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Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the analogue photobooth - Rafael Hortala Vallve, AUTOFOTO

In 1925, 100 years ago, Anatol Josepho invented the first fully automated, coin-operated photobooth which he named the Photomaton.
Stationed on Broadway near Times Square in New York City, over 250,000 Americans used the photobooth in its first year, paying 25 cents and waiting patiently for eight minutes while their photo strips developed. A game-changer for the world of photography, the photobooth would become ubiquitous in cities around the world.
In the 1950s and 1960s, photobooths became a common feature at fairs, shopping centres and train stations and were loved by everyone from John Lennon and Yoko Ono to John and Jaqueline Kennedy and even employed by artist Andy Warhol for his now famous series of self-portraits.
Fast forward to 2025 and AUTOFOTO is marking the booth’s 100 year anniversary with a series of globally connected events, profiles and celebrations including major exhibitions and interventions across London, New York and Arles, projects with community groups, artists and designers, plus special events centered around their London and Barcelona based booths and in partnership with colleagues across the Globe.
- Official website: https://autofoto.org/- AUTOFOTO London: https://www.instagram.com/autofoto.london/- AUTOFOTO Barcelona: https://www.instagram.com/autofoto.barcelona/
- The Real Selfie Project: https://www.instagram.com/therealselfieproject/- Photo London Fair: https://photolondon.org/exhibitors/2024-2/autofoto/- International Photobooth Convention: https://www.autophoto.org/convention- The Photographers' Gallery London: https://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/2025-photographers-gallery
 
Rafael Hortala Vallve is the founder of AUTOFOTO, an analogue photobooth company based in London and Barcelona. AUTOFOTO have been rescuing and restoring original auto-photography machines for over a decade. Their restored machines can be found in locations across their two city bases. Their passion for analogue image making has led to a whole host of collaborations, workshops and events which bring a deeper enjoyment and understanding of analogue creative process. 
 
Michael Dooneyhttps://beacons.ai/michaeldooney
This episode of Subtext & Discourse Art World Podcast was recorded on 21. February 2025 between Perth (AU) and London (UK).

Felix Hoffmann, artistic director FOTO ARSENAL WIEN | EP73 Subtext & Discourse Art World Podcast

Felix Hoffmann is an image and cultural scholar and the inaugural Artistic Director of the Center for Photography and Lens-Based Media FOTO ARSENAL WIEN and the Director of FOTO WIEN.
From 2005 to 2022, he served as the Chief Curator of the exhibition space C/O Berlin, where he was responsible for exhibitions, programs, and strategy. He curated numerous international exhibitions, including Nan Goldin (2009), Robert Mapplethorpe, Peter Lindbergh (2011), Gordon Parks (2014), Ren Hang and Elfie Semotan (2018), and William Eggleston (2023), as well as thematic exhibitions like Eerily Familiar: Images of Terror (2011), The Last Image: Photography and Death (2018), and Send me an Image: From Postcards to Social Media (2020). 
- Follow Felix on Instagram here --> https://www.instagram.com/felix_hoffmann__/
 
FOTO ARSENAL WIEN is Austria’s new center for photography and lens-based media. Since 2023 it has been responsible for the FOTO WIEN festival, and starting in 2025 it will be responsible for the Festival Vienna Digital Cultures with the Kunsthalle Wien.
Initiated as a media literacy center by the city of Vienna in fall 2022, FOTO ARSENAL WIEN explores all facets of photography. As a hub for photography and lens-based media in Austria, the institution brings together historical and international topics at the interface between analog and digital worlds as well as between static and moving pictures.
FOTO ARSENAL WIEN presents the full spectrum of the medium of photography in up to twelve exhibitions held annually in a one-thousand-square-meter exhibition space—a combination of young talents, still-to-be-discovered photographers, and internationally known artists.
- https://www.fotoarsenalwien.at/en/- https://www.instagram.com/foto_arsenal_wien/
 
FOTO WIEN is a member of the European Month of Photography (EMOP), a European collaborative project that currently includes photography festivals in Berlin, Brussels, Lisbon, and Luxemburg.
Once an insider event for Vienna’s lively photography scene, FOTO WIEN has become Austria’s largest festival of photographic images in over twenty years of collective commitment. It offers programs for a broad audience that is interested in art and contemporary events as well as a professional audience.
FOTO ARSENAL WIEN has been the organizer since 2023.
- https://www.fotowien.at/en/- https://www.instagram.com/foto_wien/
 
Michael Dooneyhttps://beacons.ai/michaeldooney
This episode of Subtext & Discourse Art World Podcast was recorded on 7. March 2025 between Perth (AU) and Vienna (AT).

