| PORTFOLIO REVIEWS FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS
In association with alternative arts and photomonth
An opportunity for photographers to showcase their work to curators and publishers. Each participant may sign up for two 20 minute slots with reviewers on a first-come first-served basis.
£10/£5 concs.
Booking opens 1 October.
Apply by email only to
portfolioreview@whitechapel.org
Reviewers include:
Danielle Arnaud: Director, Danielle Arnaud Gallery
Sheyi Anthony Bankale: Editor, Next Level Magazine
Melissa DeWitt: Editor, Hotshoe
Kate Edwards: Picture Editor, Guardian Weekend
Claire Grafik: Curator, The Photographers Gallery
Mike Von Joel: Editor, Photoicon
Jon Levy: Editor, EI8HT Magazine
Paul Lowe: Documentary photographer & Head of LCC Photojournalism & Documentary Photography MA
Emily McInnes: Director of Creative Development CONTACT Toronto Photography Festival
Renée Mussai: Project Researcher Autograph ABP
Pippa Oldfield: Programme Manager, Impressions Gallery
Louise Shannon: Curator of Photography, V&A
Jacqui Wald: Camera Press Picture Agency
Sophie Wright: Head of Exhibitions & Print Room, Magnum
Selected Biographies:
SHEYI ANTONY BANKALE
Editor, Next Level Magazine
Sheyi Antony Bankale is the Editor and Co-Founder of Next Level magazine. A visual artist who lives and works in London, he graduated from Westminster University with BA Hons in photography and multimedia. Sheyi is also the Director of Creative Scape Ltd, an exciting arts publishing house bringing awareness to contemporary visual art by publishing new and established artist's monographs. In addition, he has been a consultant for Hype gallery, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, and a visiting Lecturer at the University of Westminster and City University, London
MELISSA DeWITT
Editor, HotShoe
Melissa DeWitt is editor and director of HotShoe International, a leading UK based contemporary photography magazine showcasing established and emerging photographers from around the world and across a broad range of genres. Her background is in art, concentrating on photography, film and video, before re-launching HotShoe with Charles Taylor in 2003. She has judged a number of awards and views hundreds of portfolios a year looking for new talent to feature in the magazine and participating in various portfolio reviews.
CLARE GRAFIK
Curator, The Photographers Gallery
Clare Grafik is a curator at The Photographers' Gallery. She has worked on exhibitions and catalogues including Cuny Janssen's 'Finding Thoughts' and more recently Keith Arnatt's 'I'm a Real Photographer' and worked on exhibitions including Larry Sultan and Mike Mandel's 'Evidence Revisited' and Taryn Simon's 'An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar' (currently showing). Forthcoming projects include 'Insomnia' with Antoine d'Agata and the group show 'Seeing is Believing' (both due to open 23 November 2007). She has written texts as Photo Editor for Contemporary Magazine on artists including Lise Sarfati, Carlos Garacoia, Anri Sala and Allan Sekula. She has lectured sporadically for colleges including London College of Communication, Kingston University, University College Falmouth, Brighton University and is currently leading a course called 'Investigating the Archive: photographic collections in London' in collaboration with Birkbeck College World Arts (Oct - Dec '07).
LAUREN HEINZ (replacing Jon Levy)
Co-Editor, E18HT Magazine
Lauren Heinz has been working with EI8HT Magazine for nearly four years now. Recently appointed co-Editor, Lauren regularly receives and reviews photographic work and is also a freelance writer and visiting lecturer, speaking to photojournalism students.
PAUL LOWE
Head of LCC Photojournalism & Documentary Photography MA
Paul Lowe is an award-winning freelance photographer and educator living and working between Sarajevo and London. His work is represented by Panos Pictures, and has appeared in Time, Newsweek, Life, Der Spiegel, The Observer and The Independent amongst others. He has covered breaking news the world over, including the fall of the Berlin Wall, Nelson Mandelas release, the Rwandan genocide and the destruction of Grozny. He is currently developing an online educational programme for developing-world photographers in conjunction with the World Press Photo Foundation in Amsterdam. Since 2004, Paul has been the Course leader of the Masters programme in Photojournalism and Documentary Photography at the London College of Communication.
