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The LensCulture Exposure Awards 2018 aim to discover and showcase the world’s best contemporary photographers! As we approach the Awards’ 10th anniversary, this year’s competition will celebrate a decade of helping photographers of all levels gain global recognition. The Awards will culminate with a series of international gallery and festival events, worldwide media coverage, and career-changing exposure for the jury’s six winners, eight jurors’ picks and 25 finalists.
Each of the winners, jurors’ picks and finalists will gain access to the broadest exposure we've ever offered through a LensCulture award. Together with our audience of 2.8 million, we will celebrate 10 years of exposure as one of the largest contemporary photography communities in the world!
For the first time in our Exposure Awards, we are waiving fees for anyone who enters a single image. We truly want to discover the most talented image-makers—we believe that EVERY photographer deserves the opportunity for exposure and recognition without restriction. So, send in your best work today!
Exposure Awards 2018 International Jury

Stacey Baker is a photo editor at The New York Times Magazine. She assigns and produces photography for the weekly publication on topics as varied as sports, politics, religion and pop culture. She works with an array of photographers from all over the world, including photojournalists and portrait, fine-art and conceptual photographers. These include Alec Soth, Damon Winter, Ruddy Roye, Stephanie Sinclair, Nadav Kander and Katy Grannan. She is a former director of photography at More Magazine.

Getty Museum
Los Angeles, United States
www.getty.edu
Mazie Harris, Ph.D., is an assistant curator in the Department of Photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, where she conducts research and manages the acquisition, loan, and display of photographs at the Museum from the past and present. Her scholarship has been supported by the Terra Foundation, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Portrait Gallery, the National Gallery of Art, and the Library of Congress. She has worked with photography collections at the Davis Museum at Wellesley College, the Museum of Art at the Rhode Island School of Design, and the Harvard Art Museums.

Michael Mack is a publisher of art, photography and critical text books. He has written, designed, edited and produced nearly 500 titles, including some of the defining art books of the past 20 years. As the former managing director of Steidl, he founded the SteidlMACK imprint before establishing his eponymous independent publishing house in 2010. Mack works closely with established and emerging artists, writers and curators, as well as world-leading cultural organizations, who are invested in the book as an art form.
In 2011, Mack was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Arts by the University of Plymouth for his contribution to art publishing. In 2012, he co-founded the First Book Award with the Wilson Centre for Photography and Kraszna-Krausz Foundation, as a platform to support young and emerging photographers. In 2017 he was awarded the Photographic Publishing Award from the Royal Photographic Society.

Elisa Medde has been the Managing Editor of Foam Magazine since 2012. Foam is published three times per year, with two thematic issued and one (called the “Talent Issue”) dedicated exclusively to photographers under 35 years old. As a member of the editorial team, Medde researches, selects and commissions the content for all issues of the magazine. Before heading to Foam, she served various roles for a number of cultural institutions, publishing houses and non-profits; she also worked as a researcher and as an independent curator. Her personal focus is oriented towards the relationship between image and power, particularly in the context of contemporary photography, and on the dynamics related to visual literacy.

Shields has over twenty years’ picture-editing experience across a range of newspaper titles and has served as picture editor of The Guardian for the last nine. She recently took up the role of Head of Photography for the Guardian News and Media Group. Throughout her career, she has been involved in the coverage of some of the most historic news stories of our time: 9/11, conflicts around the world, the Arab Spring and much more. Besides her work at the newspaper, she’s delivered talks at photo festivals and to students of photojournalism. She has judged the Sony World Photography Awards, the UK Picture Editors Guild Awards, and the Renaissance Photography Prize among others. Most recently she served as a nominator for the Prix Pictet and joined the jury of the highly regarded Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize.

Muluneh began her career working as a photojournalist at the Washington Post; her work can be found in several international publications. As an exhibiting artist, her photos have been shown in over a dozen countries around the world and her work can be found in the permanent collections at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art, the Hood Museum and the Museum of Biblical Art. As one of the leading experts on photography from Africa, she has been a jury member on several photography competitions, most notably the Sony World Photography Awards 2017 and the World Press Photo Contest 2017. Muluneh is the founder and director of the Addis Foto Fest (AFF), the first international photography festival in East Africa, which has been hosted in the city of Addis Ababa since 2010. She continues to educate, curate and develop cultural projects with local and international institutions through her company DESTA (Developing and Educating Society Through Art) and For Africa Creative Consulting PLC (DFA).