Female Photoclub and European Month of Photography Berlin | EP72 Subtext & Discourse Art World Podcast

In this episode I am speaking with four members of the Berlin chapter of the Female Photoclub. A Germany wide professional association which aims to increase visibility of female photographers, advocates for equality in the industry, and raises awareness of issues such as pay inequality and lack of representation. 
In addition to the Female Photoclub, we’ll also be speaking about the group exhibition Invisible Lines: Reflexionen der Gegenwart, opening this Saturday 15th of March at the Alte Münze Berlin from 6:00pm, which showcases projects from 28 members of the Female Photoclub, and is included in the official program of the European Month of Photography Berlin.
Michael Dooneyhttps://beacons.ai/michaeldooney
This episode of Subtext & Discourse Art World Podcast was recorded on 9. March 2025 between Perth (AU) and Berlin (DE).
 
Invisible Lines - Reflexionen der Gegenwart
Under the title Invisible Lines – Reflexionen der Gegenwart 28 photographers from the Berlin Regional Group of the Female Photoclub explore the invisible boundaries of our society. In a time of growing conflicts and divisions, the photographs illuminate the subtle lines between closeness and distance, familiarity and otherness, community and isolation.
“Invisible Lines” establishes a dialogue between individual perspectives and larger social structures, calling for reflection on the fractures of our time and encouraging ways to overcome them.
- https://emop-berlin.eu/en/exhibition/invisible-lines/5624f791-8dd3-4d9d-8096-c29d75dc1bea/- https://femalephotoclub.com/post/female-photoclub-berlin-invisible-lines-reflexionen-der-gegenwart-2025/
The Female Photoclub
The Female Photoclub was initiated in 2017 and has been a registered association since 2020 for professional photographers.
Currently, the club has around 500 members who are organised in nine cities and regions across Germany. The association’s goals are to increase the visibility of photographers, advocate for greater equality in the industry, and raise awareness of issues such as pay inequality and lack of representation.
- https://femalephotoclub.com/- https://www.instagram.com/femalephotoclub/
EMOP Berlin - The European Month of Photography
EMOP Berlin is the largest biennial festival of photographic images in Germany.
Museums, exhibition institutions, memorial sites, archives, libraries, collections, cultural institutes, universities, art academies and other educational institutions, municipal and private galleries and project spaces from Berlin and Potsdam - together with the exhibiting artists - are the key players in this open festival format.
- https://emop-berlin.eu/- https://www.instagram.com/emopberlin/
Photographers who joined the conversation
Natalia Carstens is a freelance photographer based in Berlin, specializing in architecture and art documentation. Her work primarily focuses on art and cultural institutions, where she combines her two passions. In her personal projects, she explores how architecture appears in the absence of people, particularly in cultural spaces like cinemas, clubs, and swimming pools. Her photographs capture these spaces in their unique aesthetics and atmosphere. She completed her photography training at Lette Verein and holds a degree in Art History and Cultural Studies from Humboldt University in Berlin. Since 2024, she has been a board member of the Female Photoclub and leads its Berlin regional group.
- https://www.nataliacarstens.com/- https://www.instagram.com/natalia_carstens/
Catherine Lieser works with digital photography, with a focus on portraits. She was born in Essen in 1986, studied at the University of Television and Film in Munich and lives and works in Berlin. She is a part of the Female Photoclub and the Professional Association of Freelance Photographers and Film Designers. In her art projects she is dealing with the question of whether and how one can unlearn normative thinking and behavior, such as gender-specific categorisations. We as society are surrounded by an imagery that shape such thinking and behavior and her work is an attempt to create visual counter-narratives, that stand in contrast to the normative imagery.
- https://www.catherinelieser.com/- https://www.instagram.com/catherine_lieser/
Chiara Dazi is an Italian documentary photographer with a passion for sports and the East; she is interested in how collective memories and borders influence identities and how individuals and communities deal with the notion of belonging and traditions. Born in the Italian Po' valley, she studied languages and graduated in communication sciences at the Università di Bologna with a thesis on the ‘nostalgia for the former GDR’. She worked as a photo editor in Paris, then graduated from the Berlin Ostkreuz school of photography. After artist residencies in Georgia, Kaliningrad and the Republic of Moldova, Chiara currently lives and works in Berlin.
- https://www.chiaradazi.com/- https://www.instagram.com/frau_loesung
Victoria Kämpfe is a photographer and art director whose work explores themes of feminism, identity, and belonging. Born in Chemnitz, she started her professional creative career in Detroit, USA - an experience that shaped her artistic perspective and deepened her engagement with themes of attachment and rupture. Now based in Berlin, she works across photography, fashion, and music, drawing inspiration from (sub)-culture and politics. With a background in anthropology, she explores the unspoken and challenges conventional narratives of beauty and power, inviting a closer look at what we see and why we see it.
- https://victoriakaempfe.com/- https://www.instagram.com/victoriakaempfe/

