Kyohei Abe
Chief Curator, Detroit Center for Contemporary Photography
Detroit, MI, United States detroitccp.org

Kyohei Abe is the Executive Director of the Detroit Center for Contemporary Photography (DCCP). Established in 2010, DCCP began as the first non-profit center dedicated exclusively to contemporary photography in Detroit. With a mission to foster the appreciation and understanding of photography, DCCP works to promote contemporary lens-based artists who explore the medium in diverse ways: from still and time-based media to the photographic book. In 2012, after reevaluating how to better serve the artists it strives to support, DCCP shifted its operation to a solely online gallery supplemented by small edition artist book publications.

Abe is interested in reviewing developed and cohesive portfolios with strong concepts.

LANGUAGES SPOKEN: English and Japanese

Nadine Barth
Director, Barthouse
Berlin, Germany
barthouse.de

Nadine Barth is a curator, editor, and art advisor. With her agency barthouse, founded in 2006, she cultivates publications, organizes exhibitions and cultural events while working for companies, publishers, galleries, museums, and other institutions. Recent exhibitions curated by Nadine Barth include "Ellen von Unwerth: Devotion – Thirty Years of Photographing Women" at Fotografiska Stockholm, as well as the brand new Fotografiska New York, and "Bling Bling Baby!" for NRW-Forum Dusseldorf and Museum Hilversum, Amsterdam. With her expertise, she has been involved in over 100 art books to date. Recent publications include "Inez & Vinoodh: I See You in Everything" (2019) and "This Place" (2019) featuring works by Wendy Ewald, Stephen Shore, Thomas Struth, and Jeff Wall, among others. Nadine Barth also heads the photography program for the art publisher Hatje Cantz.

Barth is interested in reviewing landscape, cityscape, and documentary photography with a strong visual language. She likes fashion photography when it flirts with art without becoming too commercial. She is not interested in conceptual abstract works, photoshop experiments, videos, and nudes.

She can provide curatorial insight for portfolios and book projects, guidance on the art market, and in the best case scenario, opportunities to take part in exhibitions.

LANGUAGES SPOKEN: German, English

Alexa Becker
Acquisitions Editor, Kehrer Verlag
Heidelberg, Germany
www.kehrerverlag.com

Alexa Becker is the Acquisitions Editor for photography and art books for Kehrer Verlag, a Germany-based publisher founded in 1995. After earning her Master's in Art History from the University of Heidelberg, she started her career at Kehrer in 2003, where she is responsible for selecting and acquiring new photography-related projects.

Mrs. Becker provides artistic and marketing advice for photographers concerning the content and style of their work at several international portfolio reviews. She enjoys helping photographers and others appreciate the special qualities present in their work, in particular discovering novel, genuine visions of the world.

Mrs. Becker offers the point of view of a European art book publisher and is familiar with the overall art and photography market. As an acquiring editor for Kehrer, she is interested in projects that are based on a personal approach by the photographer towards the subject matter without it being evidently biographical. She is interested in seeing any of the above-mentioned types of projects. She is not open to seeing commercial portfolios.

LANGUAGES SPOKEN: German, English

Howard Bossen
Professor of Photography and Visual Communication, Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI, United States
comartsci.msu.edu/our-people/howard-bossen

Howard Bossen has curated several exhibitions that grew out of meeting photographers at FotoFest and published articles that deal with the works of photographers he first met at FotoFest. Detroit Resurgent, a book he co-edited and was published in 2014, features the portraits of Gilles Perrin whom he met at FotoFest. He is the author of the books Luke Swank: Modernist Photographer, Henry Holmes Smith: Man of Light, and many articles on the history of photography.

Mr. Bossen is interested in looking at all kinds of work: color and black and white, documentary and photojournalism, modern, post-modern, conceptual, etc. He is especially interested in artist made and short-run books and work that explores the intersection of art and culture and art and science. He is not interested in reviewing advertising and commercial work. He will be looking for artist made and short-run books for acquisition by Special Collections in the MSU Library, and photographers to invite to the university to lecture or conduct workshops. He can provide curatorial insight on portfolios and advice on how to strengthen them.

LANGUAGES SPOKEN: English

MaryAnn Camilleri
Founder, The Magenta Foundation
Toronto, Canada
magentafoundation.org

The Magenta Foundation is a trailblazing charitable arts-publishing house that consistently showcases the work of talented artists on a global scale, drawing attention to under-represented and emerging artists with powerful exhibitions and a roster of impressive international publications.

Through its diverse programming, which includes book publishing, the Flash Forward Competition, an education program, and its latest addition of an arts book fair called /edition Toronto, the foundation is embracing the ever-changing art arena while forging stronger alliances with international galleries, curators and artists.

Known and respected for her commitment to providing a platform for emerging talent, and for increasing the profile of under-documented, established artists, MaryAnn Camilleri is sought out to provide advice and guidance to individuals, corporations, and non-profit organizations. She is always looking for engaging projects that can translate well into an exhibition or a publication.

Whether projects are appropriate for Magenta’s publishing mandate or not, Camilleri is happy to offer advice and encouragement in proceeding with publishing projects in ways that will best suit an artist.

LANGUAGES SPOKEN: English

Irina Chmyreva
Lead Researcher, Russian Academy of Arts
Artistic Director, PhotoVisa International Festival of Photography
Moscow, Russia
www.photovisa.ru

Irina Chmyreva is a photography historian and curator, and a member of AICA. She has worked as a researcher and curator since 1996, including at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art. Since 2007, she has been a lead researcher at the National Institute for Theory and History of Fine Arts, Russian Academy of Arts, Moscow. She leads the lecture program of visual communication and history of photography at the Institute of Professional Photography in Moscow, the chair of graphic book design at the State University of Technologies, and a guest lecturer at European Institute of Design in Madrid, Spain. In 2012 she was one of five Russian and American curators selected to curate the FotoFest Biennial 2012: Contemporary Russian Photography, in Houston, Texas, for which she also contributed to the catalogue. She was on the Syngenta Prize committee in 2013, and was on the jury committee of Hasselblad Award in 2014. She co-founded the of International Festival of Photography PhotoVisa in Krasnodar region, Russia in 2008, and remains the Artistic Director.

She is mostly interested in reviewing portfolios that push the boundaries of photography for multi-media, mixed media experiments; she appreciates conceptional projects and works connected with art history. Mrs. Chmyreva is looking for work that might be exhibited in PhotoVisa festival and published in resources that she connected to. Because she has extensive experience curating exhibitions and making books, as an editor she can offer an advice how to edit and present work for exhibition and publication.

