Guest Room:
David Campany

Guest Room aims to spark collaboration. David Campany, teacher at the University of Westminster London and Curator at Large for the International Center of Photography in New York, has chosen to collaborate with Taous Dahmani, who is a London-based French, British and Algerian art historian, writer and curator specializing in photography.

Together, they have developed the following framework for your submissions: The "Meanwhile".

More than ever, we live in a world of "meanwhile": parallel lives, contemporaneous existences, different states of mind occurring side by side. We go about our lives while knowing - or pretending we don’t know - what other people are doing, accepting or denying our interconnectedness across the world. The "meanwhile" has become a great challenge to our sense of self as individuals, as communities and as global citizens. It shapes nearly every aspect of the visual culture we have made for ourselves. And even when the "meanwhile" doesn’t shape it directly, it is shaping our engagement with it. It is also difficult to photograph. How can the "meanwhile" be pictured?

Selection

    • Amin Yousefi, Eyes Dazzle as They Search for The Truth, Tehran, IRN, 2022 | DER GREIF
      Amin Yousefi, Eyes Dazzle as They Search for The Truth, Tehran, IRN, 2022
    • Akshay Mahajan, Mumbai, IND, 2022 | DER GREIF
      Akshay Mahajan, Mumbai, IND, 2022
    • Andrea Alkalay, From the Rock Cycle: Eva #3, Jeddah, SAU, 2022 | DER GREIF
      Andrea Alkalay, From the Rock Cycle: Eva #3, Jeddah, SAU, 2022
    • Carlos Idun-Tawiah, Untitled, Accra, GHA, 2022 | DER GREIF
      Carlos Idun-Tawiah, Untitled, Accra, GHA, 2022
    • Kerr Cirilo, Nanay, Tatay, Gusto Kong Tinapay (Mother, Father, I Would Like Some Bread), USA, 2022 | DER GREIF
      Kerr Cirilo, Nanay, Tatay, Gusto Kong Tinapay (Mother, Father, I Would Like Some Bread), USA, 2022
    • Irene Antonia Diane Reece, Granny and Bean, Conroe, Texas, USA, 2020 | DER GREIF
      Irene Antonia Diane Reece, Granny and Bean, Conroe, Texas, USA, 2020
    • Amanda Kline, Chicken House Fire, Strausstown, Pennsylvania, USA, 2020 | DER GREIF
      Amanda Kline, Chicken House Fire, Strausstown, Pennsylvania, USA, 2020
    • Clarissa Bonet, Chicago, USA, 2018 | DER GREIF
      Clarissa Bonet, Chicago, USA, 2018
    • Laura Hart Newlon, Time in Flight (detail), Anacortes, WAA, USA, 2023 | DER GREIF
      Laura Hart Newlon, Time in Flight (detail), Anacortes, WAA, USA, 2023
    • Britta Baumann, Father Figure, Worldwide, DEU | DER GREIF
      Britta Baumann, Father Figure, Worldwide, DEU
    • Maheder Haileselassie, ETH, 2015 | DER GREIF
      Maheder Haileselassie, ETH, 2015
    • Akshay Mahajan, Mumbai, IND, 2022 | DER GREIF
      Akshay Mahajan, Mumbai, IND, 2022
    • Mandarava Paola Bricaire, The world on the sofa, London, GBR, 2019 | DER GREIF
      Mandarava Paola Bricaire, The world on the sofa, London, GBR, 2019
    • Julie Joubert, Untitled, Paris, FRA, 2020 | DER GREIF
      Julie Joubert, Untitled, Paris, FRA, 2020
    • Leslie Hakim-Dowek, Twilight Island, Red Rock, The Canaries, ESP, 2016 | DER GREIF
      Leslie Hakim-Dowek, Twilight Island, Red Rock, The Canaries, ESP, 2016
    • Clea T. Rekhou, The Palm Tree, Algiers, DZA, 2022 | DER GREIF
      Clea T. Rekhou, The Palm Tree, Algiers, DZA, 2022
    • Malhar Upadhyay, Ignoring & accepting, Umrala, Gujarat, Bhavnagar, IND, 2021 | DER GREIF
      Malhar Upadhyay, Ignoring & accepting, Umrala, Gujarat, Bhavnagar, IND, 2021
    • Xanthe Hutchinson, Gynodioecious, Halikidiki, GRC, 2021 | DER GREIF
      Xanthe Hutchinson, Gynodioecious, Halikidiki, GRC, 2021
    • Lesia Maruschak, Diptych No. 2 I am Home, Ottawa, CAN, 2022 | DER GREIF
      Lesia Maruschak, Diptych No. 2 I am Home, Ottawa, CAN, 2022
    • Magdalena Wywrot (Switek), Pestka, Kraków, POL | DER GREIF
      Magdalena Wywrot (Switek), Pestka, Kraków, POL
    • Sven Delaye, The Mariachis, Sayulita, MEX, 2022 | DER GREIF