Anna Walker Skillman has been a loyal and active participant in the arts community for the last 26 years. She began her career working at the Haines Gallery, a leading contemporary art gallery in San Francisco. In March of 2003, she purchased Jackson Fine Art. Ms. Walker Skillman is honored to continue a reputation of excellence in exhibiting photography by both emerging and established artists. With a focus on a blend of 20th century and contemporary work, she continues her commitment to Atlanta as an active and loyal participant of the arts community.

Jim Casper is the editor-in-chief 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.
After being selected in the LensCulture Exposure Awards last year, my work was printed by the British Journal of Photography, Fisheye Magazine and Der Greif. I also won the National Award (Mexico) in the Sony World Photography Awards and my work was on view in Arles and at Photo Basel. It has been an amazing year so far!
Exposure Awards 2017, Finalist
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$22,000 in Grant Awards | ||||
London Gallery Exhibition | ||||
Visibility with LensCulture Insiders | ||||
Exposure Awards 2018 Online Exhibition | ||||
A Series of International Photo Festival Projections | ||||
Published in The Best of LensCulture, Volume 2 | ||||
International Press Exposure | ||||
Opportunity for LensCulture Instagram Takeover | ||||
Feature Article on LensCulture | ||||
LensCulture Network Membership | ||||
Massive Exposure to our Global Audience of 2.8 Million | ||||
Submission Review by Photo Industry Professional* | ||||
Engage in the Global Photography Community | ||||
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**Editors’ Picks: During the competition, LensCulture’s editors will curate hundreds of entries for immediate exposure to our global audience through the competition gallery and our Facebook page.
***LensCulture Portfolio Account: Available for all Series entries and 5+ Single entries
2nd Place: $2500
3rd Place: $1500
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3rd Place: $1000


Angkor Photo Festival, Siem Reap Cambodia
Athens Photo Festival, Athens, Greece
Atlanta Celebrates Photography Festival, Atlanta, GA, United States
Backlight Photo Festival, Tampere, Finland
Balkan Photo Festival, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Belfast Photo Festival, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Belgrade Photo Month, Belgrade, Serbia
Biennial of the Possible Image, Liège, Belgium
BredaPhoto International Photo Festival, Breda, Netherlands
Brighton Photo Biennial, Brighton, United Kingdom
Brighton Photo Fringe, Brighton, United Kingdom
Budapest Photo Festival, Budapest, Hungary
Circulation(s), Paris, France
Copenhagen Photo Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark
Cortona on the Move, Cortona, Italy
DarmStadt Days of Photography, Darmstadt, Germany
Delhi Photo Festival Portfolio Reviews, New Delhi, India
Emerging Talents Festival, Rome, Italy
Encontros da Imagem Photography Festival, Braga, Portugal
Eyes On, Vienna, Austria
FestFoto, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Festival de Fotografia de Tiradentes, Tiradentes, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Festival della Fotografia Etica, Lodi, Italy
Festival Images Vevey, Vevey, Switzerland
Festival Internacional De Fotografia Tijuana, Tijuana, Mexico
Festival Internacional Fotografia Valparaiso, Valparaiso, Chile
Filter Photo Festival, Chicago, IL, United States
Focus on the Story International Photo Festival, Washington, D.C., USA
