The 2019 Talks Programme is guest curated by William A. Ewing, curator and writer, former Director of the Musée de l’Elysée, and former Director of Exhibitions at the International Center of Photography, New York.
SOFIA VOLLMER DE MADURO, PEDRO SLIM AND ARTUR WALTHER: THE COLLECTOR'S MIND | 14.20 - 15.50
This panel discussion with Director and Curator of the Alberto Vollmer Foundation, Sofia Vollmer de Maduro, artist Pedro Slim and German-American art collector Artur Walther will focus on collecting photography.
FT WEEKEND PRESENTS: MAJA DANIELS | 17.30 - 18.20
Swedish photographer Maja Daniels will be speaking about her latest project Elf Dalia, which is being released as a book by MACK (2019). Elf Dalia weaves together a narrative born out of the Swedish valley of Älvdalen. Daniels combines photographs taken from 2011-2017 with photographs from a local archive made by Tenn Lars Persson (1878-1938), a local inventor, mechanic and photographer.
MISHKA HENNER, DAVID MAISEL AND JEFFREY MILSTEIN: EYES IN THE AIR | 10.00 - 11.30
Photographs from the air have become commonplace in a world of planes, helicopters and drones, not to mention satellites. Three photographers renowned for their aerial practice – though each one works at different altitudes, come together to discuss the opportunities – and limitations – of new ways of looking at the world.
MARTIN SHOELLER IN CONVERSATION WITH GERHARD STEIDL | 11.45 - 12.35
Martin Schoeller is one of the world’s preeminent contemporary portrait photographers. He is most known for his extreme-close up portraits, a series in which familiar faces are treated with the same scrutiny as the un-famous. Gerhard Steidl is a publisher, known for publishing international photobooks and contemporary literature. Furthermore, he is active as a curator, conceiving and producing photography exhibitions worldwide.
STEPHEN SHORE IN CONVERSATION WITH DAVID CAMPANY | 13.00 - 14.30
US photographer Stephen Shore is Photo London’s 2019 Master of Photography. Shore will discuss various aspects of his long career and his most recent series Details, which will be shown at the Fair this year. Renowned for his engaging and rigorous writing, exhibitions and public speaking, curator David Campany has worked worldwide with institutions including MoMA New York, Tate, Whitechapel Gallery, Centre Pompidou, Le Bal, and the Stedelijk Museum.
LIZ JOHNSON ARTUR IN CONVERSATION WITH HANS ULRICH OBRIST | 14.45 - 15.35
Based in London, Bulgarian photographer Liz Johnson Artur will have her first solo exhibition in the US at the Brooklyn Museum, New York in May 2019 and her first major museum exhibition in the UK in June 2019 at the South London Gallery. Hans Ulrich Obrist is Artistic Director of the Serpentine Galleries, London.
SOPHIE GORDON, HOPE KINGSLEY, FRANCIS HODGSON AND MARTIN BARNES: THE ESSENTIAL FENTON | 16.00 - 17.30
This panel discussion brings together experts on historical photographer Roger Fenton from various institutions and will focus on the public exhibition The Essential Fenton, which is curated by Bob Hershkowitz and on show at the Fair. Special attention will be paid to Fenton’s ‘object photography’, specifically his museum photographs, photographs of objects in the British Museum and his still life photographs.
MARTIN PARR IN CONVERSATION WITH DOMINIC SANDBROOK | 17.40 - 18.30
Martin Parr is one of the best-known documentary photographers of his generation. With over 100 books of his own published, and another 30 edited by Parr, his photographic legacy is already established. Dominic Sandbrook is a historian, broadcaster and columnist and he is renowned for his best-selling series of books on life in post-war Britain. This conversation will examine how British identity is explored in Parr’s work.
JEM SOUTHAM IN CONVERSATION WITH SUSANNA BROWN | 18.40 - 19.30
Jem Southam is one of the UK’s leading photographers and is renowned for his series of colour landscape photographs, beginning in the 1970s and continuing until the present. His trademark is the patient observation of changes at a single location over many months or years. Susanna Brown is Curator of Photographs at the V&A, where she has worked since 2008. Before joining the V&A, Susanna worked in the Photographs Collection at the National Portrait Gallery, London.
MITCH EPSTEIN IN CONVERSATION | 19.40 - 20.30
Mitch Epstein will discuss his latest series Property Rights which was instigated by his visits to Standing Rock in 2017. It looks at the varied stakes in the battles over land usage and eminent domain: access to water; preservation of wilderness and historical sites; the ability to cross our Southern border; access to land for mining. These photographs are an effort to better understand our landscape and why resistance has become a way of life for so many 21st century Americans.
RONAN MCKENZIE, HALEY MORRIS-CAFIERO, PEYTON FULFORD & FIONA ROGERS: BODY CONSCIOUS | 10.00 - 11.30
As the role of authorship continues to be debated in both the media and cultural space, this panel will investigate and interrogate the use of the body within photography, exploring themes of objectification, identity and body politics.
SUSAN MEISELAS IN CONVERSATION WITH JO WEBSTER | 11.45 - 12.35
Susan Meiselas is a documentary photographer who lives and works in New York. She is recognised for her documentation of human rights issues in Latin America. Jo Webster is the Managing Editor for Strategy and Operations in EMEA at Reuters.
THE EVER- INTRIGUING VIVIEN MAIER: ANNA SPARHAM AND ANN MARKS IN CONVERSATION | 13.00 - 13.50
Heralded as one of the most acclaimed photographers of the last century, Maier’s personal life and motivations have remained a mystery. Now biographer Ann Marks reveals new information regarding Vivian Maier’s background and photographic development in order to better inform our understanding of the artist and her work. In this conversationshe is joined by author Anna Sparham.
YANG LI AND ANTOINE D’AGATA IN CONVERSATION WITH LUCY KUMARA MOORE | 14.15 - 15.05
Director of Claire de Rouen Lucy Kumara Moore will discuss the collaboration and upcoming exhibition between Magnum Photos photographer Antoine d’Agata and the fashion designer Yang Li. Moore recently curated Here We Are, a major exhibition of post war British photography for the luxury fashion brand Burberry.
RPS PRESENTS ELLEN CAREY BACK TO THE FUTIRE: THE AVANT-GARDE IS AN ADDRESS | 16.00 - 16.50
For the Royal Photographic Society’s lecture, Ellen Carey will discuss her own work from her student days to the present and, in so doing will contextualise photography as a visual art and game-changer in the forefront of the avant-garde.
ERIK MADAGAN HECK IN CONVERSATION WITH ANDREW SANIGAR | 17.15 - 18.05
Erik Madigan Heck, one of the most prolific and successful fashion photographers working today will be in conversation with Andrew Sanigar, Thames & Hudson Commissioning Editor for Photography and Design. They will discuss Erik’s career to date, his art and fashion publication Nomenus and his many creative collaborations.
VANESSA WINSHIP IN CONVERSATION WITH ALONA PARDO | 18.30 - 19.20
The acclaimed British photographer Vanessa Winship will discuss her work with Barbican curator Alona Pardo. Since the late 1980s Vanessa Winship has assiduously chronicled the lives of those living in contested lands, from Turkey to Kosovo and beyond, making work that moves surefootedly and poetically between reportage, portraiture, landscape and documentary practice.
LEICA PRESENTS RALPH GIBSON | 19.40 - 20.30
This year Leica Camera honours the long-time Leica devotee Ralph Gibson. Ralph Gibson is one of the leading fine art photographers working today. Known for his evocative, sensual and surreal gaze – producing deeply monochrome images via the combination of vision, camera and oily black print. Gibson has been compiling images for over 60 years with his first introduction to photography taking place during his time in the U.S. Navy in the late 1950s.
FT WEEKEND PRESENTS: STANLEY WOLUKAU-WANAMBWA | 10.00 - 10.50
Join the FT Weekend for a conversation with Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa about his new book One Wall a Web, which gathers together work from two photographic series, Our Present Invention (2012-14) and All My Gone Life (2014-17), as well as two text collages all made in and focused specifically on the United States.
ZACKARY DRUCKER IN CONVERSATION WITH CHRIS BOOT | 11.45 - 12.35
Zackary Drucker will speak about her own work, followed by a conversation about photography and transgender representation.
TIM WALKER IN CONVERSATION WITH SUSANNA BROWN | 13.00 - 13.50
Tim Walker, one of the world's most inventive photographers and contributor to magazines including Vogue, W and Love, will be in conversation with V&A curator Susanna Brown. They will discuss Tim's eclectic sources of inspiration, the importance of make believe, and his newest and most ambitious collaborations.
APERTURE PRESENTS: ERWIN OLAF IN CONVERSATION WITH ERIK VAN GINKEL | 14.15 - 15.05
On the occasion of Photo London and the Aperture’s release of Erwin Olaf : I Am , Erwin Olaf and Erik van Ginkel (Director of Finance and Operations of the Rijksmuseum and photography enthusiast) will discuss Olaf’s work and his great inspiration of the Dutch Golden Age of painting. In 2018, the Rijksmuseum became home to five hundred works of Olaf’s core collection, comprising prints, portfolios, videos, magazines, books and posters.
ED TEMPLETON IN CONVERSATION WITH MATT MARTIN | 15.30 - 16.20
Matt Martin, curator of Doomed Gallery London and founder of the photocopy club project, will discuss the work of cult photographer and skateboarder Ed Templeton, including Templeton’s photographic process when shooting, editing and archiving, his zine archive and mix media works, and his latest book Wires Crossed.
EAMONN DOYLE, DAVID DONOHOE AND NIALL SWEENEY: MADE IN DUBLIN | 16.45 - 17.30
Irish photographer, electronic music producer and DJ Eamonn Doyle will discuss his audio-visual work titled Made in Dublin, made in collaboration with Michael Hoppen Gallery, with artist and musician David Donohoe and graphic designer Niall Sweeney.
NICK BRANDT IN CONVERSATION WITH DAVID CAMPANY | 17.50 - 18.40
British photographer Nick Brandt will discuss his most recent body of work This Empty World with curator and writer David Campany. This Empty World is Brandt’s first work in colour and addresses the escalating destruction of the natural world at the hands of humans, showing a world where, overwhelmed by runaway development, there is no longer space for animals to survive.
ANDREW MOISEY IN CONVERSATION WITH ANNE WAGNER | 13.00 - 13.50
Historian and critic Anne Wagner, and photographer, professor and author Andrew Moisey, will talk about the strange combination of sociology and voyeurism that Moisey’s book The American Fraternity: An Illustrated Ritual Manual achieves. Shot over seven years, The American Fraternity captures America's privileged past and future leaders learning to pledging allegiance to enlightened ideals that will cover for a life, photographed in depth for the first time, driven by the pursuit of selfinterest and male privilege.
GAVIN TURK IN CONVERSATION WITH MATTHEW COLLINGS | 14.30 - 15.50
Art critic and broadcaster Matthew Collings will discuss Gavin Turk’s public exhibition Portrait of an Egg, created especially for Photo London with Somerset House. Turk will present a giant bronze egg sculpture that will installed on the River Terrace ahead of the Fair. The egg will inspire an Instagram photography competition with entries being projected on the walls of the Great Arch Hall during the Fair.
JOSH HANER AND MEAGHAN LOORAM ON THE NEW YORK TIMES: CARBON’S CASUALTIES | 16.00 - 16.50
Since 2015, Pulitzer Prize winning New York Times photographer Josh Haner has worked across the globe specialising in drone technology to document the pressing and wide-ranging realities of climate change. Haner will be in conversation with Meaghan Looram, New York Times Director of Photography, and they will discuss the complexities of capturing climate change and the significance of creatively using visuals to engage and inform the public on this pressing topic.
FT WEEKEND PRESENTS: HANNAH STARKEY | 17.15 - 18.05
For more than 20 years Hannah Starkey has committed her practice to representing the experiences of contemporary women. Often blurring the lines between portraiture, documentary and staging, Starkey carefully reconstructs glimpses of interior lives by capturing her subjects in moments of introspection amid ordinary urban spaces. Aimed at constructing a new way to represent women, Starkey’s photographs act in defiance against the myopic identities in which women are overtly empowered or exploited.
