People

UNCLE BILL NICHOLSON
Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung Elder Uncle Bill Nicholson is the principal adult and cross-cultural educator working across the corporate, not-for-profit, and university sectors. Uncle Bill is passionate about sharing his extensive cultural knowledge with the broader community, and advocates for the rights of contemporary Wurundjeri to access and practice culture on their traditional homelands. As a Winston Churchill Fellowship recipient, Uncle Bill explored cultural practice and maintenance among First Nations communities in urban environments. He was also a member of the Victorian delegation nominated to attend the First People’s Assembly that led to the development of the Uluru Statement from the Heart.

LUCY GALLUN
Lucy Gallun is Curator in the Department of Photography at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. In over 14 years at MoMA, Lucy has organized many exhibitions, the most recent being Life Dances On: Robert Frank in Dialogue (2024-25). She was co-editor and contributing author of Photography at MoMA, a three-volume history of photography at the Museum, and has contributed to numerous publications within and outside the Museum.

CLARE GRAFIK
Clare Grafik is Head of Exhibitions at The Photographers’ Gallery in London. She has worked in public institutions including the ICA, Whitechapel, Hayward Gallery and National Portrait Gallery and with private collections. At TPG she has curated shows including Taryn Simon, Katy Grannan, Zineb Sedira, Keith Arnatt and Evelyn Hofer. Group projects include ‘The Photographic Object’, ‘Photography & Collage’ and ‘Double Take: Photography & Drawing’. Other projects include a solo exhibition with Bettina Von Zwehl at the Freud Museum and ‘Pictures from the Garden’ in collaboration with Photo Oxford in 2023. Contributions to books and catalogues include Alex Prager’s ‘Silver Lake Drive’ and, more recently, for ‘Another Country’ (T&H, 2022). She has been a Sessional Lecturer at Birkbeck College, London, and has lectured at institutions including University of the Arts, University of South Wales, and Sotheby’s Institute of Art.

VARUN GUPTA
Varun Gupta is Director, Chennai Photo Biennale. He is a photographer for the last two decades, a serial entrepreneur and a lover of analogue and alternative photography practices who co-founded the Chennai Photo Biennale and the CPB Foundation, a non-profit organization that is focused on growing the photography community in India and South Asia. Varun serves as a collaborator and advisor to PHOTO Australia in Melbourne, and the Belfast Photo Festival in the UK and works closely with arts organisations across India. When not at his desk, he can be found in his darkroom experimenting with chemical processes and printmaking.

SHAUNE LAKIN
Shaune Lakin is Senior Curator, Photography at the National Gallery of Australia. Previous roles include Gallery Director, Monash Gallery of Art (now Museum of Australian Photography) and Senior Curator of Photography at the Australian War Memorial. Shaune’s curatorial projects are usually collaborative, often with colleague Anne O’Hehir, and tend to focus on the histories of feminist photography in Australia. Recent projects include work on the artists Olive Cotton, Peter Maloney and Carol Jerrems.