2 April 2024
HAPAX ANNOUNCES COMMISSIONS FOR ITS SIXTH ISSUE
We are pleased to announce the seven recipients of the Hapax Magazine artist and curator commissions who are currently making new work for our sixth issue, to be published in Autumn/Winter 2024.
Following a call-out for submissions of interest, the editors have selected six artists and one curator to create their photographic feature with us on the pages of Hapax, for publication in the sixth issue of this semi-annual magazine:
Abiba Coulibaly is a curator and occasional writer working across film, photography, and architecture to explore the intersection of ethics and aesthetics through the lens of critical geography. She is the founder of Brixton Community Cinema, a pay-what-you-can film exhibition project operating out of vacant spaces, recently awarded a design commission by the London Festival of Architecture. Abiba also curates for Magnum Photos Film Festival, Open City Documentary Festival and Film Africa.
Colectivo Estética Unisex, formed by Lorena Estrada Quiroga and Futuro Moncada Forero in 2010, develops projects that delve into research creation through documentary imagery, the boundaries of text, the documentation of processes, and the intervention of photographic archives. The collective has showcased its work in Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, the United States, Spain, France, Greece, and Malaysia. It has received the Acquisition Prize at the "Nuevo León Photography Salon" (2012), the Mexico Norte grant awarded by The Tierney Family Foundation (New York, 2013), an honorable mention at the "VII Yucatán National Biennial" (Mérida, 2015), an honorable mention at the "IV Ciudad Juárez-El Paso Biennial" (2015), the Grand Prize at "La Reseña" (Monterrey, 2015), and the National System of Art Creators (Mexico City, 2019).
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Yuji Hamada graduated from the Photography Course of the Nihon University College of Art in 2003 and has released works inside and outside Japan while being based in Tokyo. Hamada builds concepts based on the principles of photography and creates performative works that have roots in various expressive functions of photography through personal memories and coincidences. Recent exhibitions include "Contemplation and Distillation" (Musée Hamaguchi Yozo/Yamasa Collection, 2020), "Close-up Universe: Contemporary Japanese Photography, Vol. 16" (Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, 2019), and the solo exhibition "Incidents and Reflection" (2022).
Tommy Keith is a photographer who lives and works in Toronto, Ontario. His work has been shown in the US and Canada and has been published by numerous publications internationally. His recently self-published book Don’t Forget to Wave received an Honourable Mention for The Burtynsky Grant, was a finalist for the 2023 Encontros da Imagem Photobook Award, as well as a Lucie Photo Book Prize finalist. He received a BFA in film production from Concordia University and an MFA in photography from Columbia College Chicago.
Sam Laughlin is a British visual artist whose recent practice is primarily concerned with intricate natural processes quietly unfolding through time in patterns and cycles. Mainly utilising large-format photography, his work is characterised by a sustained and informed engagement with the natural world. Laughlin has exhibited widely, including at Jerwood Space, Impressions Gallery, John Hansard Gallery and Towner Art Gallery. In 2017 he was awarded the Jerwood/Photoworks award. His recent series Spinning Away was awarded Juror's Choice at the Hariban Awards. He currently lives in rural Somerset.
Ali Mobasser is a lens based artist based in London whose work explores the effects of the Iranian Diaspora. His concepts are all pieces to a story told through collecting, documenting and re-addressing childhood and family experiences and learning to see the hidden meanings behind that, which has become normalized and familiar. Ali's use of sequencing aims to turn painful experiences into beautiful and meaningful patterns with the purpose of re-routing unhealthy hereditary and environmental habits. He is currently finishing an MA in Integrative Arts Psychotherapy and collaborates closely with AG Galerie in Tehran, Iran.
Michaela Nagyidaiová is a Slovak photographer based between Bratislava and Vienna. Her work analyses the connection between landscape and memory, the transformation of Central & Eastern EU topography, migration, and identity. As a visual storyteller from a Central, Eastern, and Southeastern European background, she rethinks topics that affect her community. The narratives in the limelight of her focus are formed by growing up and experiencing CEE environments first-hand. She usually works on long-term and personal projects that combine photography with text, archival materials, and video. She graduated with an MA in Photojournalism & Documentary Photography at the London College of Communication in 2019. Michaela has been a member of the FUTURES organisation since 2023 and Women Photograph since 2021.
