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Director, The Photographers' Gallery, UK
Brett Rogers has been the director of The Photographers' Gallery in London since 2005.
Prior to this she worked at the Visual Arts Department of the British Council where she held the joint roles of Deputy Director and Head of Exhibitions. Brett has nearly thirty years of experience promoting photography and visual arts both in the UK and in her native Australia.
During her career at the British Council, she successfully increased the profile and activity of British photography abroad with shows by such figures as Julia Margaret Cameron, Madame Yevonde and Martin Parr and Documentary Dilemmas: British Documentary Photography in the Nineties.
More recently, she was responsible for initiating a series of group shows which broke new ground such as Look at me: Fashion and Photography in Britain 1960-1997, Reality Check, British Photography and New Media 2002-2004, (in collaboration with The Photographers' Gallery), Common Ground, Aspects of contemporary Muslim experience 2002-2005.