Špela Pipan is a curator and project manager at Photon Gallery (Ljubljana, Vienna), specialising in modern and contemporary photography. She completed her Bachelor and Master studies in Culture, Criticism and Curation at Central Saint Martins in London (2016) and has been working in the field of photography ever since. She has curated several exhibitions and conducted research on the history of photography in her home country. In her work, she often collaborates with various young and emerging photo artists from Slovenia and abroad to develop their projects at the beginning of their careers and present them in exhibition form. She was also a co-organiser of the educational programme of the Photon Gallery, aimed at young photographers and their introduction to the international art market. In addition to her curatorial activities, she has written for several photo monographs and worked as exbibition producer for a photography festival in Slovenia.

After studying photography at Berkshire College of Art & Design, David Hill worked in the music industry for twenty years, before opening David Hill Gallery in West London in 2015. Exhibitions have included Sanlé Sory’s first solo show in 2017, Mario Carnicelli’s sharply observed mid-1960s American street photography, which also debuted at the gallery, and Baldwin Lee’s critically acclaimed large-format series of African American life in the Southern States in the 1980s. In 2020 David collaborated with Carrie Scott on a Harold Feinstein exhibition. Their next show was the critically acclaimed Tête-à-Têtes – West African Portraiture from Independence into the 21st Century. This showcased the work of four artists working in post-colonial West Africa; Sanlé Sory, Malick Sidibé, Leonce Raphael Agbodjélou and Benin’s Rachidi Bissiriou. David Hill Gallery has an eye for meaningful, yet often overlooked and unseen, works representative of cultural and political shifts. SHOWstudio, June 2021.