On today’s episode of the FRAMES Photography Podcast, W. Scott Olsen is talking to David Campany, curator, writer, broadcaster, editor, and educator.
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Renowned for his rigorous and accessible writing, exhibitions, public speaking, and organisation of ambitious team projects, David has worked worldwide with institutions including MoMA New York, Tate, Whitechapel Gallery London, Centre Pompidou, Le Bal Paris, ICP New York, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, The Photographer’s Gallery London, ParisPhoto, PhotoLondon, The National Portrait Gallery London, Aperture, Steidl, MIT Press, Thames & Hudson, and MACK.
David has also written for The New Yorker, The Times, The Telegraph, The Financial Times, Frieze, Tate Magazine, Aperture, Source, and FOAM.
Recent curatorial projects include Immersion: Gregory Halpern, Vasantha Yogananthan, Raymond Meeks (International Center of Photography, New York, 2023), William Klein: Yes (International Center of Photography, New York, 2022); ACTUAL SIZE! Photography at Life Scale (International Center of Photography, New York, 2022); A Trillion Sunsets: A Century of Image Overload (International Center of Photography, New York, 2022); Gillian Laub: Family Matters (International Center of Photography, New York, 2021); Alex Majoli: SCENE (Le Bal, Paris, 2019); The Still Point of the Turning World: Between Film and Photography (FoMu Antwerp, 2017); and A Handful of Dust (various venues, 2015-2022)
In 2020 David curated the three-city Biennale für aktuelle Fotografie 2020 – The Lives and Loves of Images (Mannheim/Ludwigshafen/Heidelberg, Germany), working with 70 artists from 13 countries to produce six thematic exhibitions, a program of public events, and a publication.
David has written over twenty books. They include Indeterminacy: Thoughts on Time, The Image and Race(ism), co-written with Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa (2022), On Photographs (2020), So Present, So Invisible – conversations on photography (2018), A Handful of Dust (2015), The Open Road: photography and the American road trip (2014), Walker Evans: the magazine work (2014), Gasoline (2013), Jeff Wall: Picture for Women (2010), Photography and Cinema (2008) and Art and Photography (2003). He has written over two hundred essays for monographs and museums. David has a Phd, and has received the ICP Infinity Award, the Kraszna-Krausz Book Award, the Alice Award, a Deutscher Fotobuchpreis, and the Royal Photographic Society award.
Curated by David Campany (Photo by Jeenah Moon)
DAVID CAMPANY
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