Tzavta #38

SARAH ALLEN

Assistant Curator, Tate Modern, London UK

Sarah Allen is Assistant Curator, International Art at Tate Modern where she curates exhibitions and displays and researches acquisitions for the International Collection. She is co-curator and project lead for the upcoming Zanele Muholi exhibition in April 2020. She has also recently curated Nan Goldin (2019), Irving Penn (2019) and David Goldblatt (2019). Previous major exhibitions she has worked on have included The Shape of Light: 100 Years of Photography and Abstract Art (2018). She has a specialist focus on photobooks and is curator of the Martin Parr Photobook Collection for Tate. Outside of her role at Tate she writes catalogue texts and curates exhibitions, recent exhibitions have included Max Pinckers at Belfast Exposed Gallery (2019). 

AMELIE SCHÜLE

Curator, Unseen Amsterdam, NL

Unseen is a platform for contemporary photography that presents the latest developments in the field of photography and amplifies the careers of boundary-pushing artists. As one of the curators for Unseen Amsterdam, Unseen’s annual art fair and festival, Amelie is responsible for the speakers programme, exhibitions, and on-site projects, as well as for various other projects throughout the year. She enjoys researching and developing exhibition concepts that incorporate different media, materials and textures; concentrating on themes such as sustainability and inclusivity. Furthermore, Amelie represents Unseen across the globe by attending different photography fairs and festivals, participating in juries and reviewing artist portfolios.

DONA SCHWARTZ 

Artist & Professor, University of Calgary, President & Board Chair, Exposure Photography Festival

Dona Schwartz is a photographic artist whose work explores everyday life and culture. Her work examines definitions of family and the nature of domesticity, cultural continuity and change, and transitional moments in life. In addition to her work as an artist, she is a scholar and educator. She earned a PhD at the Annenberg School for Communications at the University of Pennsylvania, specializing in visual communication and ethnographic research. She has published two photographic ethnographies, Waucoma Twilight: Generations of the Farm (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992) and Contesting the Super Bowl (Routledge, 1997). Her photographic monograph, In the Kitchen, was published by Kehrer Verlag in 2009. On the Nest, also published by Kehrer, was released in December 2015. Schwartz’s award-winning photographs have been internationally exhibited and published. Schwartz’s work is included in the collections of the Library of Congress, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Musée de l’Elysée, the George Eastman Museum, the Harry Ransom Center, the Portland Art Museum, and the Kinsey Institute. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Schwartz is a Professor in the Department of Art at the University of Calgary, and she is President and Board Chair of the annual Exposure Photography Festival. Schwartz is represented by Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto.