Lala Meredith Vula

Portraits
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Biography
1966	Born in Sarajevo.
1970	Moved to England.

Studies / Education
1984/85	Art Foundation Trent University, Nottingham, UK.
1985/88	Fine Art Degree Goldsmiths' College, University of London, UK.
1985/88	Postgraduate Studies - Yugoslav Government Scholarship Pristina University, Kosova, Yugoslavia.

Awards / Prizes
2006	Bryan Robertson Trust Artist Award.
2002	"Paul Hamlyn Award" nominee.
2001	Sargent Fellowship, British School, Rome, Italy
1998	"Flash Art" Prize, Onufri '98, National Gallery, Albania.
1998	"Special Jury Prize", PhotoSynkria Festival, Greece.
1997	London Art Board's "Individual Artists Award".

Collections
Arts Council of Britain, Hayward Gallery, London.
Arthur Andersen Collection, London.
Centre of Photography, Geneva, Switzerland.
Collezione La Gaia, Busca, Italy
Doria Pamphilj Gallery Collection, Doria Pamphilj Palace Museum, Rome
The Teseco Foundation, Piza, Italy.
The British Council Collection, London.

Freelance Work
1990	Translation and other services to: BBC World Service; BBC Radio 4; Yugoslav Ethnic Albanian Newspaper.
1991	Stills Photographer & Researcher BBC Documentary Film for "Under the Sun".
1992	"MAD", Grassmarket Project Theatre. Edinburgh Festival Fringe First Photography: Press, Poster and Leaflets.
1993	Assistant to Director: "14 Hamlets" Bonn State Theatre, Germany.
1994	Stills Photographer for BBC Fine Cut Documentary Film "Hidden Voices".
1994	Photography for a book on Southern Albania. By T.J.Winifrith for Duckworth Books London.
1994	Albanian Art Consultant for BBC 2 "Late Show".
1995	Stills Photographer for Channel 4 "Travelogue".
1996	Photographed Albanian Street children for Child Hope UK
1997	Hyde Bank Young Offenders Institute; Belfast, Northern Ireland: Documenting theatre workshop projects highlighting the effects of civil war on young people
1998	Photographed "Soldiers" Edinburgh Festival Fringe First Theatre Production involving professional Soldiers.
1999	Was part of the assessment team for The British Red Cross in Kosova after the war.
2001	Still photographs for theatre workshop at College Links Pupil Referral Unit for excluded school pupils, Haringey, London.
2003	Stills photographs for "Den Ander" (The Other) Betty Nansen Theatre, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Teaching
1989/1990	Lectured at Pristina University, Pristina, Kosova.
1995/1996	Established the first Department of Photography in the Academy of Art, University of Tirana, Albania. Sponsored by Kodak, Pentax the George Soros Foundation and the British Council. My students subsequently produced the photographs illustrating the 1995 Soros Foundation Annual Report.
1997/1999	Lectured in Photography at London College of Printing and Wimbledon Art School, London, England.
1998/2002	Lectures in Photography at Greenwich University and London College of Printing, London, England.
2000	Series of lectures at Colgate University, Hamilton Collage, New York, USA.
2000	Set up department of photography at Faculty of Art, Prishtina University, Kosova. Sponsored by Ford Foundation, Soros Foundation, Kodak and Pentax.
2001	Co-wrote BA Honours course in Photography for Greenwich University.
2002	Advanced photography course, Kosova with Ian Jeffery and Richard Wentworth. Sporsored by British Council and Soros Foundation.
2002 /...	Lectures at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK.
2003	Guest Lecturer at the American InterContinental University, London, UK.
2004/2006	Guest Lecturer at The Ruskin School of Drawing & Fine Art , Oxford University

Curating
2000	Devised concept for show and selected students that had completed the inaugural photography course at the Faculty of Art, Prishtina University, Kosova, for the exhibition "Journeys to Memory" shown at The Kosova Art Gallery with accompanying catalogue.
2003	Curator at Second Tirana Biennale, National Gallery of Albania, contributed to catalogue with essay "Perspectives".
2003	Curator at the "Tomorrow's Artists Award", The Kosova Arts Gallery