Peggy Sue Amison
Artistic Director, East Wing
Doha, Qatar
east-wing.org

Peggy Sue Amison is Artistic Director of East Wing a platform for photography founded in Doha, Qatar (2015 - present). As curator, writer, producer, and consultant, Peggy Sue collaborates with numerous emerging and established photographers, festivals and publications internationally. She has curated exhibitions in multiple locations in Europe, the United States, and China. She also writes for photographic publications and artist catalogues.

Prior to her work with East Wing, Peggy Sue was Artistic Director of Sirius Arts Centre in County Cork, Ireland and Board Member of Belfast Photo Festival in Northern Ireland.

With a history of mentoring artists on long-term photographic projects and supporting the development of new and innovative photography, Peggy Sue has been a long-time supporter for photographers on project development, distribution and strategies for promotion both through her work with East Wing and as a free-lance curator. Originally from the United States, Peggy Sue lives and works in Berlin, Germany.

Daniela Yvonne Baumann
Independent Curator
Stadthaus Ulm
New Ulm, Germany
stadthaus.ulm.de/en

Daniela Yvonne Baumann is a freelance curator, writer, and lecturer, focusing on contemporary photography. She frequently curates photo exhibitions for Stadthaus Ulm, the Neu Ulm, Germany-based hub for international cultural events, as well as for other venues.

As head of the public relations department of the Alb-Donau-Kreis, Baumann is currently responsible for several book and film projects dedicated to specific aspects of county politics, among other activities. At the same time, she supports the district government in dealing with its art collection and advises on new acquisitions and exhibition projects.

In her former position as director of The Walther Collection, Baumann organized numerous photography exhibitions worldwide, including Structures of Identity: Photography from The Walther Collection, which toured the United States, Mexico, Spain, and the Netherlands. She co-edited the catalog Recent Histories: Contemporary African Photography and Video Art, which was named one of the ten best photography books of the year by The New York Times Magazine in 2017 and nominated for the ICP Infinity Award in the Critical Writing and Research category in 2018.

Daniela Yvonne Baumann is particularly interested in works addressing socio-political or cultural issues in a documentary or conceptual approach, understanding photography as a means for social change. She is looking forward to meeting photographers who are interested in discussing their ideas at any stage of project development and can offer critique on artistic practices, reproduction strategies, scenographic concepts, and advice on promoting the work. Baumann is open to review any kind of work but less interested in seeing commercial, nude, fashion, advertising, or stock photography.

Dan Boardman
Director
Light Work
Syracuse, NY, United States
lightwork.org

Dan Boardman, Director of Light Work in Syracuse, NY, is an artist living and working in Brutus, NY. Boardman received a BFA in photography from the Rochester Institute of Technology and an MFA from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. His work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally and is held in both public and private collections. Boardman was shortlisted for the 2016 Aperture PhotoBook Award, was a 2015 Light Work Artist in Residence (Syracuse, NY). His work has recently been exhibited at Rivily Projects (Buffalo, NY), Egg Collective (New York, NY)  321 Gallery (Brooklyn, NY), University of Notre Dame (Notre Dame, IN) Harvard University (Cambridge, MA) and Musée des Beaux-Arts (Le Locle, Switzerland).

Janice Bond
Cultural Architect, Art Advisor, and Owner, Art Is Bond
Houston, TX, United States
janicebond.com
artisbond.gallery

From Texas to Tokyo, local visual art exhibitions to international music festivals, Janice Bond's forward thinking and high-energy approach has been utilized to develop a myriad of cultural productions and experiences across the globe. Her interest and contributions to the arts stem from a passion for supporting the development of more transformative, equitable, and sustainable creative ecosystems.

The debut of her company Bond Creative Advisors in 2009 began the incalculable journey of supporting and leading collectives of artistic minds and institutions as Chief Curator and Art Advisor. Janice’s insight has also been an integral part of developing multidisciplinary programming and communications strategies for independent artists, municipalities, and brands. She has served as both a member of the Chicago Cultural Plan Advisory Council (2012), and the Navy Pier Arts Working Group (2016). Her signature workshops for independent artists and emerging collectors have been facilitated in countless cities, from the Brooklyn Museum to Malaysia.