Notes to Editors:
Hapax Magazine is founded and co-edited by Christiane Monarchi and Gordon MacDonald. Hapax Magazine takes its name from the literary term ‘hapax legomenon’ describing something unique, new and ‘said only once’. Twice a year, Hapax Magazine commissions artists and curators (£500 each) to produce new photographic projects which are shared only in the pages of the publication and not on the internet.
Work is underway on the creation of the sixth issue, to be published Autumn / Winter 2024. A call-out for the seventh issue will be announced when publication dates for the sixth issue are confirmed. This issue marks 40 commissions of artist and curator features undertaken to date.
The editors of Hapax Magazine are interested in hearing from artists and curators working with photography in any form and encourage submissions from everyone, regardless of experience, qualification, nationality, geographical location or background.
Issues of Hapax Magazine are available for purchase from bookshops and online, distributed by Public Knowledge Books internationally. Proceeds from sales of magazines are reinvested into future publishing commissions, to support photographic projects and the creative professionals making them.
For more information contact editors@hapaxmagazine.com
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6 September 2023
HAPAX ANNOUNCES ARTIST COMMISSIONS FOR ITS FIFTH ISSUE
We are pleased to announce the seven recipients of the artist commissions who are currently making new work for our fifth issue, to be published in Winter/Spring 2024.
Following a call-out for submissions of interest, the editors have selected these artists to create their photographic feature with us on the pages of Hapax, for publication in the fifth issue of this semi-annual magazine:
Amak Mahmoodian is an award-winning multidisciplinary artist and educator. She began her career as a research-based photographer in Iran; since 2007, she has been living in the UK where she practices as a visual artist and lecturer in Photography. Working with photography, text, video, drawing, archives and sound at the intersection of conceptual and documentary photography, Mahmoodian’s artistic practice explores the presentation of gender, identity and displacement, bridging a space between personal and political. Her projects are produced across platforms such as installations, books and films, which been shown extensively and won numerous awards.
Issam Larkat is an Algerian photographer who developed his visual language through his love for cinema, capturing a mix of his background with daily experiences of urban life in his country. He considers photography to be a medium to peacefully fight the injustice of the modern world and give a voice to unheard, important causes. Larkat’s work has been exhibited internationally including Photoforum Pasquart, Lagos Photo Festival and Jakarta Intl Photography Festival, and he recently completed a residency in Algiers with JISER.
Jenny Lewis is an award-winning artist working across photography whose work is rooted in a profound and intimate relationship to her community in London which she has been part of for 26 years, and includes her celebrated series ‘One Day Young’, ‘Hackney Studios’ and ‘One Hundred Years’. Lewis’ projects have been extensively exhibited nationally and internationally, including at the National Portrait Gallery London, Open Eye Gallery Liverpool and Photo 22 Melbourne as well as a range of permanent public art presentations in community spaces. She has published three monographs with Hoxton Mini Press. Lewis is also a mentor within the photography community, lecturing and running workshops for universities, community projects and art institutions.
Máté Bartha is a Budapest-based photographer and documentary filmmaker. In his still and moving image works, Bartha explores the boundaries of documentarism, the borderline between the real and the fictitious, questioning the recognizability of reality and the systematizability of knowledge. In 2014, he published his photobook ‘Common Nature’; awards for his work include the Louis Roederer Discovery Award at Les Rencontres d’Arles (2019), and Best Student and First Film at the Verzio International Human Rights Film Festival, Budapest (2019). He has participated in international group exhibitions and festivals such as Fotofestiwal, Jimei X Arles, and RAY Photography Triennial as well as several international residencies.