LANGUAGES SPOKEN: Russian, English

Patricia Conde
Director, Patricia Conde Galería
Mexico City, Mexico
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Patricia Conde Juaristi was born in Mexico City, Mexico, and studied Art History and Literature at Anahuac University. Her interest in art led her to open a space for art exhibition in 2003, a cultural center for contemporary art. She realized that photography, a sensible foundation of her artistic formation, suffered from a lack of spaces for exhibition, and has dedicated her gallery to being a national and international platform for photography.

Since 2009, Conde Juaristi has directed Patricia Conde Galería, the only space dedicated exclusively to the promotion and diffusion of photography in Mexico, and has established the gallery as a place of reverence in the world of photography. She is a member of AIPAD, and previously served on the AIPAD Board of Directors. She has presented several exhibitions of work by emerging and established artists, and has maintained important representation in many art fairs, including Paris Photo, AIPAD, ZonaMaco, Art Miami, and Photo Lima.

Conde Juaristi is interested in reviewing almost all kinds of photography, particularly portraiture, documentary, and conceptional photography. She is not interested in reviewing fashion or commercial photography.

LANGUAGES SPOKEN: Spanish, English

Malcolm Daniel
Gus and Lyndall Wortham Curator of Photography, The Museum of Fine Arts
Houston, TX, United States
www.mfah.org/photography

After 23 years at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where he served as Senior Curator and Head of the Department of Photographs, Malcolm Daniel joined The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, in 2013. Although his scholarly work has concentrated on the first 75 years of the medium, Daniel oversees the museum’s acquisitions and exhibitions spanning the full history of photography from its birth to the present day. His recent exhibitions and installations at the MFAH have included monographic presentations of Dawoud Bey, Fazal Sheikh, David Levinthal, Eugène Atget, and Sally Mann as well as an ongoing series, A History of Photography, selected from the museum’s permanent collection.

At FotoFest, he is most interested in reviewing the work of experienced photographers with several bodies of work under their belt, and is more interested in photography as creative expression than as documentation, no matter how worthy the cause (acknowledging, of course, that expressive and documentary photography are not mutually exclusive). He is not particularly interested in nudes, down-on-their-luck small towns, the final days of a beloved relative, or accidental abstractions made with 19th-century processes. Although the Museum occasionally (but rarely) acquires work seen at reviews, we are not looking for exhibition ideas or material at The Meeting Place. However, with nearly 30 years experience as a photography curator and a broad knowledge of the history, Daniel is able to help artists edit or sequence their work and can point to directions he feels most promising for future development.

LANGUAGES SPOKEN: English

Karen Davis
Curator and Co-Founder, Davis Orton Gallery
Hudson, NY, United States
davisortongallery.com

Karen Davis is curator/co-founder of Davis Orton Gallery, Hudson NY, now in its twelfth year. The gallery exhibits photography, mixed media and trade and artist-published photobooks by a wide range of artists – from emerging to mid-career to established; coming from from the Hudson River Valley, the US and the world. Davis Orton Gallery cast a wide net in the type of photo-based work they show. This includes: subject matter, capture devices and methods of printing. In a typical year, the Gallery may show cityscapes/landscape, abstracts, portraiture, still lifes, interiors and documentary style work and photobooks. She has mounted exhibitions related to mass incarceration, mental illness, political action, identity, aging and LGBTQ-related topics.

Karen teaches "Portfolio Development and Marketing Your Fine Art Photography" online for the Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester MA. Her photographs & books are in the Center for Photography at Woodstock (CPW) Collection; Lishui Museum of Photography, China; Houghton Library/ Graphic Arts Collection, Harvard; and installed at MASS MoCA.

LANGUAGES SPOKEN: English

Ashlyn Davis Burns
Co-Founder, Assembly
Houston, TX, United States
www.assembly.art

Ashlyn Davis Burns is a writer and independent curator based in Houston, Texas and the co-founder of Assembly, a gallery, agency, creative studio, and art advisory that holistically nurtures artists and their practice, while identifying and cultivating opportunities for collaborations with a global network of creatives in both the fine art and commercial worlds. Burns has worked to support lens-based artists for the past decade through curatorial, editorial, and fundraising initiatives, including most recently as the Executive Director & Curator of Houston Center for Photography (2015-2020). She has written for numerous publications, consulted with artists and publishers on photobooks, and curated exhibitions internationally for a variety of institutions including libraries, universities, and galleries.

She is most interested in seeing projects that create dialogue about our culture and that demonstrate a clear relationship between the form and content of the work. She is interested in talking through these ideas as well as presentation, installation, and publication approaches with artists looking for feedback on the development of a project.

LANGUAGES SPOKEN: English

Natasha Egan
Executive Director, Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago
Chicago, IL
mocp.org

Since 2011, Natasha Egan has served as the executive director of the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago (MoCP), where she was previously the associate director and curator since 2000. She has organized over fifty exhibitions with a focus on contemporary Asian art and artists concerned with societal issues, such as the environment, war, and economics. Egan was a guest curator for the 2010 FotoFest Biennial in Houston, the 2016 Dubai Photo Exhibitions, UAE, and is a guest curator for the 2019 Lianzhou Foto Festival in Lianzhou, China. Egan has contributed essays to numerous publications and periodicals and lectures international. For over a decade, she taught in the photography and humanities departments at Columbia College Chicago, and holds a BA in Asian studies, MA in museum studies, and MFA in fine art photography.

LANGUAGES SPOKEN: English

Nela Eggenberger
Chief Editor, EIKON
Vienna, Austria
www.eikon.at

Nela Eggenberger studied Art History at the University of Vienna (Austria). Since 2013 she is Chief Editor of EIKON – International Magazine for Photography and Media Art. Besides conceptualising EIKON’s publishing program, she develops additional formats for showing photography, among them group shows in Vienna and Berlin. In 2016 she edited EIKON’s jubilee publication 5 x 5. Photo Tracks, which includes contributions by David Bate, Linde B. Lehtinen, Steffen Siegel, Abigail Solomon-Godeau, and Urs Stahel. In 2017 she initiated the Europe-wide EIKON Award (45+) under the patronage of VALIE EXPORT, which is dedicated to women photographers and media artists aged 45 years and older. Its next edition will be carried out under the patronage of Marina Abramovic (expected 2020). She frequently participates in art fairs and photo festivals around Europe and the United States.

Eggenberger is interested in conceptual bodies of work, and appreciates a good sense of composition, craftsmanship, and most importantly a steady relation to fine arts. She is not interested in reviewing commercial, fashion, or documentary photography. With her editorial position, she offers exceptional artists the opportunity to publish their work in EIKON.