FOCUS Photography Festival, Mumbai, India
FORMAT, Derby, United Kingdom
FOTO SOLO, New York, NY, United States
FOTOFESTIWAL - International Festival of Photography, Lodz, Poland
FotoLeggendo, Rome, Italy
Fotopub Portfolio Review, Novo Mesto, Slovenia
Gazebook: Sicily Photobook Festival, Punta Secca, Italy/Sicily
GETXOPHOTO International Photography Festival, Getxo, Spain
GuatePhoto Festival, Guatemala City, Guatemala
Head On Photo Festival, Bondi Beach - Sydney, Australia
Indian Photo Fest, Hyderabad, India
Indian Photo Fest, Madhapur, India
Internationaal Fotofestival Overpelt, Overpelt, Belgium
Kaunas Photo Festival, Kaunas, Lithuania
Krakow Photomonth Festival, Krakow, Poland
Lagos Photo Festival, Lagos, Nigeria
Landskrona Foto Festival, Landskrona, Sweden
Liège Photobook Festival, Liège, Belgium
Los Angeles Festival of Photography, LA, CA, United States
Medium Festival of Photography, San Diego, CA, United States
Month of Photography Denver, Denver, CO, United States
Mostra São Paulo de Fotografia, São Paulo, Brazil
Mt. Rokko International Photo Festival, Kobe, Japan
Obscura Festival, Penang, Malaysia
Odessa Photo Days Festival, Odessa, Ukraine
OFF_festival Bratislava, Bratislava, Slovakia
Organ Vida - International Photography Festival, Zagreb, Croatia
PHOTO IS:RAEL, Tel Aviv, Israel
Photo Kyiv, the International Art Fair, Kyiv, Ukraine
Photo Romania Festival, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Photography Festival Bialystok INTERPHOTO, Bialystok, Poland
Photolux Festival. International Biennial of Photography, Lucca, Italy
Photomed, Sanary-sur-mer, France
PHOTOMONTH East London, London, United Kingdom
PhotOn Festival, Valencia, Spain
PhotoVisa, Krasnodar, Russia
PondyPHOTO 2016, Pondicherry, India
Porto Photo Festival, Porto, Portugal
Rotterdam Photo, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
San Jose Foto Festival, San Jose, Uruguay
SCAN Tarragona, International Photography Festival, Tarragona, Spain
Street Photo San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States
Tbilisi Photo Festival, Tbilisi, Georgia
Tokyo International Photography Festival, Tokyo, Japan
Valongo, Valongo, Santos, Brazil
Vienna PhotoBook Festival, Vienna, Austria
Voies Off, Arles, France
Warsaw Photo Days, Warsaw, Poland
the Best of LensCulture, Volume 2
Aaron Schuman, Artist, Writer, Editor and Curator, UK
Ada Takahashi, Director, Robert Koch Gallery, USA
Afton Almaraz, Senior Picture Editor, Getty Images, USA
Aida Muluneh, Founder and Managing Director, Addis Foto Fest, Ethiopia
Alan Taylor, Senior Editor, The Atlantic, USA
Alasdair Foster, Writer, Researcher and Curator, Australia
Alessandra, Capodacqua Independent Curator and Teacher of Photography, NYU, Italy
Alessandro Zuffi, Photo Editor, Paris, France
Alessia Glaviano, Senior Photo Editor, Vogue Italia and L’Uomo Vogue, Italy
Alexa Becker, Acquisitions Editor, Kehrer Verlag Publishers, Germany
Aline Smithson, Founder/Editor-in-Chief, Lenscratch, USA
Alison Nordström, Independent Scholar/Curator of Photographs, USA
Alona Pardo, Assistant Curator, Barbican, UK
Alyssa Coppelman, Picture Researcher, Harper’s Magazine, USA
Amber Terranova, Executive Producer, SCREEN Projects, USA
Amy Feitelberg, Photo Art Director, Square, USA
Amy Pereira, Photography Director, Curator and Consultant, USA
Amy Wolff, Co-Founder and Creative Director, CoEdit Collection, USA
Andy Adams, Founder & Director, FlakPhoto, USA
Andy Greenacre, Picture Editor, Telegraph Magazine, UK
Ángel Luis González Fernández, Founder and Director, PhotoIreland, Ireland
Ann Jastrab, Editor In Chief, All About Photo, USA
