The New Alchemists photography exhibition: interview with curator Sue Steward

Sue Steward, curator of "THE NEW ALCHEMISTS: contemporary photographers transcending the print" Photo50 exhibition at the 2012 London Art Fair at the Business Design Centre in Islington, gives a guide to the exhibition and outlines some of the ideas behind it, such as the role of craft in contemporary photography; moving beyond the print; the role of surface in photography; the photograph as object and whether the recent revival of interest in analogue processes is a reaction to digital.

Other people featured in the video include:); Esther Teichmann (artist); Veronica Bailey (artist); Melinda Gibson (artist); Simon Baker (Curator of Photography at the Tate); Julie Cockburn (artist); Jorma Puranen (artist); Walter Hugo (artist); Aliki Braine (artist); Joy Gregory (artist) and David Birkin (artist).

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