.
Martin Barnes is Senior Curator of Photographs at the Victoria and
Albert Museum, (V&A) London, which he joined in 1995. The Museum
houses the national collection of the art of photography in the UK.
Martin has worked on numerous books and historic, modern and
contemporary exhibitions including, Diane Arbus Revelations (2005-6)
and Twilight: Photography in the Magic Hour (2006) Shadow Catchers:
: Contemporary Camera-less Photography (2010) and Figures &
Fictions: Contemporary South African Photography (2011)
www.vam.ac.uk
Mindaugas
Kavaliauskas
Photographer, curator,
publisher and
consultant of
photography
Type of work
interested/not
interested in:
Mindaugas is open to
all styles and genres in
photography., but
favores documentary
photography. He is
least interested in
traditional fashion,
glamour, nudes and
wildlife images.
Mindaugas Kavaliauskas (Lithuania) is founder and artistic director of
KAUNAS PHOTO festival (since 2004), the longest running art
photography festival in the Baltic states. The festival exhibits a variety of
artists, making both personal exhibitions and thematic group shows.
Besides KAUNAS PHOTO festival, he has curated a number of
exhibitions in photographic festivals, galleries, museums: FotoGrafia
(Rome), Photo de Mer in Vannes (France), Backlight triennial in
Tampere (Finland), Pingyao and Lishui festivals (China), Les
Photaumnales (France), Fotohonap (Hungary). He is a frequent
conference speaker, member of jury panels, in competitions, festivals of
photography in Europe, USA, China and Australia. Nominator for photo
competitions, such as Prix Pictet. He has edited / published a number of
photography books featuring artists from across the globe, written tens
of articles on history of photography, published in books, catalogs,
scientific publications and art magazines and a number of introductory
texts to books and presentations of artists. All of that comes from
encounters with artists and their works while reviewing portfolios in
numerous festivals, such as in Odense, Houston, Portland, Madrid,
Hamburg, Derby, Vienna, Budapest and in KAUNAS PHOTO, with its
on-line portfolio reviews platform www.folioPORT.org
He is currently working on the 12th edition of KAUNAS PHOTO
festival, on the theme of "Pursuit
www.KaunasPhoto.com
Nuno Ricou Salgado
Founding member and
Chairman of the Board of
Procur.arte
Artistic Director and Manager of “Entre Margens”, a three year
cultural project comprising of public photography, installations and
multi-disciplinary performances. Artistic Director and Manager of
“FORMAS – Plataforma para as Artes Performativas de Tavira”.
Cultural event focus on the promotion of the Mediterranean
performing arts. Integrates a component market and street art
performances. Curator and Production director of the Exhibition
“Real:Surreal”, in Lisbon, 2004.
www.procurarte.org
www.entremargens.org
www.facebook.com/EntreMargensDouro
Pierre Bessard
Founder of Bessard
Editions publishing
house.
Type of work
interested/not
interested in: Pierre is
interested in seeing all
types of work, seeing the
reviews as an opportunity
to discover new talent.
He is particularly
interested in seeing
bookdummy’s and
finished photobooks.
Pierre Bessard has already lived several lives between France, China
and Korea, he was a reporter and photographer to AFP, the head of the
picture photo service YSD magazine, documentary filmmaker (capa /
arte), a photojournalist for the news agency rea, winner of numerous
awards, grants, the creation (villa médicis hors les murs ...). Pierre
Bessard is passionate about images, but also photography
books. Always in search of greater sophistication, he worked tirelessly
to create his books of cover to the wafer-wire, with Bessard Editions, he
began to share with major authors, its commitment to the book
photograph an artist's book. Symbolically, Max Pam, inaugurates its
catalogue. For him, each book is a unique experience. With Bessard
editions, he now intends to produce tomorrow's classics. "Man is
stubborn enough, taste and expertise firmly enough established that we
need to take time."
www.editionsbessard.com
Shannon Ghannam
Content strategy and
development at Reuters.
Type of work
interested/not
interested in: Shannon
is interested in seeing
Documentary or
photojournalism but any
projects where the story
or approach is unique
and the photographer is
personally invested in the
work.
Shannon Ghannam is a London-based Australian, photography and
multimedia producer and editor, currently responsible for Content
Strategy and Development at Reuters, working to showcase the
agency’s multimedia content globally. Shannon has collaborated on
numerous books, international exhibitions and multimedia projects
including the multi-award winning photojournalism app Reuters. The
Wider Image. Shannon has also worked in various roles at Night
Contact photography and multimedia festival, Magnum, Australian
Associated Press (AAP), The Australian Photojournalist Magazine,
Australian Red Cross and the National Archives of Australia. Shannon
is personally passionate about the power of visual storytelling and has
consulted NGO’s, given photography workshops and regularly advises
emerging photographers.
uk.linkedin.com/pub/shannon-ghannam/4/ba9/899/en
Sheyi Bankale
Curator of Next Level
Projects and Editor of Next
Level magazine
Type of work
interested/not
interested in: Mr.