LANGUAGES SPOKEN: German, English

Steven Evans, Executive Director, FotoFest, Houston, Texas, United States
www.fotofest.org

Steven Evans is a curator, writer, and executive director of the award-winning arts organization FotoFest, which created the first and longest running international Biennial of Photography and New Media Art in the U.S., in Houston, Texas. Appointed in 2014, he is responsible for the artistic direction, administration and organization of FotoFest and its biennial and art programs.

Evans co-curated the FotoFest 2018 Biennial central exhibition INDIA: Contemporary Photographic and New Media Art and the 2016 Biennial central exhibition CHANGING CIRCUMSTANCES: Looking at the Future of the Planet. He co-edited the related hardcover books INDIA and CHANGING CIRCUMSTANCES. He has curated many other exhibitions at FotoFest and elsewhere, and represents FotoFest at photography events around the world.

Prior to FotoFest, Evans worked with a wide range of artists and collaborators as managing director of the Dia:Beacon Museum in New York State and as director of the Linda Pace Foundation in San Antonio, Texas. His curatorial work incorporates a range of approaches with a focus on photography, moving image, and new media art.

Hannah Frieser
Executive Director, The Center for Photography at Woodstock
Woodstock, NY, United States
www.cpw.org

Hannah Frieser is the Executive Director for the Center for Photography at Woodstock, an arts organization that features exhibitions, workshops and residencies. She curates group and solo exhibitions for CPW’s flexible exhibition program. Her essays have been featured in publications and monographs, such as Contact Sheet, Exposure, and Nueva Luz. For nine years, Hannah was Director of Light Work, a photographic arts organization with exhibition and residency programs in Syracuse, New York. At Light Work she curated major exhibitions with Suzanne Opton, Adam Magyar, Barry Anderson and other major contemporary photographers.

Hannah has reviewed portfolios and juried exhibitions worldwide for FotoFest, En Foco, Rhubarb Rhubarb, PhotoVisa, folioPORT and FotoTriennale.dk, among others, and she has served on review panels for organizations such as the New York Council on the Arts.

Hannah is especially interested in reviewing work by photographers who understand their intentions as artists. She is actively seeking a diverse mix of artists, who are at a critical point of their career and would benefit from exposure through exhibitions, essays or residencies. As a reviewer, she offers professional feedback and opportunities within the field. Portfolios may be presented as completed bodies of work or mid-project. While interested in all types of portfolios, only limited feedback can be provided to commercial portfolios, traditional nudes or travel photography.

LANGUAGES SPOKEN: German, English

Jennifer Friess, Associate Curator
University of Michigan Museum of Art
Ann Arbor, MI, United States
umma.umich.edu

Jennifer M. Friess is the associate curator of photography at the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She joined UMMA in 2016 as the museum’s inaugural curator of photography and since has curated numerous exhibitions on themes of memory, place, and the environment. Her forthcoming exhibition Watershed explores how contemporary artists surface histories and issues relevant to the Great Lakes region.

Friess is interested in reviewing fine art, conceptual, and multi-media work. She is not interested in reviewing commercial work.

LANGUAGES SPOKEN: English

Jens Friis
Independent Curator, Photo Historian and Publisher/Editor, KATALOG – Journal of Photography & Video
Odense, Denmark
www.katalog-journal.com

Jens Friis, an independent curator, photo historian and publisher/editor, holds a Masters in the History of Art with a specialization in photography. He has been an active member of Gallery Image in Aarhus, Denmark, and for a number of years worked in the commercial gallery Hamiltons in London selling photographic art. From 2003-2016, he was a Curator at Museet for Fotokunst in Odense, Denmark, where he oversaw the museum’s photographic collection, and was the Artistic Co-Director of the Danish photo festival FotoTriennale.dk, initiated by the same museum.

KATALOG, which has been independently published by Friis since 2015, is in its 28th successful year, and is part of Nordic Photo Festival Network and the European collaboration Parallel. Friis has written numerous articles for the magazine. He has also contributed to the book Dansk Fotografihistorie, published in 2004, and authored the chapter on Danish photography in the third volume of The History of European Photography 1970-2000, published in 2016. He serves on several international nominating committees for awards, as well as the advisory committee of the Spanish magazine EXIT.

Friis is interested in all types of photography and visual media arts – prints, books, videos, installations, etc. He will discuss your work and might give you advice on how to develop as an artist. He may also facilitate publication in the magazine KATALOG and participation in group exhibitions and festivals.

LANGUAGES SPOKEN: Danish, English

Fabian Goncalves Borrega
Exhibitions Coordinator, Art Museum of the Americas
Washington, D.C., United States
museum.oas.org

Fabian Goncalves Borrega is primarily interested in reviewing developed and innovative bodies of work. All types of imagery are welcome for review, from documentary to landscape, still life to conceptual, including artist books. Aside from offering criticism and critique of the photography itself, its technique and conceptualization, Mr. Goncalves Borrega will evaluate whether the artworks are suitable for a solo or group exhibition at the AMA Photo Gallery. As part of the Organization of American States (OAS) Art Museum of the Americas (AMA), the Photo Gallery serves to promote the core values of the OAS by providing a space for dialogue and learning, highlighting themes such as democracy, development, and human rights.

LANGUAGES SPOKEN: Spanish, English

Rafael Cruz
Assistant Curator of Photography, Art Museum of the Americas
Washington, D.C., United States
museum.oas.org

An artist at heart, Rafael Cruz has always found artistic expression in both photography and storytelling.

With over 20 years of commercial experience and over 200 weddings, his talent and aesthetic style have fostered an intense love of the arts and all things reflecting beauty in its purest form.

Since 2016 Rafael has been working in Washington, D.C., Maryland and Virginia as a commercial and artistic photographer. He also works part-time at the Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, D.C. as an Assistant Curator of the Photography Program. Rafa is responsible for documenting hundreds of paintings and museum artwork for the website, archives and collection. He also assists the Photography Curator, Mr. Fabian Goncalves, in exhibitions and events and provides visiting artist support.

Rafael's personal work is based on ICM (intentional camera movement) of cities in countries including Italy, Spain and the United States. He is always eager to discover new landscapes, learn new cultures and connect with people. His lens has traveled through Europe, Central America, North America and The Caribbean.

LANGUAGES SPOKEN: English, Spanish, basic Italian

Ángel Luis Gonzalez Fernandez
CEO and Artistic Director, Photo Ireland
Dublin, Ireland
photoireland.org

Ángel Luis González Fernández is CEO of PhotoIreland Foundation, dedicated to stimulating a critical dialogue around photography in Ireland and to promote internationally the work of Irish-based artists. He won the David Manley Entrepreneur Award in 2011 for PhotoIreland Festival. In 2011, he launched 'The Library Project', a public resource library of photobooks, whose holdings are currently in excess of 2500 items from more than 250 publishers worldwide. The Library Project also gives name to a unique space in Dublin's Temple Bar, offering the library, an eclectic Art bookshop, and a productive gallery programme. He has been a portfolio reviewer at events such as Les Rencontres d'Arles, Format Derby, and PhotoEspaña. Responsible for books such as ‘Martin Parr's Best Books of the Decade’, New Irish Works, and the ongoing TLP Editions. He contributed to Landskrona Foto 2016, focused on Irish Photography. In 2019, he launched the public-facing project entitled 'The Museum of Contemporary Photography of Ireland' with its first installment running 1-31 July in a 2000 m2 exhibitions space.