Mohsen Yazdipour is a contemporary visual artist based in Iran who uses elements of photography to create thought-provoking, sequential photo-artworks unified by a common theme of exploration and self-discovery. He believes in the interconnectedness of the self and the environment, which is intricately reflected in his urban photography and portraits. Yazdipour's works have been showcased in national and international Biennales and Festivals; in 2004 he secured First Prize at the Negah Photography Competition and was selected as the 2nd Photographer of the Year at the Iranian Artists’ Forum, both in Tehran. In 2017, Yazdipour was honored with the DAAD Award by The German Academic Exchange Service in Berlin and exhibited at Les Rencontres d'Arles. He has published two monographs, and his works have been included in several international collections.
Regine Petersen is an artist and researcher currently living in Hamburg, Germany whose practice is located at the intersection of photography and text. In her work Petersen engages with historical events at the tension of their established and neglected narratives, using a variety of materials—her own photographs, archival imagery, literature—to form new relations. Her work starts with specific and often coincidental findings, which she uses as departure points to gain insight into more universal notions of memory, history, storytelling and representation, while challenging photography as a tool of ideological processes. Petersen’s work has been exhibited internationally, including solo exhibitions at Foam Museum, Rencontres d’Arles, Photoforum Pasquart and Museum für Fotografie Brunswick. She is a recipient of the Outset/Unseen Exhibition Award, the National Media Museum Bursary, the German Photo Book Award and the Initial Grant of Akademie der Künste.
Tshepiso Moropa is a visual artist based in Johannesburg, South Africa who works in photography, collage and film. Inspired by the themes of identity and storytelling, Moropa uses the Baroque art form - a broad phrase that refers to complex features and elaborate sceneries. Her work is often characterised by the use of complicated forms, bold ornamentation, archival imagery and the juxtaposition of contrasting materials to give a feeling of drama, movement and tension. Moropa’s work has been published online and has been part of numerous exhibitions including her first international exhibition at Oakstop Gallery (USA).
Notes to Editors:
Hapax Magazine is founded and co-edited by Christiane Monarchi and Gordon MacDonald. Hapax Magazine takes its name from the literary term ‘hapax legomenon’ describing something unique, new and ‘said only once’.
Twice a year, Hapax Magazine commissions artists and curators (£500 each) to produce new photographic projects. Work is underway on the creation of the fifth issue, to be published Winter/Spring 2024. A call-out for the sixth issue will be announced when publication dates for the fifth issue are confirmed.
The editors of Hapax Magazine are interested in hearing from artists and curators working with photography in any form and encourage submissions from everyone, regardless of experience, qualification, nationality, geographical location or background.
Issues of Hapax Magazine are available for purchase from bookshops and online, distributed by Antenne Books in the UK and Europe. Proceeds from sales of magazines are reinvested into future publishing commissions, to support photographic projects and the creative professionals making them.
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19 December 2022
Issue 4 artist and curatorial commissions announced:
We are pleased to announce the six recipients of the artist and curatorial commissions to make new work for our fourth issue, to be published early in Summer 2023.
Following a call-out for submissions of interest, the editors have selected four artists and two curators who will create new photographic projects or curated sections for publication in the fourth issue of this semi-annual magazine:
ARTIST COMMISSIONS:
AARON SCHUMAN is a photographer, writer, curator and educator. He is the author of three critically-acclaimed monographs: Sonata (MACK, 2022), Slant (MACK, 2019) and FOLK (NB, 2016). Schuman has also published essays and interviews in many notable books - including Aperture Conversations, Another Kind of Life: Photography on the Margins, Alec Soth: Gathered Leaves and Storyteller: The Photographs of Duane Michals - and regularly contributes to a wide variety of platforms and publications, such as Aperture, Foam, Frieze, TIME, Magnum Photos, and the British Journal of Photography. He is Associate Professor of Photography & Visual Culture at the University of the West of England (UWE Bristol). www.aaronschuman.com
ANDREW JACKSON is a photographer and associate lecturer at London College of Communication, who sits on the advisory panel of The Photo Ethics Centre. He is based between Tiohtià:ke (Montreal), Canada and the UK, where he was born. His work has been acquired by the United Kingdom Government Art Collection, as well as other collections, and he has been the recipient of the month-long Light Work / Autograph ABP Artist in Residence program at Syracuse University in New York. www.andrewjackson.photography
