Conversation with Mark Sealy and Elliott Ramsey
Please join us at the Polygon Gallery for Capture Photography Festival’s first Speaker Series talk with Mark Sealy, Executive Director of Autograph ABP, who will discuss his curated exhibition, Rotimi Fani-Kayode: Tranquility of Communion with The Polygon Gallery’s Curator Elliott Ramsey. The exhibition is organized by Autograph, London, and the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus.
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The Polygon Gallery Vancouver
MARK SEALYProfessor Mark Sealy is Director of Autograph (London, UK) and Professor of Photography – Rights and Representation at University of the Arts London, London College of Communication. Author of two celebrated books published by Lawrence Wishart, Photography: Race, Rights and Representation (2022) and Decolonising the Camera: Photography in Racial Time (2019), Sealy is interested in the relationship between art, photography, social change, identity politics, race, and human rights. He has written for many of the world’s leading photographic journals, produced numerous artist publications, curated exhibitions, and commissioned photographers and filmmakers worldwide. ELLIOT RAMSEYElliott Ramsey is a curator living and working on unceded territories of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, xʷməθkʷəy̓ əm, and səl̓ilwətaɁɬ Nations. His interests include identity formation and performance, gender-queerness, and issues of visibility and exclusion within the visual arts. Ramsey is Assistant Curator at The Polygon Gallery, and holds a Masters of Arts in Comparative Media Arts (2015) from Simon Fraser University. Partners |