Professor Mark Sealy is Director of Autograph (London, UK) and Professor of Photography – Rights and Representation at University of the Arts London, London College of Communication. Author of two celebrated books published by Lawrence Wishart, Photography: Race, Rights and Representation (2022) and Decolonising the Camera: Photography in Racial Time (2019), Sealy is interested in the relationship between art, photography, social change, identity politics, race, and human rights. He has written for many of the world’s leading photographic journals, produced numerous artist publications, curated exhibitions, and commissioned photographers and filmmakers worldwide.
Elliott Ramsey is a curator living and working on unceded territories of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, xʷməθkʷəy̓ əm, and səl̓ilwətaɁɬ Nations. His interests include identity formation and performance, gender-queerness, and issues of visibility and exclusion within the visual arts. Ramsey is Assistant Curator at The Polygon Gallery, and holds a Masters of Arts in Comparative Media Arts (2015) from Simon Fraser University.
Please join us at the Polygon Gallery for Capture Photography Festival’s first Speaker Series talk with Mark Sealy, Executive Director of Autograph ABP, who will discuss his curated exhibition, Rotimi Fani-Kayode: Tranquility of Communion with The Polygon Gallery’s Curator Elliott Ramsey. The exhibition is organized by Autograph, London, and the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus.
This event is part of the 2025 Capture Photography Festival Speaker Series, and is presented by Capture Photography Festival in partnership with The Polygon Gallery and Critical Image Forum, UBC. Capture’s 2025 Speaker Series is generously supported by Wesgroup.
Professor Mark Sealy is Director of Autograph (London, UK) and Professor of Photography – Rights and Representation at University of the Arts London, London College of Communication. Author of two celebrated books published by Lawrence Wishart, Photography: Race, Rights and Representation (2022) and Decolonising the Camera: Photography in Racial Time (2019), Sealy is interested in the relationship between art, photography, social change, identity politics, race, and human rights. He has written for many of the world’s leading photographic journals, produced numerous artist publications, curated exhibitions, and commissioned photographers and filmmakers worldwide.
Elliott Ramsey is a curator living and working on unceded territories of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, xʷməθkʷəy̓ əm, and səl̓ilwətaɁɬ Nations. His interests include identity formation and performance, gender-queerness, and issues of visibility and exclusion within the visual arts. Ramsey is Assistant Curator at The Polygon Gallery, and holds a Masters of Arts in Comparative Media Arts (2015) from Simon Fraser University.
Critical Image Forum is a research project that focuses on the political, ethical, aesthetic and social dimensions of expanded documentary practices. The Forum's primary medium of research is photography, with an interest in how the proliferation of moving images, performance, sound and digital networks have challenged and complicated the veracity of the visual document.
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[more]Join us on April 1st at 7:00 pm at Djavad Mowafaghian World Art Centre, Goldcorp Centre for the Arts for the book launch and discussion of Encounter Educational Modernism, the third in Sabine Bitter and Helmut Weber’s artist book series. Encountering Educational Modernism poses contemporary questions regarding the relationship of architecture, knowledge and the idea of the student through a broad case study of architect Arthur Erickson’s 1972 University of Lethbridge campus.
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