Alessa Widmer is a young curator, PhD candidate and photography enthusiast based in Zurich, Switzerland. She is currently the artistic director of Photo Basel, Switzerland’s first and only international art fair dedicated to photography based art.

Interview with Alessa Widmer recorded by Michael Dooney on 23. June 2023 in Zurich, Switzerland.

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Hannah Watson is the co-founder and director of contemporary art gallery TJ Boulting, as well as the director of independent art publisher Trolley Books.

TJ Boulting was founded in 2011 by current director Hannah Watson and the late Gigi Giannuzzi, taking its name from the landmark Grade II* listed Arts & Crafts building it inhabits in Fitzrovia, central London. The gallery represents a dynamic group of emerging and mid-career contemporary artists across all mediums, and introduces more established and historic artists through thematic group shows. These are often collaborations with invited curators, such as In The Company Of in 2018 with Katy Hessel, Birth in 2019 with Charlotte Jansen and The Gaze in 2021 with Louis Wise.

TJ Boulting is also the home of independent publisher Trolley Books. Established in 2001, Trolley publish a diverse range of titles presenting unique stories in photography, photojournalism and contemporary art. In 2005 Trolley received a special commendation from the Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards for its outstanding contribution to photography book publishing. Recent awards for the books include at the Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards for Siân Davey's Looking For Alice (2016) and Maisie Cousins's Rubbish, Dipping Sauce, Grass Peonie Bum (2019).

Interview with Hannah Watson recorded by Michael Dooney on 23. July 2022 at TJ Boulting, Fitzrovia London.

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Laura Noble is the Director of L A Noble Gallery (LANG) in London. The gallery focuses on contemporary positions and features a majority female representation. Laura is also a writer, author of The Art of Collecting Photography, founder of FIX Photo Festival, a multidisciplinary artist, as well as being a judge on many photographic competitions and residency programmes, running workshops, participating on portfolio reviews and more.

Interview with Laura Noble recorded by Michael Dooney on 21. July 2022 at The Nags Head, Walthamstow London.

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Barbara Wolff, born in 1951 in Kyritz in the Prignitz region of the State of Brandenburg, is the daughter of photographer Werner Hinz. After completing high school she trained as a photographer in her father’s photography business and then went on to study photography at the Academy of Fine Arts, Leipzig. After gradating she worked as a freelance illustrator, photographer, and designer. During this period her style is defined by photographic collages and montages. Between 1982 and 1985 she lived in the village of Sechzehneichen in Brandenburg, where she pursued a personal, long term project about the village and its inhabitants. After applying to leave East Germany, Wolff moved to West Germany in 1985 and settled in Munich. Numerous trips to and stays in other countries followed, enabling her to discover places where she previously would not have been able to travel—such as Guatemala, Paris, and Vietnam. Since 1989 Wolff has worked as a freelance photographer and designer for the Linhof camera manufacturer in Munich. She taught Visual Communication and Photography as the Designschule München for twelve years. In the context of further freelance work, she has overseen the set-up and establishment of photographic studios in countries such as Brazil and Yemen, and she has held lectures on photography in China, Finland, and Vietnam. Today, Barbara Wolff lives and works in Berlin.

Interview with Barbara Wolff recorded by Michael Dooney on 19. July 2022 in Berlin.

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Es­tab­lished in 2004, Robert Morat Ga­lerie is a con­tem­po­rary art gallery, pri­mar­ily fo­cussing on emerg­ing po­si­tions in con­tem­po­rary pho­tog­ra­phy and photo-based art. Founded in Ham­burg, the gallery has since moved to Berlin and is now lo­cated on Lin­ien­strasse in the Mitte art dis­trict. The gallery is a reg­u­lar ex­hibitor at in­ter­na­tional art fairs such as PARIS PHOTO, Photo Lon­don, UN­SEEN Am­s­ter­dam or The Pho­tog­ra­phy Show in New York.

Interview with Robert Morat recorded by Michael Dooney on 13. July 2022 in Berlin.

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The Belgian collector, Alain Servais, started collecting art in the late 1990s. With a strong focus on emerging artists, Alain has built up a significant contemporary art collection which is highly versatile and forward-looking. Alain is also among the first to collect digital art and support young artists by offering residency program in his loft in Brussels where he keeps his collection. One of the most committed and passionate collectors today, Alain spends most of his leisure time visiting museums, biennials, galleries and art fairs, and sharing his insights in the art with his twitter fans.