Anna Dickson, Content and Community Photo Lead, Google, USA
Anna Gripp, Editor-in-Chief, Photonews, Germany
Anna Walker Skillman, Owner/Director, Jackson Fine Arts, USA
Anne Bourgeois-Vignon, Global Digital Director, Magnum Photos, UK
Anne McNeill, Director, Impressions Gallery, UK
Anne Morin, Director, diChroma Photography, Spain
Anne Wilkes-Tucker, Independent Curator and Author, USA
Antony Dickson, Features Photo Editor, South China Morning Post, Hong Kong
Arianna Rinaldo, Artistic Director, Cortona On The Move, Spain
Ariel Shanberg, Executive Director, Delaware Valley Arts Alliance, USA
Azu Nwagbogu, Founder & Director, LagosPhoto Festival and the African Artists’ Foundation, Nigeria
Barbara Čeferin, Owner, Galerija Fotografija, Slovenia
Barbara Tannenbaum, Curator of Photography, The Cleveland Museum of Art, USA
Bas Vroege, Director, Paradox, Netherlands
Ben Zlotkin, Founder & Director, Edition One Books, USA
Bevin Bering Dubrowski, Curator, Photography Specialist and Arts Advocate, BBD Photography, USA
Bisi Silva, Founder and Director, Centre for Contemporary Art, Nigeria
Bonnie Rubenstein, Artistic Director, Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival, Canada
Brett Roegiers, Photo Editor, CNN.com, USA
Brian Paul Clamp, Owner/Director, ClampArt Gallery, USA
Brian Storm, Founder & Executive Producer, MediaStorm, USA
Bronwen Latimer, Officer, Multimedia at The Pew Charitable Trusts, USA
Carlos Carvalho, Director, FestFoto de Porto Allegre, Brazil
Caroline Hunter, Picture Editor, Guardian Weekend Magazine, UK
Catherine Edelman, Owner, Catherine Edelman Gallery, USA
Celeste Jovanovich, Sales Director, Fahey/Klein Gallery, USA
Celia Davies, Director, HOUSE Biennial, UK
Celina Lunsford, Artistic Director & Chief Curator, Fotografie Forum Frankfurt, Germany
Charles Guice, Founder/Director, Charles Guice Contemporary, USA
Charlotte Cotton, Curator & Writer, USA
Charlotte van Lingen, Senior Curator, Kunsthal Rotterdam, Netherlands
Chelsea Matiash Senior, Editor, Digiital Storytelling, The New York Times, USA
Chris Jordan, Photographer, USA
Chris Littlewood, Photography Director, Flowers Gallery, UK
Chris Pichler, Founder & Publisher, Nazraeli Press, USA
Christophe de Jaeger, Programme Manager, BOZAR Photo, Belgium
Christophe Laloi, Artistic Director, Voies Off Arles, France
Christopher McCall, Director, Pier 24 Photography, USA
Christopher Rauschenberg, Founding Member, Blue Sky Photographers’ Collective and Gallery, USA
Christy Havranek, Director of Photography, Huffington Post, USA
Clare Grafik, Head of Exhibitions, The Photographer’s Gallery, UK
Claude Bussac, Director of PHotoESPANA, PHotoEspaña International Festival, Spain
Corey Keller, Curator, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, USA
Corinne Tapia, Director, Sous Les Etoiles Gallery, USA
Cristina De Middel, Artist, Magnum Photos, UK
Daphné Anglès Picture, Editor/Bureau Manager, The New York Times Paris, France
Darbe Rotach, Senior Photo Editor, WebMD, USA
Darius Himes, International Head of Photographs, Christie’s, USA
Darren Ching, Owner, Klompching Gallery, USA
David Alan Harvey, Photographer, Magnum Photos, USA
David Birkitt, Founder, DMB Represents, UK
David Campbell, Director, Communications, World Press Photo, Netherlands
David Chickey, Publisher, Radius Books, USA
David Drake, Director, Ffotogallery, UK
David Hurn, Photographer, Magnum Photos, UK
David Kogan, Executive Director, Magnum Photos, UK
Deborah Dragon, Photo Producer and Editor, USA
Deborah Klochko, Director, Museum of Photographic Arts, USA
Debra Klomp Ching, Owner/Director, Klompching Gallery, USA