Bankale is only interested
in photography as
contemporary art; he is
not interested in
photojournalism. He is
able to assist photo
artists through publishing
work in Next Level
magazine, monographs,
and selection towards
major international
photograph exhibition
scheduled for 2015/16.
Sheyi Bankale is Curator of Next Level Projects and Editor of Next
Level magazine. Next Level is one of Europe’s seminal art photography
magazines with a dynamic mix of photography as contemporary art.
The publication features a diverse range of the world’s most influential
photo artists. It aims to bring awareness and debate to contemporary
culture, showcasing and celebrating artists, across various disciplines
and alongside inspiring, provocative and critical writing. Sheyi Bankale’s
wealth of experience is well received by his peers and frequently acts
as panelist, judge and nominator for The Art Foundation, Google
Photography Prize, CONTACT Photography Festival BMW Prize, The
Prix Pictet and Next Level Awards. He is a leading expert on
photography at major international portfolio reviews such as Houston
Fotofest and Les Rencontres D’Arles, and facilitates the acquisition of
photo art works with international museums, art collectors and private
clients. He is Visiting Professor of Photography at the University of
Derby and has lectured on ‘Photography as Contemporary Art’ at
Sotheby’s Institute of Art, University of Westminster, City University London, University for the Creative Arts and Centre of Contemporary Art
- Lagos. Sheyi Bankale is renowned for his curatorial work in recent
years at Next Level Projects as well as Guest Curator for Saatchi Art’s
Special Guest Curator Programme and the 2015 Curator for the
prestigious Photo 50 exhibition at the London Art Fair.
www.nextleveluk.com
Sian Bonnell
Artist and Curator
Type of work
interested/not
interested in: Sian is
interested in seeing all
types of work.
Sian Bonnell is a UK based artist and curator living and working in
Cornwall at Falmouth University where she is currently associate
professor of photographic concepts. Educated at Chelsea School of Art
and Northumbria University her images have been exhibited and
published widely.
TRACE, the curation and publishing project which she established in
1999 at her home in Dorset, is now re-launching in Cornwall with many
new initiatives being planned. Sian has continued to mentor emerging
photographers and artists as well as curating numerous exhibitions in
London and abroad. Most recently she curated a large exhibition of the
first UK showing of student photographic work for the 2014 Pingyao
International Photography Festival held in September in China.
She is regularly invited to review portfolios at international photography
festivals and has judged major competitions including The Jerwood
Photography Prize in 2006 and the Taylor Wessing Portrait Award at
the National Portrait Gallery in 2009.
www.sianbonnell.com
http://www.traceisnotaplace.com
www.blackboxresearch.co.uk
Stuart Smith
Co-founder of GOST
Books.
Type of work
interested/not interested
in: Stuart is interested in
all areas of photography
and art
Stuart Smith is co-founder of GOST Books, an art and photography
book publisher, and Director of SMITH, a graphic design company
specialising in art and photography books. He also regularly lectures on
photography and design.
http://www.smith-design.com
http://www.gostbooks.com
Sue Steward
Broadcaster and
independent photography
curator.
Photography critic for London’s Evening Standard, she writes for
magazines including BJP, PhotoMonitor and Next Level, and book
essays for Prix Pictet Awards, Dutch photographers Scarlett Hooft
Graafland and Suzanne Jongmanns, and University brochures. Her
regular BBC radio programmes also now include Monocle magazine’s
MonocleFM.
Type of work
interested/not interested
in: Fine Art Photojournalism, Architecture
photography, Still Lifes,
Abstracts, Analogue
experimentation. Not
interested in: Sport,
fashion.
Sue was an active trustee for PhotoVoice and is a long-term member of
the steering committee for FORMAT’s photo biennial where she will be
curating an exhibition around the history of police Mug Shots.
Working for 8 years with the World Photography Organization, Sue’s
many roles included judging and this year’s competition; the past ones
include (2007) National Portrait Gallery Portrait Photography Prize,
festivals in Derby, Belfast, Arles, Madrid and architectural
photographers for CIOB (Chartered Institute of Builders).
Mentoring emerging photographers included invitations to Muscat,
Oman, Brighton’s Tripod, and London LCC, and also include talks and
university lectures.
Her curated exhibitions include "Between Two Worlds: A Window on
Contemporary Photography from Latin America" (Edel Assanti), London
Art Fair’s Photo50, “The New Alchemists: Contemporary
Photographers Transcending the Print" (a forthcoming book) and
PINTA: Latin American Art Fair 2014.
Tim Clark
Editor in Chief and
Publisher at 1000 Words,
Type of work
interested/not interested
in: He is interested in
seeing new photographic
bodies of work that have a
strong aesthetic,
conceptual and thematic
underpinning with the view
to publishing them in the
magazine.