In the community, Janice lends her time to multiple organizations and institutions as a gracious advisor, board member, volunteer, and mentor. In 2013, she became the Director of Arts and Culture at IMAN, using art as a foundation and pathway for social justice and restorative healing for both Chicago's Southwest Side and in similar marginalized communities around the world. In 2016, Janice Bond became the Director of Music and Social Programming for The Kimpton Gray Hotel in Chicago, Illinois, followed by the Hotel Van Zandt in Austin, Texas. She was also selected as one of the curators for Chicago’s Year of Public Art (2017). In 2020, she was appointed as the Deputy Director of Contemporary Arts Museum Houston. Most recently, Janice has focused on opening a new contemporary art gallery, Art Is Bond, in Houston's Montrose neighborhood.

Ashlyn Davis Burns
Co-Founder, Assembly
Houston, TX, United States
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

Shane Lavalette
Founding Director, Assembly
Houston, TX, United States
assembly.art
shanelavalette.com

Shane Lavalette is a photographer and Founding Director of Assembly, a global platform supporting an innovative roster of artists. Previously, Lavalette worked as the Director of the non-profit organization Light Work. He holds a BFA from Tufts University in partnership with The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Lavalette’s photographs have been shown widely, including exhibitions at the High Museum of Art, Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, Aperture Foundation, Montserrat College of Art, The Carpenter Center for Visual Arts at Harvard University, The Center for Photography at Woodstock, Kaunas Gallery, Le Château d’Eau, Fotostiftung Schweiz, Musée de l’Elysée, and Robert Morat Galerie, in addition to being held in private and public collections. Lavalette is the author of four award-winning monographs: One Sun, One Shadow (Lavalette, 2016), Still (Noon) (Edition Patrick Frey, 2018), LOST, Syracuse (Kris Graves Projects, 2019), and New Monuments (Libraryman, 2019). Lavalette’s work has been featured by The New York Times, TIME, NPR, CNN, The Telegraph, Aperture, Foam Magazine, Hotshoe, among others, and his editorial work has accompanied stories in various publications, including The New York Times Magazine, T: The New York Times Style Magazine, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Esquire, Bloomberg Businessweek, Curbed, Vice Magazine, The Wire, Wallpaper, Monocle, The Guardian, and ZEITmagazin. Lavalette is represented by Robert Morat Galerie in Berlin and We Folk agency in London/New York.

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

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

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

Crista Dix
Executive Director, Griffin Museum of Photography
Winchester, MA
griffinmuseum.org

Crista Dix is the Executive Director of the Griffin Museum of Photography, assuming that role in January of 2022 after two years as the museum's Associate Director. The Griffin Museum of Photography produces approximately fifty exhibitions annually in its Winchester and satellite galleries across New England. As an institution, we are committed to ensuring that our mindset, our practice, our outreach, our programming, and our exhibitions set a framework that consider diversity, equity, accessibility, and inclusion through our mission that is centered around the photograph.

Before coming to the Griffin Museum in 2020, Ms. Dix spent fifteen years operating her own photography gallery, wall space creative, closing it in 2020 to make the move to New England and the Griffin. In addition to curating exhibitions and mentoring photographers, she has written essays about photography, been a member of panels and discussions on the craft, juried creative competitions, and has participated in major portfolio reviews across the country.

Ms. Dix is open to view all types of photography, including moving images, installation and public projects. She is open to providing feedback on projects not yet completed and answering questions concerning next steps for projects or series not yet realized.

David Drake
Independent Curator and Producer
Director, European Prospects
United Kingdom
europeanprospects.org

David Drake is an independent curator and producer with four decades’ experience in the visual arts and media field. For the last 13 years he was the Director of Ffotogallery, the national development agency for photography and lens-based media in Wales, during which time he curated 250+ exhibitions and published 30 photography books. David was also Director of five biennial editions of Diffusion – Wales International Festival of Photography between 2013 and 2021, and Project Director for Wales’ national pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2015. Between 2018 and 2020, David was Curator of The Place I Call Home, a major UK-Gulf exhibition commissioned by the British Council which toured to eleven venues in seven countries. He has also curated several international projects with artists and partners in South Korea, India, North America and Africa.

He is most interested in reviewing work with a clear artistic intent, whether that work relates to photography’s documentary/fine art histories, conceptual practices or more experimental forms. He can offer advice on editing and sequencing, and opportunities to have the work exhibited or published. He would prefer not to review work that is purely editorial or commercially orientated.

Catherine Edelman & Anette Skuggedal
Co-Founders, CASE Art Fund
Chicago, IL, United States
caseartfund.org

Catherine Edelman opened her Chicago gallery more than 34 years ago after completing her MFA in Photography at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Since its founding in 1987, the gallery has established itself as one of the leading galleries in the Midwest devoted to the exhibition of prominent living photographers, alongside new & young talent. The gallery showcases a broad range of subject matter, attracting both the seasoned collector and first-time buyers. The website provides a wealth of information, including artist talks, interviews with art world professionals, and extensive educational material. The gallery participates in art fairs throughout the country, and is widely respected as a leader, educator, and specialist in the field of contemporary photography.