Joanna Szproch, visual artist & art mediator | EP71 Subtext & Discourse Art World Podcast

Joanna Szproch is a Polish, Berlin-based visual artist and activist. Her practice blends photography as a performative and instrumental medium with archival materials, writing, and participatory projects. She explores female resilience through embodiment and conviviality. Committed to analogue processes, she creates art books, installations, and collaborative works that challenge societal norms and empower women. Her debut monograph Alltagsfantasie (2023) reflects her bold artistic vision.
 
See more of Joanna's work on her official website (https://joannaszproch.com/), follow her new instagram page (https://www.instagram.com/joanna.szproch/), and subscribe to her substack newsletter (https://joannaszproch.substack.com/).
Photo book video showing Alltagsfantasie on vimeo: https://vimeo.com/847340512
 
Michael Dooney: https://beacons.ai/michaeldooney
 
This episode of Subtext & Discourse Art World Podcast was recorded on 19. February 2025 between Perth (AU) and Berlin (DE).
Portrait supplied by artist with Droste effect.

Enrico Stefanelli, Photolux Festival | EP70 Subtext & Discourse Art World Podcast

Enrico Stefanelli (b.1962, Lucca, Italy) is the founder and artistic director of Photolux Festival, the biennial of photography in Lucca, Italy. From 2010 to 2017, he worked as curator for the European Photo Exhibition Award (epea), a project sponsoring young photo talent, which developed as a collaboration between four European foundations, including the Körber Foundation in Germany.
He has been appointed as an expert for portfolio reviews at Les Rencontres d'Arles, CENTER, Santa Fe - Colorado, and Kaunas Festival in Lithuania. He has sat on the selection committee of the World Press Photo Foundation's Joop Swart Masterclass, the Leica Oskar Barnack Award and the Prix Piclet. As well as the international jury for Manuel Rivera-Ortiz Foundation for Documentary Photography & Film.
He has also published various texts on photography in the international specialised press, and has curated exhibitions of renowned photographers such as Gianni Berengo Gardin and Stanley Greene. In addition to Tim Hetherington, Jan Saudek, Horst P. Horst, VII Agency, Nobuyoshy Araki, Boris Mikhailov and David Douglas Duncan.
 
Visit the official website of the Photolux Festival: https://www.photoluxfestival.it/en/
You can follow both the Photolux Festival - https://www.instagram.com/photoluxfest/ - and Enrico Stefanelli - https://www.instagram.com/enricostefanelli/ - on Instagram.
 
Michael Dooney: https://beacons.ai/michaeldooney
 
This episode of Subtext & Discourse Art World Podcast was recorded on 23. January 2025 between Perth (AU) and Lucca (IT).
Portrait of Enrico Stefanelli taken by Michael Dooney on 10. July 2024 in Lucca, Italy.

