CURRICULUM VITAE: JOHN D. PERIVOLARIS

Dr John D. Perivolaris, PhD, MCIL
1 Seymour Road
West Bridgford
Nottingham NG2 5EE
Tel.: 0115 846 1138
Mobile: 07905057101
email: john.perivolaris@ntlworld.com
Web: www.google.com/profiles/JohnPerivolaris



Profile
John Perivolaris is an independent documentary and fine art photographer , writer and researcher, educator, and organiser of photographic events with a background in Hispanic cultural and visual studies. Since 2003 John Perivolaris has worked with migrant communities in Spain, resulting in a growing body of work exploring the migrant experience (www.JohnPerivolarisImages.com). Between 2006 and 2008 he was the chairman of LOOK07, a major photographic project described below. Between 2007 and 2008 Perivolaris lead the Image Makers’ Sub-Group of the Making the Connections Network to promote work in the visual arts by migrants, refugees and asylum seekers in the East Midlands (www.makingtheconnections.info). John Perivolaris is currently photographing and writing a project on migrant identities (www.leftluggage.org.uk). He received a major commission to undertake a project in 2010 entitled North to North: A Journey in Postcards from Manchester to the Maghreb (thecardographer.wordpress.com/), which is described below. John Perivolaris is a part-time Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Photography at Nottingham Trent University School of Art and Design, a Visiting Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Photography at the University of Central Lancashire. During the Spring of 2010, he was a Highfield Fellow in Photography at the University of Nottingham. During his Fellowship, John Perivolaris produced a series of portraits of Latin American in the United Kingdom to commemorate 200 years of Latin American Independence. The project is described below.

Personal record

Full name: John Dimitri Perivolaris
Nationality British
Education, qualifications, and languages
1988–92: BA 1st Class Honours in Spanish, Westfield College, University of London, with 1st Class Honours in Oral and Aural Spanish, and Merit in Subsidiary Italian.
1992–95: PhD, University of Cambridge. Thesis titled: ‘Colonial Negotiations, Popular Appropriations: The Work of Luis Rafael Sánchez’ (supervisor Professor Paul Julian Smith)

Fluent speaker of Greek and Spanish. Advanced level in Italian, Currently studying French.

Membership of Professional Organisations and Completion of Professional Courses
2006: Successful completion of 10-week NUJ-accredited course in Picture Research. Taught by Celina Dunlop, Picture Editor of The Economist. London School of Publishing.
2006-: Membership of the Chartered Institute of Linguists.

Employment and Posts Held

1978–88: Freelance photographer specialising in reportage, documentary, publicity, and fine art.
1990–91: English language assistant, Escuela Oficial de Idiomas, Logroňo (La Rioja)
1995 –97: Research Fellow, University of Wales (Cardiff).
1997–98: Lecturer (equivalent to Assistant Professor in the U.S.) in Modern Languages, NottinghamTrent University.
1998–2006: Lecturer (equivalent to Assistant Professor in the U.S.) in Hispanic cultures, photography, and cinema at the University of Manchester.
2006-: Freelance photographer, specialising in documentary, editorial and art photography.
2006-: Picture researcher specialising in the Hispanic world, European and World Cinema.
2006-08 : Board Chairman of LOOK 07 and Co-Organiser of The Democratic Image Symposium. LOOK 07 comprised a series of exhibitions at 17 galleries and museums in Manchester, a series of 8 workshops with under-represented groups in the city, and lead by 12 photographic artists, More than 20 commissions for photographers and artists, a series of gallery talks and special events, as well online projects involving collaboration with openDemocracy.net and The Photographers’ Gallery The culminating event of LOOK 07 was The Democratic Image international Symposium (21-22 April, 2007), focusing on the increasing access to image-making and distribution technologies afforded by digitisation
2008-09: Photography Fellow, Nottingham Trent University School of Art and Design.
2009- Advisory Board Member of Redeye – The Photography Network (www.redeye.org.uk).
2009-: Part-Time Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Photography, Nottingham Trent University School of Art and Design.
2010: Visiting Lecturer in Photography, University of Central Lancashire.
2010: Highfield Fellow, University of Nottingham (April-May).

