2010 SPE Annual ConferenceSpeakers

Renée M. Mussai

Friday, March 05, 2010 @ 10:00am, Salon E

"Autograph ABP: The Missing Chapter"

Renée Mussai has been involved with Autograph ABP since 2001, where she currently oversees the establishment of the Archive and Research Centre for Culturally Diverse Photography at Rivington Place, London. In addition to curating the archive collection, recent projects include solo exhibitions of Rotimi Fani-Kayode's work (2009) and Ever Young: James Barnor, Street and Studio Photography from Ghana and the UK (January 28 - May 26, 2010) at Harvard University's W.E.B. Du Bois Institute's Rudenstine Gallery, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and forthcoming retrospective at Rivington Place (Fall 2010). Twice recipient of the Sofie and Emanuel Fohn Fellowship, she holds under- and postgraduate degrees in Photography from the University of the Arts London, and previously studied history of art at the University of Vienna, Austria. She is based in London where she regularly lectures on photographic history and cultural identity.