Denise Wolff, Senior Editor, Aperture, USA
Dewi Lewis, Owner, Dewi Lewis Publishing, UK
Dimitri Beck, Director of Photography, Polka Magazine, France
Dina Mitrani, Gallery Owner, Dina Mitrani Gallery, USA
Donna Cohen, Photo Editor, Bloomberg Businessweek, USA
Dr. Shahidul, Alam Director, Chobi Mela Festival of Photography, Bangladesh
Ed Carey, Director, Gallery 291, USA
Eder Chiodetto, Independent Photography Curator, Brazil
Eduard Planting, Owner, Eduard Planting Gallery | Fine Art Photographs, Netherlands
Elda Harrington, Owner, Escuela Argentina de Fotografia, Argentina
Elena Boille, Deputy Editor-in-Chief and Photo Editor, Internazionale, Italy
Elena Firsova, Managing Editor, Foto&Video Magazine, Russia
Elie Domit, Director, East Wing Gallery, Qatar
Elinor Carucci, Teacher of Photography, School of Visual Arts, USA
Elisa Medde, Managing Editor, FOAM Magazine, Netherlands
Elisabeth Biondi, Visuals Editor, Curator, Writer, Teacher, Advisor, Biondi Foto, USA
Elissa Curtis, Deputy Photo Director, The Wall Street Journal, USA
Elizabeth Avedon, Correspondent USA/Reporter, L’Oeil de la Photographie, USA
Elizabeth Johnson, Senior Photo Editor, CNN Digital, USA
Els Barents, Photo Historian, Writer & Researcher, Netherlands
Emilia van Lynden, Artistic Director, Unseen Photo Festival, Netherlands
Emily Adams, Photography Exhibition Specialist, Mexico
Emily Graham, Cultural Comissions & Partnership Manager, Magnum Photos, UK
Emma Bowkett, Director of Photography, FT Weekend Magazine, UK
Enrico Stefanelli, Founder, President and Artistic Director, Photolux Festival, Italy
Erik Vroons, Chief Editor, GUP Magazine, Netherlands
Evan Pricco, Editor-in-Chief and Web Editor, Juxtapoz Magazine, USA
Evgeny Berezner, Deputy General Director, ROSIZO State Museum & Exhibition Center, Russia
Felicia Anastasia, Founder & Creative Director, Anastasia Photo Gallery, USA
Fiona Rogers, Global Business Development Manager, Magnum Photos, UK
Fiona Shields, Head of Photography, The Guardian, UK
Francis Hodgson, Professor in the Culture of Photography, University of Brighton, UK
Francoise Callier, Program Coordinator, Angkor Photo Festival, France
Frazier King, Board Member, Houston Center for Photography, USA
Fred Ritchin, Dean of the School, International Center of Photography, USA
Freddy Denaes, Publisher, Editions de l’Oeil, France
Frits Gierstberg, Head of Exhibitions/Curator, Nederlands Fotomuseum, Netherlands
Gad Edery, CEO, Gad Collection, France
Gaia Tripoli, Photo Editor, The New York Times, UK
Gail Marowitz, Creative Director, The Visual Strategist, USA
Garry Sommerfeld, Manager Photographic Services, National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
Genevieve Fussell, Senior Photo Editor, The New Yorker, USA
Gilles Steinmann, Photo Editor, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Switzerland
Giulia Ticozzi, Photo Editor, La Repubblica, Italy
Greg Hobson, Curator of Photographs, National Media Museum, UK
Gregory Eddi Jones, Founding Editor, In the In-Between, USA
Hamidah Glasgow, Executive Director/Curator, The Center for Fine Art Photography, USA
Hannah Watson, Director, TJ Boulting Gallery and Trolley Books, UK
Hideko Kataoka, Director of Photography, Newsweek, Japan
Ian Shive, CEO & Founder, Tandem Stills + Motion, USA
Iatã Cannabrava, Partner, Estúdio Madalena, Brazil
Ihiro Hayami, Director, Tokyo Institute of Photography, Japan
Ishida Tetsuro, Curator, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Japan
Jacob Aue Sobol, Photographer, Magnum Photos, Denmark
James Estrin, Photographer/Lens Blog Editor, The New York Times, USA
