IAS Book Launch: The Market Photo Workshop in South Africa and the 'Born Free' Generation

Julie Bonzon

Born in Switzerland, Dr Julie Bonzon is an art historian, photography curator, and writer. Following a Masters in History of Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London (2015), she completed an AHRC-funded Ph.D. in the History of Art at University College London (2020), specialising in South African photography. Bonzon has led curatorial and education projects at Magnum Photos, The Photographer’s Gallery, The Ian Parry Scholarship, The Olympic Foundation for Culture and Heritage, and The Sharjah Architecture Triennial. She worked at the London gallery Messums as Director of Photography, setting up a new photography department representing international artists, and has since 2019 collaborated with private collectors alongside her curatorial activities. In 2020, she founded The Photographic Collective, a platform featuring lens-based artists living and working in Africa. A book based on her research, titled The Market Photo Workshop in South Africa and the 'Born Free' Generation: Remaking Histories was published by Routledge Photography in 2023. 
 

Professor Darren Newbury

DDS/Professor of Photographic History at University of Brighton

Darren Newbury joined the University of Brighton in 2013 as Professor of Photographic History and Director of Postgraduate Studies. He initially studied photography and cultural studies at undergraduate and postgraduate level, before completing his PhD on photography and education in 1995, supported in part by the Arts Council of Great Britain. He was previously Reader and then Professor of Photography at Birmingham Institute of Art and Design.

In addition to his photographic research, he has a long-standing engagement in the development of postgraduate research education and training, particularly in the arts and humanities. He has led projects on research training for art and design, including research ethics; and in the 2000s was a member of several Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) panels and committees for postgraduate research. In his Director of Postgraduate role at Brighton he led the University’s engagement in the AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership (techne) from 2013 to 2018.

In 2018 he was appointed to the REF 2021 Unit of Assessment for Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory (D32).

Dr Mark Sealy OBE

Executive Director at Autograph

Dr Mark Sealy OBE is Executive Director of Autograph (1991 -) and Professor, Photography, Rights and Representation at University Arts London - London College of Communication.

Sealy is interested in the relationship between art, photography and social change, identity politics, race, and human rights. He gained his PhD from Durham University, England. He has written for many of the world’s leading photographic journals, produced numerous artist publications, curated exhibitions, and commissioned photographers and filmmakers worldwide.

In addition, he is an advisor (management + committees) to several leading cultural institutions, including Tate, Paul Mellon Centre for the Studies in British Art, Art Fund, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, World Press Photo, and the International Centre of Photography in New York, USA.

Lawrence and Wishart have published Sealy’s critical writings on photography. Photography: Race, Rights and Representation, published 2022 and Decolonising the Camera: Photography in Racial Time, published 2019.