Elizabeth Avedon
Independent Curator & Consultant
New York City, NY, United States
elizabethavedon.com
Elizabeth Avedon is an independent curator and consultant. She works with photographers at all stages of their career, emerging to established, to help edit and shape their work for exhibitions, books, presentations and photography events.
Ms. Avedon is the former Director of Photo-Eye Gallery, Santa Fe; Creative Director for The Gere Foundation; Art Director for Polo Ralph Lauren national advertising; and Photo Editor for Ralph Lauren Media's RL Magazine. She has received numerous awards and recognition for her exhibition design and publishing projects, including the retrospective exhibition and book, Avedon: 1949–1979 for the Metropolitan Museum of Art NY and Dallas Museum of Fine Arts; Richard Avedon: In the American West for the Amon Carter Museum, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, and The Art Institute of Chicago; and exhibition designs for the Estate of Diane Arbus, the Menil Collection, Houston and the Leica Gallery, New York.
Ms. Avedon leads international photography book design workshops and and serves as faculty for the Masters in Digital Photography department at the School of Visual Arts in New York. In 2017, she received the “Lifetime Achievement Award” from the Griffin Museum of Photography.
Florent Basiletti
Director, The Manuel Rivera-Ortiz Foundation
Arles, France
mrofoundation.org
Florent Basiletti is Director of the Manuel Rivera-Ortiz Foundation and an independent curator. Basiletti graduated from the École nationale supérieure de photographie d'Arles, and is involved in a number of artistic events. Since 2022, he has accompanied the artistic direction of Photosa, Burkina Faso's biennial photography festival in Ouagadougou, and since 2021, he has contributed to the Arts & Culture section of the Louis Vuitton City guide to Arles.
In 2021 he co-founded La Kabine, a space for artists' workshops, residencies and educational programs in Arles. Recent curated exhibitions include: Les communs, 2023, Centre photographique Marseille x Beaux-Arts de Marseille; Ascendance, 2022, Manuel Rivera-Ortiz Foundation, Arles; L'enfant sauvage et le douanier globetrotteur, 2022, Musée départemental des Hautes-Alpes, Gap; Dress Code, 2022, Rencontres d'Arles, Manuel Rivera-Ortiz Foundation, Arles, (traveled to Berlin and Cadaquès); You could even die for not being a real couple, 2022, Photolux Festival, Lucca, Italy; Echos Système, 2021, Manuel Rivera-Ortiz Foundation, Rencontres d'Arles; and Modernité des Passions, 2019, Rencontres d'Arles, ENSP x agnès b.
Basiletti’s own artistic practice involves studying the phenomenon of pteridomania, or “fern fever,” an obsessive infatuation with ferns in the Victorian era. Florent Basiletti's research into our relationship with the image involves questioning the possibility of biophotography and the creation of living images, notably within the La Cellule laboratory, ENSP, Arles.
William Boling
Publisher, Fall Line Press
Atlanta, GA, United States
falllinepress.com
William Boling is an artist, writer, photographer and publisher. In 2011, Boling founded Fall Line Press, an independent publishing house dedicated to limited edition photo and art books, based in Atlanta, Georgia. Boling lives with his family on a small farm near Milledgeville, Georgia where he specializes in near misses.
Meredith Breech
Associate Director of Exhibitions, Fotografiska
New York City, NY, United States
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Meredith Breech is Associate Director of Exhibitions at Fotografiska New York, having started there as an Exhibitions Manager in 2020. She studied media, culture, and the arts at The King’s College, and worked for an international fine art gallery for years before joining Fotografiska. With a fine arts background, she approaches photography through a multidisciplinary lens, seeking to tell new stories and reveal fresh perspectives. Some of the most notable exhibitions she’s curated are ONYX by photographer Adrienne Raquel, prepare my heart by multidisciplinary artist Kia LaBeija, and Milked in Africa by photographer Tony
Gum.
Meredith is interested in artists with a unique narrative or conceptual approach, a strong visual style, and a timely point of view. Seeing work from artists with an expansive photographic practice that spans mediums and disciplines is also of great interest. She is happy to discuss the strengths and potential refinement of complete bodies of work and develop ideas around physically displaying artwork. She is not interested in viewing commercial work.
