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Mark Sealy MBE (born 1960) is a British curator and cultural historian with a special interest in the relationship of photography to social change, identity politics and human rights.〔 In 1991 he became the director of Autograph ABP, the Association of Black Photographers,〔("Who We Are" ), Autograph ABP.〕〔(Mark Sealy biography ), Africultures.〕 based since 2007 at Rivington Place, a purpose-built international visual arts centre in Shoreditch, London. He has curated several major international exhibitions and is also a lecturer. ==Biography== Born in Hackney, London (to a father from Barbados and an English mother)〔Martin Knelman, ("Human Rights, Human Wrongs at Ryerson Image Centre" ), ''Toronto Star'', 25 January 2013.〕 and raised in Newcastle,〔Tom Seymour, ("Human Rights Human Wrongs" ), ''British Journal of Photography'', 18 February 2015.〕 Mark Sealy studied at Goldsmiths, University of London, after which he worked on national newspapers in Fleet Street.〔Alison Donnell, ("Mark Sealy" ), ''Companion to Contemporary Black British Culture'', Routledge, 2002, p. 274.〕 As the Director of Autograph ABP (the Association of Black Photographers) since 1991, he has been responsible for initiating and delivering many exhibitions, residency projects and publications, as well as commissioning photographers and filmmakers.〔 A recent commissioned project (2013–14) was ''The Unfinished Conversation'', by award-winning documentary-maker John Akomfrah, a film-work on the political life of Stuart Hall.〔("John Akomfrah: The Unfinished Conversation" ) at Autograph.〕 Sealy has been a guest lecturer at the Royal College of Art and many other institutions in England and abroad,〔("Talk: 'The Historical Conditions of Existence – Mark Sealy MBE on Stuart Hall and the Photographic Moment'" ), Weltkulturen Museum / Weltkulturen Labor, Frankfurt a. M., Germany. ''C&'', 5 June 2014.〕〔("Art & Compromise (III) — Mark Sealy: The Organ that Weeps" ), Beaconsfield in collaboration with City & Guilds of London Art School.〕 and has participated in many national and international conferences, including on the "Historical Perspectives on International Curatorial Debates of the 1980s and 1990s" panel at the ''Shades of Black'' conference, Duke University (Durham, North Carolina), in April 2001,〔("Mark Sealy MBE" ), Diaspora Artists.〕 the 2011 symposium on "post-racial imaginaries" held at the University of Westminster by the journal ''darkmatter'',〔("Westminster hosts darkmatter symposium" ), University of Westminster, 16 May 2011.〕 "Reframing the Moment: Legacies of the 1982 Blk Art Group" (curated by Sonia Boyce and Keith Piper) in 2012 at Wolverhampton Polytechnic,〔("Reframing the Moment: Legacies of the 1982 Blk Art Group" ), October 2012.〕 and has been on judging juries for such prestigious awards as the World Press Photo competition.〔 In 2007, the Royal Photographic Society awarded Sealy the Hood Medal for services to photography.〔(Mark Sealy biography ), Autograph ABP.〕 In the 2013 New Year Honours list he was awarded an MBE for services to photography.〔("Mark Sealy awarded MBE for services to Photography" ), School of Modern Languages & Cultures, Durham University, 21 January 2013.〕〔("New Year Honours 2013: full list of recipients" ), ''The Telegraph'', 29 December 2012.〕 His work as a curator includes an audiovisual programme for Rencontres d'Arles in 1993, and ''Human Rights Human Wrongs'' — an exhibition featuring images selected from the Black Star collection of 20th-century photojournalism〔 — at the Ryerson Image Centre, Toronto (23 January–14 April 2013),〔("Human Rights Human Wrongs" ), Ryerson Image Centre.〕 and at the Photographers' Gallery, London (6 February–6 April 2015).〔("Human Rights Human Wrongs" ), The Photographers' Gallery.〕 Among many initiatives at Rivington Place, he co-curated with Renée Mussai (archivist and head of research at Autograph) the critically acclaimed ''Black Chronicles II'', first shown in 2014,〔Charlotte Runcie, ("Black Chronicles II, Rivington Place, Review: 'powerful'. A tantalising new exhibition seeks to redress the absence of black people from the history of photography" ), ''The Telegraph'', 18 September 2014.〕 a solo retrospective of the work of Rotimi Fani-Kayode (1955–1989) marking the 25th anniversary of his death,〔("Rotimi Fani-Kayode (1955–1989)" ), Autograph.〕 and most recently researched and curated an exhibition (16 July–12 September 2015) to mark the 70th anniversary of the Fifth Pan-African Congress in 1945, featuring photographs by John Deakin exhibited for the first time.〔("The Fifth Pan-African Congress" ), Autograph ABP.〕〔Brennavan Sritharan, ("The Manchester town hall meeting that shaped Africa: remembering the Fifth Pan-African Congress" ), ''The British Journal of Photigraphy'', 27 July 2015.〕 Sealy is currently a PhD candidate at Durham University, focusing his research on photography and cultural violence. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mark Sealy」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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