Through A Different Lens:
Commissioning Artists, Diversifying Collections

Mussai is also Research Associate at the Visual Identities in Art and Design Research Centre, University of Johannesburg; Associate Lecturer at University of the Arts London, and regular guest curator and former Fellow at the Hutchins Centre for African & African American Research at Harvard University.

Ehlers has exhibited her work internationally, including Kunsthal Charlottenborg Copenhagen (Denmark); Ford Foundation, New York; Dak’Art, the Dakar Biennale (Senegal); Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul (South Korea). She is the co-creator of the public art project I Am Queen Mary and was shortlisted for the Windrush Monument at Waterloo Station in 2021. She has been commissioned as part of Autograph’s Amplify project, for inclusion in Autograph’s collection and made available to museums for loan.

A noted scholar of modern Japanese art and architecture, he has authored five books, including Eikoh Hosoe (2021 MACK) and Katsura: Picturing Modernism in Japanese Architecture, Photographs by Ishimoto Yasuhiro (2010 MFA Houston), and contributed to numerous exhibition catalogs, including Postwar: Art Between the Atlantic and the Pacific, 1945 –1965 (Haus der Kunst 2017). Nakamori taught global modern art history at Hunter College, the City University of New York, and Rice University. He holds a Juris Doctor from the University of Wisconsin, and a Ph.D. in the History of Art and Visual Studies from Cornell University.

In 2011 Fiona created Firecracker, a digital platform and network to champion female photographers. In 2012 Firecracker launched a Photographic Grant and has since awarded £20,000 in funding to female artists. In 2017, Fiona published Firecrackers: Female Photographers Now (Thames & Hudson) with co-author Max Houghton.

Fiona has curated exhibitions with a range of artists including Theo Simpson, Marvel Harris and Zora J Murffand has contributed written articles for books and magazines including Photoworks and the British Journal of Photography. She holds a BA from the Surrey Institute of Art & Design and is an Associate Lecturer in Photography at the London College of Communication. Fiona is a keen supporter of emerging talent and has participated in juries and festivals internationally. She is a member of the RPS Awards Committee and a Trustee of the Martin Parr Foundation and the Peter Marlow Foundation. 

In 2022, Pollard was nominated for the Turner Prize for her major survey touring exhibition Carbon Slowly Turning, first presented at MK Gallery in London, which explores her pioneering practice from the 1980s to the present day. She is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society and was a recipient of the Leverhulme Fellowship Award in 2007, the BALTIC Artist Award in 2018, and the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Awards for Artists in 2020. Pollard received her doctorate-by-publication from the University of Westminster in 2016.

Pollard was actively involved in the Black British art movement in Britain and has participated in numerous seminal group exhibitions since the 1980s – such as The Thin Black Line at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (1985), D-Max (1987) and Self-Evident (1995), both at Ikon Gallery, Birmingham – and has exhibited internationally for more nearly five decades, including at the National Portrait Gallery, Museum of Modern Art (Oxford), NGBK (Berlin), Camerawork (San Francisco) and the National Gallery of Jamaica. Her work is represented in prestigious public collections including the Victoria & Albert Museum, Tate Britain, and Arts Council England.