Arturo Delgado
Curator, ALMANAQUE fotografica
Mexico City, Mexico
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Arturo Delgado is the founder, director and curator of ALMANAQUE-fotográfica, an art agency and gallery dedicated to contemporary photography and its intersections with the arts. The Mexico-city based gallery has an international presence, having participated in several art fairs, including Photo London in 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2021; the 2017-2022 editions of Zona Maco; arteBA Buenos Aires 2019 and Arcomadrid 2019, among others.
Delgado studied Law and holds postgraduate degrees in Critical Studies of Visual Arts, Cultural Management, Literature, and a Masters in Contemporary Arts from the Australian National University. Prior to working as a cultural promoter for the last 15 years, Delgado was a diplomat, an attaché to Mexico while in Australia, Director of the Centro Cultural del Bosque, and Head of Office for Mexico’s Undersecretary of Culture.
In addition to authoring many articles, Delgado has also written a book, titled Horror al vacío: (arte contemporáneo en ciudades variegated), which was published in 2017 with the Textofilia publishing house. The book was presented at the Tamayo and the Guadalajara International Book Fair in 2017. His contemporary art radio magazine, Lo Sonado, which was broadcast for five years on Horizonte 107.9 FM of the Mexican Institute of Radio, won him the first place award of the International Radio Mexico Biennial in 2006. He has also been a professor at the Centro and CIDE universities in Mexico City.
Steven Evans
Executive Director, FotoFest
Houston, TX, United States
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Steven Evans is a curator, writer, artist and executive director of the award-winning arts organization FotoFest, based in Houston, Texas. FotoFest created the first and longest running international biennial of photography and lens-based art in the U.S. He is responsible for the artistic direction of FotoFest, its exhibitions, programs, and Biennial. Among many exhibitions organized for FotoFest and other venues, Steven co-curated the FotoFest Biennial 2022 central exhibition If I Had a Hammer, the FotoFest Biennial 2018 central exhibition India: Contemporary Photographic and New Media Art and the FotoFest Biennial 2016 central exhibition Changing Circumstances: Looking at the Future of the Planet. He co-edited the related hardcover books If I Had a Hammer, INDIA, and Changing Circumstances, as well as recent FotoFest publications Velvet Generation (2019) and African Cosmologies: Photography, Time, and the Other (2020).
He represents FotoFest at photography events around the world, including in Argentina, Brazil, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Great Britain, India, Latvia, Lithuania, Mexico, the Netherlands, Singapore, and South Korea. Prior to FotoFest, Evans worked with a wide range of artists and collaborators in New York and San Antonio, Texas. His curatorial work incorporates a range of approaches with a focus on photography, moving image, and new media art.
Steven is looking for bodies of work with well-defined purpose, fully formed or near completion, either in still photographs, video or new media.
Max Fields
Curator & Director of Publishing, FotoFest
Houston, TX, United States
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Max Fields is Curator and Director of Publishing at FotoFest in Houston, where he has organized three major Biennial exhibitions including African Cosmologies: Photography, Time, and the Other, curated by Mark Sealy (2020), The Texas Biennial: In Place of an Index, which he co-curated with Ryan Dennis and Evan Garza (2021), and If I Had a Hammer, which he co-curated with Amy Sadao and Steven Evans (2022). He recently organized a community-generated cyanotype exhibition for FotoFest, and is currently organizing a survey exhibition featuring Ukrainian photographers documenting civilian life during the Russian invasion of Ukraine (2023).
Previously, Fields worked with the University of Houston to organize the exhibition Gareth Long: Kidnappers Foil (2019–20) at the Blaffer Art Museum and a city-wide performance festival titled CounterCurrent 19 (2019). Fields has held curatorial and administrative positions at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, and Suplex Projects. Fields’s exhibitions and projects have received attention and reviews from publications including The New York Times, ArtForum, Freize, Art in America, Mousse Magazine, The Guardian, Aperture, and Texas Monthly among others. His writing on art and photography has been featured in numerous exhibition catalogs, magazines, and journals. Fields is a graduate of the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College (2018).
