This Wednesday 2 February at 18.30 we’d like to invite you to a meeting with Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin, this year's curators of the Main Programme of Photomonth in Kraków, during which they’ll discuss their artistic strategies and talk about what there’ll be to see in May 2011. The meeting will take place in Bunkier Sztuki.

Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin are a duo of photographers from London. They’ve been working together for more than a decade now. The results of this long-term collaboration have been successive solo and group exhibitions, and the monographs which have accompanied them. Broomberg and Chanarin are the authors of six monograph books devoted to documentary photography. Released in 2000, Trust, accompanied their first solo exhibition at the Hasselblad Center; Ghetto (2003), presented during Photomonth in Kraków in 2007, presented the artists’ achievements from the period of their work as publishers and main photographers of the magazine "Colors". South Africa after the fall of apartheid was the subject of Mr. Mkhize’s Portrait (2004), accompanying the duo’s solo exhibition in the Photographer’s Gallery, and contemporary Israel was covered in Chicago (2006). Their most recent publications were published by the Steidl publishing house and were titled Fig and The Red House (both 2007). Their next book, on the story of photographic archives in west Belfast, will come out in spring 2011.

Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin regularly teach and run workshops and masterclasses in photography, and they also lecture in documentary photography at the London College of Communication. They have won many awards, including the prestigious Vic Odden Award granted by the Royal Photographic Society (2004), Best Documentary Book (USA, 2004), the GRIN First Prize (Gruppo Redattori Iconografici Nazionale, Italy, 2004), and Best Book of the Year (USA, 2004). They are also members of the Board of Trustees at Photoworks and The Photographers' Gallery.

Their solo and group exhibitions have been presented in France, Switzerland, Australia, Holland, Sweden, Spain, Denmark, Belgium, South Africa, Germany, the USA, Egypt, and Italy, among other countries. Their works appear in prestigious institutions and art galleries such as the International Center of Photography, the Victoria & Albert Museum, the National Portrait Gallery, Van Vlissingen, and the Musee de l'Elysee in Switzerland.
 
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