This year’s PHOTO50 ‘No Place is and Island’, curated by Rodrigo Orrantia
PHOTO50 PANEL - 'FROM THE NEW ALCHEMISTS TO NO PLACE IS AN ISLAND - 10 YEARS OF BRITISH PHOTOGRAPHIC ART'
Rodrigo Orrantia,
Anne Braybon,
Dafna Talmor,
Aliki Braine
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This year’s Photo50 ‘No Place is an Island’ is curated by Rodrigo Orrantia presenting works by 14 British and UK-based artists responding to the idea of an island, looking at practices expanding the possibilities of photography. This marks 10 years since Photo50’s revered 2012 presentation ‘The New Alchemists’ curated by the late Sue Steward, a show that continues to be noted for how it challenged our assumptions of what photography can be. This panel chaired by Rodrigo Orrantia includes curator, Ann Braybon, and artists Dafna Talmor and Aliki Braine who will discuss notions of photography explored, a decade apart.
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PANELLISTS:
Chair, Rodrigo Orrantia:
Rodrigo Orrantia is an independent curator, interested in expanded practices of photography also working with sculpture, performance and localised installation. Orrantia believes that exhibitions and publications are devices for experimentation and debate, where curators can work with artists from the outset of the project in a collaborative way.
He is particularly interested in the connections between photography, geography and place, especially the topical relationship between nature and humans in the geologic time of the Anthropocene. Following this interest, in 2017 he was awarded Format Festival’s Habitat Award for an exhibition project entitled Modern Ornithologies, an experimental installation featuring a selection of photo books and films placed within the collection of Pickford’s House Museum in Derby. In 2020 he was the winner of the Landskrona Foto Festival Open Call, with an exhibition project entitled The State of Things, another experimental installation, this time inviting five artists to respond to the architecture and history of this Swedish town. Orrantia believes that contemporary photographic practices interested in the materiality of the medium could also be interested in its history, and certainly in its many adjacent worlds, from printmaking through to sculpture, film and video, and live performance.
Panel, Anne Braybon, Photography curator:
Anne Braybon has worked as an editorial art director, an independent consultant and photography commissioner for London’s National Portrait Gallery, and a creative director and curator for an Arts Council funded national touring exhibition SIXTEEN. She worked with leading contemporary photographers who joined forces with more than one hundred and seventy sixteen-year-olds across the UK to explore their dreams, hopes and fears in 2019. Anne was a close friend of Sue Steward and together they enjoyed vibrant days in Arles, Brighton, London, Paris and finally St Leonards-on Sea.
Dafna Talmor, Photo 50 artist:
Dafna Talmor is an artist and lecturer based in London whose practice encompasses photography, spatial interventions, curation and collaborations. Her work is included in public collections such as the Victoria and Albert Museum, Deutsche Bank, Hiscox and publications such as Look at This If You Love Great Photography, Post-Photography: The Artist with a Camera, Alternative Photographic Processes: Crafting Handmade Images, Architectural Review, Elephant, FT Weekend Magazine, Paper Journal, American Suburb X, c4 journal, 1000 Words, Camera Austria, ArtReview, IMA and GUP. Her first monograph, Constructed Landscapes, published by Fw:Books was released in October 2020, longlisted for the Kraszna-Krausz Photography Book Award 2021. Recent shows include a solo presentation at Photo London 2021 with Sid Motion Gallery, Straight Lines are a Human Invention (Sid Motion Gallery, 2019), Constructed Landscapes (TOBE Gallery, 2018) & (Photofusion, 2017) and group exhibitions Filling the Cracks (Unseen Unbound Amsterdam,
Aliki Braine, Photo 50 Artist:
Aliki Braine (1976, Paris) studied at the Ruskin School of Fine Art, Oxford University, the Slade School of Fine Art, London and the Courtauld Institute of Art History where she was awarded a distinction for her thesis on 17th century landscape painting. She has exhibited in Lausanne, Vienna, Madrid, Düsseldorf, Belgrade and in London’s Jerwood Space, Dalla Rosa Gallery and Flowers East.