Photo London 2019 Talks | Sat 18 May

FT WEEKEND PRESENTS: STANLEY WOLUKAU-WANAMBWA | 10.00 - 10.50
Join the FT Weekend for a conversation with Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa about his new book One Wall a Web, which gathers together work from two photographic series, Our Present Invention (2012-14) and All My Gone Life (2014-17), as well as two text collages all made in and focused specifically on the United States. Through a mixture of writing, portraiture, landscape and appropriated archival images, the book describes quotidian encounters with fraught desire, uneven freedom, irrational fear and deep structural division, asking whether the historical and contemporary realities of anti-Black and gendered violence – when treated as aberrations – do not in fact serve to veil violence’s essential function in the maintenance of ‘civil’ society.

ZACKARY DRUCKER IN CONVERSATION WITH CHRIS BOOT | 11.45 - 12.35
Zackary Drucker will speak about her own work, followed by a conversation about photography and transgender representation.

TIM WALKER IN CONVERSATION WITH SUSANNA BROWN | 13.00 - 13.50
Tim Walker, one of the world's most inventive photographers and contributor to magazines including Vogue, W and Love, will be in conversation with V&A curator Susanna Brown. They will discuss Tim's eclectic sources of inspiration, the importance of make believe, and his newest and most ambitious collaborations.

APERTURE PRESENTS: ERWIN OLAF IN CONVERSATION WITH ERIK VAN GINKEL | 14.15 - 15.05
On the occasion of Photo London and the Aperture’s release of Erwin Olaf : I Am , Erwin Olaf and Erik van Ginkel (Director of Finance and Operations of the Rijksmuseum and photography enthusiast) will discuss Olaf’s work and his great inspiration of the Dutch Golden Age of painting. In 2018, the Rijksmuseum became home to five hundred works of Olaf’s core collection, comprising prints, portfolios, videos, magazines, books and posters. The vast majority are donations; sixty photographs and three videos have been acquired with the support of the BankGiro Loterij. The museum will celebrate this gift with an exhibition of twenty iconic works by Olaf installed alongside paintings from the museum’s collection by artists such as Rembrandt, Vermeer, and Breitner. It is scheduled to open on 5 July 2019.

ED TEMPLETON IN CONVERSATION WITH MATT MARTIN | 15.30 - 16.20
Matt Martin, curator of Doomed Gallery London and founder of the photocopy club project, will discuss the work of cult photographer and skateboarder Ed Templeton, including Templeton’s photographic process when shooting, editing and archiving, his zine archive and mix media works, and his latest book Wires Crossed.

EAMONN DOYLE, DAVID DONOHOE AND NIALL SWEENEY: MADE IN DUBLIN | 16.45 - 17.30
Irish photographer, electronic music producer and DJ Eamonn Doyle will discuss his audio-visual work titled Made in Dublin, made in collaboration with Michael Hoppen Gallery, with artist and musician David Donohoe and graphic designer Niall Sweeney.

NICK BRANDT IN CONVERSATION WITH DAVID CAMPANY | 17.50 - 18.40
British photographer Nick Brandt will discuss his most recent body of work This Empty World with curator and writer David Campany. This Empty World is Brandt’s first work in colour and addresses the escalating destruction of the natural world at the hands of humans, showing a world where, overwhelmed by runaway development, there is no longer space for animals to survive.