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Found Photography Holidays Snapshots Erik Kessels

NEW YORK PHOTO FESTIVAL 2010 CURATOR : Erik Kessels is a photography curator, writer, and picture anthropologist, and a founding partner and creative director of KesselsKramer, an independent, international communications agency located in Amsterdam. He has curated exhibitions such as “Loving Your Pictures” at the Centraal Museum Utrecht, The Netherlands and at Les Rencontres d’Arles Photographie, France, and has published several books of his images—including the In Almost Every Pictureseries. Since 2000, he has been one of the editors of the alternative photography magazine Useful Photography.

Kessels is an editorial contributor for both BON International and Identity Matters, and he has lectured at the D&AD President’s Lecture and at several international design conferences in Singapore, Goa, Toronto, and Bangkok. He has taught communication at Hallo© in Amsterdam and photography at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, also in Amsterdam. In 2008 he was an artist in residence for the Amsterdam Academy of Architecture, where he curated a celebration of amateurism. For the opening of the world’s first graphic design museum, in Breda, Erik organized an exhibition entitled “The European Championship of Graphic Design.” For the DVD art project Loud & Clear he worked with artists such as Marlene Dumas and Candice Breitz. Kessels has made commercial work for national and international clients such as Nike, Diesel, J&B Whisky, Oxfam International, Ben Mobile, and the Hans Brinker Budget Hotel, and has won numerous international design awards.

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