About me
| Short Bio | Therese Debono is a documentary photographer covering places, the streets and portraiture: endangered places, local interiors, and documentary portraiture are amongst the subjects she explores and interprets. Her personal projects include Maltese Interiors, Brides on Beds, Class of ‘93 and Portraits of Youth. The latter is a new project which she has started working on recently through her experience with students as a photography lecturer. Her main work with places revolves around the loss of heritage in her country as well as the over development that is currently on-going that is destroying the spirit of the places that once were so powerful and unique in the island of Malta. Therese grew up in Malta. She graduated from the University of Malta with an MFA in Digital Arts and an MA in Cultural Heritage. She currently lectures photography and cultural heritage units at MCAST Institute for Creative Arts, as well as photography units at University of Malta within the departments of Communications and Media and Knowledge Science.
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| Looking for | Practice based research |
| Skills | Academic Research Photography Project Oriented Team Player Writing |
Education
| Education History | Master of Fine Arts in Digital Arts – University of Malta (2015) Master of Arts in Cultural Heritage Management – University of Malta (2018) PgCert – Mcast Malta (2020) PgDip – Mcast Malta (ongoing) |
Experience
| Exhibitions | 2019 Women in Photography – Collective Exhibition at Avantech Malta 2020 Art+Feminism Collective Exhibition – Brides on Beds (Ethnographic Project – ongoing) – Spazju Kreattiv 2020 Participation in the outdoor exhibition ‘TNAX’ organised by VCA (the month of November 2020) 2021 Curator for outdoor exhibition ‘TNAX’ organised by VCA (yearlong project) 2021 ‘Jazz Expressions’ organised by Festivals Malta and exhibited at Phoenicia Hotel, Valletta, Malta 2021 ‘Uncovering Transition’ Collective Exhibition. Images will be part of the permanent national collection of artworks at Muża – National Museum of Fine Arts 2021 ‘Spaces in Suspension’ in collaboration with Photographer Joe Smith – 6-weeklong exhibition at Spazju Kreattiv. 2023 Collective Exhibition for the Hellerau Portrait Awards, Dresden. 2023 ‘MARA’ – Collective exhibition at Bureau Iniala, Malta opened on 14th April 2023. 2023 Collective Exhibition – Fotonostrum, Barcelona |
| Achievements | 2021 Collaboration with Anna Horvath for Project ‘Sorgi’ 2021 Curator for outdoor exhibition ‘TNAX’ organised by VCA (yearlong project) 2021 Quarantine images and blog selected to be part of the permanent collection in the National Archives of Malta 2021 Calendar for ‘Women for Women Foundation’, Malta 2021 Awarded an honourable mention for the 18th Julia Margaret Cameron Award for Women Photographers. Work will be exhibited in a collective exhibition in Barcelona in October 2022 at Fotonostrum. 2022 Winner of the People Category for Professional Photographers in the 19th Julia Margaret Cameron Award for Women Photographers. The exhibition opened on 20th April 2023. 2022 Winner for Master Architecture Awards – Interior Architecture Photography Awards with Images from the ‘Spaces in Suspension’ exhibition. 2023 Shortlisted for the Hellerau Portrait Awards, Dresden. 2023 Honourable mention for the ‘Cities to be’ award.
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| Work | Freelance Photographer 2013 to date Lecturer University of Malta – 2015 to date Lecturer Mcast – 2015 to 2022 Senior Lecturer Mcast – 2022 till to date |
| Residencies | Matera with Canon Europe – 2019 |