Pilar Mata Dupont, visual artist & filmmaker | EP69 Subtext & Discourse Art World Podcast

Pilar Mata Dupont is a multi-award-winning Argentinean-Australian artist based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Her practice spans video, installation, performance, and photography. Using highly theatrical and cinematic methods, she uses allegory and narrative to reimagine/rework histories and classical texts and aims to create alternative readings that question the conditions of the construction of dominant narratives that shape history. 
In 2015 she won the Plymouth Contemporary Open in the United Kingdom, and a residency prize at the 19th Contemporary Art Festival Sesc Videobrasil in São Paulo, Brazil. She has shown work internationally in museums and galleries, including the Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul; Secession, Vienna; Pori Art Museum, Pori, Finland; Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart; and, as part of Rencontres Internationales film festival, the Gaîté Lyrique, Paris. In 2012, she was a recipient of a Mid-Career Fellowship from the Government of Western Australia.
In collaboration with Tarryn Gill, she participated in the Biennale of Sydney and won the Basil Sellers Art Prize in 2010. As part of multi-artform collective Hold Your Horses, she made work commissioned by the Akademie der Künste in Berlin in 2012.
 
Pilar's website with past projects and news about her practice: https://pilarmatadupont.com/
Updates and insights on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pilar_matadupont/
She is represented by MOORE CONTEMPORARY gallery in Perth, Australia: http://moorecontemporary.com/artists/pilar-mata-dupont/
 
Michael Dooney: https://beacons.ai/michaeldooney
 
This episode of Subtext & Discourse Art World Podcast was recorded on 9. January 2025 in Perth, Australia.
Portrait by Joris van den Einden.

Pablo Giori, International Photography Festival Association | EP68 Subtext & Discourse Art World Podcast

Pablo Giori is the co-founder and director of the Experimental Photo Festival, the Ágora, School of Experimentation, and the  International Photography Festivals Association (IPFA) in Barcelona.
His interest in experimental analogue photography was born out of his work as a documentarian, historian, and archivist with the estate of Pere Català (Valls, Alt Camp, 1889 – Barcelona, 1971). The Catalan photographer, publicist, and writer is most known for republican posters and propaganda during the Spanish Civil War. He also had contact with various avant-garde associations in Barcelona, and his work can be related to photographers such as Man Ray, Moholy-Nagy, Renger-Patzsch and Sougez, among others.
Pablo Giori holds a Bachelor's degree in Philology (National University of Tucumán), a master's degree in Cultural Studies (University of Girona), a master's degree in Strategic Communication (Universitat Rovira i Virgili) and a PhD in Contemporary History (Universitat de Girona). He has taken courses on Photographic archives management in the digital environment and on Preservation, conservation and digitization of photographic originals at the Institut d'Estudis Fotogràfics de Catalunya.
 
Pablo Giori's official website with information about his photography projects and academic work.- https://en.pablogiori.com/- https://www.instagram.com/pablo.giori/
International Photography Festivals Association (IPFA)- https://www.photographyfestivalsassociation.com/- https://www.instagram.com/experimentalphotofestival/
Experimental Photo Festival Barcelona- https://en.experimentalphotofestival.com/- https://www.instagram.com/photographyfestivals/
 
Michael Dooneyhttps://beacons.ai/michaeldooney
 
This episode of Subtext & Discourse Art World Podcast was recorded on 3. February 2025 between Perth (AU) and Barcelona (ES).
Portrait supplied by Pablo Giori.

Jessa Fairbrother, visual artist | EP67 Subtext & Discourse Art World Podcast

Jessa Fairbrother (b. London) is a British visual artist whose work spans stitch, photography, performance and drawing. The body is her main material.
She holds an MA in Photographic Studies from the University of Westminster (2010) and trained at drama school in London in the 1990s.  This laid the groundwork for her ongoing investigation of how art and audience collide.
The artist book of her work Conversations with my mother, is held in collections at Tate Britain, the V&A, London and The Museum of Fine Art, Houston.  Yale Centre for British Art and Bristol Museum and Art Gallery also hold pieces from this series. Her companion piece, Role Play (Woman with Cushion) is included in Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood – a Hayward Touring exhibition travelling the UK throughout 2024-2025 and included in the 2024 Thames and Hudson book of the same name by curator of the show, Hettie Judah.
She is a Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust scholar, training at the Royal School of Needlework in historical hand embroidery, which she incorporates into her photographic work. This is now embedded in her long-term multi-faceted project A Fencing Manual for Women, which has also been supported in it’s development by a DYCP grant from the Arts Council of England, The Oppenheim-John Downes Memorial Trust, Hosking Houses Trust, Gane Trust and GRAIN as well as private sponsors.
Jessa became an RWA Academician in 2023.
She works from her studio in Bristol, UK.
 