Ángel Luis is interested in discovering new works and practices critically informed, and not based solely on technical approaches.

LANGUAGES SPOKEN: English, Spanish

David Haberstich
Curator of Photography, National Museum of American History
Washington D.C., United States
americanhistory.si.edu

David Haberstich is the Curator of Photography in the Archives Center at the National Museum of American History, where he collects photographs documenting all aspects of American life. He has curated museum exhibitions on Barbara Morgan, Berenice Abbott, Imogen Cunningham, and Elliott Erwitt. Recent exhibitions include Gift of the Artist (photographers as donors), and The Blue Note Photographs of Francis Wolff. He lectured about photographs of African American blackface entertainers at the College Art Association annual conference, 2019. Currently, he is planning an exhibition of Frank Espada's photographs of the Puerto Rican diaspora. He co-authored a book on Dawn Rogala's photographs of circus workers (2020), including his essay on the history of labor photography. He is currently completing a book about the National Museum of American History’s photographs and documents from the African American-owned Scurlock studio of Washington, 1911-1994, and is working on a book about legendary teachers of photography and their students, an essay about the photographers of the Dada and Surrealist movements, and essays about several contemporary photographers.

LANGUAGES SPOKEN: English; a little French.

Mary Heathcott
Executive Director, Blue Star Contemporary
San Antonio, TX, United States
www.bluestarcontemporary.org

Mary Heathcott is the Executive Director of Blue Star Contemporary, where she heads its exhibition and educational programs. As San Antonio’s premiere nonprofit venue for contemporary art, Blue Star Contemporary presents more than 20 exhibitions annually, engaging international and regional artists through innovative exhibitions; a residency partnership with the Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin; public programs; and the MOSAIC Student Artist Program, an after-school program for high school youth seeking professional development in the field of art.

Prior to joining Blue Star Contemporary in 2014, Heathcott was the Deputy Director at Artpace San Antonio, an international artist-in-residence program that has attracted more than 100 renowned artists and guest curators from around the world to explore new directions in their work, and provided a platform for exhibitions and education programs that further extend contemporary art dialogue. Heathcott received a master’s degree in the Humanities from the University of Chicago in 2001, where her research in art history culminated in a thesis exploring the history of stereoscope photography, Collapsed Elemental Perspective.

Heathcott is seeking conceptually-driven work that is socially-engaged, provides a personal viewpoint, or explores the boundaries of the medium and would be appropriate for presentation in a contemporary gallery space. Please no editorial documentary, fashion photography, commercial studio work, street photography, or book projects.

LANGUAGES SPOKEN: English

Karen Hellman
Assistant Curator, J. Paul Getty Museum
Los Angeles, CA, United States
www.getty.edu

Karen Hellman is an Assistant Curator at the J.Paul Getty Museum. Her research interests are in 19th-century photography, primarily in Europe from the 1830s to the 1870s. She has a doctorate in Art History from The Graduate Center, City University of New York, and joined the Department of Photographs in 2010.

Hellman contributed an essay to Oscar Rejlander, Artist Photographer (2018) and organized the exhibition for the Getty in 2019. She has curated the exhibitions In Focus: Expressions (2018), Real/Ideal: Photography in France, 1847-1860 (2016), In Focus: Daguerreotypes (2015), In Focus: Ansel Adams (2014), At the Window: The Photographer’s View (2013), and In Focus: Picturing Landscape (2012). She is editor of Real/Ideal: Photography in Mid-Nineteenth-Century France (2016).

LANGUAGES SPOKEN: English

Haley Berkman Karren
Founder and Director, Karren Art Advisory
Houston, TX
karrenartadvisory.com

Haley Berkman Karren is an art advisor, independent curator, and writer. She is the Founder and Director of Karren Art Advisory, where she specializes in modern and contemporary art and photography. She enjoys working with artists to place their work in collections and to create site-specific commissions.

Prior to starting her own art advisory, she held curatorial positions at the Menil Collection, Houston; the Department of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Department of Photography at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Dallas Museum of Art; and the Pentagram Stiftung, Venice. She holds a B.A. with honors in Art History and Archaeology from Washington University in St. Louis, and an M.A. in the History of Art and Archaeology from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.

Karren is interested in reviewing experimental and conceptual photography, documentary photography, mixed media, and work that utilizes historic and alternative processes. She prefers seeing portfolios that feature work from at least one resolved project, but is also happy to speak with emerging photographers. She prefers viewing actual photographic prints. She is not interested in viewing travel or commercial photography.

LANGUAGES SPOKEN: English

Frazier King
Private Collector
Houston, TX, United States
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Frazier King is a collector living in Houston, Texas. Mr. King exhibited his collection in the second FotoFest Collector’s Eye Exhibition shown in FotoFest headquarters from October through December 2012. Mr. King continues to collect, and the book on his collection (published jointly by FotoFest and Schilt Publishing) is now available. Mr. King has reviewed at FotoFest since 2008 and has participated in the reviews at Festival de la Luz in Bueños Aires, Rencontrer d’Arles in Arles, France and in other locations around the world. In addition, Mr. King is a widely-shown photographer and has participated in FotoFest and other international reviews since the 1980s. Mr. King has also been involved in photographer organizations over the years.

As a portfolio reviewer, Mr. King is interested in work for the collection and is also able to offer participants guidance regarding professional development and various opportunities to show work, to discuss the work in particular, and to provide insights into the programs and interests of various photo organizations.

LANGUAGES SPOKEN: English

Geoffrey C. Koslov
Owner, Foto Relevance, LLC.
Houston, TX, United States
www.fotorelevance.com

Geoffrey Koslov co-founded Foto Relevance, a gallery located in the museum district of Houston, Texas, for contemporary photography-based art. He is interested in the creative use of the many different genres of photographic expression. In addition to life as a gallerist, Geoffrey is a collector himself that also enjoys writing about photographers he meets who he finds are creating new and challenging work.

