discussing photography
may 2010
central week
17–22 may
Benedict Burbridge is a writer and curator and the Deputy Editor of Photoworks magazine. Recently curated exhibitions include „We Are Witnessing the Dawn of an Unknown Science“ at the Permanent Gallery, Brighton and „No Passaran!“. He writes regularly for Photoworks and Grafik and has contributed essays to a number of publications and catalogues. He is currently undertaking Doctoral Research at The Courtauld Institute of Art in London, where he also teaches.
www.photoworksuk.org, www.grafikmag.com, www.permanentgallery.com, www.courtauld.ac.uk (The Courtauld Institute of Art in London)
A curator and writer, David Chandler was formerly Assistant Curator of Photography at The National Portrait Gallery, London; Head of Exhibitions at The Photographers’ Gallery, London, and Project Manager at the Institute of International Visual Arts. He is Director of Photoworks. He curates the programme of residencies and exhibitions, edits Photoworks publications and overseas the management of the organisation.
Florian Ebner studied photography at the Ecole nationale supérieure de la photographie in Arles and art history and history at the Ruhr-University Bochum. From 2000 to 2006 he was assistent at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig. In 2008 he curated the exhibition “So weit kein Auge reicht “ for the Berlinische Galerie. Since 2009 he is head of the Museum for Photography, Braunschweig.
Rémi Faucheux has graduated of the Paris Descartes University in graphic design and visual communication, and has collaborated with numerous photographers for
both advertising and publishing projects. In 2005, Rémi Faucheux founded RVB, a non-profit organization whose mission is to promote the creation of contemporary documentary photography in a dialogue with the social sciences, including anthropology, sociology and philosophy, amongst others.
Felix Hoffmann, art historian and cultural theorist, is an independent curator at C/O Berlin. From 2003 to 2004 he held a stipendium from the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Foundation to attend the program for museum curators in photography at the Munich Photographic Museum, the Kupferstich-Kabinett (Collection of Prints, Drawings and Photographs) in Dresden, and the Folkwang Museum in Essen. He has authored a number of essays on historic and contemporary photography. As a curator, he has conceptualized numerous exhibitions.
Elsy Lahner studied sociology and psychology in Salzburg and Berlin. She lives and works as a curator in Vienna. She curated, amongst others, the exhibitions series »Space Invasion« (ongoing since 2006) and the exhibitions »DISPLACE – Junge Fotografie in Wien«. In 2007 she co-founded together with Alexandra Grausam the space das weisse haus, which they are running together. From 2008 onwards she organised the O-Sutoria Freespace Foundation (O.F.F.) in Yokohama and Vienna together with Georg Russegger.
www.dasweissehaus.at, http://off.or.at
Lisa Le Feuvre is a curator and writer based in London. She is Senior Lecturer in Curating in the Department of Art at Goldsmiths College, London. Between 2005 and 2009 she directed the contemporary art programme at the National Maritime Museum. In 2010 she will co-curate with Tom Morton British Art Show 7 showing in Nottingham, London, Glasgow and Plymouth and Jeremy Millar: Amongst Others at Plymouth Arts Centre.
Goldsmiths College: www.gold.ac.uk
Photographer and curator. From 1999 to 2003 Kunstakademie St. Joost, Breda/N. Since 2002 numerous exhibitions. In 2007 she founded a company, together with Nina Poppe, which is producing special editions with international photographers.
Sergio Mah, born in Mozambique in 1970. Curator and sociologist, based in Lisbon, Portugal
Zuzana Meisnerová Wismer, producer and gallery owner. Studied at the Prague Film Academy, moved to Switzerland in 1981, documentaries for Swiss Television. After the fall of communism reconstruction of the atelier and discovery of the Langhans Archive. Director of the non-profit Langhans Galerie Praha, whose programme from 2003 onwards has mostly focused on contemporary international photography. Lives in Prague and Zurich.
Nina Poppe studied Photography at the Utrecht School of Arts. Since 2005 she is studying documentary film at the Academy of Media Art Cologne. Since 2003, she has worked for Schaden.com bookstore and as freelance photographer in Cologne. In 2007 she founded a company, together with Verena Loewenhaupt, which is producing special editions with international photographers.
Iris Sikking is photo-historian and curator. After studying at the Dutch Film and Television Academy she worked as a freelance editor on various documentaries for film and television. In 2005 she graduated in Photographic Studies at the University of Leiden (Master) and founded the ICON (Images in Context) Foundation with Hedy van Erp. She is senior project manager, curator/producer and member of the board of Paradox, Rotterdam.
www.iconfoundation.nl, www.paradox.nl