Jessa's official website.https://jessafairbrother.com/
Follow Jessa on Instagram.https://www.instagram.com/jessfairbrother/
Tate Papers: Severance: Jessa Fairbrother’s Conversations with My Mother 2016 - Jennifer Mundyhttps://www.tate.org.uk/research/tate-papers/33/severance-jessa-fairbrother-conversations-my-mother
 
Michael Dooneyhttps://beacons.ai/michaeldooney
 
This episode of Subtext & Discourse Art World Podcast was recorded on 27. October 2024 between Perth (AU) and Bristol (UK).
Portrait of Jessa Fairbrother by Trish Morrissey in the Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood exhibition at MAC in Birmingham.

Anthony Luvera, socially engaged artist, writer, and educator | EP66 Subtext & Discourse Art World Podcast

Anthony Luvera is an Australian socially engaged artist, writer, and educator based in London.
The long-term collaborative work he creates with individuals and communities has been exhibited widely in galleries, public spaces, and festivals, including the UK House of Commons, Tate Liverpool, The Gallery at Foyles, the British Museum, London Underground’s Art on the Underground, National Portrait Gallery London, Four Corners, Belfast Exposed Photography, Australian Centre for Photography, PhotoIreland, Malmö Fotobiennal, Goa International Photography Festival, Les Rencontres D’Arles Photographie, Oslo Negative, and Landskrona Foto Festival. His writing has appeared in a range of publications including Trigger, Photography and Culture, Visual Studies, Photoworks, Source, and Photographies.
Anthony is Associate Professor of Photography in the Centre for Arts, Memory and Communities at Coventry University, and editor of Photography For Whom?, a periodical about socially engaged photography. Anthony is Chair of the Education Committee at the Royal Photographic Society, and a Trustee of Photofusion. He has designed education and mentorship programmes, facilitated workshops, and given lectures for the public education departments of National Portrait Gallery, Tate, Magnum, Royal Academy of Arts, The Photographers’ Gallery, Barbican Art Gallery, and community photography projects across the UK.
 
Anthony's official website.https://www.luvera.com/
Follow Anthony on Instagram to keep up to date with his projects. https://www.instagram.com/anthony_luvera/
 
Michael Dooneyhttps://beacons.ai/michaeldooney
 
This episode of Subtext & Discourse Art World Podcast was recorded on 30. October 2024 between Perth and London.
Portrait photo supplied by guest.

Wiktoria Michalkiewicz, REZO Agency | EP65 Subtext & Discourse Art World Podcast

Dr. Wiktoria Michałkiewicz is an interdisciplinary expert with extensive international experience in storytelling, talent management, journalism, and photography. Alongside her academic achievements—holding five degrees, including a PhD in Sociology, an MA in Social Anthropology, and an MA in Cultural Studies from esteemed institutions such as Stockholm University, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Lumière University Lyon 2, and Jagiellonian University—she has established a remarkable career as a contributing editor for prestigious international magazines like National Geographic, Harper’s Bazaar, and Vogue. Additionally, she has excelled as a film and photography producer, talent agent, and exhibition curator.
Dr. Michałkiewicz has played a pivotal role in producing and curating exhibitions for renowned artists, collaborating with international festivals and institutions. Her diverse expertise extends to consulting and editing award-winning books, as well as serving as a PR and communications specialist. In one of her notable recent roles, she was part of Fotografiska Stockholm and Fotografiska International, contributing to its global expansion to Tallinn and New York.
In 2021, she founded REZO, a consulting agency specializing in global career strategies for visual artists, talent management, international art PR, and art advisory services. Operating globally from Warsaw, Stockholm, and Lisbon, she continues to make a significant impact in the art world.
Over the past 15 years, Dr. Michałkiewicz has collaborated with both legendary and emerging artists, contributing to their projects in various capacities—from curating exhibitions and producing films to editing books and developing communication and marketing strategies. She has been involved in institutions and festivals such as the Nordic Light Festival in Norway, Landskrona Foto Festival, Leica Gallery, and Fotografiska, working on exhibitions featuring artists like Albert Watson, Platon, Greg Gorman, Ralph Gibson, Ragnar Axelsson, Paul Nicklen & Cristina Mittermeier, Chris Rainier, Paul Hansen, James Nachtwey, Sebastião Salgado, and Ellen von Unwerth.
Her international strategy and art PR work include collaborations with artists such as Kacper Kowalski, Cooper & Gorfer, Bastiaan Woudt, Maciej Markowicz, Lisen Stibeck, and Erle Kyllingmark. As an editor and consultant, she has contributed to award-winning book projects, including “Arche” by Kacper Kowalski, which was nominated for the prestigious Les Prix du Livre at Rencontres d’Arles 2022.
Dr. Michałkiewicz’s projects have garnered numerous accolades, including Cannes Lions, Prix du Livre Les Rencontres d’Arles (nomination), and Sony World Photo Awards (1st Prize Landscape). She has also served as a jury member and portfolio reviewer at national and international competitions, further solidifying her influence and reputation in the art photography industry.
 
