TC COLLEY LECTURE

Paul Graham
Tuesday, March 10, 2020

Paul Graham (b. 1956,UK) has played a fundamental role in breaking the barriers between the worlds of documentary photography and contemporary art. Starting in the early 1980s, Graham's use of color in the role traditionally occupied by black and white documentary, was a radical defiance of the unwritten rules of engaged photography.  Troubled Land - on the Northern Ireland conflict, and Beyond Caring - unemployment in the time of Margaret Thatcher, shifted the debate on how these vital issues could be visually articulated. Over the past four decades, Graham has travelled widely, photographing across Western Europe and Japan, before moving to NYC in 1998. He has completed 3 bodies of work in the USA, most notably 'a shimmer of possibility' which was a solo exhibition at MoMA in 2007.

GARY METZ LECTURES

Nandita Raman
Tuesday, March 17, 2020

Nandita Raman (b. Varanasi, India) works with a range of mediums including photography, video, drawing and language. Her work has most notably been exhibited at George Eastman Museum, Museum of Moving Images, Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University and Columbia University. She curated the group exhibition “I need my memories. They are my documents” at SepiaEYE, NY and Riktata [emptiness] at Kriti Gallery in Varanasi. Her work has been written about in the New York Times, British Journal of Photography, the Hindu and published in MIT Press’s Performance Art Journal and Documenta 14 volume titled South As A State Of Mind. She has lectured in Columbia University, International Center of Photography and Indiana University amongst others.  
She is a recipient of Alkazi Foundation’s Documentary Photography Grant and was 2017 Workspace Resident at Baxter St Camera Club of New York. Nandita is a graduate of the Bard College-International Center of Photography's MFA program and teaches photography at SUNY Purchase College.

Charlie Engman
Tuesday, April 14, 2020

Charlie Engman (born 1987), originally from Chicago, began his career as an image maker while studying Japanese and Korean Studies at the University of Oxford. His art practice has since expanded into the fashion industry, and he is perhaps best known for his work staging, styling, and photographing people and objects for notable fashion platforms and brands such as Vogue, Dazed, Prada, and Vivienne Westwood. His work frequently draws upon and questions the highly collaborative, representation-minded, and surface- and consumer-oriented conventions of these and other institutions. He is releasing his first monograph, MOM, a collection of work made with his mother over the past decade, in April of this year. He currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.