The Tamesis
This conversation commemorates Milo Keller and his profound influence as an artist, educator and mentor, particularly through his long-standing role at ECAL, one of the most important institutions of contemporary photography and visual culture in Europe.
Bringing together voices associated with Miró through teaching, publishing and artistic exchange, the group reflects on how his thinking, rigor and generosity shaped not only personal practice but the wider photographic community. Rather than tracing a formal biography, the dialogue unfolds through memories, encounters, and shared experiences that speak to Miró’s approach to image, pedagogy, and the responsibility to transmit knowledge.
The discussion also sparked broader reflection on the role of schools like ECAL in fostering critical thinking, experimentation, and ethical engagement with images, and how teachers like Milo leave a lasting legacy through the people they inspire.
As a collective commemoration, the group honors Milo Keller through the relationships, values, and ways of seeing that he helped foster, affirming the importance of mentorship, lineage, and care in the photography ecosystem.
About Alessia Gunawan
Born in Jakarta in 1995 to Italian and Chinese-Indonesian parents. Alessia Gunawan is a multimedia artist working primarily in photography and film. In her project, Gunawan focuses on revealing the hypersaturated images that conceal aspects of globalized and seemingly interconnected contemporary culture.
About Bruno Secher
Bruno Ceschel teaches at the Ecole State des Arts de Lausanne (ECAL). He founded Self Publish, Be Happy (SPBH) in 2010, which has curated events at institutions such as Tate Modern (Grand Brittany), the Charlottenburg Museum (Danemarca), MoMA PS1 (USA) and the National Gallery of Victoria (Australia), and published books by artists such as Carmen Winant, Lorenzo Vitturi, Claudia Rankine and Nicholas Muellner. In 2023, the first SPBH Space opened in Milan. SPBH Space aims to promote experimentation, collaboration and exchange between art, fashion and design and local and international communities through its program of installations, workshops, lectures and events.
About Carla Rossi
Carla Rossi (b. 1999, Pescara, Italy) is a Parisian photographer who explores the ways in which identity is constructed and represented in contemporary image culture. She uses photography as a stage to observe how gestures, postures and appearances are created, repeated and choreographed, often working with performers or aspiring young people. Drawing inspiration from the fashion and image industries, Rossi reflects on belonging, self-worth, intimacy, beauty and self-awareness in a shared visual language of youth and identity.
About Clement Lambright
Clément Lambelet is an artist, teacher and researcher living in Lausanne, Switzerland. He coordinates the Master Course in Photography at ECAL/University of Arts and Design Lausanne. He is a co-editor of the research project soft photographyexplores how human emotions shape the development and experience of images generated through generative artificial intelligence and CGI.
His work has been exhibited internationally at Foam Amsterdam, C/O Berlin, HeK Basel, Les Rencontres de la Photographie d’Arles, Wilde Gallery and Photo Elysée. He has published two monographs with RVB Books: Two donkeys in a war zone and Happiness is the only real emotion.
Moderator
About Alessia Graviano
Alessia Glaviano is Global Head of PhotoVogue and Director of PhotoVogue Festival. she joined Italian Vogue In 2001, he played a key role in shaping its visual identity and later became Visual Director. Since the global relaunch of PhotoVogue in 2022, she has led the platform globally, working with all Vogue editions and expanding its mission to champion ethical, inclusive and forward-thinking image-making in photography, video and emerging media.
Under her leadership, PhotoVogue has become an industry-leading platform supporting emerging and established talent through global open calls, mentorships and curatorial projects. In 2016, she launched the PhotoVogue Festival, the first fashion photography festival associated with a major fashion publication, dedicated to exploring the intersection of ethics and aesthetics in contemporary image culture.
Alessia regularly lectures internationally and serves on juries for major photography awards and festivals, actively contributing to global conversations on visual culture, representation and authorship.