REZO Art and Photography Management Agnecyhttp://rezo.pl/en/
Follow Wiktoria on Instagram to keep up date with her international activitieshttps://www.instagram.com/wiktoriami/
 
Michael Dooneyhttps://beacons.ai/michaeldooney
 
This episode of Subtext & Discourse Art World Podcast was recorded on 3. November 2024 between Perth and Lisbon.
Portrait photo by Knut Koivisto

W.M. Hunt, photography collector | EP64 Subtext & Discourse Art World Podcast

W.M. Hunt is a champion of photography: collector, curator and consultant who lives and works in New York City.  He is also a teacher and writer and speaker on photography.  He says that photography changed his life.  It gave him one.
 
Official website where you can read Bill's series of essays: “Great Photographs … or, at least some really good ones”https://www.wmhunt.com/
Bill's instagram for Collection Blind Pirate (American Groups)https://www.instagram.com/wmhuntdbear/
 
Michael Dooneyhttps://beacons.ai/michaeldooney
 
This episode of Subtext & Discourse Art World Podcast was recorded on 10. October 2024 between Perth and New York.
Portrait photo supplied by W.M. Hunt
 

Freo Majer, Forecast Platform | EP63 Subtext & Discourse Art World Podcast

Freo Majer is the founder and artistic director of Forecast, an international mentorship program that transcends disciplines and geographical locations to connect cultural practitioners with renowned mentors.
Trained as an opera director, Majer looks back at a career as a director and producer in European theaters, opera houses, and at festivals, including at Mainz State Theater, Lucerne Theater, Bremen Theater, and the international festival Theater der Welt. Driven by his own experience, and recognizing a gap in the type of support available to cultural works, he changed paths and founded Forecast in 2015. Together with curators and festival directors from various European cities, he initiated the interdisciplinary research project Housing the Human (2017–2019). In 2020, Majer began a three-year collaboration with the ZKM and HfG in Karlsruhe and the National Academy of Science and Engineering acatech, developing prototypes on the eco-social research program Driving the Human.
Forecast Platform - https://forecast-platform.com/
 
Michael Dooneyhttps://beacons.ai/michaeldooney
 
This episode of Subtext & Discourse Art World Podcast was recorded on 10. October 2024 between Perth (Australia) and Berlin (Germany).
Portrait photo supplied by Format Platform.
 

Philippe Garner, photography specialist | EP62 Subtext & Discourse Art World Podcast

Philippe Garner was born in Aix-en-Provence in 1949. He was brought up in Brighton. After graduating in French and Latin from Bedford College, London, in 1970, he joined Sotheby’s Training Scheme and in 1971 started working as a specialist in late-19th-century and 20th-century decorative arts and in the fledgling field of photographs. He has played an influential role in raising awareness of the significance of our photographic heritage, both through his pioneering auctions and through his activities as a writer and curator.
https://www.philippegarner.com/
 
Michael Dooneyhttps://beacons.ai/michaeldooney
 
This episode of Subtext & Discourse Art World Podcast was recorded on 18. October 2024 between Perth (Australia) and London (The United Kingdom).
Portrait photo of Philippe taken by his wife Lucilla in 1985, from his passport issued January 1986.

