Exposure Awards 2015 International Jury

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  Denise Wolff

  Senior Editor
  Aperture
  New York, NY, USA
  www.aperture.org

  more about Denise

  Denise Wolff is a senior editor at Aperture, specializing in photography books. Prior to Aperture, she was the commissioning editor for photography at Phaidon Press in London. Some recent books she has commissioned include, The Open Road: Photography and the American Road Trip; The Photographer’s Playbook: 307 Assignments and Ideas; the Photography Workshop Series books; and This Equals That, a children’s book by Jason Fulford and Tamara Shopsin.

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  Roger Tooth

  Head of Photography
  The Guardian
  London, UK
  www.theguardian.com

  more about Roger

  Roger Tooth trained as a newspaper photographer on the Hackney Gazette in East London, worked as a staff photographer for IPC magazines, and freelanced for the Guardian newspaper, other papers and magazines in the 70s and 80s. In 1988, he joined the Guardian as Assistant Picture Editor, advanced to Deputy Picture Editor, and helped launch the Guardian Unlimited website. In early 2001, he became Head of Photography at the Guardian, the Observer and theguardian.com. In 2009 he was awarded the Fenton Medal by the Royal Photographic Society for his outstanding contribution to the field.

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  Chris Littlewood

  Photography Director
  Flowers Gallery
  London, New York, International Fairs
  www.flowersgallery.com

  more about Chris

  Chris Littlewood is the Photography Director at Flowers Gallery, and works as a curator and writer based in London. Flowers Gallery's photography program is most recognized for its engagement with important socio-cultural and environmental themes.

  Through a dedicated photography space established by Chris in 2008, he has extended the program to include exhibitions by invited artists and curators across a range of photographic practices.

  Chris is a contributing writer for Hotshoe Magazine and 1000 Words magazine, he has lectured / tutored at UK and international universities and institutions including University of the Arts London, Architectural Association, Fotografiska Museum Stockholm, National Museum Cardiff and Unseen photo fair Amsterdam.

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  David Chickey

  Publisher, Designer, Editorial Director
  Radius Books
  Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
  radiusbooks.org

  more about David

  David Chickey is the publisher of Radius Books, where he serves as the acquisitions editor and designer of all projects. His work has received national recognition, including multiple awards from the AIGA (50 books/ 50 covers competition), the American Association of Museums Publishing competition, and the Publishers Association of the West. His books have also been selected by The New Yorker, TIME, and PDN Photo Annual as best of the year, for “Most Outstanding Design” and “Best Photobook” from Independent Publisher, and received an Infinity award for “Best Photographic Book of the Year.”

  Chickey is also owner of Skolkin+Chickey, a graphic design firm that provides a full range of design services to artists, museums, and publishers. Clients have included Aperture, Abrams, Harvard University, Magnum Photography, The Lannan Foundation, The Peabody Museum, Steidl, David Zwirner, University of Texas Press and University of California Press, among others.

  He is a graduate of Sussex University, England, and UNC, Chapel Hill, where he was a Morehead Scholar.

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  Christopher Rauschenberg

  Board Chair, Exhibition Committee
  Blue Sky Gallery
  Portland, Oregon, USA
  www.BlueSkyGallery.org

  more about Christopher

  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 799 solo exhibitions by 679 different artists. Mr. Rauschenberg has been a photographer since 1973 and has had 113 solo shows of his own work in eight countries.

  Blue Sky Gallery is a non-profit artists' space which produces 25 solo exhibitions per year as well as an occasional group show every couple of years. It produces an annual yearbook that features 6 images from each show. The Gallery's focus and passion is on promoting emerging artists. Since 2004, the gallery has included solo shows by 98 photographers from FotoFest, plus 56 more from Photolucida, Arles, Rhubarb Rhubarb, Bratislava, Brasilia, Santa Fe, Mannheim, Montreal, Photo Alliance and Photo Nola. Blue Sky has done solo shows by artists from 42 countries.

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  Cristina de Middel

  Photographer & Curator
  Uruapan, Mexico
  www.lademiddel.com

  more about Cristina

  Cristina de Middel is a photographer whose work investigates photography’s ambiguous relationship to truth. Blending documentary and conceptual photographic practices, she plays with reconstructions and archetypes that blur the border between reality and fiction. After a successful career as a photojournalist, de Middel stepped outside of the photojournalistic gaze.

  She then produced the critically acclaimed series The Afronauts in 2012, which explored the history of a failed space program in Zambia in the 1960s through staged reenactments of obscure narratives. De Middel continuously produces new bodies of work, including the latest series and book titled, This is what hatred did.

  De Middel’s work shows that fiction can serve as the subject of photography just as well as facts can, highlighting that our expectation that photography must always make reference to reality is flawed.

  Cristina De Middel has exhibited extensively internationally and has received numerous awards and nominations, including PhotoFolio Arles 2012, the Deutsche Börse Prize, POPCAP’ 13, and the Infinity Award from the International Center of Photography in New York. Cristina de Middel lives and works in Mexico.

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  Marion Hislen

  Curator and Director
  Circulation(s) Festival
  Paris, France
  www.festival-circulations.com

  more about Marion

  Marion Hislen is curator and director of the Circulation(s) Festival, the largest annual Parisian photography event for young photographers. Now in its 6th year, the festival takes place at the newly renovated CentQuatre (104) center for the arts in Paris.

  Marion is also the founder and president of the non-profit organization Fetart. Fetart organizes the Circulation(s) Festival, which is dedicated to promotingemerging photographers by giving them early opportunities to exhibit their work to a large public audience.

  Previously, Marion was Director of Photos and Books at the retail giant Fnac within the department of Cultural Action, where she managed Photo Galleries Fnac — 20 spaces of exhibition throughout France.

  She has curated numerous other exhibitions, as well, such as “Paris-Beijing,”the first retrospective in France of Chinese contemporary art at the Espace Pierre Cardin, Paris.

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  Jim Casper

  Editor-in-Chief
  LensCulture
  Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  www.lensculture.com

  more about Jim

  Jim Casper is the editor-in-chief and publisher of LensCulture, one of the leading online destinations to discover contemporary photography from around the world. As an active member in the contemporary photography world, Casper organizes annual international photography events, travels around the world to meet with photographers and review their portfolios, curates art exhibitions, writes about photography and culture, lectures, conducts workshops, serves as an international juror and nominator for key awards, and is an advisor to arts and education organizations. He serves on the board of directors at SPE, the Society for Photographic Education, the world’s largest association of photography educators.