(image: BPF16 Trainee curators talk with Kay Watson © Claire Wearn 2016)

We are very pleased to welcome our three BPF16 Trainee Curators who will be joining us to realise this year's festival while working on their own exhibition at one of the BPF Hubs. 

Read more about them below..

Sarah French

Sarah French is studying part-time for an MA in Art History at the University of Sussex, where her research focuses on current trends in photographic exhibitions. She works at the Lee Miller Archives & The Penrose Collection, based at Farley Farm House where she assists with copyright permissions and delivers tours of the house to the public. It was on the BA Photography course at the Arts University Bournemouth that she became interested in curating and she helps promote and encourage contemporary photographic practice in the south east as committee member for the PhotoHastings collective. 

Jamila Prowse

Jamila Prowse is currently studying for a BA in History of Art at the University of Sussex. Over the summer she has been working as a Junior Research Associate, researching into the impact of community archives on the heritage sector. Her research interests include photography, representation and the contemporary impact of colonialism. Outside of university Jamila is the founding editor of Typical Girls Magazine, a biannual alternative women’s magazine that aims to contribute positive representations of women to the media. Typical Girls launched in October 2015, and provides a space for women to share their experiences in their own words.

Ruby Rees-Sheridan

Ruby Rees-Sheridan moved to Brighton from Swansea four years ago to study at the University of Sussex. She is just finishing her MA in Museum Curating and Photography, prior to that she did a BA in Art History and English Literature. She describes herself as fascinated by photography, and particularly drawn to artists that engage in process-based and participatory photographic practices, such as Erica Scourti and Broomberg and Chanarin. She is also very interested in the ways that digital cameras and networked computers are transforming photography as a mass practice.