Wesley Verhoeve, photographer | EP61 Subtext & Discourse Art World Podcast

Wesley Verhoeve is an Amsterdam-based photographer and curator whose work has been featured in publications including the New York Times, National Geographic Traveler, Washington Post, Wired, New York Magazine, Volkskrant, and others.
As the founding curator of the Projected series at the International Center of Photography, Wesley oversaw 96 exhibitions showcasing the work of over 300 photographers from 53 countries. He currently curates Process Projected, a bi-monthly exhibition series at the WIHH Gallery in Amsterdam.
Wesley's first monograph, NOTICE, was published by New Style Publishing in 2021 and is now in its second printing.
Every Sunday, Wesley publishes Process, a weekly photography newsletter focused on helping over 13,000 readers find their creative voice.
 
Wesley's website where you can pre-order NOTICE Journal Volume 1https://www.wesley.co/
PROCESS Newsletter on Substackhttps://wesley.substack.com/
 
Michael Dooneyhttps://beacons.ai/michaeldooney
 
This episode of Subtext & Discourse Art World Podcast was recorded on 11. October 2024 between Perth (Australia) and Amsterdam (The Netherlands).
Portrait photo of Wesley Verhoeve by Chris Michel.

Tim Clark, 1000 Words | EP60 Subtext & Discourse Art World Podcast

Tim Clark is Editor in Chief of 1000 Words and Artistic Director for Fotografia Europea in Reggio Emilia, Italy, together with Walter Guadagnini, Director of CAMERA, Torino and Luce Lebart, curator, historian and researcher at The Archive of Modern Conflict, named as Photo Festival of the Year at the Lucie Awards 2022. He has also taught and devised numerous academic programmes, most recently at The Institute of Photography, Falmouth University and NABA, Milano.
 
1000 Words is a leading online contemporary photography magazine. It commissions exhibition and photobook reviews, essays and interviews in response to the visual culture of our present moment. Founded in 2008, the editorial commitment has always been to explore the possibilities for the medium whilst stimulating debate around current modes of practice, curation, discourses and theory internationally.
 
Sign up to the 1000 Words mailing list at the link below. https://www.1000wordsmag.com/
Details of the print publications Curator Conversations and Writer Conversations.https://www.1000wordsmag.com/curator-conversations/https://www.1000wordsmag.com/writer-conversations/
Photography Festival Fotografia Europea in Reggio Emilia Italy. https://www.fotografiaeuropea.it/en/
 
Michael Dooneyhttps://beacons.ai/michaeldooney
 
This episode of Subtext & Discourse Art World Podcast was recorded on 14. September 2023 between Perth (Australia) and London (UK).
Portrait photo provided by Tim Clark.

Boris Eldagsen, visual artist | EP59 Subtext & Discourse Art World Podcast

Boris Eldagsen was born in Pirmasens, West Germany, in 1970.
He studied media and drama, philosophy, and German studies at the University of Cologne (1991–92). From 1992 to 1998 he concurrently studied philosophy at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, and visual art at Mainz Academy of Fine Arts. During that time, he also studied visual art at the Sarojini Naidu School of Arts and Communication in the University of Hyderabad, India (1994); and conceptual art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, Czech Republic (1995).
He has presented nine solo exhibitions in Australia, France, Germany, and the United Kingdom including those at the Rencontres d’Arles, Edinburgh Art Festival, and the Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney.
His work has featured in twenty-one group exhibitions and festivals in Asia, Europe, and South America including Chobi Mela in Bangladesh; Encontros da Imagem in Braga, Portugal; FestFoto in Porto Alegre, Brazil; FORMAT Festival in Derby, United Kingdom; and PhotoVisa in Krasnodar, Russia.
He has won a number of awards including the Voies-Off Award, Arles (2014); best show at FORMAT festival, Derby (2015); and the Open Competition Creative prize at the Sony World Photography Awards (2023), which he declined to accept. Boris Eldagsen is a member of Deutsche Fotografische Akademie, responsible for their online activities, and, since 2019, a digital consultant to Roger Ballen.
He lives and works in Berlin.
 
Interview with Boris Eldagsen recorded by Michael Dooney on 6. July 2023 at the LUMA Foundation in Arles, France.
 
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Boris Eldagsen
Home Page: http://www.eldagsen.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/boriseldagsen/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/boriseldagsen
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/boriseldagsen/
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJz2sAaos322wGsuCtNpZHg
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