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.

To learn more about this event and to register, click here.

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 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 FEBRUARY 20TH
ANTWAUN SARGENT
6:30PM-7:30PM (DOORS AT 6PM)
ACE HOTEL BALLROOM

Antwaun Sargent is a writer and critic living and working in New York City. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, The New Yorker, The Nation, W,  Aperture, Vice and various museum publications including Mickalene Thomas, Arthur Jafa and Ed Clark exhibition catalogs. Recently he co-curated the Aperture Foundation exhibition, "The Way We Live Now," and has lectured and been in conversation with artists at Studio Museum in Harlem, Brooklyn Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver and the Art Gallery of Toronto. He is currently working on a photography book that will be published by Aperture in the fall.

For more information, click here.

Tiny Talk
Friday November 16

5300 Butler Street
5-7 PM

Small Mall will host a micro exhibit of Jenna (Kay) Houston’s work for a one night only show accompanied by an artist talk. They will discuss their photographic series Tuck and Roll as well as their lens as a queer artist in Pittsburgh.

Lawrenceville Distilling Co. will serve special artist-inspired drinks with their unique Parking Chair Vodka.

Jenna’s work will be available for purchase during the event.

This is a free event. Please RSVP here.

PGH Photo Fair returns to the Carnegie Museum of Art this April.

PPF is Pittsburgh’s only art fair promoting photography within the contemporary and fine-art market. Each year, PGH Photo Fair hosts 13 internationally known dealers and photography projects. These experts exhibit museum-quality prints and photo-based art spanning the history of the medium, from 19th Century vintage prints to contemporary photography, alongside photographic books and photo-based magazines.

For more info on the fair, visit pghphotofair.com

PGH Photo Fair returns to the Carnegie Museum of Art this April.

PPF is Pittsburgh’s only art fair promoting photography within the contemporary and fine-art market. Each year, PGH Photo Fair hosts 13 internationally known dealers and photography projects. These experts exhibit museum-quality prints and photo-based art spanning the history of the medium, from 19th Century vintage prints to contemporary photography, alongside photographic books and photo-based magazines.

For more info on the fair, visit pghphotofair.com

Join us for the first PGH Photo Fair Speaker Series:

APRIL 25TH - NAOMI BECKWITH, CURATOR - MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART CHICAGO

 Ace Hotel Ballroom on the following Wednesdays. 6pm doors open, starts at 6:30pm.

After each lecture, everyone is invited to stay for drinks at the hotel bar.

More information here.

In Conversation with Dayanita Singh

APR 11, 2018 6:00 pm–8:00 pm

SILVER EYE CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY
4808 PENN AVE, PITTSBURGH, PA 15224, USA

Free, registration required

Carnegie International and PGH Photo Fair present Dayanita Singh in conversation with Dan Leers, Curator of Photography, Carnegie Museum of Art about her award-winning publication Museum Bhavan(Steidl, 2007), a museum in the form of a photography book

Winner of the Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation 2017 Photo Book of the Year Award and the 2018 ICP Book Award, Dayanita Singh is a participant in the 2018 Carnegie International. Come hear the New Delhi-based artist speak about how her exhibitions of photography take many forms, including a jacket she will wear. This garment will inspire a short sketching session to design our own pocket museums. Snacks will follow.

Join us for the first PGH Photo Fair Speaker Series:

JANE JACKSON, DIRECTOR EMERITUS, THE SIR ELTON JOHN PHOTOGRAPHY COLLECTION

 Ace Hotel Ballroom on the following Wednesdays. 6pm doors open, starts at 6:30pm.

After each lecture, everyone is invited to stay for drinks at the hotel bar.

More information here.

Join us for the first PGH Photo Fair Speaker Series:

SARAH MEISTER, CURATOR - THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART

 Ace Hotel Ballroom on the following Wednesdays. 6pm doors open, starts at 6:30pm.

After each lecture, everyone is invited to stay for drinks at the hotel bar.

More information here.