PGH Photo Fair Speaker Series with Isolde Brielmaier
Curator and Cultural Strategist
Wednesday, September 15th at 6pm

Join us on September 15th at 6pm for a lecture where Isolde Brielmaier will discuss her new book, I Am Sparkling: N. V. Parekh and His Portrait Studio Clients—Mombasa, Kenya 1940 to 1980. This talk begins in our present moment of image-making, visual culture and story telling and then extends to a look back upon a rarely accessed photographic archive. It is complemented by extensive interviews with Parekh’s diverse clientele, with a particular focus on women as clients of studio photographers.

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SPEAKER SERIES
David Kronn, Collector; Tristan Lund, Collecting Advisor
Wednesday, June 30th, 6pm
FREE with RSVP

Join us Wednesday, June 30th at 6pm for our second virtual Speaker Series event. We will be taking a deep dive into the world of contemporary photography collecting with David Kronn, a collector, and Tristan Lund, a collecting advisor. See how a seasoned collector decides on the pieces they choose to purchase.

This event is free and open to the public. Please RSVP to receive Zoom link when registration opens.

Small Mall x PGH Photo Fair present: 
Tiny Talk with Njaimeh Njie
Friday, July 23rd, 8pm

​FREE​

Small Mall and PGH Photo Fair are joining forces to collaborate for our Tiny Talk series! Photo Fair will not occur at the CMOA this year due to COVID-19 restrictions, but we're happy to be bringing you artist talks highlighting photographers in the region.

The event is free and guests must sign up in order to receive the Zoom link. The talk begins at 8pm EST.

Next up is Njaimeh Njie!

More on Njaimeh:

Njaimeh Njie is a photographer, filmmaker, and multimedia producer. Her work documents contemporary Black life, with a particular focus on the past shapes the present. Njie’s work has been featured in outlets including CityLab, Belt Magazine, and the Carnegie Museum of Art’s Storyboard Blog, and she has presented at venues including TEDxPittsburghWomen, Harvard University, and Carnegie Mellon University. Among several awards and grants, Njie was named the 2019 Visual Artist of the Year by the Pittsburgh City Paper, the 2019 Duquesne University/August Wilson House Fellow, and the 2018 Emerging Artist of the Year by the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts. Njie earned her B.A. in Film and Media Studies in 2010 from Washington University in St. Louis.

Small Mall x PGH Photo Fair Tiny Talks are made possible by the William T. Hillman Foundation. 

Small Mall x Photo Fair present: 
Tiny Talk with sarah huny young

Friday, July 10th, 8pm
​FREE

Small Mall and PGH Photo Fair are joining forces to collaborate for our Tiny Talk series! Photo Fair will not occur at the CMOA this year due to COVID-19 restrictions, but we're happy to be bringing you artist talks highlighting photographers in the region.

First up is sarah huny young who will be in conversation with us about her work, background, and exciting recent projects!

The event is free and guests must sign up in order to receive the Zoom link. The talk begins at 8pm EST. Visit our webpage to sign up.
 
Small Mall x PGH Photo Fair Tiny Talks are made possible by the William T. Hillman Foundation.

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED DUE TO COVID-19.

WEDNESDAY APRIL 22ND
ESA EPSTEIN, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF SEPIA EYE GALLERY

6PM-8PM
ACE HOTEL BALLROOM

Esa Epstein is the Executive Director of sepiaEYE Gallery. She was the Executive Director and Curator of SEPIA International and The Alkazi Collection from 1995-2009. Esa has published eight titles on modern and contemporary photography including Atul Bhalla: Yamuna Walk (sepiaEYE & UW Press, 2011), Jungjin Lee: Wind, essays by Eugenia Parry and Vicki Goldberg (Aperture/SEPIA, 2009); Ketaki Sheth: Bombay Mix, preface by Suketu Mehta (Dewi Lewis/SEPIA, 2007); and Vivan Sundaram: Re-take of Amrita, essays by Vivan Sundaram and Wu Hung (SEPIA, 2006). Esa Epstein has helped build an impressive collection of Indian photography and, along the way, has offered her expertise to both private and public collections.

For more information on the Speaker Series events, please visit our website.

Due to health concerns involving COVID-19, we’ll be postponing this event.

Michael Hawley has a background in the fields of publishing, film, and online media. He is a writer who has been creating content for the Internet since the mid-1990s for outlets from People magazine online to e-commerce sites. He currently creates websites for major studio films and has won numerous awards for this online work, including Cleo Key Art, W3, and Webby Awards, among others.  