Interview with Alain Servais recorded by Michael Dooney on 7. July 2022 during the opening week of Les Rencontres de la photographie, Arles, France.

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Narda van ‘t Veer, gallerist, photography collector and agent. In 1977 Narda van 't Veer stumbled upon the work of Guy Bourdin. Her love for photography was born and a few years later she graduated from her studies in marketing & economics at HTS, after which she founded an advertising agency specialised in fashion campaigns. Through her work as an art director she meets a variety of photographers and in 1988 she decides to start her own agency, Unit C.M.A. Today she represents national and international creatives working in the field of photography, illustration and film.

In her thirty years as an agent van 't Veer also comes across a lot of art photography and many photobooks. This sparks the start of her own collection which features work by Helmut Newton and Collier Schorr among others. Next to that her extensive knowledge of and many connections in the field of photography lead to various projects like realising various photobooks. In 2012 van 't Veer starts her own gallery in collaboration with Jasper Bode. Via The Ravestijn Gallery she represents photographers like Inez & Vinoodh, Patrick Waterhouse and Michael Bailey-Gate

Interview with Narda van ‘t Veer recorded by Michael Dooney on 6. July 2022 at L'Arlatan (Hôtel à Arles) in Arles, France.

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Marc Barbey, Collector and Founder of Collection Regard, Berlin. Collection Regard is the photographic collection of Marc Barbey focusing on German photography, especially photography related to Berlin. Marc Barbey is administering the estate of Hein Gorny (1904-1967). Acting as an archive as well as an exhibition space, publishing house and gallery, Collection Regard deliberately takes a position between museum and gallery. The aim is to show largely unknown photographic works which deserve attention in a curated context. Publications and art events in form of Salons Photographiques accompany the exhibitions that are also sent on tour. Marc Barbey (*1971) grew up in Paris and studied international business at the Grande École (ESSCA) in Angers, France, and the Heriott Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland. The international businessman has been active in sales and business developments positions in the metal industry as well as the software business. In 2003 he moved to Berlin and founded a family. Berlin is the birthplace of his private collection and since 2016 he dedicates himself completely to the development of the different activities of Collection Regard.

Interview with Marc Barbey recorded by Michael Dooney on 5. July 2022 at the Manuel Rivera-Ortiz Foundation in Arles, France.

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• Hommage à Berlin - Photographs 1945/1946 - Hein Gorny, Adolph C. Byers and Friedrich Seidenstücker

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Christophe Guye was the owner and managing director of a communications agency in Zurich for 15 years, which was taken over by an international agency network in 2004. Since 2006 he has worked as a gallery owner and art dealer for contemporary photography. In the same year, he opened his gallery – formerly SCALO|GUYE Gallery – in Los Angeles, which has been based in Zurich since 2010 under the name Christophe Guye Galerie and represents numerous nationally and internationally renowned artists who have expanded the medium of photography in a broader sense context of contemporary art. During this time he has organized over a hundred exhibitions in cultural institutions, museums and partner galleries in Switzerland and abroad. The gallery is also represented at international art fairs such as Paris Photo, Photo London, Unseen Amsterdam and Photo Shanghai. In addition, he advises numerous private art collectors and institutional collections on the development and expansion of their collections. Since 2021, Christophe Guye has also been a guest lecturer at the teaching and research center for the theory and history of photography at the University of Zurich.

Interview with Christophe Guye recorded by Michael Dooney on 1. July 2022 at Christophe Guye Galerie, Zurich, CH.

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• Scalo Publishing House

• Provoke era of the 60’s in Japan, post WWII photography

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Georgina Adam is a journalist and author who has been writing about the interactions of art and finance since the 1980’s. From 2000 until 2008 she was the Art Market Editor of The Art Newspaper where she is currently the Editor-at-Large. She is a contributor to the Financial Times Life & Arts Section, and lectures at Sotheby’s and Christie’s institutes in London. Georgina initially studied Islamic Art at the Ecole du Louvre and also lived for five years in Japan. She is the author of three books about the art market – Big Bucks: The Explosion of the Art Market in the 21st Century (Lund Humphries, 2014), Dark Side of the Boom: The Excesses of the Art Market in the 21st Century (Lund Humphries, 2018); and most recently The Rise and Rise of The Private Museum (2021). She is membership chair of Cromwell Place in London, and a member of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA) and The International Art Market Studies Association (TIAMSA).

Interview with Georgina Adam recorded by Michael Dooney on 4. November 2021 in London, UK.

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