HAPAX Magazine issue 1 includes newly commissioned works by Lucas Gabellini-Fava, Monika Orpik, CJ Chandler, Laura El-Tantawy and Godelive Kasangati Kabena. With new curations from Mark Sealy considering the work of Earlie Hudnall Jr. and Iris Sikking bringing together the work of Lisa Barnard, Bertrand Cavalier, Samar Al Summary, Malgorzata Stankiewicz, Douglas Mandry, Seungwon Jung and Aàdesokan..

ISSN 2754-2882
84 pages
Softcover, stitched binding and gatefolds
Published Winter 2021/22 (UK)
Dimension 23.5 x 17.5 cm

ARTIST COMMISSIONS:

CJ Chandler is a South African artist and photographer. Through his practice he aims to investigate the photographic medium while focusing on chance, process, ritual, historical narrative and the everyday. 

Laura El-Tantawy  is an award winning British/Egyptian documentary photographer, book maker & mentor. In 2005 she moved to Cairo and started her most celebrated work, In the Shadow of the Pyramids; this self-published book was shortlisted for the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize (2016). 

Lucas Gabellini-Fava  is a London-based artist whose recent work investigates the shifting of the body from the physical to the digital, as well as exploring the tangibility of the photograph, processing and distilling the image. He is also a part of the Revolv Collective of artists. 

Godelive Kasangati Kabena  lives and works in Kinshasa, in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Her photographic work explores personal and cultural identity, memory and place. Godelive’s work was presented at the Biennale des Rencontres de Bamako pour la photographie africaine in 2019 and at the Musée National de la République du Congo in 2020. 

Monika Orpik  is an artist from Poland, based in Warsaw. Through the medium of photography and experimental processes in the darkroom, she explores the subject of trauma of post-conflict communities and questions the influence of art on the process of reconciliation. 

CURATOR COMMISSIONS:

Dr Mark Sealy MBE was appointed Director of Autograph in 1991. He was awarded the Hood Medal for services to photography in 2007 by the Royal Photographic Society, and in January 2013 he was awarded an MBE for services to photography. He completed a PhD at Durham University, where his research focused on photography and cultural violence. He has curated several major exhibitions and his publications include Different (Phaidon 2001) with Professor Stuart Hall. 

Iris Sikking is an independent curator based in Amsterdam, educated as a film editor and a photo historian. Since 2005 she has developed projects in close collaboration with photographers and visual artists, conceived thematic exhibitions, and published photo books and online projects. In 2018 she acted as the chief curator of the Krakow Photomonth, and in 2022 she will be guest curator for the Biennale für Aktuelle Fotografie in Germany. She co-edited the volume Why Exhibit? Positions in Exhibiting Photographies (FW:books) to provide a foundation for a wider discourse on exhibitions now.