Our Trustees
Autograph’s Board of Trustees is central to our success and integrity.
Each trustee brings a unique perspective on our activity, and they include established artists, business leaders, lawyers and journalists.
Together they have a comprehensive understanding of the legal and technical framework within which we operate and they also ensure that the right attitude and organisational culture is in place to enable the charity to put its core values into practice.
Our trustees help us reach our maximum potential; they provide us with strategic leadership, and test our mission and strategy on a regular basis to help secure a strong future for our beneficiaries and for the charity.

'Identity is an ever-unfinished conversation'
Professor Stuart Hall
Trustees
Pawlet Brookes, Chair
CEO & Artistic Director, Serendipity: A highly experienced cultural leader, lecturer and author with multi disciplinary experience in cultural policy and planning as well as production and delivery of international dance, carnival and festival arts programmes. Expertise in business and cultural planning, fundraising, partnership development, commissioning/production of local and international artistic programmes fostering widespread community engagement.
Candace Allen
Candace is a writer, director and screenwriter. She studied at Harvard and the New York University School of Film & Television, and went on to become the first African-American female member of the Directors Guild of America. Consequent to her campaign-long commitment to the election of Barack Obama she became a newspaper and broadcast commentator on American politics, race and culture.
Eric Collins
Eric is a technology executive who has spent a career building the value of software companies through innovative product, distribution, monetization and partnering strategies. Eric sits on the boards of various cultural institutions and companies.
John Ellis
Chartered accountant. Expertise in cultural production, financial planning and management in the not-for-profit sector.
Rupert Grey
Leading solicitor in photographic law with the Intellectual Property practice Swan Turton Solicitors. Expertise in media and copyright law.
Roger Malbert OBE
Roger Malbert is a writer and curator. He was until July 2018 Head of Hayward Gallery Touring at the Southbank Centre, London. He has organised and co-curated many exhibitions and written catalogue essays on artists including Tacita Dean, Michael Armitage and Omar Ba. He is the author of Drawing People: The Human Figure in Contemporary Art, published by Thames & Hudson, 2015.
Guy Nicholson
Non Executive Director in the Financial Services sector, in the Arts and a Councillor in Hackney leading on Planning, Economy and Arts & Culture. Expertise in developing and implementing public policy, government relations and corporate development.
Jennie Ricketts
Jennie is a photography editor, curator, consultant and mentor. For 17 years she was a picture editor, commissioning and editing photography which attracted international recognition. She launched the Jennie Ricketts Gallery in Brighton in 2006 while writing and lecturing and now operates the gallery as an online space representing international photographers. She is currently a member of the Advisory Board for PhotoIreland, Dublin.
Dr Mark Sealy OBE
Director, Autograph: expertise in photography and its relationship to social change, cultural politics and human rights, commissioning, publishing and international galleries and museums.
Tony Stevenson
Managing Director, Whitechapel Gallery: expertise in strategic planning, finance and development in the visual arts, theatre and music sectors.
Professor Carol Tulloch
Writer and curator with a specialism in dress and black identities. Expertise in artist curation, collection interpretation and development, and publishing.
Anne Williams
Academic and former Creative Director for PhotoLab, London College of Communication. Expertise in academic partnerships, publishing, curation, public education, participation and learning.
Gary Younge
Journalist, author and broadcaster; Editor at Large, The Guardian. Expertise in investigative journalism, rights based issues, publishing, media and broadcasting.
Patrons
Professor Catherine Hall
Author and Historian
Henry Louis Gates, Jr
Scholar, Historian, Journalist and Filmmaker
Rt Hon David Lammy MP
Politician, Lawyer and Author
Baroness Young of Hornsey OBE
Artist, Author, Cultural Critic, Public Speaker and Broadcaster