Programme
The Producers Part II: Charlotte Cotton and Shoair Mavlian
- Venue: Zoom
- Start: Thu, 25 Feb 2021 17:00:00 GMT
- End: Thu, 25 Feb 2021 18:30:00 GMT
Charlotte Cotton is a curator and writer based in Los Angeles. She has held positions including Curator of Photographs at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and head of the Wallis Annenberg Department of Photography at LACMA, and is currently the Artistic Director of the inaugural Tasweer Photo Festival in Qatar, launching in Spring 2021. She is the author of books including ‘Imperfect Beauty’ (2000); ‘Guy Bourdin’ (2003); ‘Photography is Magic’ (2015); and ‘Fashion Image Revolution’ (2018). The revised and updated 4th edition of ’The Photograph as Contemporary Art’, part of the Thames & Hudson World of Art series, was published in September 2020.
Shoair Mavlian is director of Photoworks and was named Apollo Magazine’s 40 under 40 Europe – Thinkers. As director of Photoworks her recent curatorial projects include 'Photoworks Festival: Propositions for Alternative Narratives' (2020) and 'Ursula Schulz-Dornburg, Zone Grise / The Land In between' for the MEP Paris (2019) and 'Brighton Photo Biennial: A New Europe' (2018).
From 2011-2018 she was Assistant Curator, Photography and International Art at Tate Modern, London, where she curated the major exhibitions ‘Shape of Light: 100 Years of Photography and Abstract Art’ (2018), 'The Radical Eye: Modernist Photography from the Sir Elton John Collection' (2016), 'Conflict, Time, Photography' (2014), 'Project Space: A Chronicle of Interventions' (2014) and 'Harry Callahan' (2013)