JOSÉ NEVES
Curator (Belfast Exposed, Northern Ireland)
José Luís Neves is a Curator of Photography at Belfast Exposed, a position he began in 2024. He earned his PhD from Ulster University in 2017 after completing the Photographic History and Practice postgraduate program at De Montfort University in Leicester. From 2010 to 2012, he worked as an assistant curator at the Wilson Centre for Photography in London. José's primary research areas include the history and historiography of the photobook, artist's book history, photographic printing technologies, and visual narrative. Recently, he has been involved in projects that explore the under-researched history of photobook creation in Portugal and the visual representation of the HIV-AIDS pandemic in photographically illustrated printed matter. At Belfast Exposed, José has curated several exhibitions, including "Jo Spence: A Woman’s Place?", "The Clean Blue of Linen" by Yvette Monahan and "Modern Muse" by Arpita Shah.
Spoken Languages: English, Portuguese.