Hannah Frieser
Director of Programs & Grants, CNY Arts
Syracuse, New York, United States
www.cnyarts.org
Hannah Frieser is a curator, writer, and arts administrator with extensive knowledge of modern and contemporary art practices. Frieser has established herself with a passion for the arts, a collaborative spirit, and an unwavering commitment to diversity and equity. She is a frequent lecturer on contemporary photographic practices, whose essays have been featured in publications such as Contact Sheet, exposure, Nueva Luz, and various monographs. She has curated exhibitions with leading contemporary photographers such as Don Gregorio Antón, Alexander Gronsky, Meryl Meisler, Pipo Nguyen-duy, as well as expanded art projects on Barry Anderson, Adam Magyar, Suzanne Opton, and more.
Prior to her appointment as Director of Grants and Programs at CNY Arts, Frieser served in senior administrative positions, including Executive Director of the Center for Photography at Woodstock and Director of Light Work in Syracuse. She began her career in the arts working for the Society for Photographic Education (SPE) in a variety of positions, including serving on SPE’s national board of directors. She is a co-founder of the artist initiative Converging Perspective and currently serves on the board of directors at ArtsNYS.
Hannah has reviewed portfolios and juried exhibitions worldwide for FotoFest, En Foco, 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: English and German
Hamidah Glasgow
Executive Director and Curator
The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO
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Hamidah Glasgow has been the Executive Director and Curator at The Center for Fine Art Photography in Fort Collins, Colorado since 2009. She holds a master’s degree in humanities specializing in visual and gender studies and a bachelor’s degree in philosophy. Hamidah is a co-founder of the Strange Fire Collective. Strange Fire Collective is a group of interdisciplinary artists, curators, and writers focused on work that engages with current social and political forces. We seek to create a venue for work that critically questions the dominant social hierarchy and are dedicated to highlighting work made by women, people of color, and queer and trans artists. She is one of the founding board members of the Colorado Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts.
Hamidah is interested in work that pushes the boundaries of photography, socially and environmentally relevant work, and projects that can exist outside the traditional gallery format. She is not interested in traditional nudes, traditional landscapes, and commercial work.
Charles Guice
Co-Founder, Converging Perspectives
Syracuse, New York, United States
convergingperspectives.org
Charles Guice is an art advisor, curator, mentor, and writer. An accomplished arts professional conversant in the diverse role of photography, he has been instrumental in advancing the careers of numerous leading contemporary artists, such as Erika Diettes, Priya Kambli, Kambui Olujimi, Hank Willis Thomas, and Carrie Mae Weems. As a gallerist, Guice placed works in prominent private and public collections throughout the United States and abroad, including The Brooklyn Museum; The J. Paul Getty Museum; The High Museum of Art; The International Center of Photography; and The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
He is the co-founder of Converging Perspectives, an online initiative devoted to the presentation of contemporary photography in a culturally aware context that fosters an international understanding in direct support of artists. The first black member of The Association of International Photography Art Dealers, joining and exhibiting over a decade ago, Guice has written a number of articles and essays.
Currently serving on the Board of Directors for 10x10 Photobooks, and he has served on the Boards of Trustees for The California College of the Arts and The Museum of The African Diaspora. A former healthcare executive, Guice has curated exhibitions varying in scope, and was a principal, managing director, and co-curator for Photo Miami. Recently, he co-edited a special, printed edition of the Society for Photographic Education’s journal, exposure, coinciding with the magazine’s fiftieth anniversary and the organization’s sixtieth. Guice also served as a juror for the 33rd edition of Encontros da Imagem’s Discovery Awards, opening in September 2023, which is regarded as one of the oldest photography festivals in Europe.
Guice is interested in a wide variety of work, but he is especially interested in reviewing narrative, socially relevant, and cohesive bodies of contemporary photography and video. Guice is actively seeking an international mix of artists who are at a critical point of their career, and would greatly benefit from exposure through written essays, and consultation and mentoring. While he can only offer limited criticism on commercial portfolios, traditional nudes, or travel photography, Guice can provide professional feedback as well as additional opportunities within the field.
Hava Gurevich
Director, art2art Circulating Exhibitions
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
art2art.org
Hava Gurevich was born in Russia and spent part of her childhood in Israel before moving with her family to Ann Arbor, MI. She received her BFA in Photography from the University of Michigan in 1990 and her MFA in Painting from the Illinois State University in 1998.