In 2018, Catherine and Anette co-founded CASE Art Fund, a 501c3 non-profit that gives support and exposure to fine art photographers whose projects focus on humanitarian issues and create a positive impact on social awareness, human rights, and education. CASE's vision is to be at the forefront of presenting photographs about social injustices that inspire, educate, raise awareness and offer dialogue.

Catherine is interested in narrative works with a social message, mixed-media photo-based work and video art. She looks for work that is honest, and values artists who know how to speak about their intent. She is not interested in nudes, still-life, flowers, or landscape photography.

Anette Skuggedal holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Communication/Advertising from the University of Texas, Austin. For more than twenty-five years, she worked as an art director in film, advertising, and broadcasting. In 2003, she left the commercial industry to focus on photography, establishing herself as a consultant for private and corporate collections and launched PUG OSLO [Pop Up Gallery]. Through PUG, she worked with internationally acclaimed artists, curating an array of international exhibitions in Stockholm, Oslo, and Japan, publishing books and catalogs for Sally Mann, Roger Ballen, Yamamoto Masao, and Arno Rafael Minkkinen. In 2017, Skuggedal renamed PUG OSLO, opening Lumina Gallery [Serendipity] as part of a cultural art house in downtown Oslo that includes venues for music, film, architecture, and fashion. Lumina Gallery offers an array of workshops, exhibitions, and seminars, and is seen as a leading educator for fine art photography in Oslo. Anette is the co-founder of CASE Art Fund.

Anette is interested in evolving and curious artists who are committed to social issues using the tools of fine art photography and mix-media to give their work honesty and depth.

LANGUAGES SPOKEN: English, Norwegian, Swedish

Thomas Elsen
Head and Curator, Neue Galerie im Höhmannhaus and H2 – Center for Contemporary Art in Glasspalace
Kunstsammlungen und Museen, Augsburg, Germany
www.h2-glaspalast.de

Thomas Elsen joined the Kunstsammlungen und Museen, Augsburg, in 1996 as curator of art and photography. He founded the Neue Galerie im Höhmannhaus, an experimental art space, in 1997, and H2 – Center for Contemporary Art in the Glasspalace, in 2006. Recent exhibitions include Behind Landscape (Jaakko Heikkilä, Anastasia Khoroshilova, Trevor Paglen, 2012); Portraits d’artistes: Edward Steichen – Jean Noel Schramm (2014); Faces of Disappearance (Sophie Calle, Larry Sultan, Olaf Unverzart, 2015/16); Not Here Yet, co-curated with Celina Lunsford (Alberto García Alix, Maurizio Cattelan, Hamish Fulton, Ferit Kuyas, 2016/17); The Blue Planet (Olaf Otto Becker, Barbara Ciurej/Lindsay Lochmann, Andrea Motta, Saba Sitton, 2020/21); and European Trails (Letizia Battaglia, Youquine Lefèvre, Joanna Piotrowska, Katharina Sieverding, on view through September 2022.) He has curated exhibitions for European Month of Photography, Düsseldorf Photo Weekend, and Tashkent Photo-Biennale. He is a member of Deutsche Fotografische Akademie DFA, German Photographic Academy.

Regarding photography, Elsen is more interested in visual-based thinking than cognitive. The clear, strong image should be the concept, rather than employing a theory as justification to create it. He looks for serious visual pathfinders who articulate clear ideas aesthetically. Though always pleased to meet well-known photographers, he is more delighted to find talents with whom he can have a dialogue, in hopes of understanding their individual excellence and developable capabilities.

Louise Fedotov-Clements
Curator of Contemporary Art
Independent photography festival director, curator, writer, and producer, Forestry England / FORMAT
London, United Kingdom
forestryengland.uk/arts
formatfestival.com

Louise Fedotov-Clements was the Artistic Director of QUAD, a centre for contemporary art and film, for twenty years, and the Director of FORMAT International Photography Festival for eighteen years, which she co-founded in 2004. An independent curator since 1998, Ms. Fedotov-Clements has been directing commissions, publications, performances and exhibitions for more than two decades. Currently, she leads the arts programme at Forestry England, including Earth Photo. She has been a guest curator for international exhibitions and festivals, including Dong Gang (Yeongwol), South Korea; Korea International Photo Festival, Seoul; Photoquai Biennale, Musée du quai Branly, Paris; Les Rencontres d’Arles, Discovery; Venice Biennale EM15; and Dali Photo, Photo Beijing, and Lishui Photo Festival in China. A steering group member for FORMAT International Photography Festival and an international award nominator, she has contributed to numerous publications as a producer, writer, and editor, and is a frequent juror, portfolio reviewer, and speaker in Europe, America, Africa, and Asia.