ELINOR CARUCCI is an artist and educator based in New York. Born in 1971 in Jerusalem to a Jewish family of North African, Bukharian and Italian descent, she graduated in 1995 from Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design with a degree in photography. Solo and group exhibitions include Edwynn Houk Gallery, Fifty One Fine Art Gallery, FoMU, Gagosian Gallery, London, The Museum of Modern Art New York, MoCP Chicago and The Photographers' Gallery, London. Her photographs are included in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art New York, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Houston Museum of Fine Art, among others and her editorial work appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, New York Magazine, W, Aperture, and many more publications. She was awarded the ICP Infinity Award in 2001, The Guggenheim Fellowship in 2002 and NYFA in 2010. Carucci has published four monographs to date, Closer, (Chronicle Books, 2002), Diary of a dancer (SteidlMack, 2005), MOTHER (Prestel, 2013), and Midlife (Monacelli Press/Phaidon, 2019). Carucci teaches at the graduate program of Photography and Lens-based art at the School of Visual Arts and is represented by Edwynn Houk Gallery NYC and Fifty One Gallery, Belgium. In 2023 Carucci will publish her fifth book, The Collars of Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the stories they tell (Clarkson Potter/Random House).www.elinorcarucci.com
EMAN ALI is an Omani visual artist, living and working between Muscat and Bahrain. Working primarily with photography, text, sound and installations, Eman Ali’s work intertwines gender and socio-political ideologies to question the intricate Khaleeji culture, societies and women’s representations. She has integrated her practice as a social critique, observation and investigation of the multi-layered histories of the Gulf, the Arab world and East Africa. Through her photographs, Eman Ali reveals the untold norms of our society and invites viewers to reflect on the underlying boundaries and systems that govern our lives. www.emanali.com
CURATORIAL COMMISSIONS:
PELUMI ODUBANJO is a curator, researcher, and writer based in London. Her interests in contemporary art are cross-disciplinary, although her understanding is filtered through the lens of photography which informs both her work as a curator and researcher. Pelumi works with artists, archives, and cultural artefacts to create and explore dialogues across a global African diaspora to disentangle our understanding of archival practice. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate in History of Art at the University of Glasgow, where she is studying Black Feminist narratives and histories concerning photography and the archive, experimental practice, Black imagination, narrative, and spatial consciousness. www.pelumiodubanjo.com
THROUGH THE LENS COLLECTIVE is a collaborative educational and developmental photographic space created by two South African visual artists and educators Michelle Loukidis and Michelle Harris who share a commitment to, and appreciation of, the photographic medium on the African continent. Through photographic training the collective aims to develop creativity, critical thinking and professional practice. Photographic practice is undergoing rapid change. What is of paramount importance is personal vision and voice. Through an educational workspace, the collective aims to assist visual artists/photographers in refining their photographic practice, expanding their visual grammar and developing their narrative skills. In addition, what is of importance is the creation of sustainable structures that support contemporary photographic practice. The collective’s programme welcomes anyone who is passionate about the medium of photography and wishes to use the camera as an expressive tool. www.throughthelenscollective.com
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Work is underway on the creation of the fourth issue, to be published Summer 2023. A call-out for the fifth issue will be announced when publication dates for the fourth issue are confirmed.
In the weeks to come we look forward to sharing images from these artists and curator as they take over the Hapax Instagram account - @hapaxmagazine - while the new projects they are working on will be unveiled in the pages of Hapax.
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2 June 2022
Issue 3 artists and curator announced
We are pleased to announce the recipients of the artist and curatorial commissions to make new work for our third issue, 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 Hyman 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.
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Work is underway on the creation of the third issue, to be published Winter 2022/2023. A call-out for the fourth issue will be announced when publication dates for the third issue are confirmed.
In the weeks to come we look forward to sharing images from these artists and curator as they take over the Hapax Instagram account - @hapaxmagazine - while the new projects they are working on will be unveiled in the pages of Hapax.
