Catlin Langford

is a curator and writer specialising in photography.

Engagement

Public Programs

Fragile Colours: Perceiving and Experiencing Autochromess

Organiser, conference, Victoria and Albert Museum, 1 December 2025.

Fixers, Makers, and Collectors: Photobooth Talks

Organiser, online talk program, School of Art – Photography Discipline, RMIT University x CCP, 24 July – 14 August 2025. Featured presentations by Clément Chéroux, Jen Grasso, Brian Meacham, Patrick Pound and Ruth O’Leary.

To be determined: Only the future revisits the past

Co-chair with Thom Bridge, panel discussion, Centre for Contemporary Photography x Manchester Metropolitan University, 6 May 2024. Featured presentations by Nikki Lam, Tom Lovelace and Duncan Wooldridge.

Exhibiting the ‘Unexhibitable’

Organiser and presenter, workshop at Cité internationale des arts, Paris, 25 June 2023.

Representations of care in photography

Organiser, online talk hosted by the Victoria and Albert Museum, 5 April 2023. Featured artists Ying Ang, Odette England and Lisa Sorgini, chaired by Dr. Susan Bright, presented in partnership with the V&A’s Parasol Foundation Women in Photography project,

V&A x BredaPhoto: Colour Mania

Project and interview for Breda Photo, 21- 23 October 2022

Colour Fever

Organiser, two week online conference, Victoria and Albert Museum, 28 October – 5 November 2021. Featured presentations by artists James Barnor, Anton Kusters and Susan Meiselas, as well as scientists, academics and curators.

In Focus: Photography

Presenter, tour on women’s photographers, Victoria and Albert Museum, 12 March 2020.

Utopia Treasury

Organiser, Drop-in event with spoken word performance by the poet Rachel Long and art workshops, Somerset House, 2 July 2016.

Teaching and Mentoring

MIRROR: Community Reflections

Mentor, Community-focused art event, produced in a collaboration between CCP and RMIT University’s ‘Forms for Encounter and Exchange (FFEE), 26 October 2023.

Perceptions of Truth in Photography

Developed course for Guildhall School/Barbican, online, April-June 2021.