Hava Gurevich’s art career stretches back over 25 years – commercial and editorial photographer, fine artist, college art instructor, gallery director, and curator. Currently she is the Director of art2art Circulating Exhibitions, working with private collections, artist estates and contemporary photographers to develop traveling exhibitions. Among the many shows Ms. Gurevich curated was a Muhammad Ali exhibition for Hofstra University’s Muhammad Ali Symposium in 2008, this exhibition later traveled to museums across the US.
Gurevich is also the Executive Director of the Disfarmer Project, a program devoted to the reconstitution and study of the celebrated photographer Michael Disfarmer, his life and work. In conjunction with this, Ms. Gurevich has curated two Disfarmer Exhibitions - one for the US market and one for the European market. Ms. Gurevich is also the associate producer of a feature film documentary about Disfarmer’s life that has been screened in the US, Canada, Australia and Europe.
Leo Hsu
Executive Director, Silver Eye Center for Photo
Pittsburgh, PA, United States
silvereye.org
Leo Hsu is the Executive Director of Silver Eye Center for Photography in Pittsburgh. Silver Eye’s mission is to promote the power of contemporary photography as a fine art by supporting and sharing the work of emerging, mid-career, under-represented and underseen artists. Leo is an editor at Fraction Magazine, wrote and edited for Fraction and Foto8/EI8HT and was formerly a news photographer. He teaches in criticism and history of photography and studio at Carnegie Mellon University and holds a doctorate in Social Anthropology from New York University.
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Michael Itkoff
Co-Founder, Daylight Books
Bronx, NY
daylightbooks.org
Michael Itkoff is a publisher, creative consultant and Co-founder of Daylight Books. For nearly twenty
years, Michael has been a leader in publishing both digital and print media. Along the way, Michael has
written for the NY Times Lens blog, Art Asia Pacific, Nueva Luz, Conscientious blog and the Forward.
Michael’s photographic and video work is in public and private collections in the United States and his
work has appeared on the covers of Orion, Katalog, Next City and Philadelphia Weekly. Michael was the
recipient of the Howard Chapnick Grant for the Advancement of Photojournalism (2006), a Creative
Artists Fellowship from the Pennsylvania Arts Council (2007), and a Puffin Foundation Grant (2008).
Michael’s monograph Street Portraits was published by Charta Editions in 2009.
Tiffany Jones
Founding Publisher, Overlapse
London, United Kingdom
www.overlapse.com
Tiffany Jones is the founding publisher of Overlapse, a London-based photobook imprint started in 2015. With over 30 years dedicated to arts publishing and photojournalism, she is an editor, book designer, researcher and educator working with global programmes and institutions. She collaborates in tandem with photographers and artists to communicate through the making of unique, desirable, and beautifully produced books. Subjects and stories address social, cultural, and environmental issues, and highlight enduring and universal themes connected to human experience. Notable publications include You can call me Nana by Will Harris (finalist, 2021 Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation First Photobook prize); A Parallel Road by Amani Willett (top 10 photobooks of 2021, David Campany for ICP); and Beyond Drifting: Imperfectly Known Animals by Mandy Barker (nominated for the 2018 Deutsche Börse Foundation Prize).
Anne Leighton Massoni
Executive Director & Curator, Houston Center for Photography
Houston, TX, United States
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Anne Leighton Massoni is Executive Director of the Houston Center for Photography in Texas. Before joining HCP she was the Dean and Managing Director of Education at the International Center of Photography in New York City. She has held academic positions at Marshall University, Cornell University, Tyler School of Art, Washington College, Memphis College of Art, Monmouth University, and the University of the Arts.
Massoni graduated with a MFA in Photography from Ohio University and BAs in Photography and Anthropology from Connecticut College. Her work relates to ideas of both real and fabricated memories and identity, using a variety of film and digital techniques.
Emilia Mickevicius
Norton Family Assistant Curator of Photography, Center for Creative Photography & Phoenix Art Museum
Tucson, AZ, United States
ccp.arizona.edu
Emilia Mickevicius is the Norton Family Assistant Curator of Photography, a dual appointment
between the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson and the Phoenix Art Museum.
