Conversation | Bindi Vora x Michael Famighetti
Channel: PhotoKTM
Date: 18/05/2023

Bindi Vora is a British-Indian artist working with expanded photography. She is also an Associate Lecturer at London College of Communication and Curator at Autograph, a London-based non-profit arts charity that explores issues of identity, representation, human rights and social justice through photography. Since joining Autograph, she has curated Eric Gyamfi (2023), Poulomi Basu: Fireflies (2022), co-curated Sasha Huber: You Name It (2022) Care I Contagion I Community ­– Self & Other (2021-2022); Lola Flash: [sur]passing and Maxine Walker: Untitled (both 2019) and contributed to a series of in-conversations with multidisciplinary artists include Mónica Alcázar-Duarte, Maryam Wahid, Tobi Alexandra Falade, David Uzochukwu, amongst others. She has independently curated Poulomi Basu: Centralia for Recontres d’Arles – Louis Roederer Discovery Award (2020); and Let’s Go Through This Again (2018). Her writing has appeared in publications by Maryam Wahid Zaibuinnisa (Midlands Art Centre, 2022); Another Country: British Documentary Photography Since 1945 (Thames & Hudson); FOAM Magazine and British Journal of Photography, participating in public programmes for Tate, GRAIN Photo Hub, The Photographers Gallery, amongst others.

Michael Famighetti is the Editor of Aperture magazine. In 2013, he organized a relaunch and reconceptualization of the magazine, which won a 2018 National Magazine Award for General Excellence. Together with guest editor Sarah Lewis, Michael is the recipient of an ICP Infinity Award for Critical Writing and Research for ‘Vision & Justice’, the summer 2016 issue of Aperture. In addition to editing the magazine, Michael works with the digital team to shape online content, commissions and edits books, and organizes exhibitions, including the currently touring shows: Black Is Beautiful: The Photography of Kwame Brathwaite; Orlando: Curated by Tilda Swinton; Prison Nation, co-curated with Nicole Fleetwood; and Native America: Curated by Wendy Red Star. His writing has appeared in Frieze, Bookforum, and Aperture, among other publications.