Issue 2 artists and curators announced
22 December 2021
We are pleased to announce the seven recipients of the artist and curatorial commissions to make new work for our second issue, to be published Spring/Summer 2022.
Following a call-out for submissions of interest, the editors have selected five artists and two curators who will create new photographic projects or curated sections for publication in the second issue of this semi-annual magazine:
Artists:
Alice Duncan currently lives and works in Naarm (Melbourne), Australia. Her practice mediates between science, archaeology and photography to expose the multifaceted, ever-changing and (most importantly) constructed nature of our personal and cultural identities. Specifically, Alice combines analogue and digital image-making techniques to visualise the complexities involved in collectively living on colonised land. Alice’s work has been exhibited across Australia and internationally.
Gaia Cambiaggi is a photographer based in Italy whose varied portfolio includes portraiture and commissions to document architectural projects and man- made landscapes. Her work has taken her across Europe, Asia and Central and South America. A long time digital refusenik with an analogue heart, she prefers to shoot on film. Her photographs have been widely exhibited and published internationally.
Jo Longhurst is an artist living and working in London who explores and critiques traditions of portraiture through a combination of photography, sculptural elements, moving image, performance and installation. Collaborative works with show dogs and elite gymnasts investigate the act of looking and being looked at: how we judge and are judged, and how we attempt to fit in. Exploring both physical and emotional experiences, Jo questions theories of eugenics, representation, gender, power and control - gently probing how cultural ideas of perfection shape personal and national identities, as well as social and political systems.
Sana Ginwalla is a Zambia-born photographer and curator interested in politics of identity, home and belonging. Her work produced in and about Zambia has consistently focused on showcasing the overlooked and relatable everyday moments from the past and present. She is the founder and creative director of Everyday Lusaka and Zambia Belonging – art platforms dedicated to exploring a more considered visual representation of Zambia in order to build a contemporary archive for future generations.
Yvette Monahan is an Irish photographic artist. Yvette’s practice looks to further her understanding of three main ideas, namely intuition, transcendence, and narrative. She engages with different processes in order to investigate these precepts, incorporating photography, drawing, and print-making. Yvette aims to create images that reflect the inner world and outer spaces.
Curators:
Eva Eicker is a photography curator living in London. She focusses on social and cultural issues for a critical engagement with contemporary photography. With a background in Anthropology, Eicker has a keen interest in interdisciplinary aspects such as sound and materiality in relation to photography. She curated the exhibition Anna Barriball and Dirk Braeckman at KINDL – Centre for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2020). During her time at The Photographers’ Gallery (London) she was curating the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize for many years; as well as Noemie Goudal: Southern Light Stations (2016) and Gregory Crewdson: Cathedral of the Pines (2018).
Isabella Seniuta is an Art Historian and Independent Curator living and working in France. She is the author of a thesis on the history of "the Eye Club", a network of actors that helped shape the emerging photography market between Paris and New York in the 1960s-1980s. She co-curated the traveling exhibition "Gilles Caron, an Imperfect World", with Guillaume Blanc and Clara Bouveresse (2019-2021). She is the co-curator of the next exhibition dedicated to James Barnor which will open in July 2022 at the LUMA Foundation in Arles.
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Work is underway on the creation of the second issue, to be published Spring/Summer 2022. A call-out for the third issue will be announced when publication dates for the second issue are confirmed.
In the weeks to come we look forward to sharing images from these artists and curators as they take over the Hapax Instagram account - @hapaxmagazine - while the new projects they are working on will be unveiled in the pages of Hapax.
Issue 1 artists and curators announced
15th February 2021
We are pleased to announce the seven recipients of the artist and curatorial commissions to make new work for our first issue.
Following a call-out for submissions of interest, the editors have selected five artists and two curators who will create new photographic projects or curated sections for publication in the first issue of this semi-annual magazine:
Artists:
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.
Curators:
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.
In the weeks to come we look forward to sharing images from these artists and curators as they take over the Hapax Instagram account - @hapaxmagazine - while the new projects they are working on will be unveiled in our first issue, with plans to launch in Spring 2021, subject to the effects of international lockdowns on all of us. Keep safe and see you soon.