He served for many years on the Photography Acquisitions Subcommittee of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), and the Board of Directors for the Houston Center for Photography (HCP). He was formerly a member of HCP’s Exhibitions Committee and a former co-chair of its Print Auction. Geoffrey has participated as a portfolio reviewer at the FotoFest Meeting Place, the Center for Fine Art Photography (CFAP), the Colorado Photographic Arts Center (CPAC), The Medium Festival of Photography, Photolucida, Critical Mass, PhotoVisa, and ASmith Gallery. Other organizations in which he participates are the MFAH’s Photo Forum, and several photography critique groups, including Pixels&Silver, the Houston Inner Loop Photography, and the Houston Photographic Society.

LANGUAGES SPOKEN: English

Kimberly Landa
Senior Associate, Kinzelman Art Consulting
Houston, TX, and New York, NY, United States
www.kinzelmanart.com

Kimberly Landa graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a degree in Studio Art, and a certificate from UT’s Bridging Disciplines Program focused in Entrepreneurship. Shortly after graduating, Kimberly joined the team at Kinzelman Art Consulting (KAC) as Design & Research Assistant, eventually growing into a Senior Associate role. Kimberly works with a multitude of private and corporate collectors to amass and manage their art collections, and manages all digital presentation building for clients. Based full time in New York City working remotely for KAC, Kimberly manages all NYC gallery relations and research. Throughout her career, Kimberly has worked with notable institutions and auction houses to facilitate loans and private collection sales. Kimberly also has experience developing site specific commissions and plays an integral role in curating and organizing KAC’s rotating public exhibitions. Kimberly has always had a fascination and appreciation for photography, loves unique use of media in all artworks, and completed intensive photography courses at UT.

LANGUAGES SPOKEN: English

Sarah Leen
Founder and Editor, Visual Thinking Collective
East Boothbay, ME, United States
visualthinkingcollective.com

In 2013 Sarah Leen became the first female Director of Photography at the National Geographic Partners, leaving in 2019 to launch the Visual Thinking Collective for independent women visual professionals who elevate the photo community through editing, teaching, curating and project management.

For nearly 20 years Leen worked as a freelance photographer for the National Geographic magazine until 2004 when she joined the magazine staff as a Senior Photo Editor. As a photographer Leen published sixteen stories and produced six covers for the National Geographic magazine.

She has juried numerous contests and participated in portfolio reviews for Pictures of the Year International, Lens Culture, Critical Mass, Photolucida, The FotoEvidence Book Award, the Carmignac Award, the W. Eugene Smith Grants, the Getty Images Editorial Grants, the New York Times Portfolio Reviews, PhotoNola, the ASMP and the World Press Joop Swarts Masterclass.

Leen works individually with photographers and agencies editing long term projects and books including the America, Again project by the VII Photo agency and the 2020 FotoEvidence World Press Photo Book Award winner book HABIBI by Antonio Faccilongo.

Leen believes in sharing her knowledge through mentoring and teaching photography and photo editing workshops at the Missouri Photo Workshops, the Maine Media Workshops, the Santa Fe Photo Workshops, the Eddie Adams Workshop and the PhotoLux Festival in Lucca, Italy.

LANGUAGES SPOKEN: English

James E. Maloney
Private Collector
Houston, TX, United States

I have been involved in photography and collecting photography for the past thirty years. I am privileged to have served on the boards of directors of both Fotofest and the Houston Center for Photography. I am a trustee of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and am currently the Co-Chair of the Photography Committee of the Museum. In my other life, I am a trial lawyer.

I am honored to have been chosen as a reviewer for many Meeting Places in the past and to be asked to review at the Meeting Place in 2020. The opportunity to meet new artists, to see and to discuss new work is not to be missed.

LANGUAGES SPOKEN: English, Spanish, some French

Sam Mercer
Producer, Digital Program, The Photographers' Gallery
London, United Kingdom

thephotographersgallery.org.uk

Sam Mercer is Producer of the Digital Programme at The Photographers’ Gallery, London focusing on commissioning and curating the Media Wall. Sam’s current focus is Data / Set / Match, a year-long programme including six commissions that seek new ways to present, visualise and interrogate scientific image datasets. Sam graduated from MRes Art: Moving Image at Central St. Martins and also works as an artist and collaboratively in the artist groups Aas and Common Study, based at Somerset House.

Sam is happy to review any work, but please be aware of the focus of his position at the gallery: primarily a screen-based programme that looks at work around the digital, the computational, the networked image.

LANGUAGES SPOKEN: English

Kara Milstein
Photo Editor, TIME
New York City, NY
time.com

Kara Milstein is a photo editor at TIME magazine. Kara commissions and curates photography for print, digital and social platforms. Her work focuses on domestic stories, social justice issues, personal essays, opinion pieces, and longer-term visual storytelling. Since joining TIME in April 2017, she has assisted in producing multimedia and enterprise projects including “TIME Guardians of the Year 2020,” “The South Issue,” “Finding Home: Heln’s First Year,” and others. She previously held positions at Aperture Foundation, the World Photography Organisation and the Barnes Foundation.

Kara is interested in reviewing documentary photography, photojournalism, conceptual photography and portraits. She is not interested in reviewing nudes or fashion photography.

LANGUAGES SPOKEN: English

Serubiri Moses
Guest Curator, MoMA PS1
New York City, NY, United States
moma.org/ps1

Serubiri Moses is an independent writer and curator, currently adjunct assistant professor in the Art and Art History Department at Hunter College. He is co-curator of MoMA PS1’s perennial survey of contemporary art, Greater New York (2021), and previously was on the curatorial team of the 10th Berlin Biennale of Contemporary Art. His current research focus is on theories of African art. Recent publications and conference talks include: “Violent Dreaming”. e-flux journal. 107. March 2020; “Death as a Premonitory Sign”. Singapore Biennial Symposium. February 2020. Moses lives and works in New York City.

LANGUAGES SPOKEN: English, moderate French

Jennifer Murray
Executive Director, Filter Photo
Chicago, IL, United States www.filterphoto.org

Jennifer Murray is an artist, educator, and curator based in Chicago. She is the executive director of Filter Photo, a nonprofit festival, exhibition, and educational space. Her research and professional practice spans photography-based visual projects and curatorial projects. Her visual work utilizes both original images and photographic archives as she examines the cultural relationships and histories of objects. Recent curatorial projects include Furtive at the Chicago Cultural Center.

Murray is a frequent curator, portfolio reviewer, and juror at photography events across the US including Aint-Bad Magazine, Photolucida’s Critical Mass, LensCulture, SPE, and Filter Photo. She received an MFA in photography from Columbia College Chicago. She teaches at Loyola University Chicago and is an independent artists' consultant. With a strong curatorial and educators background, she is most interested in viewing project-based work with a clearly identified concept. She is not interested in seeing work that is strictly formal without a well-articulated viewpoint. She is open to discussions about editing and sequencing and can provide feedback about getting a project prepared for exhibition.