Michael is the head of the Photographs Council at the J. Paul Getty Museum, and a founding board member and Chairman of the Photographic Arts Council Los Angeles. His eclectic photography collection has been growing since the early 1990s and includes classic twentieth-century works, but is ever leaning toward contemporary photography. He has served as a guest curator and as a judge for various photography awards over the past several years.  

Michael was raised outside the United States in Australia, Asia, Europe, South America, and the Middle East and is a graduate of Stanford University. 

For more information on the Speaker Series season, visit our website.

WEDNESDAY APRIL 17TH

ANNE TUCKER IN CONVERSATION WITH LINDA BENEDICT-JONES
6:30PM-7:30PM (DOORS AT 6PM)
ACE HOTEL BALLROOM
CO-HOSTED BY CONCEPT GALLERY

Anne Wilkes Tucker is the curator emerita of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, having, in 1976, become founding curator of the photography department for which she acquired over 30,000 photographs made on all seven continents. She curated or co-curated over 40 exhibitions, most with accompanying catalogues, including surveys on the Czech Avant-garde, a history of Japanese photography, and a history of war photography as well as exhibitions with catalogues on works of Robert Frank, Brassai, Catherine Wagner, Joel Sternfeld, Richard Misrach, Ray Metzker, Louis Faurer, George Krause, and Chen Changfan. Published and soon-to-be published interviews with photographers include Erika Diettes, Mark Klett, and Brad Temkin. She has also contributed articles to over 150 magazines, books and other catalogues and has lectured throughout the North and South America, Europe, Africa, and Asia. Her honors, fellowships, and awards include being selected as “American’s Best Curator” by Time Magazine in 2001 in an issue devoted to America’s Best as well as Randolph-Macon Woman's College’s, Alumnae Achievement Award in 1993. She has been a trustee of FotoFest since 1990 and the Philip and Edith Leonian Foundation since 2016 and served as a trustee of Randolph College between 2008 - 2018.

Linda Benedict-Jones is an independent curator based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.  In 2015, she retired from Carnegie Museum of Art where she was the first curator of photography.  Prior to this, she was executive director of Silver Eye Center for Photography. She has also served as curator of education at The Frick Pittsburgh and has taught courses in the history of photography at Carnegie Mellon University for 18 years, from 1999 to 2017. Before moving to Pittsburgh in 1993, Benedict-Jones was curator of the Polaroid Collection and director of Polaroid’s Clarence Kennedy Gallery in Cambridge, Massachusetts.  In 1982, she earned a Master’s Degree in Visual Studies from M.I.T.

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WEDNESDAY MARCH 20TH
PANEL DISCUSSION FEATURING NANCY L. LANE, JOE BAIO, AND ELLEN KESSLER
6:30PM-7:30PM (DOORS AT 6PM)
ACE HOTEL BALLROOM

Nancy Lane is the former Vice President of Johnson&Johnson and a collector of photography. She holds a Bachelor’s degree from Boston University and an MPA from the University of Pittsburgh’s Graduate School of Public and International Affairs. Her photography collection is comprised of work by notable artists, including Carrie Mae Weems, Adrian Piper, Lorna Simpson, Kara Walker, Rashid Johnson, Hank Willis Thomas, and many others. She has served as a board member at various institutions such as the International Center of Photography, the Harvard Art Museums, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. She also served as the co-chair of The Stieglitz Society, Metropolitan Museum of Art Photography department; is currently a member of the Board of Visitors of the Photography Department at the Met; and has been a board member at the Studio Museum in Harlem since 1973.

Joe Baio practices law in New York City.  He has been collecting photography since 1989 for the pure joy of it.

Ellen Kessler received a BA from Penn State University and an MA from the University of New Mexico with degrees in Communications.  During and after graduate school she worked briefly in television news as a reporter, and weekend sports anchor in Albuquerque, New Mexico before moving to Los Angeles where she worked in marketing and media.  She returned to Pittsburgh to become the Advertising and PR Director for Interstate Hotels Corp. Ellen has been a volunteer and leader at several local organizations and has served on many local boards including Winchester Thurston School, The Children’s Institute, The Jewish Federation of Pittsburgh and the Jewish Community Center of Pittsburgh.  Today in addition to being the Chair of the Board of the Carnegie Museum of Art and a Trustee of the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, she is also on the board of Steeltown Entertainment and the Jewish Healthcare Foundation. Ellen is married to Jack Kessler, an attorney at Buchanan Ingersoll and Rooney. They have two grown children and passionately enjoy collecting contemporary art and photography.

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