Our Team
Sebah Chaudhry
Sebah is a Freelance Creative Producer. She is experienced in working at international world class festivals, projects and events.
She was previously Creative Producer on an international British Council funded project with Ffotogallery, The Place I Call Home, connecting the UK to the Gulf region, culminating in 10 exhibitions from September 2019 - March 2020 in 7 countries. In 2019, Sebah curated a show by Alina Kisina at Diffusion Festival in Wales.
From 2013 – 2017, Sebah was the Festival Coordinator at FORMAT Festival, the UK’s largest contemporary photography festival. She was a key member in the delivery of the biennial, working on exhibitions, events, the UK’s largest portfolio review and other FORMAT projects in the UK and internationally. She still produces projects at FORMAT Festival.
She has previously worked with Photo Beijing, Beijing; Unseen Platform, Amsterdam; Kasselfotobook Festival, Kassel; Fotofestiwal, Łódz; Rhubarb-Rhubarb, Birmingham; Dong Gang, South Korea and Fotofest, Houston.
Sebah is an avid networker and an advocate for the promotion of emerging artists, particularly BAME artists/POC, encouraging both artists and others to get involved in the art scene. Currently UK editor for thephotoexhibitionarchive.com, Berlin, Chair of Advisory Board for 1623 theatre company, Derby, Steering Group member for FORMAT Festival, Derby and Board Member, Redeye, The Photography Network, Manchester.
Jagdish Patel
Jagdish Patel works as a socially engaged artist and researcher. He is currently a PhD candidate at Coventry University researching the intersections between socially engaged art and anti-racism.
He was raised in the Midlands, and worked in London as the Deputy Director of the human rights charity, the Monitoring Group. Although his work is firmly located within the realms of portraiture and documentary, he works through a process of collaborative art practice. Much of his practice involves working within working class communities, and he is keen to ensure that the process of making images is empowering for the people taking part in the projects.
Over the past few years he has undertaken projects with people from the Gypsy community, Portuguese farm workers, Asian football clubs, Northern Soul fans, victims of racial violence, Muslim War Veterans, and Punjabi bar owners in the Black Country. Jagdish has also worked on issues relating to arts and mental well-being for nearly a decade.
He graduated with an MA Photography from De Montfort University, Leicester. He is a member of Primary in Nottingham and one of the founders of ‘Off Centre : Nottingham Centre for Photography and Social Engagement’.