LANGUAGES SPOKEN: English

Ute Noll
Director, Visual Projects & Gallery Uno Art Space
Stuttgart, Germany
unoartspace.com

Ute Noll has been working internationally and interdisciplinary in the broad field of photography for more than two decades. She is a photo director, magazine editor, curator, writer, and university lecturer and offers her extensive expertise and her long-term experience under the one roof of her project Agency Ute Noll - Visual Projects, based in Stuttgart (formerly named On Photography & Illustration). She also runs Gallery Uno Art Space in Stuttgart, founded in 2007. In her gallery Ute Noll has mounted more than 40 shows with international photographers, also FotoFest discoveries, since 2013, Ute Noll is also photo director at Du Magazine, Zurich, with a focus on art, culture, and modern life. Recently, she has been a judge for competitions such as Lianzhou Punctum Photography Award, Unicef Photo of the Year Award, Swiss Press Photo and Krasnodar Photovisum Prize. Ute considers work for exhibitions, gallery shows, and publications. However, she makes no commitments during the reviews on site but comes back to these artists later.

Ute Noll is most interested in fresh and contemporary approaches, documentary and fine art, and more, but she prefers work that is strong in concept and narrative. Careful and aesthetic execution is also essential for her. She is not interested in seeing commercial, nude, or landscape photography.

LANGUAGES SPOKEN: German and English

Christopher Rauschenberg
Board Chair & Exhibition Committee, Blue Sky Gallery
Portland, OR, United States
BlueSkyGallery.org

Christopher Rauschenberg is co-curator and board chairman of Blue Sky Gallery in Portland, Oregon. Blue Sky was established in 1975 by Mr. Rauschenberg and 4 other photographers. Since then, Mr. Rauschenberg has co-curated 873 solo exhibitions by 746 different artists. Mr. Rauschenberg has been a photographer since 1973 and has had 122 solo shows of his own work in eight countries.

Blue Sky Gallery is a non-profit artists' space which produces 20-24 solo exhibitions per year plus one or two group shows. It produces an annual yearbook that features 6 images from each show. Over the last 3 years, Blue Sky has produced 109 print-on-demand catalogs for our exhibiting artists. The gallery's focus and passion is on promoting emerging artists. Since 2004, it has presented solo shows by 114 photographers from FotoFest, plus 62 more from Photolucida, Arles, Rhubarb Rhubarb, Bratislava, Brasilia, Santa Fe, Mannheim, Montreal, Photo Alliance and Photo Nola. Blue Sky has presented solo shows by artists from 53 countries.

As with all FotoFest reviewers, you should look at our website to see if you and the gallery are a good match. Bear in mind that we are looking for coherent bodies of work, rather than isolated great pictures.

LANGUAGES SPOKEN: English

Sinara Sandri
Co-Founder and Institutional Director, FestFotoPoA Porto Alegre, Brazil
festfoto.art.br

Sinara Sandri is the Co-founder and Institutional Director of FestFoto - International Festival of Photography of Porto Alegre. She also coordinates the FestFoto's International Portfolio Review. Sandri is a member of the committee that designed the creation of the Rio Grande do Sul State Photo Library in Porto Alegre.

Sandri’s work eexperience is in historical research related to photography and urban reform, she has published texts on the relationship of photography with urban issues and the environment. Interested in topics such as urban landscapes, environment and photojournalism. Not interested in fashion photos and stock photos.

LANGUAGES SPOKEN: Portuguese and English

Maarten Schilt
Founder, Publisher and Gallerist, Schilt Publishing & Gallery
Amsterdam, Netherlands
www.schiltpublishing.com

Schilt Publishing is a publisher of high profile journalistic, documentary and art photography books. Schilt Publishing is also the long-term publishing partner of World Press Photo. Since 2010, Schilt Publishing has co-published the Biennial catalogues of FotoFest, Houston. From 2014 on this cooperation has extended to co-publishing comprehensive overview books about the themes of the Biennials (2018: INDIA/ Contemporary Photographic and New Media Art). In the spring of 2017, a cooperation started with LensCulture, resulting in the books The Best of LensCulture Today, Volumes 1, 2 & 3. Ingram Publisher Services distributes Schilt Publishing in North America. Thames & Hudson distributes our books in all other countries of the world.

In 2013 Schilt Gallery was erected, a logical next step which provides an even broader basis in the international photography world. Spring 2017 we decided to merge the publishing house and the gallery into Schilt Publishing & Gallery.

Maarten Schilt reviews portfolios at esteemed photo festivals all over the world.

LANGUAGES SPOKEN: Fluent in Dutch, English and German, adequate knowledge of French and Italian

Jaehyun Seok
Director, ArtSpace LUMOS
artspacelumos.com

Jaehyun Seok was born in Daegu, Korea. His career can be summarized as a photographer, educator and curator. His past experience from working as a photographer for international publications such as The New York Times, International Herald Tribune and Korean GEO has brought him where he is now. Seok co-organized the Daegu Photo Biennale in 2006. He has curated many international exhibitions, including Imaging Asia in Documents (2006) and Women in War (2014) for the Daegu Photo Biennale and has been a foreign curator for Dali International Photo Biennale since 2011, and Foto Istanbul (2015-2017). Seok received the Best Curator Award twice from DIPE in China, in 2015 & 2017. He has also participated in many international photo festivals as a portfolio reviewer, including FotoFest in Houston, Format Festival, Les Rencontres d’Arles, Koytography, and Festival de la Luz in Buenos Aires, among others. In addition to his work as an international curator, he recently opened ArtSpace LUMOS, which has exhibition space and a photobook library in Daegu, Korea.

LANGUAGES SPOKEN: English & Korean

Angela Sheard
Associate Curator, Impressions Gallery
Bradford, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
www.impressions-gallery.com

Angela Sheard is Associate Curator at Impressions Gallery, Bradford, one of the UK’s leading public-funded spaces for contemporary photography. She completed her BA History of Art at the University of Manchester before joining Impressions. Over the past 5 years she has overseen the delivery of exhibitions by photographers working internationally including Yan Preston, David Chancellor, Jon Tonks and Noel Bowler. In 2017, she curated Field Work, a survey of ten years of work by Liza Dracup exploring the landscape and natural history of Britain. She has recently curated the first major touring retrospective of work by Mandy Barker, examining the global impact of marine plastic debris. The exhibition will travel to venues across the UK throughout 2020.

Angela is interested in seeing critically-engaged bodies of work that are timely and relevant, and that will engage, move, or challenge viewers. She is open to subject matter, but is not interested in commercial work, given that Impressions does not sell prints. Please visit impressions-gallery.com to find out more about the gallery’s artistic programme.

