Speaker Series 1 | Mark Sealy

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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. 

The exhibition Rotimi Fani-Kayode: Tranquility of Communion is organized by Autograph, London, and the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus.

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.

This event is free. If you would like to make a donation to support Capture Photography Festival, please donate via our registered charitable organization Vancouver Association for Photographic Arts here. Amounts greater than $20.00 will receive a tax receipt.

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.

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  Rotimi Fani-Kayode: Tranquility of Communion

  Feb 28 – May 25, 2025