Jean-Jacques, Viau Digital Marketing Manager, Leica Camera, Germany
Jeanne Mercier, Chief Curator, Afrique in visu, Morocco
Jeff Gates, Lead Producer, Smithsonian American Art Museum, USA
Jeff Moorfoot, Editor, BETA Developments in Photography, Australia
Jennifer Blessing, Senior Curator of Photography, Guggenheim, USA
Jennifer Pastore, Executive Photography Director, WSJ Magazine, USA
Jenny Smets, Photo Editor, Vrij Nederland, Netherlands
Jessica Lim, Director, Angkor Photo Festival & Workshops, Cambodia
Jessie Wender, Lead Photo Editor, Apple, USA
Joanne Junga, Yang Director, Y&G Art, South Korea
Johan Sjöström, Curator of Exhibitions, Gothenburg Museum of Art, Sweden
John Duncan, Editor, Source Photographic Review, UK
Jolene Hanson, Director, The G2 Gallery, USA
Jon Jones, Photo Editor, Curator and Photojournalist, UK
Jorge de la Torriente, Owner / Photographer, De La Gallery, USA
Juli Lowe, Director, Catherine Edelman Gallery, USA
Julien Jourdes, Co-Founder and COO, Blink.la, USA
Karen Davis, Director/Co-owner, Davis Orton Gallery,USA
Karen Downey, Project Manager, Arts Council, Ireland
Karen McQuaid, Senior Curator, The Photographers’ Gallery, UK
Karin Bareman, Curatorial Project Manager, Autograph ABP, UK
Karol Hordziej, Artistic Director, Krakow Photomonth, Poland
Kathleen Prutting, Manager Photo Editor, CBS Broadcast Network, USA
Kathy Moran, Senior Editor, Natural History at National Geographic Magazine, USA
Kathy Ryan, Director of Photography, The New York Times Magazine, USA
Kaycee Olsen, Director, Von Lintel Gallery, USA
Ken Geiger, Photographer, Editor and Image Specialist, USA
Kenneth Dickerman, Foreign Photo Editor, The Washington Post, USA
Kottie Gaydos, Curator, Detroit Center for Contemporary Photography, USA
Kris Graves, Director, +Kris Graves Projects, USA
Krzysztof Candrowicz, Artistic Director, Hamburg Triennale, Poland
Kurt Mutchler, Senior Science Photo Editor, National Geographic Magazine, USA
Lars Boering, Managing Director, World Press Photo Foundation, Netherlands
Laura Moya, Director, Photolucida, USA
Laura Pressley, Executive Director, CENTER, USA
Laura Serani, Artistic Director, Photography Residence Foundation Treilles, France
Lauren Ford, Commissioning Director and Producer, Dazed Magazine, UK
Lesley Martin Publisher, Aperture Foundation, USA
Linda Benedict-Jones, Curator of Photography, Carnegie Museum of Art, USA
Lisa J. Sutcliffe, Curator of Photography and Media Arts, Milwaukee Art Museum, USA
Lizzy Oppenheimer, Senior Photo Editor, InStyle, USA
Louise Clements, Artistic Director, Derby QUAD Limited and FORMAT International Photography Festival, UK
Luc Rabaey, Owner, 44 Gallery, Belgium
Lucy Bell, Director, Lucy Bell Fine Art, UK
Maarten Schilt, Publisher & Gallerist, Schilt Publishing & Gallery, Netherlands
Magdalena Herrera, Director of Photography, GEO France, France
Maja Saphir, Senior Associate Photo Editor, Fast Company, USA
Manila Camarini, Photo Editor, D La Repubblica, Italy
Manuel Rivera-Ortiz, President & Founder, Manuel Rivera-Ortiz Foundation for Documentary Photography & Film, USA
Marc Prüst, Photography Consultant and Curator, Netherlands
Marcel Feil, Deputy Director of Artistic Affairs, FOAM, Netherlands
Marcia Allert, Director of Photography, The Dallas Morning News, USA
Margaret Kelly, Director, Exhibition and Art Fairs, Pace/Macgill Gallery, USA
Margy Dudley, Owner, Open Shutter Gallery, USA
Marie-Pierre Subtil, Chief Editor, 6 Mois, France
Marion Hislen, Director, Circulations Festival, France
Marisa Schwartz Taylor, Photo Editor, The Washington Post, USA
Mark Murrmann, Photo Editor, Mother Jones, USA