LANGUAGES SPOKEN: English

Xavier Soule
Owner and President, Galerie VU', Agence VU’,
Paris, France
www.agencevu.com
www.galerievu.com
www.laboutiquevu.com

Xavier Soule is the CEO of Abvent Group, which includes Galerie VU’, the largest photography gallery in Paris, and the internationally awarded Agence VU’, which represents photojournalists around the world.

For more than 30 years, Abvent has been a leading innovator within the digital revolution in the fields of architecture, imagery and design. In 1998, Soule decided to pursue his long-standing interests in imagery and photography by opening Galerie VU' and incorporating the famous Agence VU' into the Abvent Group. Soule began his career as an architect, and as his interest in digital solutions grew, he built one of the most innovative R&D companies dedicated to CAD, ArchViz and BIM technologies. Today, Abvent keeps on innovating with amazing technologies for VR and 3D immersion, offered in more than 108 countries.

Soule, who speaks both French and English, graduated as an Architect from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris. He also holds a PhD in History of Contemporary Art and a Master’s in Sciences and Techniques for Art Preservation. He is a board member of several professional organizations, including the Sorbonne School of Arts and the Auguste Perret Association. Most recently, he served as the dean of ESA (Ecole Spéciale d’Architecture), the oldest school of architecture in France, from 2012-2013.

As a collector himself, Soule is interested in a wide array of photography. From art pieces to documentary reports, he is particularly interested in cutting-edge photojournalism and contemporary photography that offer innovative approaches to expand our visual understanding of the world, people and light.

LANGUAGES SPOKEN: French, English

Enrico Stefanelli
Founder & Artistic Director, Photolux Festival
Lucca, Italy
photoluxfestival.it/en/

Enrico Stefanelli is a photographer, journalist, curator and teaches photography in workshops. He is the founder and artistic director of Photolux Festival the biennial of photography in Lucca. He has curated several exhibitions and the exhibition “Cadets” of Paolo Verzone for “Les Rencontres de la Photographie” in Arles.

He has been appointed as an expert for portfolio reviews for Les Rencontres d'Arles, Santa Fe Photo Festival, Kaunas Festival, Eyes in Progress, Fotofestiwal, 16e China International Photographic Art Festival, Fotografia Europea, Backlight Photo Festival, FotoFest Meeting Place - Houston, Auckland Festival of Photography, Festival de la Luz – Buenos Aires, Center – Santa Fe. He has been appointed as member of the Jury for Kaunas Festival, Lens Culture, The Manuel Rivera-Ortiz Foundation Grant, Lugano Photo Days, FOTODOC Center for Documentary Photography at Sakharov center, Photolucida – Critical Mass and Gomma Grant, ArteLaguna Prize – Venezia, HeadOn Festival - Sydney. He was member of the Nominating committee of Jopp Swart Masterclass at the World Press Photo Foundation until 2018, and is member of the Nominating committee for the “6 x 6” at World Press Photo Foundation.

Stefanelli is interested in reviewing work focused in documentary or artistic histories, conceptual practices or more experimental traditions. He is also interested in dummy books or stories that can be published. As an Artistic Director and Curator of Photolux, Stefanelli can help in identifying unique strengths of specific achievements, in editing and sequencing, in exploring strategies of display (the relationship between form and content), and maybe find the way to expose in galleries or helping the photographer sharing the work with galleries or some photo-editors.

Mary Virginia Swanson
Advisor to Emerging and Established Artists & Arts Organizations, M. V. Swanson & Associates
Tucson, AZ, United States
www.mvswanson.com
Instagram: @maryvirginiaswanson

Mary Virginia Swanson is an educator, author and entrepreneur in the field of photography, and a respected advisor to artists and arts organizations. Unique in our field, her broad background includes exhibiting, collecting, licensing and marketing photographs and affords her a range of perspectives on making and marketing art. Ms. Swanson counts among her consulting clients a range of internationally respected artists and institutions. Swanson co-authored with Darius Himes the acclaimed Publish Your Photography Book: Revised & Updated (2014) and continues to stay current on the growing market for photobooks, reflecting both the relative ease of self-publishing and the rise of the collectible photographic artists book.

Swanson received the Focus Award for Lifetime Achievement in Photography from the Griffin Museum in Boston in 2013 and was named 2015 Honored Educator by the Society for Photographic Education. Swanson frequently serves as a judge on contemporary photobook competitions, reviews portfolios at industry events, and lectures at academic institutions on professional practices.

During the reviews, Swanson is happy to look at work of all genres, subjects and processes, and hopes to help artists who feel that their work is ready to be seen, exhibited, published and/or collected with charting a path to those markets.

Barbara Tannenbaum
Chair, Prints, Drawings, and Photographs and Curator of Photography, Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, OH, United States
www.clevelandart.org

Barbara Tannenbaum, Chair of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs and Curator of Photography at the Cleveland Museum of Art, has organized over 100 exhibitions during her three-decade career as a curator. Recent and upcoming exhibitions include Ilse Bing: Queen of the Leica; Signal Noise: Photographs by Aaron Rothman; Beyond Truth: Photography After the Shutter; Black in America: Louis Draper and Leonard Freed; Cheating Death: Portrait Photography’s First Half Century; BIG; Pyramids & Sphinxes; DIY: Photographers and Books, which was the first museum show of print-on-demand photobooks; and American Vesuvius: Frank Gohlke and Emmet Gowin. She co-organized the first large-scale international exhibition chronicling women’s historic achievements in fine art photography and the 1991 Ralph Eugene Meatyard retrospective. Dr. Tannenbaum has authored numerous publications, including books on Ralph Eugene Meatyard (Rizzoli), TR Ericsson, and the Akron Art Museum’s collection, and lectured throughout the U.S. and in Canada and China. She serves on the board of the Fred and Laura Ruth Bidwell Foundation.

Dr. Tannenbaum is interested in seeing many different kinds of work, especially exhibition and book projects under development, but prefer not to review photography that is primarily commercial in nature. Nudity is okay as long as it is truly at the service of artistic expression.

LANGUAGES SPOKEN: French fluently, German a bit, and American English.

Lisa Volpe
Associate Curator, The Museum of Fine Arts
Houston, TX, United States
www.mfah.org/photography

Lisa Volpe is the Associate Curator, Photography at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Before arriving in Houston, she was the Curator of the Wichita Art Museum where she oversaw all areas of the museum's collection. Additionally, she held various curatorial roles at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art (SBMA), and fellowships at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and the Cleveland Museum of Art.

Lisa does not wish to see nudes and pure landscapes.

