Catherine Opie

Catherine Opie is a renowned photographer whose work explores identity, community, and the American landscape. Known for series such as Being and Having (1991), Domestic (1995-98), and In and Around Home (2004-05), her photographs range from intimate portraits of the LGBTQ+ community to stark urban and suburban environments. Opie has exhibited widely, with solo shows at the Guggenheim Museum, LACMA, MOCA LA, and the Hammer Museum, and her work has been featured in the Whitney Biennial. She currently lives and works in Los Angeles. Clare Freestone is Curator, Photography, at the National Portrait Gallery, London. Recent publications include Yevonde: Life and Colour (2023) Photographs in Dialogue UAE - 1971 - UK (2020) and Ida Kar: Bohemian Photographer (2011), with contributions made to Love Stories: Art, Passion & Tragedy (2020). Magdalene Keaney is Curator at the National Portrait Gallery of Australia. She was Senior Curator, Photography, at the National Portrait Gallery, London, from 2018-2022. Recent publications include Francessca Woodman and Julia Margaret Cameron: Portraits to Dream In (2024), with contributions made to Women at Work: 1900 to Now (2023), Yevonde: Life and Colour (2023) and 100 Fashion Icons (2019). Alistair O'Neill is a writer, curator and professor of fashion at Central Saint Martins (University of the Arts London). He is the author of Faye Toogood: Drawing, Material, Sculpture, Landscape (2022), Exploding Fashion: From 2D to 3D to 3D Animation (2021), and London: after a fashion (2007). O'Neill recently curated, A Hard Man is Good to Find! (The Photographers' Gallery, London), he sits on the editorial board of Fashion Theory, and writes regularly for Aperture magazine. Mark Godfrey is co-director of New Curators, a one-year curatorial training programme for international curators from lower socio-economic backgrounds. He was Senior Curator, International Art, at Tate Modern from 2007-2021. Since leaving Tate, he has curated exhibitions of Laura Owens and Vincent van Gogh (Foundation Vincent van Gogh, Arles), Nicole Eisenman (Whitechapel Gallery, London), Pino Pascali (Fondazione Prada, Milan), and Jacqueline Humphries (Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio).