Emerging Curators' Programme

The Photo Fringe Emerging Curators' Programme aims to enhance participants’ career prospects, giving them the confidence to move forward in the competitive world of curating and provides them with a support network that they can build on into the future.

A learning experience rarely found outside postgraduate curating courses, this year's trainees will gain experience of delivering an ambitious photography festival. This will be complemented by the opportunity to attend a tailored programme of meetings with professionals who operate at the forefront of photography curatorial practice.

Programme outline

Work with the Photo Fringe 2024 team to launch and deliver the festival
Work as a team to curate an event as part of the festival programme
Take part in awarding ‘Emerging Curators’ Favourite’ for the Danny Wilson Memorial Award
Devise a curated trail of Photo Fringe 2024 online exhibitions
Give a guided tour of in-venue exhibitions
Write a text or interview on one of the Photo Fringe exhibiting artists to be published on the Photo Fringe website
Undertake audience evaluation surveys and analysis
Help invigilate the Collectives’ Hub
Help to document the festival
Attend a series of seminars by professional photography curators

Funded by the National Lottery through Arts Council England Project Grant.

2024 Emerging Curators

Dominika Jarečná is a Slovak curator and writer based in London. She curates and writes on art, nature, and literature. To her, the two disciplines are inseparably linked and complete each other, both being the acts of gathering. By finding their common language, she lets her non-fiction prose become a literary curation and for curating to take the form of a visual essay. Her interests lie in memory preservation and how memories declare their presence through art. She received a BA (Hons) in Culture, Criticism and Curation from Central Saint Martins before attending the Royal College of Art as a postgraduate, where she studied towards an MA in Writing.

Oliver Mansell is a photographic artist, researcher and maker based in the East of England. Having developed a curiosity-led practice through his time at Bath School of Art and Design, his work concerns parallels and intersections in our economic, social and technological environments. Most recently, his work has explored the complex networks that support the global movements of commodity cereal grains and oilseeds.

Jackson Mount is a writer, photographer and filmmaker. He is a regular contributor to c4 journal and has also written for TANK magazine and The Photographers' Gallery. His work has been exhibited in institutions such as PH Museum in Bologna, The Photographers' Gallery in London and Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool.

Ngo Chun Tse is a Hong Kong born artist, researcher and curator based in London. Chun currently is a resident artist at Metroland Studios as part of Metroland Culture’s Peer-to-Peer 2024 cohort. Chun held curatorial positions at Eaton HK and M+ Museum before he moved to the UK. He has co-curated a series of exhibitions by emerging artists living in Hong Kong and internationally. Chun also has experience in artist’s film production, he supported the film commission by John Akomfrah, including Arcadia (2023) and Listening All Night to the Rain (2024).