Previously she worked in the Photography department at the San Francisco Museum of Modern
Art (SFMOMA), where she co-organized or contributed to numerous exhibitions including
Kinship: Photography and Connection, Sightlines: Photographs from the Collection, and A Living
For Us All: Artists and the WPA, as well as the forthcoming presentation, Sea Change:
Photographs from the Collection. In 2019 she received her Ph.D. from Brown University, where
she wrote her dissertation on the 1975 Eastman Museum exhibition New Topographics.
Emmy is particularly interested in conceptual, abstract, and process-oriented work, as well as
photographs that consider landscape. She can help artists identify their strongest images,
explore future directions to take their series in progress, and discuss strategies around scale
and materials. She also enjoys sharing insight about historical photographers or traditions that
artists may be in dialogue with.
Kara Milstein
Photo Editor, TIME Magazine
New York City, NY, United States
time.com
Kara Milstein is a New York-based photo editor at TIME. She commissions and edits photography for print, digital and social platforms, with a focus on national news, long-term documentary projects and portraiture. Her work has been nominated for awards from ASME, the Society of Publication Designers, the Emmys, World Press Photo, and Pictures of the Year International, among other organizations. She has held positions at Aperture Foundation, the World Photography Organisation and the Barnes Foundation. She holds a B.A. in communication studies from Temple University.
Laura Noble
Founder and Director
L A Noble Gallery
London, United Kingdom
lauraannnoble.com
@lanoblegallery
@lauraannnoble
Laura Noble is the founder and Director of L A Noble Gallery in London (LANG), launched in 2012, and FIX Photo Festival since 2016. She is also a multidisciplinary artist, curator and author of The Art of Collecting Photography, with primary essays in many photobooks including monographs, catalogues and anthologies alongside articles for numerous journals worldwide. She is a proud feminist and is currently working on a new book focusing on the role of women in the photography industry. As an avid collector, Laura prides herself on discovering new talent, also lecturing and consulting on all aspects of collecting photography, professional and gallery practice globally.
As a nominator for the Prix Pictet Prize and judge for many photographic competitions and residency programmes worldwide reviewing at photo festivals globally.
Laura curates at LANG and independently worldwide for museums and other art organizations. Her recent curation includes: Roy Mehta Revival London 1989-1993 - Brent Museum and Archives with LANG artist and the London Art Fair Photo50 exhibition Occupy the Void, Magazzini Fotografici in Naples with Chris Steele-Perkins work Japan and the 50th Anniversary of Rencontres d’Arles at the MRO Foundation Yvonne De Rosa Negativo 1930 were received with much critical acclaim.
With a commitment to emerging photographer’s L A Noble Gallery offer regular portfolio reviews, mentoring and bespoke consultations for artists. L A Noble Gallery also participates and exhibits at several photography fairs and festivals worldwide.
Laura loves to see all types of photography and photobooks, including nudes, however she is not interested in reviewing misogynistic nudes or commercial photography. She is especially interested in reviewing conceptual, critical, and well-articulated fine art.
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 963 solo exhibitions by 793 different artists, plus 61 group shows. Mr. Rauschenberg has been a photographer since 1973 and has had 126 solo shows of his own work in eight countries.
Blue Sky Gallery is a non-profit artists' space which produces 22 solo exhibitions per year and an occasional group show. Over the last 7 years, Blue Sky has produced 146 print-on-demand catalogs for our exhibiting artists. The gallery's focus and passion is on promoting emerging artists. Over the last 20 years, it has presented solo shows by 178 photographers from festivals like FotoFest. Blue Sky has presented solo shows by artists from 46 countries.
While Mr. Rauschenberg likes to look at everything, Blue Sky does not tend to exhibit fashion or classic nudes, traditional portraits and scenic photography (in the style of Edward Weston or Ansel Adams, for example). The many landscape and portrait exhibitions the gallery presents tend to have strong documentary and sociological content. As with all portfolio 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
Maarten Schilt
Founder, Publisher and Gallerist, Schilt Publishing & Gallery
Amsterdam, Netherlands
schiltpublishing.com
Schilt Publishing, erected in 2009, is mainly focused on high profile journalistic, documentary and art photography. Since 2010, we are also the proud publishing partner of Houston-based FotoFest, one of the world’s leading contemporary art organizations co-founded by photojournalists Frederick Baldwin and Wendy Watriss, and internationally acclaimed for its superb biennials.
