TRUSTEES

Paul Bullivant

Chair

Born in Birmingham, where he studied architecture, Paul lived in southern Spain for 6 years before settling in Bristol where he worked in social housing development. He has been involved as a trustee in a number of charities and community organisations and has organised and promoted a range of arts and music events.

In 2004 he gained an MA in documentary photography from USW and is a practicing photographer with a wide range of subject interests. He has travelled extensively and has self-published a number of books about his journeys.

Paul is passionate about the power of photography, and the arts more generally, to change our view of the world for the better.

He enjoys walking long distance paths, playing music and cooking for friends and family. He is also a trustee of Oxfordshire Art Weeks.

Taous is a London-based French, British and Algerian art historian, writer and curator. Her projects mainly involve the links between photography and politics. She is an Associate Lecturer at London College of Communication. Her words can be found in photobooks published by Loose Joints and Chose Commune but also in magazines such as The British Journal of Photography, FOAM, GQ & 1000 Words Magazine. She has given talks at Tate, the Getty Research Institute, the Barbican, Le Bal and La MEP. She recently curated the 2022 Louis Roederer Discovery Award at Les Rencontres d’Arles. Dahmani has been the editorial director of The Eyes annual publication since 2019. She'll be a curator of JAOU festival in Tunis in October 2024.  

Joanna Vestey is a practising artist/photographer based in Oxford.   She holds an MA in Social Anthropology and Development from SOAS and has recently completed a practice-based PhD at USW.  Her doctoral studies focused on shifts in materiality and technology and photography’s place within this.  Her work has been exhibited internationally and is held in permanent collections.  She is passionate about social change and is always interested in how photography and the arts can be used to both affect and effect this.

Benet is an entrepreneur and businessman with expertise focused on developing strategy and effective operational execution that challenges conventional boundaries. This expertise was developed both in large businesses and in start-up organisations primarily in the UK, Western Europe and the USA. He has had a lifelong interest in photography.

Kate is a Senior Lecturer in Finance and Revenue Management in the Business School at Oxford Brookes University. She was an auditor at PwC before her academic career in Macau University of Science and Technology followed by Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She appreciates nature, music, art and likes to discover beautiful things. 

I am hugely excited to have joined Photo Oxford as a trustee and Company Secretary. I have been a visitor to all of the Photo Oxford festivals and it is both a privilege and a joy to join a board of talented individuals with its history of success.

My professional background is in financial risk as an actuary. I am a hobbyist photographer, collector of books and prints, and bring previous charity trustee experience. With a lifelong interest in photography, I believe the medium has much to offer everyone – from recording and learning from the outward gaze to insights and expression of the inner self.

Seàn Wyatt is a photographer based in Oxford and a Lecturer at Kingston School of Art, where he is Course Leader of MA Photography. His practice is primarily concerned with ecology, land politics and psychological responses to landscape/s and uses psychogeography and walking techniques as his primary research methodology.

Eddie has a background in marketing and PR. He is excited to become a trustee and wants to help the festival find a large and diverse audience.

He is currently head of communications for Future of London, which provides leadership development opportunities for people in the built environment sector.

Before that, he was head of communications at Oxfordshire County Council. Ages ago, he was a newspaper journalist, including The Scotsman, Sunday Herald and Guardian.

He has a life-long interest in photography (including a poor A-level!) and recently started taking photographs with an actual camera again. You can see early efforts on Instagram (@edgibbpix).

Sam is a writer, editor and art historian. She grew up in South Wales and is based in Buckinghamshire. 

Sam is a curator in the Research and Interpretation department at Tate and has worked on dozens of exhibitions at Tate Britain and Tate Modern. Highlights include Women in Revolt! Art and Activism in the UK 1970-1990, Soul of A Nation: Art in an Age of Black Power, Don McCullin, Conflict, Time, Photography and A World in Common: Contemporary African Photography. 

With more than ten years' experience producing inclusive, accessible, audience-focused exhibition narratives, Sam specialises in writing about politics, social justice and dispossessed histories. 

She has a BA in History of Art from the Courtauld Institute of Art and an MA from the University of Liverpool’s Philosophy Department, where her research centred on social documentary and conflict photography. 

Sam also worked as an associate lecturer at Courtauld Institute of Art from 2018 to 2024 and is chair of Tate's Prospect Union.

Tegan is an early career museum professional based in Oxford with a background in photography and fashion history. She is currently Exhibitions & Projects Coordinator at the Ashmolean Museum, working across all their temporary shows and major exhibitions. Before that, she was Curatorial Assistant at the Watts Gallery - Artists’ Village where she co-curated Victorian Virtual Reality: Photographs from the Brian May Archive of Stereoscopy (2023). 

She holds a BA in Fashion History & Theory from Central Saint Martins, her thesis explored female agency through the lens of fashion in post-independent Bamako, Mali. She is passionate about sustainability, social justice and making the arts accessible. 

Haley (they/she) is a PhD candidate at the University for the Creative Arts, completing a practice-based thesis on photography and queer sexual health. Their studies are made possible by a Vice Chancellor’s Studentship via Fast Forward Women in Photography.

Outside of their research, Haley has extensive experience with project coordination and volunteer management, including in her work with Oxford-based period poverty initiative, WINGS. She is deeply passionate about improving inclusion and accessibility, especially within art spaces, and is excited to bring these commitments to her work with Photo Oxford.