May 2017. Exhibition at Diaspora Pavilion, Venice Biennale, and start of the Photographic Processes Course at the Victoria and Albert Museum

I have been working for several months with artist Khadija Saye on a collaboration to produce a series of tintypes. The work is on display at the Diaspora Pavilion until November 2017.

This month I have also started to teach a Photographic Processes course at the Victoria and Albert Museum in relation to the Prix Pictet.

April 2017. Participatory art project commissioned by the Photography Archive and Research Centre

The Photography Archive and Research Centre of the University of the Arts London commissioned me to deliver a participatory art project based on a pop-up darkroom and portrait studio to create a series of tintype portraits to be later exhibited and published by the Photography Archive and Research Centre. Documentation of the pop-up set by Marcelo Deguchi.

The Photography Archive and Research Centre at UAL commissioned me to produce 80 tintype portraits over 4 consecutive days. The following 12 HR scans are my personal selection of the ones I liked the most. #tintypestudio #tintype#photography #analogue #wetcollodion#wetplatecollodion #alternativeprocesses#alternativephotography#alternativephotographicprocesses #lcc #ual#elephantandcastle#elephantandcastleshoppingcentre#popupdarkroom #popup

March 2017. Artist conversation and workshops for the Moose On The Loose Biennale of Research at the UAL.

This March I have been ask to lead a conversation with Garry Fabian Miller as part of the SHADOWS II: Natural Transformations symposium, Moose on The Loose Biennale of Research of the University of the Arts London (UAL). I have also contributed to the biennial by running some chemigram workshops.

February 2017. Exhibition and artist talk at TATE Exchange, TATE Modern.

January 2017. Artist talk at London Art Fair

Organised by Photomonitor and chaired by Kim Shaw, Executive Director of Photofusion, Material Matters: On making and the physicality of photography, focused on the importance of materiality in photographic practice. I shared panel with Sophy Rickett, Martin Newth, Edouard Taufenbach and Dafna Talmor.

December 2016. Guest Lecturer. Module: 3D Printing and photogrammetry. London College of Communication

On December 2016 I ran Across digital and analogue, a two day seminar looking at the intersections and possibilities of early photographic processes including the firsts 3D scanning technologies and today’s 3D scanning apps and printers.

Felix Nadar. Autoportrait 1865

November 2016. Interview with Culture Trip

This November Culture Trip interviewed me in my studio. I talk about questioning identity, ideology and representation with Art & Design Editor, Freire Barnes, whilst creating a wet collodion tintype portrait.

October 2016. Artist talk at TATE Britain.

During this artist talk I presented the work Self Expanded which is going to be on display at the Mozilla Festival 2016, Ravensbourne College, London.

The series Self-Expanded uses #selfie pictures from Instagram to reflect on the commodification of the self through technology development and the networked image. The images are digitally projected onto expanded metal meshes and printed with the nineteenth century technique of wet collodion to create unique objects from ephemeral portraits. The expanded metal meshes physically represent the online nets in which digital images are developed and consumed.

September 2016. Wet plate collodion workshops at National Portrait Gallery.

September has been a quite busy month with two wet plate collodion workshops at the National Portrait Gallery in London as well as a two days course on alternative processes at the University of the Arts London. I have also joined the London Creative Network at Four Corners Gallery and prepared for future exciting projects!

Images of the workshop were taken by Andres Pantoja.

August 2016. Ticket to tokyo campaign

I dedicated the month of August to produce and deliver the pieces and workshops that were sold through the ticket to Tokyo campaign. This crowdfunding project aimed to raise £900 to help me to work with the Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum in Tokyo in alternative photography related projects. This was an opportunity for me to expand my network and connect with the alternative photography community in Japan. There were many cost involved such as travel, accommodation, subsistence and materials and the museum funded many of them but I needed to complement their budget. At the end of the campaign £1,690 were raised of £900 (initial target) from 26 backers.