His book, Bosnians, documenting 10 years of the war and post war situation in Bosnia, was published in April 2005.
EMILY McINNES
Director of Creative Development, CONTACT Toronto Photography Festival
Emily McInnes has worked in the arts for over fifteen years both as a curator and
consultant for corporate and private collections. She is currently the Director of
Creative Development for CONTACT Toronto Photography Festival, the largest
photography festival in North America exhibiting the work of over five hundred
photographers at over two hundred venues. Emily works with both local and
international photographers to produce site-specific projects for the festival’s
series of Public Art Installations. Some of these projects have included an
exhibition of large-scale billboards by artist Michael Awad for Toronto’s Pearson
International Airport, a series of images by Olivo Barbieri for the facade of the
Drake Hotel and a number of temporary month-long exhibitions that highlight the
festival’s annual theme, which for 2008 is Between Memory and History.
RENEE MELANIE MUSSAI
Project Researcher, Autograph ABP
Renée Mussai is a curatorial researcher and photographic artist. She studied for a degree in Art History at the University of Vienna, Austria and holds an MA in Photography from the University of the Arts London. Her interests lie in international photographic history and critical theory, politics of cultural identity and the dissemination of ‘race', representation and difference in the 21st century. Associated with Autograph ABP since 2001, she currently manages their print sales, online portfolios and artist representation, and has dedicated the past year to researching the development of a public photographic archive at Rivington Place, Autograph’s new home opening in October 2007. A previous Sofie- and Emanuel Fohn fellow, she has recently worked on a number of curatorial, research and education projects within the visual arts and photography.
PIPPA OLDFIELD
Programme Manager, Impressions Gallery
Pippa Oldfield (born UK, 1972) is Senior Programme Manager at Impressions Gallery, Bradford, where she oversees and promotes an ambitious programme of photography exhibitions. Prior to working in the public sector, she specialised in commercial photography print sales, working at The Photographers' Gallery, Tom Blau Gallery and The Special Photographers Company, all in London. She has been a regular portfolio reviewer at Rhubarb-Rhubarb, Houston Fotofest and Redeye and a seminar contributor to Redeye’s annual Exhibition Workshops. She is currently undertaking an MA in the Photographic Image at Durham University, for which she received an Arts and Humanities Research Council award.
LOUISE SHANNON
Curator of Photography, V&A
Louise Shannon is Deputy Head of Contemporary Programmes at the V&A. In 2006 Louise worked as Curator of Photographs and was Project Manager of the exhibition, Twilight; Photography in the Magic Hour. Currently as Curator in the Contemporary Programmes she is working on the forthcoming winter garden commission and a digital media exhibition planned for the winter of 2009.
MIKE VON JOEL
Editor, Photoicon
Mike von Joel was born on the north Yorkshire coast and attended art schools in Hampshire & London (1968 - 1974) studying painting and printmaking. He was the founder editor of Art Line newspaper (1982-1996) and is currently editorial director of PHOTOICON - a glossy international magazine reporting the fusion of art & photography; and the editor of STATE - a mass market free newspaper about contemporary art issues. He has written on art subjects for numerous publications both here and abroad.
JACQUI WALD
Camera Press Picture Agency
Trained as a linguist and wanted to be a foreign correspondent. After brief stints at Granada TV and The Observer newspaper, joined Camera Press, and found that picture agency work allowed her to combine her interest in writing and languages with her love of photography. Daily editorial duties include setting up shoots, image selection and image rights clearances, and the occasional interview. Currently working on Camera Press' 60th anniversary exhibitions at the Camera Press Gallery and the National Portrait Gallery.
SOPHIE WRIGHT
Head of Exhibitions & Print Room, Magnum
Sophie Wright is currently Cultural and Print Room Director at Magnum Photos London, where she has been working since 2003 on diverse projects by Magnum photographers as well as overseeing the setting up and scheduling of the Magnum Print Room in collaboration with the Atlas Gallery. She regularly gives talks in association with Magnum exhibitions and writes freelance on photography for magazines such as the British Journal of Photography and Eight.
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