Curator and writer Susanna Brown on exhibition-making, writing photography, and why sharing art is about community, not gatekeeping.
In this episode of What We Make, we travelled to London to meet curator and writer Susanna Brown at the London College of Communication. Susanna spent thirteen years as Curator of Photographs at the V&A, where she helped build the Photography Centre, and has curated exhibitions seen by hundreds of thousands of people, on Cecil Beaton, Horst and Tim Walker. This autumn she opens Tim Walker’s Fairyland at the National Portrait Gallery, and her most recent book, Chanel in Vogue, is out now with Thames & Hudson.
We talk about curating as a form of storytelling, how she thinks about an exhibition from the visitor’s side, what it means to “collaborate” with photographers who are no longer alive, and why, after a career inside some of the world’s great institutions, she believes sharing art is about community and togetherness rather than keeping it for an elite.
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This is episode is hosted by Angèle Alberti. Production and editing by Florence de Schlichting. Sound design and composition by Tom Biddle. Graphic design by Shrey Kathuria. What We Make is brought to you by L’Atelier Angele Alberti.
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