2023.
Guest Lecture. BoomSatsuma (online)
Guest Lecture. London College of Communication
Pop-up exhibition. The Kenneth Kirkwood Day - Migration (Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford)
2022.
Guest Lecture & Workshop. UCA Rochester
Portfolio Review. Plat(t)form (Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland)
Publication. Sluice Magazine Spring/Summer ‘Territory: contested, augmented and virtual’ (in print)
Guest Lecture. Falmouth Flexible (online)
Artist Talk. Faces of the State: Photography, Surveillance, and Networks of Control, with Max Houghton (for Peckham 24: Bussey Building, London)
Exhibition. Peckham 24: FACT FICTION FANTASY (Copeland Gallery, London)
Artist Residency. Residency 11:11 (online)
2021.
Educational Activity. Dystopian Portraits, The Photographer’s Gallery (online)
Exhibition. Police State (#TNT21 online)
Award. New Talent 2021, The Photographers’ Gallery
Artist Talk. ‘Conversations with Artists’ series, Revolv Collective (online)
Publication. screen_time issue 01 (in print)
Publication. British Journal of Photography ‘Humanity & Technology’ (in print & online)
Artist Talk. In Conversation with Max Houghton, Photo Fringe (online)
Guest Lecture. London College of Communication (online)
Artist Talk. On Collaboration, Redeye Photography Network (online)
2020.
Exhibition. Collectives Hubs, Photo Fringe (Phoenix Art Space, Brighton)
Exhibition. Where There Were Once Walls (online)
Artist Residency. Digital Artist Residency (online)
Exhibition. RAKE Collective Launch (AMP Gallery, London)
RAKE is a visual research collective founded in December 2019 by multimedia artists Nancy Hurman (she/her, UK), Flora Thomas (she/her, UK), Vera Zurbrügg (she/her, Switzerland) and Nuno Guerreiro de Sousa (he/him, Portugal). The four met while pursuing an MA in Photojournalism & Documentary Photography.
Strongly informed by its members’ varied backgrounds - spanning science, technology, activism and education - RAKE pushes the boundaries of traditional photography and reportage, working to develop the interface between art, politics and the internet. Members use open-source data and evolving investigation techniques to inform collaborative visual enquiries that examine human rights violations, government censorship, surveillance and bureaucratic violence.
RAKE’s first collaborative work We May Meet One Day is a visual investigation into the growing presence of extreme far-right ideologies within modern society and their intersection with the online. The project was selected for Photo Fringe’s Collective Hub Exhibition 2020 and will be exhibited internationally with What Next.
Their current project Police State, first featured in the British Journal of Photography’s Humanity & Technology issue, is an ongoing exploration of the systems of control and violence put in place by the UK government in the name of order and security. RAKE was one of the recipients of The Photographers’ Gallery 2021 New Talent Award for its work on Police State, and the project was selected to exhibit at Peckham 24 in 2022 through the festival’s open call.
The collective also facilitates RAKE Community, a dynamic platform for writers, artists and researchers to conduct collaborative investigations.
RAKE has been featured on platforms including The Guardian, Der Greif, Creative Review, Aesthetica Magazine and C4 Journal.
For all enquiries please email Hans at info@rakecollective.com.
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