I am really happy to announce that I am one of the recipients of the curatorial commission of third issue of Hapax Magazine, to be published Winter 2022/2023. Following a call-out for submissions of interest, the editors have selected five artists and one curator who will create new photographic projects or curated sections for publication in the third issue of this semiannual magazine.
Artists:
Immaculata Abba is a Nigerian portrait and documentary photographer. All her work is an effort to enrich our imagination of the beauty, abundance and care possible in our lives. Her projects and commissions have been published in The Photographer’s Gallery, Saraba magazine and GIDA Journal, among others. Her documentary project 'Dusty Hill Drive' explores the built environment in South-East Nigeria and part of it was published in 2021 as a zine by Another Place Press. She is an inaugural African Arguments Journalism Fellow and a film artist under the 'Creating Black Joy' project sponsored by The Antipode Foundation. She is a member of the Black Women Photographers and Indigenous Photograph collective.
Paulina Korobkiewicz is a photographer and visual artist whose work deals with trauma of post-communist states, politics of identity, home and belonging. In 2016 she self-published her first photo-book Disco Polo. The project was shortlisted for Bar Tur Photobook Award 2015 organised by The Photographers’ Gallery and Belfast Photo Festival Open Submission 2017. In 2016 she won Camberwell Book Prize, and as a result she created and published her second photo-book in collaboration with Camberwell Press titled Perspectives. Paulina has shown her work in the UK and internationally, was nominated for Magnum Photos Graduate Photographers Award 2017 and Prix Pictet 2018. Her latest solo exhibition ‘Udarny trud’ exploring the idea of labour and propaganda presented by Centrala gallery in Birmingham was shortlisted for Athens Photofestival Open Submission and International Format Festival 2021. She lives and works in London.
Alexander Mourant is an artist based in London. His work has been included in publications such as FT Weekend Magazine, British Journal of Photography, Photograph, Unseen Magazine and The Greatest Magazine. Solo shows include Aomori at The Old Truman Brewery and Unseen Amsterdam, alongside group shows at Edel Assanti, Saatchi Gallery and Peckham 24. Mourant is a recipient of grants from ArtHouse Jersey, Jersey Bursary and Arts Council England. He has won the Free Range Award and was nominated for Foam Paul Huf Award. In 2020, Mourant became a member of Revolv Collective. He is also a Visiting Lecturer and Tutor on BA (Hons) Photography at University of Westminster. In 2022 he designed and led A Place to Call Home, a landmark schools collaboration project with Wandsworth Council’s Children’s and Arts Service.
Helen Sear is an artist whose practice focuses on the co-existence of human, animal, and natural environments and is rooted in an interest in Magic Realism, Surrealism and Conceptual Art. Her photographic works became widely known in the 1991 British Council exhibition, De-Composition: Constructed Photography in Britain, which toured extensively in Latin America and Eastern Europe. Sear was the first woman to represent Wales with a solo exhibition at the 56th Venice Biennale 2015 presenting a suite of new works ‘…the rest is smoke’. Two major pieces were acquired by the James Hyman British Photography Collection in 2019 and Dewi Lewis published her Photobook Era Of Solitude in November 2021.
Amin Yousefi lives and works in London. A native of Abadan in the province of Khuzestan, Iran’s most oil-rich region and the scene of Iran’s bloody war with neighbouring Iraq, Yousefi works with ideas related to history, social-political landscape and effects of war and how the act of photography can conceptually mirror the structures of these relationships. His works have featured in numerous national and international group exhibitions and awards and a recent solo exhibition ‘Life, Death and other Similar Things’ at Ag Galerie, Tehran.
Curator:
Rica Cerbarano
Rica Cerbarano is a curator, writer and coordinator of projects related to photography. She is a regular contributor to Vogue Italia and she has been project assistant of Photo Vogue Festival since 2016. She writes also for the Italian monthly magazine Il Giornale dell’Arte, one of the most renowned publications about arts and culture. Alongside editorial collaborations, she works as an exhibition designer and producer for several institutions and nonprofit organisations. Rica is also the manager and co-founder of the collective Kublaiklan, which explores accessible ways of interacting with photography through the design of exhibitions and educational activities.In her curatorial research, Rica focuses on the mechanisms of production, diffusion and reception of images, looking especially at projects that adopt a cross-disciplinary approach or involve collaborative practices. She is a member of the Artistic Direction Board of Photolux Festival 2022.