Photo Fringe 2020 Judging Panels
L-R top row: Monica Alcazar-Duarte, Mariama Attah; middle row: Helen Cammock, Sarah Howe, Steve Macleod; bottom row: Sam Mercer, Katrina Sluis
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Monica Alcazar-Duerte is originally from Mexico and lives and works in the U.K. She studied Filmmaking, Scenography and Photography. Her photobook Your Photos could be used by drug dealers was acquired in 2014 for artist book collections at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, The Yale University Gallery and the Joan Flasch Collection at the Arts Institute of Chicago. In 2020 she was awarded a Firecracker Grant and was nominated for a National Geographic fellowship. In 2018 she was selected as one of ten artists for Les Recontres d’ Arles New Discovery Award and was winner of The Photographers’ Gallery Bar-Tur Photobook Award in London. In 2017 she obtained the Magnum Graduate Award.
One of Monica’s latest work Possible Landscapes is a reconciliation participatory project for young people in post-conflict countries. Monica is currently a nominator for the Joop Swart Masterclass.
Mariama Attah is a photography curator and editor with a particular interest in overlooked visual histories, and using photography and visual culture to amplify under and misrepresented voices. Mariama is curator of Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool. She was previously Assistant Editor of Foam Magazine. Prior to this, she was Curator of Photoworks, where was responsible for developing and curating programs and events including Brighton Photo Biennial and was Commissioning and Managing Editor of the yearly magazine Photoworks Annual.
Helen Cammock was the joint winner of the Turner Prize 2019 and her exhibition The Long Note, has been presented at Turner Contemporary, Margate as part of Turner Prize, 2019. She was winner of the 7th Max Mara Art Prize for Women. Her subsequent exhibition, Che Si Può Fare (What Can Be Done) premiered at Whitechapel Gallery, London from June – September 2019 and then moved to Collezione Maramotti, Italy. Her film They Call It Idelwild, 2020 commissioned by Wysing is currently on show at Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria.
Her new film Concrete Feather and Porcelain Tacks, has been commissioned with Film and Video Umbrella, London; Touchstones Museum, Rochdale, and The Photographers’ Gallery, London and will be exhibited in solo exhibitions at The Photographers’ Gallery and Rochdale Museum in in 2021. Later this year Serpentine Gallery, London will present Cammock’s project Radio Ballads, a radio programme and series of live performance events.
The Long Note premiered at VOID, Derry, Northern Ireland; and showed at The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, 2019. Other solo exhibitions include The Sound of Words, Reading Museum, UK (2019) and Shouting In Whispers, Cubitt, London (2017). Her work has been included in group exhibitions at; Somerset House, Hollybush Gardens, London and FirstSite, Colchester, Hamburg Kunsthalle, Germany Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria and she has staged performances at The Showroom, Whitechapel Gallery and the ICA in London.
Cammock was born in Staffordshire, UK in 1970 and lives and works in Brighton and London. She is represented by Kate MacGarry, London
Sarah Howe is an artist based in London. She holds an MA in Photography from the Royal College of Art. Her research is centred on an exploration of expanded portraiture and self-portraiture, which produces wide-ranging outputs, from photography, written prose to large scale multimedia installations.
Recent exhibitions include ON EDGE: Living in an Age of Anxiety, Science Gallery, London (2019), Peripheries, ArtLicks, London (2019), Rehearsing the Real, Peckham24, London (2019), Present Tense, Materia Gallery, Rome (2019), Consider Falling, ONCA Gallery, Brighton Photo Fringe, Brighton (2018).
Sarah is the recipient of the Gilbert Bayes Award for Early Career Artists 2020 and the winner of the Brighton Photo Fringe Open Solo Award 2018.
Steve Macleod is a photographic artist, educator, lecturer and speaker as well as a respected industry professional. He is a Visiting Professor at UOS East Anglia, a Trustee of the Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust and a lifetime member of Frontline Club, London. He also runs a mentorship programme for emerging artists in collaboration with Kate O’Neill and the Visual Loop.
Steve is a practicing photographer and his landscape works often utilize chiaroscuro elements of light. He explores the natural environment to share the conceptual impact and influence it can have on our emotions; our health and our imagination. He shoots in large format and is represented by Black Box Projects in the UK and also a regular commissioned artist for the Hospital Rooms charity. He regularly exhibits and his work is held in both private and public collections.
Sam Mercer is Producer of the Digital Programme at The Photographers’ Gallery, London focusing on commissioning and curating the Media Wall. Sam’s current focus is Data / Set / Match, a year-long programme including six commissions that seek new ways to present, visualise and interrogate scientific image datasets. Sam graduated from MRes Art: Moving Image at Central St. Martins and also works as an artist and collaboratively in the artist groups Aas and Common Study, based at Somerset House.
