Lars Willumeit became the curator of Krakow Photomonth Festival!

Lars Willumeit (born 1974) is a German social anthropologist based in Zurich, Switzerland. As an independent curator, author, and photo editor, he has been working with the medium of photography in different modes since 1993. His interests lie in photography, documentarisms, regimes of representation, and visual cultures.

In addition to having been trained as a photographer, Willumeit has, since the early 2000s, served in the capacity of photoeditor for numerous magazines, most notably for GEO magazine, in Hamburg and New York, and as photo director, from 2008–2013, for the Zurich-based Du: Die Zeitschrift der Kultur.

Between 2013 and 2015, he curated exhibitions and festival presentations for East Wing (an exhibition space and platform for photography based in Dubai) and the FORMAT International Photography Festival in Derby; and was a contributing author to the photobook Deposit by Yann Mingard, as well as to a dictionary entitled Factory Tools, which was published within Fabrik, the catalogue of the German Pavilion (curated by Florian Ebner) at the 2015 Venice Biennale.

He received his Master of Arts degree in Curating and Museum Education, at the Zurich University of the Arts. His thesis examined the future of photographic institutions in relation to changes taking place within photographic practice and theory.

Exhibitions: Beyond Evidence: An Incomplete Narratology of Photographic Truths (co-curated with Louise Clements; FORMAT International Photography Festival, Derby, 2015); For Future Reference (Paris Photo and Unseen Photo Fair Amsterdam, 2014); Tanya Habjouqa, Occupied Pleasures (East Wing, Dubai, 2014).

Publications (as contributing author): Fabrik, catalogue of the German Pavilion at the 2015 Venice Biennale (Verlag Walther König, 2015); FORMAT15 Evidence (Format International Photography Festival, Derby, 2015); Deposit by Yann Mingard (Steidl, 2014).