| Hapax are pleased to announce the six recipients of the artist and curatorial commissions to make new work for the fourth issue, to be published early in Summer 2023. Following a call-out for submissions of interest, the editors have selected four artists and two curators who will create new photographic projects or curated sections for publication in the fourth issue of this semi-annual magazine: ARTIST COMMISSIONS: AARON SCHUMAN is a photographer, writer, curator and educator. He is the author of three critically-acclaimed monographs: Sonata (MACK, 2022), Slant (MACK, 2019) and FOLK (NB, 2016). Schuman has also published essays and interviews in many notable books – including Aperture Conversations, Another Kind of Life: Photography on the Margins, Alec Soth: Gathered Leaves and Storyteller: The Photographs of Duane Michals – and regularly contributes to a wide variety of platforms and publications, such as Aperture, Foam, Frieze, TIME, Magnum Photos, and the British Journal of Photography. He is Associate Professor of Photography & Visual Culture at the University of the West of England (UWE Bristol). www.aaronschuman.com ANDREW JACKSON is a photographer and associate lecturer at London College of Communication, who sits on the advisory panel of The Photo Ethics Centre. He is based between Tiohtià:ke (Montreal), Canada and the UK, where he was born. His work has been acquired by the United Kingdom Government Art Collection, as well as other collections, and he has been the recipient of the month-long Light Work / Autograph ABP Artist in Residence program at Syracuse University in New York. www.andrewjackson.photography ELINOR CARUCCI is an artist and educator based in New York. Born in 1971 in Jerusalem to a Jewish family of North African, Bukharian and Italian descent, she graduated in 1995 from Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design with a degree in photography. Solo and group exhibitions include Edwynn Houk Gallery, Fifty One Fine Art Gallery, FoMU, Gagosian Gallery, London, The Museum of Modern Art New York, MoCP Chicago and The Photographers’ Gallery, London. Her photographs are included in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art New York, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Houston Museum of Fine Art, among others and her editorial work appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, New York Magazine, W, Aperture, and many more publications. She was awarded the ICP Infinity Award in 2001, The Guggenheim Fellowship in 2002 and NYFA in 2010. Carucci has published four monographs to date, Closer, (Chronicle Books, 2002), Diary of a dancer (SteidlMack, 2005), MOTHER (Prestel, 2013), and Midlife (Monacelli Press/Phaidon, 2019). Carucci teaches at the graduate program of Photography and Lens-based art at the School of Visual Arts and is represented by Edwynn Houk Gallery NYC and Fifty One Gallery, Belgium. In 2023 Carucci will publish her fifth book, The Collars of Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the stories they tell (Clarkson Potter/Random House).www.elinorcarucci.com EMAN ALI is an Omani visual artist, living and working between Muscat and Bahrain. Working primarily with photography, text, sound and installations, Eman Ali’s work intertwines gender and socio-political ideologies to question the intricate Khaleeji culture, societies and women’s representations. She has integrated her practice as a social critique, observation and investigation of the multi-layered histories of the Gulf, the Arab world and East Africa. Through her photographs, Eman Ali reveals the untold norms of our society and invites viewers to reflect on the underlying boundaries and systems that govern our lives. www.emanali.com CURATORIAL COMMISSIONS: PELUMI ODUBANJO is a curator, researcher, and writer based in London. Her interests in contemporary art are cross-disciplinary, although her understanding is filtered through the lens of photography which informs both her work as a curator and researcher. Pelumi works with artists, archives, and cultural artefacts to create and explore dialogues across a global African diaspora to disentangle our understanding of archival practice. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate in History of Art at the University of Glasgow, where she is studying Black Feminist narratives and histories concerning photography and the archive, experimental practice, Black imagination, narrative, and spatial consciousness. www.pelumiodubanjo.com THROUGH THE LENS COLLECTIVE is a collaborative educational and developmental photographic space created by two South African visual artists and educators Michelle Loukidis and Michelle Harris who share a commitment to, and appreciation of, the photographic medium on the African continent. Through photographic training the collective aims to develop creativity, critical thinking and professional practice. Photographic practice is undergoing rapid change. What is of paramount importance is personal vision and voice. Through an educational workspace, the collective aims to assist visual artists/photographers in refining their photographic practice, expanding their visual grammar and developing their narrative skills. In addition, what is of importance is the creation of sustainable structures that support contemporary photographic practice. The collective’s programme welcomes anyone who is passionate about the medium of photography and wishes to use the camera as an expressive tool. www.throughthelenscollective.com
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