Instagram Takeover: Federica Chiochetti

Federica Chiochetti, guest curator for Photo50 2016, London Art Fair, took over our Instagram account, January 2016.

She joins a list of guest editors including Simon Roberts, Natasha Caruana, Jason Larkin and Aaron Schuman.

Yesterday the @photocaptionist had a most productive meeting and we are expanding our team with @lisa.frederique as managing editor and @saracuono as exhibitions and social media, stay tuned with our forthcoming projects on photocaptionist.com and thank you @photoworks_uk for having us #federicachiocchetti for #photoworks_uk

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Federica Chiocchetti is a writer, photography critic, editor and curator. She is the founding director of the photo-literary platform Photocaptionist. Currently she is writing her PhD on photography and fictions at the University of Westminster, under the supervision of Professor David Bate. She works independently and for international institutions, collections, festivals and fairs, incl. the Kunsthalle Budapest, the V&A, Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery, Brighton Photo Biennial, the London Art Fair and the Archive of Modern Conflict.

Last but not least this is a little homage to the female contributors to our platform #federicachiocchetti @photocaptionist for #photoworks_uk

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Her most recent projects include the exhibition ‘Feminine Masculine: on the Struggle and Fascination of Dealing with the Other Sex’, curated for Photo50 within the London Art Fair 2016 and ‘P.H. Emerson: Presented by the Author’, curated while she was the 2015 Art Fund Curatorial Fellowship (Photographs) at the V&A and Nottingham Castle Museum. Other projects include the exhibition and book ‘Amore e Piombo’, co-edited with Roger Hargreaves for the Archive of Modern Conflict and Brighton Photo Biennial, winner of the Kraszna Krausz 2015 Best Photography Book Award; the online photo-literary exhibition ‘Amateur Unconcern’, on WW1 and the archive, featuring excerpts of G.B. Shaw’s ‘Heartbreak House’ alongside material from the Archive of Modern Conflict and Tommaso Tanini’s first solo show ‘H. said he loved us’, curated in collaboration with Discipula at the Kunsthalle Budapest for the Hungarian Month of Photography 2014.

.Until Death Do Us Part is the wonderfully witty and beautifully designed book by wizard @thomas_sauvin from @beijing_silvermine on #cigarettes & #chinese #weddings this clever #irreverent book would work fantastically well in our section 2 of #femininemasculine #tilldeathdousapart and we hope to include it in the next version of the show/research! #federicachiocchetti the @photocaptionist for #photoworks_uk

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Her writings have appeared in Der Greif, Photoworks, Foam, Objektiv, Unseen magazine, The British Journal of Photography (where the Photocaptionist edited the Endframe column for a year in 2015), 1000 Words, Co-curate, EXTRA, The Photographers’ Gallery Blog and MAPP Editions (MACK).

Tonight The @photocaptionist is enjoying the wonderful image-text book ‘Trip’ by dear Susan Lipper @lipvine with text by Frederick Barthelme published by @dewi_lewis_publishing “She wanted to plug his mouth full of letters and then just sit there to see what words came out” #susanlipper #trip #frederickbarthelme #federicachiocchetti for #photoworks_uk

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Currently she is working on a number of commissioned articles and, with Roger Hargreaves, for the Archive of Modern Conflict, on the photo-cinema room within the exhibition Italy 1968-1978 at the newly opened CAMERA – Centro Italiano per la Fotografia, in Turin.

The @photocaptionist was particularly happy to include in the #femininemasculine show at #photo50 the only copy in the world of this minuscule 1938 booklet ‘Handbook of Physical Culture for the Marriage’. Signed ‘par Le dared’, which in French slang means penis, this little treasure circulated privately and was perhaps a gift to the groom from his best friend. It was collected by artist #martincrawl and ironically combines #instructing and #selfcensoring at the same time. #puritanporn #onlycopy #photoworks_uk #federicachiocchetti

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