She is keen to see all practitioners at any stage of their career, loves meeting a broad variety of photographers, and is open to see work at any phase of project development. During the review, she can offer a supportive point of view, guidance on addressing challenges and achieving ambitions in creative practices, and advice on strategies for development, including the practical and conceptual considerations around preparing works for exhibition and a wide variety of other contexts. She is less interested to see travel, advertising, stock, or fine art nude photography.

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

Jens Friis
Independent Curator, Photo Historian and Publisher/Editor, KATALOG – Journal of Photography & Video
Odense, Denmark
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

Jolie Hockings
Curator, Young People, The Photographers' Gallery
London, UK
thephotographersgallery.org.uk/

Jolie Hockings is Curator, Young People at The Photographers’ Gallery in London. She has worked on youth programmes in a number of creative institutions including the International Center of Photography in New York and Photofusion in London. She’s curated youth-led exhibitions, symposiums and regularly runs creative careers focused workshops.

Ann M. Jastrab
Center for Photographic Art
Carmel, CA
photography.org

Ann M. Jastrab is the Executive Director at the Center for Photographic Art (CPA) in Carmel, California. CPA strives to advance photography through education, exhibition and publication. These regional traditions—including mastery of craft, the concept of mentorship, and dedication to the photographic arts—evolved out of CPA's predecessor, the renowned Friends of Photography established in 1967 by iconic artists Ansel Adams, Wynn Bullock and Cole Weston. While respecting these West Coast traditions, CPA is also at the vanguard of the future of photographic imagery.

Before coming onboard at CPA, Ann was the gallery manager at Scott Nichols Gallery in San Francisco where she incorporated contemporary artists with the legends photography. Ann also worked as the gallery director at RayKo Photo Center in San Francisco for 10 years until their closure in 2017. Ann has curated many shows in the Bay Area while simultaneously jurying, curating, and organizing numerous exhibitions for other national and international venues outside of San Francisco. While being a champion of artists, she created a thriving artist-in-residence program at RayKo where multiple residents, including Meghann Riepenhoff, Carlos Javier Ortiz, Kathya Marie Landeros, and McNair Evans, all received Guggenheim Fellowships.

Ann is interested in seeing all types of photography, especially documentary projects, alternative and historical process work, and traditional film based photography. She can offer exhibition opportunities as well as other support for artists.

Muema Lombe
Vice President, Board of Trustees, Center for Photographic Art
Carmel, CA, United States
photography.org

Muema Lombe is a photographer, art collector, tech startup founder, angel investor, and Vice
President of the Board of Trustees at the Center for Photographic Art (CPA) in Carmel, California.
CPA strives to advance photography through education, exhibition and publication. These regional
traditions—including mastery of craft, the concept of mentorship, and dedication to the photographic arts—evolved out of CPA's predecessor, the renowned Friends of Photography established in 1967 by iconic artists Ansel Adams, Wynn Bullock and Cole Weston. While respecting these West Coast traditions, CPA is also at the vanguard of the future of photographic imagery

Haley Berkman Karren
Principal & Founder, Karren Art Advisory
Senior Curator, Exchange Art
Houston, TX, United States
karrenartadvisory.com
exchange.art

Haley Berkman Karren is an art advisor and appraiser with Karren Art Advisory as well as Senior Curator with Exchange Art, the leading fine art NFT marketplace on the Solana blockchain. She has previously held curatorial positions at the Menil Collection; 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 also has previous experience in auction houses, galleries, and art consultancies. 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, where she focused on contemporary art and photography.

Karren is interested in reviewing conceptual photography, documentary photography, 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 is interested in speaking with photographers who are considering NFTs and would like to learn about the NFT space.

