Our Team
The people behind the cameras, the ideas, and the project that is The Slow Camera Exchange.
Artistic Director
Jess Marbe
Jessica Marbe is an artist, educator, arts consultant and arts programme manager.
Jessica and Hermann Marbe were creative collaborators as well as life partners.
They worked together on projects such as international exchanges between supported artist studios in Cork, Bristol and Madrid.
Jessica has worked as an artist directly with groups and communities of interest and has been invited to participate in exhibitions, conferences residencies and festivals nationally and internationally as well as longer-term projects for example a year-long residency project in a housing estate developed with a housing association. She engaged in artist residencies in Medellin, Colombia including a residency with the Medellin Museum of Modern Art.
In the last years, her practice has moved closer to home as motherhood has shaped her practice and interests. She has an increasing passion about sustainable living, biking, growing food working in the outdoors and using the arts to support wellbeing as we imagine and work towards a viable liveable future.
Camera Technician & Facilitator
Artem Trofimenko
Artem Trofimenko is an Irish-Ukrainian artist based in Cork whose work spans experimental film, sound, photography, installation and embodied practices
Artem graduated with a BA in Fine Art from CCAD in 2018 and is a studio member at Sample-Studios (Studios of Sanctuary, 2025), and a technician with Slow Camera Exchange and Cork Film Centre.
They have received Arts Council Agility Awards in 2021 and 2024. Artem is currently developing Radio Silence, a cross-border research project between Finland and Ireland supported by NEMO – Northern European Mobility Opportunity.
Their films have screened at STAMP Festival, 9.57 Festival, Out Of Focus, and IndieCork, while performances have been presented at Gallery X (Dublin), Cinesalon (Cork) and Toinen Kerros (Helsinki). In 2025 Artem completed a residency at Pedvāle Art Park, Latvia, where they developed the Super 8 work A Ladder on the Edge of Living, and presented /f/XILE during a residency at Sirius Arts Centre in January 2026.
Alongside their artistic practice, Artem contributes to analogue film and photography communities in Ireland. They collaborate with Slow Camera Exchange on analogue photography initiatives and have facilitated workshops exploring experimental image-making, including the workshop Scores from the Archive at Cork City Library. They have also led analogue and darkroom workshops with community groups supporting creative engagement in rehabilitation and socially engaged contexts.