FORMAT23 New Festival Director Meet the Team

Parmjit Sagoo, FORMAT23 Producer
Parmjit is an experienced creative producer who has worked extensively within a range of arts, community and education settings. She is currently Executive Producer at Inspirate and has held the role of Community Projects Producer at New Art Exchange for almost four years. For the past two years, Parmjit has led on the curation and artistic development of Nottingham Mela Festival.

Parmjit is also a Creative Practitioner, weaving together her creative movement, yoga, walking and theatre practices to develop unique and interdisciplinary projects across a range of health and arts contexts.  As a Producer and Creative Practitioner, Parmjit creates supportive spaces where artists and communities can enquire, imagine, question and collaborate. She is strongly committed to artist development, constantly creating opportunities and pathways for artists at all stages of their career to reflect upon their work, feel creatively nourished and deepen their practice. Parmjit is also passionate about making site specific work, taking creativity and arts into places where it becomes part of people’s everyday lives.

Francesca Seravalle, FORMAT23 Photobook Market Curator

Award winning curator, and author she worked for Magnum Photos and for Fabrica, leading the curatorial team. Lecturer at the Marangoni Institute and at London South Bank University; examiner at Ecal and UCL; mentor at the Bristol Photo Festival; she collaborated with Erik Kessels and the Archive of Modern Conflict. She curated solo shows in the main museums of London, Glasgow, Amsterdam, Luxemburg, New York,Tokyo, Suzhou, Venice and Rome, discovering and supporting artists from the concept, such as Lorenzo Vitturi, James Pfaff, Alba Zari and Matteo de Mayda. Her essays and curatorial works are published by RVB, AMC, SPBH, Trolleybooks, Montanari and Witty Books. With Until Proven Otherwise, On the Evidence of the First Photos, she won the Format 2015. Transforming archival materials into video-art, she realized Secret Communication (for The London Photo Fair), Women from Ca’ Pesaro (for The Museum of Modern Art of Venice) and Feeling Venice (presented at Venice International Film Festival 2022).