Languages spoken: English

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

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

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

Dennis Nance
Curator, Galveston Art Center
Galveston, TX, United States
www.galvestonartscenter.org

Dennis Nance is an artist and curator from Houston, Texas. He was appointed as Curator for the Galveston Arts Center in 2016 where he organizes exhibitions featuring work by contemporary artists from Texas and the Gulf Coast region. From 2007 to 2016, Nance was Exhibitions & Programming Director for Lawndale Art Center in Houston, Texas, where he worked extensively with local and regional artists through exhibitions and the Lawndale Artist Studio Program. Nance is a past member of the Artist Advisory Board for DiverseWorks and BOX 13 ArtSpace artist member. Nance is a practicing artist and was awarded an Individual Artist Grant from the Houston Arts Alliance and an Idea Fund Award in 2015. His work has been included in exhibitions at the ICA Boston; the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston; The Brandon; BOX13 ArtSpace; and the Menil Collection bookstore. He received his BA from Austin College in Sherman, TX with a concentration in Fine Arts and French.

For artists living in the Greater Houston Area, it would benefit them to schedule a time to me with me outside of the dedicated Meeting Place in order to take advantage of the visiting reviewers.

LANGUAGES SPOKEN: English, some French and Japanese

Laura Noble
Founder and Director
L A Noble Gallery
London, United Kingdom
lauraannnoble.com

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.

Alison Nordström
Independent Scholar, Writer and Curator
Cambridge, MA, United States

Alison Nordström is an independent scholar, writer and curator specializing in photographs of all kinds. Her long career in the field includes positions as Founding Director and Senior Curator of the Southeast Museum of Photography (FL), Senior Curator of Photographs/Director of Exhibitions at George Eastman House (NY), Artistic Director, Fotofestiwal Łodz (Poland), and a freelance practice established in 2014. She has worked extensively with photographers and photographic institutions in Europe, Asia and the Americas. She has curated over 100 photographic exhibitions in nine countries and written more than 50 essays on photography for such publishers as Aperture, Dewi Lewis, Kehrer, Damiani, Schilt, Joffy Press, Daylight, Aperture, University of Georgia Press, University of Texas Press, and for institutions including museums across North America and in Germany, England, Lithuania, Belgium, and France. She is currently a Research Associate in Photography at Harvard University. She holds the PhD in Cultural and Visual Studies.

Nordström is known for her thoughtful and useful reviews. She is particularly able to help photographers think about the role of text in projects being developed for publication. She can also offer general critique, guidance, referrals, historical context, language, funding concepts, encouragement, and inspiration. She is most interested in art, architecture, documentary, photojournalism, and conceptual undertakings, and will review coherent bodies of work whether they are completed or are works in progress. She is generally not interested in nudes or abstraction and does not feel she can be particularly helpful with fashion, advertising, or stock photography.

Maarten & Maria Louise Schilt
Founder, Publisher and Gallerist, Schilt Publishing & Gallery
Amsterdam, Netherlands
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, German, and Russian (Maria Louise); adequate knowledge of French and Italian

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

Anne Wilkes Tucker
Curator Emerita of Photography
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, USA
www.mfah.org

Anne Wilkes Tucker is Curator Emerita of Photography at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, where she founded the photography department in 1976. The museum’s collection now comprises 30,000 photographs made on all seven continents.

Ms. Tucker has curated more than forty exhibitions, including retrospectives of the work of Brassaï, Louis Faurer, Robert Frank, George Krause, Ray K. Metzker, Chen Changfen, and Richard Misrach, as well as important surveys, including ones on the Czech Avant Garde, contemporary Korean Photography, a history of Japanese Photography and WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY: Photographs of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath. Most of these exhibitions were accompanied by publications.

She has also published many articles and lectured throughout the United States, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America. She has been awarded fellowships by the National Endowment for the Arts, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the Getty Center. She received an Alumnae Achievement Award from Randolph-Macon Woman’s College; Lifetime Achievement Awards from the Griffin Museum of Photography and from the Houston Fine Arts Fair; and in 2001, TIME magazine listed her as America’s Best Curator in an issue devoted to “America’s Best”.

LANGUAGES SPOKEN: English

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

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

Sophie Wright
Executive Director, Fotografiska
Independent Photography & Art Consultant
New York City, NY, United States
fotografiska.com/nyc/
@wrightsophie

Sophie Wright has over 25 years experience working in the visual arts with a particular expertise in photography. She is the recently appointed Executive Director of Fotografiska New York, the NYC location of the renowned Stockholm-based destination for the world’s best photography. Founded in 2010, Fotografiska was built on the foundation of photography as a haven for inclusivity and free expression, with the goal of inspiring a more conscious world through the art of photography.

Prior to taking on the role at Fotografiska, Wright was 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, through which she works 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

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.