10 October 2024 – Lou Stoppard to take part in the Frieze Masters Talks 2024 alongside photographer Ming Smith and artist Barbara Walker. Conceived by Shanay Jhaveri and Sheena Wagstaff, this year’s conversations are themed ‘The Creative Mind’. Walker, Smith and Lou Stoppard’s panel is titled ‘The Faces of Community: Inviting new ways to understand portraiture.’ Details here.
10 September 2024 – Lou Stoppard served on the judging panel for the National Portrait Gallery’s 2024 Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize. Four photographers were shortlisted for the Prize, selected from 4,847 entries, submitted by 1,713 photographers. They are: Jesse Navarre Vos, Steph Wilson, Tjitske Sluis and Adam Ferguson. Fellow judges for this year’s prize were multimedia artist Pogus Caesar, curator Alona Pardo and the National Portrait Gallery’s Curator of Photography Clare Freestone. The final winner will be announced in November. More details here.
11 July 2024 – Lou Stoppard speaking at Barbican, alongside a screening of experimental film, to mark the publication of the new book Night Fever: Film and Photography After Dark (Walther Koenig, 2024). Book here.
15 May 2024 – “Tearing Away at the Time Escaping: Lou Stoppard on Pairing Photographs with Annie Ernaux’s Exteriors”. Rebecca Bengal for Lit Hub. Read here.
28 March 2024 – Aperture covers Exteriors: Annie Ernaux and Photography, curated by Lou Stoppard. Interview by Christina Cacouris. Read here.
24 March 2024 – Lou Stoppard is interviewed by Johny Pitt for Radio 4’s Open Book programme. They discuss her new exhibition and book Exteriors: Annie Ernaux and Photography. Writer and Ernaux doyenne Lauren Elkin also appears. Listen here.
30 April 2024 – Event: Lou Stoppard, curator of Exteriors – Annie Ernaux & Photography, speaks with Lauren Collins about writing and seeing at The American Library in Paris. Book here.
11 April 2024 – Event: Book Launch: Exteriors – Annie Ernaux & Photography at Reference Point, London. Lou Stoppard, Lauren Elkin and Alice Blackhurst in conversation. Book here.
26 February 2024 – Lou Stoppard appears on the podcast The Messy Truth: Conversations on Photography with Gem Fletcher. Listen here.
23 February 2024 – Loustoppard.com is a new website! More content and past work by Lou Stoppard will be added over the coming weeks.
19 February 2024 – The exhibition, Exteriors: Annie Ernaux and Photography, curated by Lou Stoppard, is featured in Wallpaper magazine.
19 August 2020 – Lou Stoppard features on The Great Women Artist Podcast with Katy Hessel discussing her new book, Shirley Baker