Consultancy

2009-10: Expert Content Advisor (Photography), Laureate Education, Inc., Baltimore, USA.


Selected Exhibitions & Presentations

2002: Eight images of city life in Buenos Aires, Havana, Mexico City, Santiago de Cuba, and Santiago de Chile, as part of an international group exhibition, New Photography of Latin America and Spain, at the Cervantes Institute, Manchester, which I also curated. The exhibition was sponsored by the University of Manchester, Cervantes Institute, Embassy of Mexico in the UK, and Mexican Foreign Ministry.
2003: `Oxford Road Corridor, 1999-2003’. Held as a two-venue event at the Contact Theatre and Kro-2, Manchester between 1st June and 15th September 2003. The exhibition consisted of a series of fifty monochrome and colour photographs documenting multiple visual encounters along the Oxford Road corridor, a major thoroughfare in Manchester.
2004 Digital presentation of ninety-five images selected from my work on Latin American city life, Oxford Road series, and Spanish migration project (see below), Richard Goodall Gallery, Manchester, on February 18.
2005 Contribution of three images of young migrants, as part of an Andalusian touring group exhibition, `Mi(g)rados: Niňos y jóvenes del mundo, entre el miedo y la esperanza’ [Migrants: Childhood and Youth of the World, between Fear and Hope], organised by the University of Almería and sponsored by the Junta of Andalusia and Unicef.
2008 `Idas y Venidas: imágenes de los almerienses que tuvieron que irse y de los que acaban de llegar' [Comings and Goings: Images of the Almerians Who Were Obliged to Leave and Those Who Have Just Arrived], Carpa de las Almadrabillas, Almería, Spain, 21-27 April. Two-person exhibition with Maribel Martínez.
2008 `Carried Away: Life in a Suitcase II', curated by Lucieta Williams, The Crypt, St Pancras Church, London, 18-28 June. Group exhibition. First ten images from Left Luggage series (leftluggage.wordpress.com/)
2008 `Responses to Conflict and Loss', curated by Garry Hunter, The Space 4 Gallery, Peterborough Museum, 28 June to 30 August. Group exhibition. Four images on a Spanish theme (tinyurl.com/4jqdce).
2009 `A Sense of Belonging’, curated by John Perivolaris. Group exhibition, Bonington Gallery, Nottingham Trent University, Nottinghamm 10 January to 30 January. One slideshow (9 mins 5 secs).
2009 `Responses to Conflict and Loss', curated by Garry Hunter, University of Hertfordshire Galleries, Hatfield, 6 March to 18 April. Group exhibition. Five images on a Spanish theme (tinyurl.com/39rt3c).
2009 `Désintégration Exquise', Chateau d'Alba, Montélimar, France, 11 April to 23 May. Group exhibition. Three images on the theme of decay and the layering of history.
2009 `Suitcase Show #1Group Exhibition’, Total Kunst Gallery, Edinburgh, 24-29 August. Photo-text installation based on Homer’s Odyssey.
2009 `Glocal Imaginaries’, Whitworth Gallery, Manchester, 12 September. Group Exhibition. One slideshow (9 mins 5 secs).
2010 Presentation of Migrados, Left Luggage, and North to North projects at `Exchange’ forum, New Art Exchange, Nottingham (20 April).


Commissions

2010-11 North to North: A Journey in Postcards from Manchester to the Maghreb (www.cornerhouse.org/northtonorth). Part of the AHRC-funded exhibition, New Cartographies: Franco-Algerian Relations in Contemporary Visual Culture, to be held at the Cornerhouse in Manchester, UK, during 1 April – 15 May 2011.

