The Social: Planning Exhibitions

06:30pm - 07:30pm, Wed 23 Oct 2024

Our advice & networking session for photographers, based on a theme

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The Social: Planning Exhibitions

6:30pm, Wed 23 Oct 2024

Our advice & networking session for photographers, based on a theme

Deliberately informal, The Social includes presentations by photography/arts professionals, offering tips on chosen themes and encourages participants to join the conversation and share their own insights.

The theme for this session is 'planning exhibitions' with artist and curator Melanie King and curator Lisa Springer. Together they will offer some background and advice related to the theme.

Biographies:

Dr Melanie King is a working class artist and curator based in Kent. She is interested in the relationship between the environment, photography and materiality, and is represented by the Land Art Agency. Melanie is co-Director of super/collider, Lumen Studios and founder of the London Alternative Photography Collective. Melanie is Lecturer In Photography at Canterbury Christ Church University. She has recently completed her PhD at the Royal College of Art.

Lisa Springer is the International Programmes Curator at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), London, leading major photography exhibitions like Photo City and Arresting Beauty. With a background in European museums, she has curated globally recognized photography exhibitions and co-edited Julia Margaret Cameron: Arresting Beauty (2023).

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