Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa: Henry Wolf Chair in Photography Artist Talk

Tuesday, November 10, 2026, 7 - 8:30pm

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Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa, kempt (2023) Inkjet print, 5 x 4 in

Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa, kempt (2023) Inkjet print, 5 x 4 in

Fall 2026 Henry Wolf Chair in Photography Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa is joined by Associate Curator Phil Taylor of the George Eastman Museum, to discuss the role of order in the context of his practice as both an artist and a critic.

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Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa (British/Ugandan) is an artist and writer whose recent publications include “Parallel Acts – Part 1: Lucy Raven,” in e-flux Journal #166 (October 2026), “ECHO—LOCATION” in e-flux Journal #153 (April 2025), INDEX2025 (Roma Publications, 2025), the selected essays in Dark Mirrors (MACK, 2021); and the photographic monograph Hiding in Plain Sight, co-authored with Ben Alper (Harun Farocki Institute, 2020). His solo exhibition, Scene at Eastman (George Eastman Museum, 2024-5) closed in Spring 2025, and is the subject of an eponymous short film (directed by Adam Golfer, 2025). “Parallel Acts – Part 2: Zoe Leonard,” is forthcoming in e-flux Journal #167 (November 2026.)

Phil Taylor is Associate Curator in the Department of Photography at the George Eastman Museum in Rochester, New York. He joined the museum in 2022 in a newly created New York City-based curatorial position. At the Eastman Museum, his projects include GAG (2026); the major collection exhibition Life with Photographs: 75 Years of the Eastman Museum (2024), co-organized with colleagues in the Department of Photography; and presentations of new work by Liz Deschenes (2025), Gregory Halpern (2023), and Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa (2024). Previously, at the Museum of Modern Art, he organized or co-organized the collection exhibitions Machines, Mannequins, and Monsters (2019) and A Modern Media World (2020), and assisted on the survey Wolfgang Tillmans: To look without fear (2021). Taylor’s books include GAG: The Art of Comic Trouble (2026) and Wolfgang Tillmans: A Reader (2021, co-edited with Roxana Marcoci). He has published recent essays on the work of Lucas Blalock, Samuel Fosso, Dora Maar, and Wolfgang Tillmans.

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