This conversation is dedicated to remembering 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 for contemporary photography and visual culture in Europe.
Bringing together voices connected to Milo through teaching, publishing, and artistic exchange, the panel reflects on the ways his thinking, rigor, and generosity shaped not only individual practices, but also broader photographic communities. Rather than tracing a formal biography, the conversation unfolds through memories, encounters, and shared experiences that speak to Milo’s approach to images, pedagogy, and the responsibility of transmitting knowledge.
The discussion also opens a wider reflection on the role of schools like ECAL in nurturing critical thinking, experimentation, and ethical engagement with images, and on how teachers like Milo leave lasting legacies through the people they inspire.
Conceived as a collective act of remembrance, the panel honors Milo Keller through the relationships, values, and ways of seeing he helped cultivate, affirming the importance of mentorship, lineage, and care within the photographic ecosystem.
Born in Jakarta in 1995 to Italian and Chinese Indonesian parents. Alessia Gunawan is a multimedia artist primarily working with photography and film. In her projects, Gunawan focuses on unveiling the hyper saturated images that conceal the various aspects of a globalized and seemingly connected contemporary culture.
Bruno Ceschel teaches at the École Cantonale d’Art de Lausanne (ECAL). He founded Self Publish, Be Happy (SPBH) in 2010, an organization that has curated events in institutions such as Tate Modern (Gran Bretagna), Kunsthal Charlottenborg (Danimarca), MoMA PS1 (USA) and the National Gallery of Victoria (Australia), and has published books of artists like Carmen Winant, Lorenzo Vitturi, Claudia Rankine e Nicholas Muellner. In 2023 the first SPBH Space opened in Milan. Through its programme of installations, workshops, talks and events, SPBH Space aims to foster experimentation, collaboration, and contamination across art, fashion, and design, and between local and international communities.
Carla Rossi (born 1999, Pescara, Italy) is a Paris-based photographer exploring how identity is constructed and performed in contemporary image culture. Using photography as a stage, she observes how gestures, poses, and appearances are created, repeated, and choreographed, often collaborating with performers or aspiring young people. Drawing from fashion and the image industry, Rossi reflects on belonging, self-value, intimacy, beauty, and self-awareness within shared visual languages of youth and identity.
Clément Lambelet is an artist, teacher and researcher based in Lausanne, Switzerland. He coordinates the Master Photography at ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne. He is co-editor of the research project Soft Photography, which explores how human emotions shape both the development and the experience of images produced through generative AI and CGI.
His work has been exhibited internationally at institutions including 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 True Emotion.
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Alessia Glaviano is Head of Global PhotoVogue and Director of the PhotoVogue Festival. She joined Vogue Italia in 2001 and played a key role in shaping its visual identity, later becoming Visual Director. Since the global relaunch of PhotoVogue in 2022, she has led the platform worldwide, collaborating with all Vogue editions and expanding its mission to champion ethical, inclusive, and forward-looking image-making across 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 tied to 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, contributing actively to global conversations on visual culture, representation, and authorship.