Katrina Sluis is a curator and writer. She is Head of Photography and Media Arts at the School of Art & Design at the Australian National University. Prior to this, she was Senior Curator (Digital Programmes) at The Photographers’ Gallery where she developed projects on machine vision, synthetic imaging and speculative photographic education. She is a founding Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of the Networked Image, London South Bank University and a founding member of the collective You Must Not Call It Photography If This Expression Hurts You.
Above Left to Right: Mohini Chandra, Joe Hill, Clare Strand and Mita Suri
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Mohini Chandra is an artist whose work on globalisation, memory and migration, sees her moving between photography, moving image and installation. Having previously worked across the Asia-Pacific region in search of diasporic narratives, her current project Paradise Lost examines the complexities of colonial seafaring through the shipwrecks of Devon and Cornwall. Mohini Chandra currently lectures on BA and MA Photography at Plymouth College of Art.
Since graduating from the Royal College of Art, Chandra has exhibited widely, including in: Paradise Now? Contemporary Art from the Pacific, Asia Society Museum, New York; Out of India, Queens Museum of Art, New York; 000ZeroZeroZero, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London; Artist and the Archive, Shoreditch Biennale; the First Johannesburg Biennale and the Photography Triennial - Dislocations, Rovaniemi Museum in Finland. She has had solo shows at venues such as the Southeast Museum of Photography, Florida and the Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool. Most recently, she has shown in Photo Kathmandu (2015), CCP Declares at the Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne (2016), Now! Now! In more than one place, Chelsea College of Arts-University of the Arts London (2016),the Focus Festival of Photography in Mumbai, (2017), the Third Oceanic Performance Biennale in Auckland (2017), the Houston FotoFest Biennial (2018), Unquiet Moments, Courtauld Institute, (2020) and Bittersweet, Casula Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, (2020).
Joe Hill has been Director of Towner, Eastbourne since 2018. He was previously Director of Focal Point Gallery in Southend-on-Sea. Originally trained as an artist, Joe has over twelve years’ experience working as a director, curator and project coordinator for visual arts organisations, public commissioning and directly with artists. This experience has been cultivated through working with high-profile arts institutions including Camden Arts Centre, Firstsite, Modus Operandi public art consultancy and internationally as part of the Venice Biennale.
Clare Strand is a British conceptual artist, working with and against the photographic medium. Over the past two decades she has worked with found imagery, kinetic machinery, web programmes, fairground attractions and most recently, large scale paintings. She rejects the subject-based qualities and the immediate demand of information, so often associated with the photographic image and instead, and without apology, adopts and welcomes a subtle, slow burn approach.
Strand’s work has been widely exhibited in venues such as The Museum Folkwang; The Center Pompidou; Tate Britain; Salzburg Museum of Modern Art and the Victoria and Albert Museum. Her work is held in the collections of MOMA; SFMoma; The V&A; The Center Pompidou; The British Council; McEvoy Collection; The Arts Council; The NY Public Library; The Uni Credit Bank; The Mead Museum and Cornell University. She has produced 3 publications, Clare Strand Monograph published by Stedil (2009), Skirts published by GOST (2014) and Girl Plays with Snake published by MACK (2017). She is represented by Parrotta Contemporary, Cologne/Bonn. She was nominated for the 2020 Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize
Mita Suri has a background in community cinema exhibition, and began working at Sheffield Doc/Fest as a volunteer, supported the Doc/Circuit tour as a Distribution Trainee, moving on to be the Film Programme Coordinator and now the Film Programme Producer, supervising the delivery of the Film Programme for the festival. She is primarily responsible for the external contacts including filmmakers, national film institutes and distributors, managing the submissions process, running the Youth Jury Programme and coordinating Doc/Fest's year-round activity outside of the festival. Mita's previous work experience has been in health services' management, youth leadership initiatives and as support teaching staff in schools within the UK and abroad.
Danny Wilson Memorial Award
Julia Bunnemann, Curator, Photoworks
Max Houghton, photographer and lecturer
Anne Williams, curator and writer
TBC, London College of Communication
Steve Macleod, Director, Metro Imaging Ltd
Steve Macleod is a photographic artist, educator, lecturer and speaker as well as a respected industry professional. He is a Visiting Professor at UOS East Anglia, a Trustee of the Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust and a lifetime member of Frontline Club, London. He also runs a mentorship programme for emerging artists in collaboration with Kate O’Neill and the Visual Loop.
Steve is a practicing photographer and his landscape works often utilize chiaroscuro elements of light. He explores the natural environment to share the conceptual impact and influence it can have on our emotions; our health and our imagination. He shoots in large format and is represented by Black Box Projects in the UK and also a regular commissioned artist for the Hospital Rooms charity. He regularly exhibits and his work is held in both private and public collections.
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