Schilt Gallery opened in 2014 to provide an even broader basis in the international photography world. Since then, dozens of shows have been made with photographers from all over the world. In 2017, the publishing house merged with the gallery into Schilt Publishing & Gallery.
As a Reviewer, Maarten gives honest and clear opinions and can give general advice on many aspects of the photography business. Assuming a thorough body of work fits well within Schilt Publishing & Gallery, he could offer opportunities for book publications and/or art dealer representation.
LANGUAGES SPOKEN: Fluent in Dutch, English, German; adequate knowledge of French and Italian
Mary Virginia Swanson
Educator, Author and Advisor
Tucson, AZ, United States
mvswanson.com
@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 coauthored 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. A third edition will be shipping in June 2023.
Swanson received her MFA in Photography from Arizona State University (1979). Throughout graduate school she served as a research assistant for the Curator of Photography at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, her hometown Museum. She began her career at The Friends of Photography in Carmel, California, managing the education offerings, including an Ansel Adams Workshop. From there she moved to NYC to head Special Projects at Magnum Photos, bringing the work of their photographers to broader audiences through exhibition and publication projects. She relocated to Tucson, Arizona in 1990 to launch Swanstock, a unique agency managing licensing rights for fine art photographers. She currently works independently, offering consulting services to artists and arts organizations, and offering her own classes and giving back to our field through educational seminars, serving as an advisor for multiple not-for-profit industry organizations, and other community-minded activities.
Marta Szymańska
Author, Curator, and Founder, Fotofestiwal - International Festival of Photography
Lodz, Poland
fotofestiwal.com
Barbara Tannenbaum
Chair, Prints, Drawings, and Photographs and Curator of Photography, Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, OH, United States
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.
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Gary Van Zante
Curator of Architecture, Design and Photography, MIT Museum
Boston, Massachusetts
mitmuseum.mit.edu
Gary Van Zante is curator of architecture, design and photography collections at the MIT
Museum, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. During 22 years at MIT he has curated
or organized over 60 exhibitions, including many for the Kurtz Gallery for Photography.
His exhibitions have ranged from American daguerreotype portraiture to contemporary
photography of South Africa, and have focused especially on urban and architectural
photography and photography of place, areas of his research. His recent exhibition on
Minor White and photographic education of the 1960s and 1970s was on view at the MIT
Museum through August of this year, and another on the Supersight projection
photography of Berenice Abbott will open at MIT in late October.
Van Zante has collaborated on exhibitions for the Die Photographische Sammlung,
Cologne; the Mapfre Museum, Madrid and Barcelona; Huis Marseille, Museum of
Photography, Amsterdam; and the Multimedia Museum, Moscow. He has been visiting
research faculty in the history of photography at the University of Paris VII in 2016 and
2021. He has contributed essays to several books on Berenice Abbott, and to
monographs on Harold Edgerton and Polaroid photography, and has authored many
articles. He is also the author of books on nineteenth century urban photography in New
Orleans and on the German photographer Ulrich Wüst, recently published by Kerher
Verlag, Berlin
Van Zante is most interested in reviewing photography about place, urban and architectural photography, and scientific photography.
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Asha Iman Veal
Associate Curator, Museum of Contemporary Photography
Chicago, IL, United States
mocp.org
Asha Iman Veal is Associate Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Photography. Her recent MoCP exhibitions Beautiful Diaspora/You Are Not the Lesser Part (2022) and LOVE: Still Not the Lesser (2023) brought together cross-diasporic conversations between global artists Tintin Wulia, Xyza Cruz Bacani, Widline Cadet, Işıl Eğrikavuk, Sunil Gupta, Ngadi Smart, and more; and celebrations of love and desire by Jorian Charlton, Jess T. Dugan, Mari Katayama, Mous Lamrabat, and more. She has curated exhibitions for the Chicago Architecture Biennial, the MSU Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum by Zaha Hadid (forthcoming), and Hyde Park Art Center.
She is most interested in reviewing: interdisciplinary projects, narrative projects, projects that connect across geographic or political distance, portraiture, documentary photography, and performance. She is less interested in seeing work by photographers whose goal is to ask, “Which of these do you think is my number one best picture?” She is game and versatile to be helpful in whatever ways each unique project and individual artist most need.
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Manfred Zollner
Editor in Chief, fotoMAGAZIN
Hamburg, Germany
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
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