Capture Photography Festival Speaker Series: Mark Sealy

Capture Photography Festival presents its first Speaker Series talk with Mark Sealy, Executive Director of Autograph ABP who will discuss his curated exhibition, Rotimi Fani-Kayode: Tranquility of Communion with The Polygon Gallery’s Curator Elliott Ramsey.

Doors at 4:30pm
Conversation at 5:00pm

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About Mark Sealy
Professor Mark Sealy is Director of Autograph (London, UK) and Professor of Photography – Rights and Representation at University of the Arts London, London College of Communication. Author of two celebrated books published by Lawrence Wishart, Photography: Race, Rights and Representation (2022) and Decolonising the Camera: Photography in Racial Time (2019), Sealy is interested in the relationship between art, photography, social change, identity politics, race, and human rights. He has written for many of the world’s leading photographic journals, produced numerous artist publications, curated exhibitions, and commissioned photographers and filmmakers worldwide.

This event is part of the 2025 Capture Photography Festival Speaker Series and is presented by Capture Photography Festival in partnership with The Polygon Gallery and Critical Image Forum, UBC. Capture's 2025 Speaker Series is generously supported by Wesgroup.

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