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Organised by Photography and the Archive Research Centre at London College of Communication
In this fourth instalment of the webinar series The Decolonising Lens, Autograph's Director, Mark Sealy, will be joined by artist Joy Gregory to discuss issues of representation, race and gender through the lens of Gregory’s multifaceted practice.
Gregory’s 1989/1990 work Autoportrait will provide a key study for the pair to explore the nexus of race and gender in contemporary society. An example of her pioneering work on self-identity and auto-portraiture, Autoportrait is a response to the absence of Black women from lifestyle consumer magazines. The work is also Autograph’s first artist commission, positioning it as a crucial image both in critical stance and as a locus within the history and culture of Black British photography.
As well as discussing Gregory’s career and practice, Sealy and Gregory will be joined by Brigitte Lardinois to explore the formation of Autograph and it place in contemporary photographic culture.
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Joy Gregory is an artist whose practice explores the politics of identity, memory and history. Her work makes use of analogue and digital photography, historic printing processes and moving image technologies. Gregory is a graduate of Manchester Polytechnic and the Royal College of Art. She is currently a Visiting Artist / Academic in the Department of Fine Arts at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
Joy Gregory has worked and exhibited widely both in the UK and internationally. She has participated in numerous biennales and festivals, including the Sydney Biennale (2010) and the Venice Biennale (2017), where her work was represented in the off-site Diaspora Pavilion. She has been the recipient of numerous awards and commissions. These include Autoportrait 1989/1990, Autograph’s first ever artist commission, and recently the completed commission for the Black Cultural Archives’ Breaking Barriers (2019-20).
Mark Sealy is interested in the relationship between photography and social change, identity politics, race, and human rights.
Sealy has been the executive director of photographic arts charity Autograph since 1991 and has produced numerous publications, curated exhibitions, and commissioned photographers and filmmakers worldwide. Sealy has guest lectured and devised study programmes for arts and academic institutions around the world. In 2020 he joined the University of Arts London in the role of Principal Research Fellow Decolonising Photography and is a core member of PARC.
Brigitte Lardinois is currently the Director of the Photography and the Archive Research Centre (PARC).
She is a curator, writer and lecturer, specialising in photographic archives and curation. Her current research focuses on the photographic legacy of the Pandemic as well as the Edward Reeves Archive in Lewes, established in 1855 and believed to be the oldest still operating photographic Studio in the world.
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This event is organised by Photography and the Archive Research Centre at London College of Communication and hosted by its Director Brigitte Lardinois.
Banner image: Joy Gregory, Autoportrait 1989/1990, commissioned by Autograph.
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