      Sven Delaye, The Mariachis, Sayulita, MEX, 2022
    • Vladimir Unkovic, Are you now, Los Angeles, USA, 2019 | DER GREIF
      Vladimir Unkovic, Are you now, Los Angeles, USA, 2019
    • Clea T. Rekhou, The Memorial, Algiers, DZA, 2022 | DER GREIF
      Clea T. Rekhou, The Memorial, Algiers, DZA, 2022
    • Emilio Azevedo, Rondônia (comment je suis tombé amoureux d'une ligne), Rio de Janeiro - Forte de Copacabana, BRA, 2022 | DER GREIF
      Emilio Azevedo, Rondônia (comment je suis tombé amoureux d'une ligne), Rio de Janeiro - Forte de Copacabana, BRA, 2022
    • Irene Antonia Diane Reece, Democracy, Conroe, Texas, USA, 2021 | DER GREIF
      Irene Antonia Diane Reece, Democracy, Conroe, Texas, USA, 2021
    • Irene Antonia Diane Reece, Daddy's Lessons, Somewhere in Texas, USA, 2021 | DER GREIF
      Irene Antonia Diane Reece, Daddy's Lessons, Somewhere in Texas, USA, 2021
    • Vladimir Unkovic, Are you now, Essen, DEU, 2020 | DER GREIF
      Vladimir Unkovic, Are you now, Essen, DEU, 2020
    • Ludvig Perés, Classroom, From a Blue Sky, USA, 2022 | DER GREIF
      Ludvig Perés, Classroom, From a Blue Sky, USA, 2022
    • Anna Thiele, the revolution #4225, Berlin, DEU | DER GREIF
      Anna Thiele, the revolution #4225, Berlin, DEU
    • Lawrence Sumulong, 33.99247° N, 118.46645° W / 40.72280° N, 73.93749° W, Los Angeles, CA / New York City, NY, USA, 2022 | DER GREIF
      Lawrence Sumulong, 33.99247° N, 118.46645° W / 40.72280° N, 73.93749° W, Los Angeles, CA / New York City, NY, USA, 2022
    • Peter Gabriel, Untitled 01, Red Hook, Brooklyn, New York, USA, 2023 | DER GREIF
      Peter Gabriel, Untitled 01, Red Hook, Brooklyn, New York, USA, 2023
    • Ed Thompson, Stay behind barrier., Watford, GBR, 2013 | DER GREIF
      Ed Thompson, Stay behind barrier., Watford, GBR, 2013
    • Werner Mansholt, Mirrors, Arbil, IRQ, 2013 | DER GREIF
      Werner Mansholt, Mirrors, Arbil, IRQ, 2013
    • Anna TIhanyi, Welcome to the Dollhouse, Budapest, HUN | DER GREIF
      Anna TIhanyi, Welcome to the Dollhouse, Budapest, HUN
    • Ramak Bamzar, Self portrait, Melbourne, Australia, AUS, 2022 | DER GREIF
      Ramak Bamzar, Self portrait, Melbourne, Australia, AUS, 2022
    • Torsten Schumann, 03 Vermilion Confusion, CHN, 2022 | DER GREIF
      Torsten Schumann, 03 Vermilion Confusion, CHN, 2022
    • Emilio Azevedo, Rondônia (comment je suis tombé amoureux d'une ligne), Rondônia/Archives du quai Branly, BRA, 2022 | DER GREIF
      Emilio Azevedo, Rondônia (comment je suis tombé amoureux d'une ligne), Rondônia/Archives du quai Branly, BRA, 2022
    • Marcus Bastel, Differences., London, GBR, 2012 | DER GREIF
      Marcus Bastel, Differences., London, GBR, 2012
    • Russell C. Banks, Silent Disco, 2022, At sea, USA, 2022 | DER GREIF
      Russell C. Banks, Silent Disco, 2022, At sea, USA, 2022
    • Eugenia Patsouri, 04, Athens, GRC, 2022 | DER GREIF
      Eugenia Patsouri, 04, Athens, GRC, 2022
    • Julie Joubert, Untitled, Fresnes, FRA, 2020 | DER GREIF
      Julie Joubert, Untitled, Fresnes, FRA, 2020
    • Xanthe Hutchinson, Lee in Binder, Leeds, GBR, 2022 | DER GREIF
      Xanthe Hutchinson, Lee in Binder, Leeds, GBR, 2022
    • Paloma Rebecca Dooley, Alika Tending, Los Angeles, USA, 2023 | DER GREIF
      Paloma Rebecca Dooley, Alika Tending, Los Angeles, USA, 2023
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David Campany

David Campany is a curator, writer, editor, and educator. He teaches at the University of Westminster London, and is Curator at Large for the International Center of Photography, New York. David has worked worldwide with institutions including MoMA New York, Tate, Whitechapel Gallery London, Centre Pompidou, Le Bal Paris, ICP New York, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, The Photographer’s Gallery London, ParisPhoto, PhotoLondon, The National Portrait Gallery London, Aperture, Steidl, MIT Press, Thames & Hudson, MACK and Frieze.