This exhibition is one of the major outputs of a three-year AHRC research project, France – Algeria: Visualising a (Post-) Colonial Relationship, which began in September 2008, and is being undertaken by Dr Joseph McGonagle (Department of French, The University of Manchester) and Dr Edward Welch (Department of French, University of Durham). The six-week exhibition will examine how Franco-Algerian relations have been represented in a range of contemporary visual media, and confirmed artists include Kader Attia, Bruno Boudjelal, Yves Jeanmougin and Zineb Sedira. The commission project North to North will lead to the creation of an original installation by Perivolaris, which will be premiered at the Cornerhouse exhibition.

2010 Highfield Fellowship commission to photograph 26 Latin American women resident in the UK for Autumn 2010 exhibitions in Canning House, London, the Embassy of Mexico, the Embassy of Peru, and the British Library, as part of the commemorations for the 200th anniversary of Latin American Independence (retratosdeindependencia.weebly.com).


Publications

2000. Puerto Rican Cultural Identity and the Work of Luis Rafael Sánchez (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina)
2000. The Cultures of the Hispanic Caribbean, ed. with Conrad James (London: MacMillan & Tallahassee: University of Florida).
2000. Preface to a monograph of the work of Spanish photographer, Juan José Torrecillas, titled Intemporis: images, 1994-2000 (Almería: Instituto de Estudios Almerienses).
2003. ‘Humanism Reimagined: Spain as a Photographic Subject in W. Eugene Smith’s “Spanish Village” (1951) and Cristina García Rodero’s Espaňa oculta (1989)’, in Photo-Textualities: Intersections of Photography and Narrative, ed. by Andrea Noble and Alex Hughes (University of New Mexico Press).
2003. Entry on the National Geographic Society. In The Literature of Travel and Exploration, ed. by Jennifer Speake (Chicago & London: Fitzroy Dearborn).
2004. `Mirrors and Windows: Photography after Postmodernism’, The Bigger Picture (Redeye Newsletter), 17 (Autumn): [n. pp]. Also, www.redeye.org.uk/redeye/pdf/RedeyeNewsletter17.pdf
2005. ‘Polifonía popular, tradición populista: Puertorriqueňos (1988) de Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá, in Boom y Postboom desde el nuevo siglo: impacto y recepción (Madrid: Verbum), pp. 192-205.
2006. Accompanying text for a monograph of the work of Spanish photographer, Juan José Torrecillas, titled Recreated Memory (Manchester: Instituto Cervantes).
2007. ‘”Porto Rico”: The View from National Geographic, 1899–1924’, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, 84.2: 197-211.
2007. Notes on: The Democratic Image Symposium (Manchester: Redeye). Downloadable from: www.redeye.org.uk
2008. `How Safe Do You Feel?: Surveillance and Photographers', Zonezero.com (April Editorial), www.zonezero.com.
2009. Five photographs, in Responses to Conflict and Loss, ed. by Garry Hunter, Ewan Buck, Matthew Shaul (Hatfield: University of Hertfordshire). [Exhibition catalogue].
2009. Yellow Pencil Notes (Spring to Summer). Available from: bit.ly/6ueWmR [Self-published volume of haikus and photographs].
2009. Left Luggage: The Journey of a Suitcase [Self-published]. Available from: bit.ly/5ZJJAl
2009. `Negotiating Identity: Word and Image Interactions in John Perivolaris’s “Left Luggage”, Afterimage, 37.1: 5-10. [Author: Kevin Hunt].
2010. One image to accompany Master Linji’s `A True Student of the Way’, trans. by Burton Watson, in Mountain Record: The Zen Practitioner’s Journal, 82.2: 26-34 [32].
2010. One image to accompany Keizan Jokin’s `Mahakashyapa’, trans. by Francis Dojun Cook, in Mountain Record: The Zen Practitioner’s Journal, 82.2: 64-67.
2010. `Photography’s Bodies of Evidence’, The Guardian, online edition: www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/apr/04/war-photography-death