His writing on photography has appeared in The Sunday Times, The
Daily Telegraph, FOAM, Time Lightbox, The British Journal of
Photography and Next Level amongst other publications as well as in
exhibition catalogues such as The Archive of Modern Conflict’s Journal
issue 12, published to coincide with Lagos Photo Festival 2014. Clark
also writes a-n News’ fortnightly Pictured column for whom he reviews
new photo book releases. He also regularly organises workshops with
high-profile photographers such as Antoine d’Agata, Anders Petersen,
Erik Kessels, Roger Ballen and Jeffrey Silverthorne in various cities
across the globe. He has judged a number of awards and competitions
such as The Paul Huf Award, freshfacedandwildeyed and The Google
Photography Prize, and in 2011 joined the academy of nominators for
the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize.
He has also been invited to review portfolios at The Saatchi Gallery;
The Photographers’ Gallery; FORMAT International Photography
Festival; Les Rencontres d’Arles; International Center of Photography
Career Day, New York; Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival,
Toronto; Encontros da Imagem, Braga; and FotoFest Houston. Clark
has previously held positions at galleries in both the public and private
sector including Michael Hoppen Gallery, London. Recent curatorial
projects include Rebecoming: The Other European Travellers at
Flowers Gallery, London from 10 September-10 October 2014.
W.M Hunt
Photography author,
dealer and teacher.
W.M. Hunt has been collecting, looking at and talking about
photography for over 40 years. He is an author (“The Unseen Eye:
Photographs from the Unconscious”), dealer (Hasted Hunt,
Ricco/Maresca), and teacher (SVA, Aperture and ICP). His collections
have been exhibited at the Rencontres in Arles, Musee de l’Elysee in
Lausanne, FOAM in Amsterdam, The George Eastman House in
Rochester, NY and Foto Industria in Bologna. He continues to write and
lecture, review portfolios, judge competitions, and serve on the boards
of the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund and The Center for
Photography at Woodstock.
Harry M. Stevens, his great grandfather, came from Derby. He invented
the hot dog.
Wang Baoguo
Deputy Editor-in-Chief of
Chinese Photographers
magazine
Type of work
interested/not interested
in: I’m especially
interested in documentary
or photojournalistic works,
but photography as art is
ok too.
Wang Baoguo is Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Chinese Photographers
magazine, part of the Chinese National Academy of Arts. Wang has
worked as a photographer, Picture and Commissioning Editor for
magazines across Asia. He is often invited to be a speaker at
international conferences including- China and Spain, 1936-39: Robert
Capa and the Global Popular Front, organised by Columbia University
(USA) and International Center of Photography, NY. A member of
several international juries including of Visa pour l’Image (France),
Lianzhou International Photography Festival, Guangdong (China), Dali
International Photography Festival, Yunnan (China), Lishui International
Photography Festival, Zhejiang(China), and International Photo Awards
(China region, Lucie Foundation).
Zelda Cheatle
Independent Curator
Type of work
interested/not interested
in: Zelda is interested in
seeing a wide range of
work but would prefer not
to see student work.
Currently curating four shows in China , May - September 2015 Mother
River by Yan Preston (met at FORMAT14 reviews), researching and
curating Terence Donovan exhibition for Somerset House November
2015 and curating the Sony World Photography Awards, May 2015 at
Somerset House. Other projects include John Cass University East End
Archive exhibition and book. Historic Royal Palaces books and
exhibition. Sasha Gusov Monograph and exhibition. Trustee of Koestler
Trust. Trustee of Crear, centre for the Arts in Scotland. Advisory
Committee for Photo Shanghai 2014.
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2009 - 2012, Sony World Photography Awards. Judge, curator and
Academy member. Curated two WPO exhibitions in Cannes. Chair of
judges for Kraszna Krausze book Award 2013, the international
photography publishing world prize was awarded to War Photography
by Tucker Michells Zelt and published by Yale and Museum of Fine
Arts. Houston.2014 Advisory Committee member to
PhotoShanghai. Curating exhibition for PSA Shanghai 2015.
2005-2012 Photography Fund, curating a major Photography Collection
for investors. Published and exhibited, symposium and book 'On
Photography', loaned works to Jeu de Paume Paris, Tate Modern
London, Picasso Museum, Malaga and more.
,
1996 -2006, Helen Chadwick Estate Trustee responsible for the estate
and legacy of the artist.
1989 - 2005, Zelda Cheatle Gallery 158 exhibitions, 17 publications, 12
major touring exhibitions. Gallery based in Central London: as Director
signed and represented significant artists, endorsed new and emerging
talent, managed and implemented an exhibition programme, made
lasting relationships with private collections, public museum collections
and institutions. Tutored at RCA and many universities throughout UK,
commissioned, edited and published 17 monographs, under zelda
cheatle press imprint.
1982-1988, The Photographers Gallery Print Room Set up Print room
as viable and successful sales room, exhibited photographers from JH
Lartigue and Andre Kertesz to contemporary international artists.
Oversaw the beginning of collecting photography as art in UK, USA and
Europe.