Dr Mark Sealy Executive Director of Autograph (1991 -) and Professor, Photography, Rights and Representation at University Arts London – London College of Communication.
Sealy is interested in the relationship between art, photography, social change, identity politics, race, and human rights. He gained his PhD from Durham University, England. He has written for many of the world’s leading photographic journals, produced numerous artist publications, curated exhibitions, and commissioned photographers and filmmakers worldwide.
In addition, he is an advisor (management + committees) to several leading cultural institutions, including Tate, Paul Mellon Centre for the Studies in British Art, Art Fund, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, World Press Photo, and the International Centre of Photography in New York, USA.
Lawrence and Wishart have published Sealy’s recent critical writings on photography. Photography: Race, Rights and Representation, published 2022 and Decolonising the Camera: Photography in Racial Time, published 2019. He is currently engaged as the Artistic Director for The Triennial of Photography Hamburg 2026. His forthcoming book, A Lens on Liberation Photography as Resistance, will be published in the summer of 2025.