LANGUAGES SPOKEN: English

Wendy Watriss
Co-Founder, FotoFest
Curator, Photographer, & Writer
Houston, TX, United States
fotofest.org

As Co-founder of FotoFest, Wendy Watriss wanted to create a platform for art and ideas that would provide new international opportunities for artists and artwork across the world. Her intent was also that FotoFest be a platform for discovery. She was curator and artistic director of FotoFest from its creation and first Biennial in 1986 through 2014, and worked on the 2016 Biennial exhibitions and book. Watriss curated and organized over 65 exhibitions from around the world during that time. She and her partner, Fred Baldwin, created the Meeting Place and the Biennial itself. Prior to founding FotoFest, Watriss worked as a newspaper reporter, public television producer, international award-winning photojournalist, independent documentary photographer, writer and social-political activist. She worked for major publications and news organizations nationally and internationally. She has been a photographer panelist and juror for the National Endowment of the Arts, New England Foundation for the Arts, Texas Commission on the Arts, the Houston Arts Alliance and many photography festivals and museum events abroad.

Watriss is interested in all types of work, from documentary and narrative to multi-media and staged. The intention of the artist is important to her, and she likes to see that an artist has the ability to carry an idea and/or stylistic perspective through a series of images or body of work. The series of images or project may be completed or at the beginning states of realization. But it is important that the artist and the work be able to articulate or demonstrate the artist's intention. Both content and style/aesthetic ideas are important to her. She has a particular interest in seeing serious, in-depth documentary work. Watriss is not interested in purely decorative or work that is experimental for the sake of being experimental.

Lisa Woodward and Mia Dalglish
Co-Curators, Pictura Gallery
Bloomington, IN, United States
www.picturagallery.com

Lisa Woodward and Mia Dalglish are Co-Curators at Pictura Gallery, a non-profit contemporary space in Bloomington, IN. Together, they serve as portfolio reviewers for conferences and festivals such as FotoFest, Photolucida, and Les Rencontres d’Arles. They also serve as jurors and guest critics for university classrooms. Dalglish is an alumna of the Indiana University Photography Program, and upon graduation worked at the Institute for Contemporary Photography. Woodward is an alumna of the Rhode Island School of Design.

Pictura Gallery is known as a thoughtful venue with nuanced exhibits, focusing on work with strong formal sensibilities and depth of content. We hang six exhibits each year, with a mix of solo and two-person shows, and typically one group show. After 10 years as a commercial gallery, Pictura has recently become a non-profit space, joining forces with the FAR Center for the Contemporary Arts to serve our community and the Midwest. We are pursuing the intersection of photography and other art forms, such as dance, performance, music, and poetry. We are looking to find projects with the capacity to push past the boundaries of the frame, into time-based forms and broader installations.

Woodward and Dalglish are interested to see fresh portfolios that demonstrate a cohesive and carefully edited body of work. What they would like to see: excellent craft, a balance of aesthetic and conceptual concerns, emotionally moving work with well-considered ideas. They tend to be less interested in amateur nature photography, strictly commercial work, digital collage, and forlorn forgotten items, although there are always outliers in any category. Woodward and Dalglish can offer critique and feedback to strengthen your work aesthetically and conceptually. They can sort a new edit for consideration and help push you to be ready for exhibitions. If the work is a good fit for the gallery's programming, exhibition opportunities may be offered at a later date. Projects do not need to be completed to be considered, but must show a high degree of thought, cohesion, and resolution.

Sophie Wright
Independent Photography & Art Consultant
London, United Kingdom
@wrightsophie

Sophie Wright has over 20 years experience working in the visual arts with a particular expertise in photography.

Formerly Global Cultural Director at Magnum Photos, leading the agency's exhibitions, books, print sales, cultural commissions and talks programming, she launched her independent photography and art consultancy in November 2020. In her new role, she is working on creative strategy and programmes for organisations; artists and collections management; curation and writing.

She launched her mentoring programme, Photochat, via Instagram in May 2020 and has been talking with practitioners worldwide, providing advice and support during the pandemic.

Wright is best able to help photographers working on narrative based projects, with a particular interest in expanded documentary practice.

LANGUAGES SPOKEN: English

Joanne Junga Yang
Artistic Director
Korea International Photo Festival
kipf.kr

Joanne Junga Yang is an artistic director, curator, juror, lecturer, portfolio reviewer and writer in the field of photography, working within a wide range internationally.

Joanne is the artistic director of Korea International Photo Festival (KIPF) which has been held at Hangaram Design Museum of Seoul Arts Center in Seoul, South Korea since 2018, and is also the director and curator of Y&G Art Global contemporary project, collaborating with galleries, magazines and private museums on curating and collecting.

She has organized and curated a variety of exhibitions on contemporary art and photography, such as Dong Gang International Photography Festival, Seoul Photo Festival and many more. She received The Art and Culture Award for Curating of the Seoul Photo Festival (2011) from the Seoul Metropolitan Government, and she was appointed as Director of the International Committee by the Seoul Metropolitan City Government.

Joanne is author of many articles on photography, and has interviewed international artists for such diverse magazines as Korea Monthly Photography, PhotoDot, Monthly PhotoArt, Art Now and more.

LANGUAGES SPOKEN: English, Korean

Jane Yeomans
Photo & Visuals Editor
Bloomberg
New York City, NY, United States
bloomberg.com

Jane Yeomans currently works at Bloomberg Businessweek magazine, where she commissions and licenses photography.Previously she worked as freelance photo editor and researcher for book projects, design firms and for many publications, including The New Yorker, New York Magazine, Vanity Fair, ESPN and many others. She has been commissioning and licensing photography for many years in New York City, where she currently resides.

Jane Yeomans has a MFA from the School of the Art Institute in Chicago, a BFA from the University of Florida and studied Art History at the University of Kent, in Canterbury.

She is interested in reviewing mostly everything, especially narrative or personal work, but is also open to documentary, portrait, landscape, still life, etc.

LANGUAGES SPOKEN: English

Manfred Zollner
Editor in Chief, fotoMAGAZIN
Hamburg, Germany
www.fotomagazin.de

Mr. Zollner has a degree in Mass Communications from Munich University and began his career as a film critic, working for various German film magazines. Since 1991 he has devoted himself entirely to photography. He started working for fotoMAGAZIN that year as Director of Photography. From 2003 till 2006 he was Editor in Chief of the bi-monthly magazine Photo Technik International (now published as Photo International). He returned to fotoMAGAZIN in 2006 as Deputy Editor in Chief and has taken over the position as Editor in Chief at the beginning of 2019.

Since 2012 he´s also the Editor of the annual fine art photography publication fotoMAGAZIN EDITION. In addition to his editorial work, Mr. Zollner is a regular contributor of essays to international photo book projects.

Manfred is interested in any kind of photographic work, as long as it shows an individual, creative and clever approach.

LANGUAGES SPOKEN: German, English, French