Portfolio Review Day
12th Dec | 10 AM – 5.00 PM
Online, Zoom
£50.00 | Book here
GRAIN Projects is excited to deliver a day designed to advise and support the development of a photographer’s practice. Join us for a day of reviews and presentations led by expert and experienced photography professionals.
We will be joined by Alejandro Acin, Lewis Bush, Lydia Goldblatt and Pelumi Odubanjo.
During the first part of the day our guest reviewers will give short presentations on their practice and advice for developing your career, this will be followed by one to one portfolio reviews.
The price for this event is £50.00 and includes reviews with all 4 guests professionals.
Book your place here.
Schedule:
- 10 AM – Join Zoom
- 10.10 AM – 12.00 PM – Presentations from Alejandro Acin, Lewis Bush, Lydia Goldblatt and Pelumi Odubanjo
- 12.15 PM – 5.00 PM – You will be assigned review times following your booking with each guest (total of 4 reviews), the reviews will take place in break out rooms on zoom and each last 20 minutes.
*During the afternoon while you are not in reviews the GRAIN team will be on hand to have discussions with in the main zoom space or feel free to join in and out for your specific review times.
Bios:
Alejandro Acin is a curator, designer and visual artist who lives and works between Spain and the UK, he is rhe founder of IC Visual Lab (ICVL), an independent photography platform recently appointed to lead the second edition of Bristol Photo Festival where he works as an Artístic Director. With ICVL, Alejandro has produced curatorial & publishing projects with Bristol Museums & Archives, Arnolfini Gallery, Eastside Projects, Format Festival Derby, Getxophoto international festival & Photo Kathmandu, with support from Arts Council England, Historic England, Heritage Lottery Fund & the British Council. Beyond ICVL, he has a track record of activating historic archives, including Historical Photographs of China 1850-1950 (University of Bristol), The Nepal Picture Library and the British Empire & Commonwealth Collection and as a consultant for collections like the Martin Parr Foundation Library. He is also an Associate Lecturer on the MA Photography programme at the University of South Wales.
Lewis Bush employ’s a range of research strategies, from depth interviewing to open source investigation, and works across media and platforms, using photography, text, video, data visualisation, exhibitions, books, films, and apps. His books and prints are held in institutional and private collections including at The Victoria & Albert Museum (UK), The Tate Group (UK), The Imperial War Museum (UK), F The Smithsonian Air and Space Museum (USA), Metropolitan Museum of Art (USA), Yale University (USA) and Art Institute of Chicago (USA). Since 2015 he has been senior lecturer in documentary photography at London College of Communication, University of the Arts London, and was previously course leader of the MA Photojournalism and Documentary Photography (online/part-time) between 2019 and 2023.
Lydia Goldblatt is a Photographic Artist based in London, she considers themes of origins, transience and emotional experience through a lyrical harnessing of photography’s primary characteristics of light, time and surface. Her works creatively fuse the approaches of both documentary and constructed photography. Tenderly observed portraits and details of the human form are combined with enigmatic still lifes and abstract constructions suggestive of elemental forces. Her series ‘Still Here’ was published in 2013 as an artist monograph by Hatje Cantz, and is held in the Victoria and Albert Museum National Art Library collection. Her second book, ‘Fugue’, was published by GOST in 2024. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at the NPG London, Felix Nussbaum Museum, Germany, Somerset House, London, GoEun Museum of Photography, South Korea and the National Museum, Gdansk. She was awarded the Grand Prix at 2014’s Tokyo International Photography Festival and, in 2016, undertook a year’s artist residency at the Florence Trust in London, where she developed her series ‘Instar’. She was awarded in the Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize, 2020, for her portrait ‘Eden’, from the series ‘Fugue’, and won the RPS IPE Award in 2025.
Pelumi Odubanjo is a curator, writer and researcher working between Glasgow and London. She is currently a Curator at Glasgow International Festival of Contemporary Art. She was the Ten.8 Research and Curatorial Fellow with the International Curators Forum, where she curated Ten.8 afterimage at The New Art Gallery Walsall (2026).Other independent curatorial projects include Maud Sulter: You Are My Kindred Spirit at Tramway, Glasgow (2025), with a particular focus on the exhibition’s live programme, Beautiful Experiments at London Art Fair (2023), and Catherine, Kiambé, Surya at Photo Oxford (2021).Her writing has been widely published across photobooks, magazines, journals and exhibition publications, including contributions to publications by Thames & Hudson, Beam Editions and Dario Cimorelli Editore, Milan. Her work has appeared in Foam Magazine, British Journal of Photography, 1000 Words, Photoworks Annual and Hapax Magazine, alongside academic journals. She regularly presents research at academic conferences and facilitates public conversations with artists, writers and photographers.
internationalcuratorsforum.org/people/pelumi-odubanjo/ glasgowinternational.org
