The Many Lives of Erik Kessels

About Erik Kessels

Erik Kessels is a highly influential photography collector curator editor and designer recently acclaimed for his own artistic practice. Creative director of the communications agency KesselsKramer founded in 1995 Kessels has published over fifty books of collected images including Missing Links (1999) The Instant Men (2000) the In Almost Every Picture series (2001ongoing) and Wonder (2006). Since 2000 he has been an editor of the alternative photography magazine Useful Photography and has curated exhibitions such as Loving Your Pictures (2008) 24 Hrs in Photos (2010) Album Beauty (2012) and Unfinished Father (2015). In 2011 he co-curated an exhibition called From Here On together with Martin Parr Joachim Schmid Clément Chéroux and Joan Fontcuberta. In 2010 Kessels was awarded the prestigious Amsterdam Prize of the Arts and in 2016 he was a finalist for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize for his exhibition Unfinished Father. Francesco Zanot is curator at CAMERA Turin; director of the MA in Photography at NABA Milan; and currently curator of the inaugural exhibition Give Me Yesterday at Fondazione Prada Osservatorio Milan. Simon Baker is curator of Photography and International Art at Tate Modern London. Hans Aarsman is a Dutch photographer author and lecturer at the Rijksakademie Amsterdam. Sandra S. Phillips is the Curator of Photography Emerita at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.