Martin Parr, Photographer, Magnum Photos, UK
Mary Virginia, Swanson Photography Marketing Advisor, Educator, Author, USA
MaryAnn Camilleri, Founder, The Magenta Foundation, Canada
MaryAnne Golon, Director of Photography, The Washington Post, USA
Matt Shonfeld, Executive Director, Institute for Artist Management, UK
Matt Stuart, Photographer, Magnum Photos, UK
Matthew Craig, Co-Founder and CEO, Blink, USA
Maya Byskov, Curator, The Independent AIR, Germany
Mazie Harris, Assistant Curator, Getty Museum, USA
Meaghan Looram, Deputy Photo Editor, The New York Times, USA
Melissa Ryan, Director of Photography, Nature Conservancy Magazine, USA
Mia Diehl, Photography Director, Fortune Magazine, USA
Michael Dooney, Director, Jarvis Dooney Galerie, Germany
Michael Famighetti, Editor, Aperture Magazine, USA
Michael Foley, Owner, Foley Gallery, USA
Michael Mack, Founder, MACK Books, UK
Michael Weir, Director/Founder, Belfast Photo Festival, UK
Michael Wichita, Director of Photography, AARP, USA
Michelle Dunn Marsh, Executive Director, Photographic Center Northwest, USA
Miriam Romais, Marketing & Strategic Development Advisor, Center for Photography at Woodstock, USA
Miyako Yoshinaga, Director, Mikayo Yoshinga Gallery, USA
Molly Roberts, Senior Photography Editor, National Geographic Magazine, USA
Monica Allende, Artistic Director, GetxoPhoto, UK
Moritz Neumüller, Academic Director of Photography, IED Madrid, Spain
Moshe Rosenzveig, Director, Head On Photo Festival, Australia
Muhammed Muheisen, Chief Photographer, Middle East, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Associated Press, Netherlands
Mutsuko Ota, Editorial Director, IMA magazine, Japan
Nadav Kander, Award-Winning Photographer, UK
Natalie Matutschovsky, Photography & Content, Apple, USA
Natasha Egan, Executive Director, Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College, USA
Nathalie Herschdorfer, Director, Museum of Fine Arts Le Locle, Switzerland
Newsha Tavakolian, Photographer, Magnum Photos, Iran
Olivier Laurent, Photography Editor, The Washington Post, USA
Patricia Lanza, Art Consultant & Creative Director, USA
Paul di Felice, Senior Lecturer in Visual Arts, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Paula Tognarelli, Executive Director, Griffin Museum of Photography, USA
Pavel Banka, Editor in Chief, Fotograf Magazine, Czech Republic
Paweł Szypulski, Curator, Krakow Month of Photography, Poland
Peggy Sue Amison, Artistic Director, East Wing Gallery, UAE
Phillip Prodger, Head of Photographs, National Portrait Gallery, UK
Raffaela Lepanto, Photo Editor/Consultant, PhotoFusion Photography Centre, UK
Rebecca Morse, Curator, Wallis Annenberg Photography Department, LACMA, USA
Regina Maria Anzenberger, Founder, Anzenberger Gallery, Austria
Régina Monfort, Photo Editor, FotoEvidence, USA
Richard A. Brooks, Deputy Photo Director, Asia Pacific, Agence France-Presse (AFP), China
Rina Tokura, Editor-in-Chief, IMA Magazine and Concept Stores, Japan
Roger Archibald, Photo Editor, Society of Environmental Journalists, USA
Roger Tooth, Photo Editor and Photographic Consultant, UK
Roman Härer, Creative Director, plainpicture, Germany
Roxanne Behr, Senior Photo Editor, New York Magazine, USA
Rui Prata, Director, Museu da Imagem, Portugal
Ruth Offen, Director/Curator, WaterWorks Gallery, USA
Sacha Lecca, Deputy Photo Editor, Rolling Stone Magazine, USA
Sadie Quarrier, Senior Photo Editor, National Geographic Magazine, USA
Sam Barzilay, Creative Director, United Photo Industries and Photoville, USA
Sara Guerrini, Photo Editor, Parallelozero Photoagency, Italy
Sarah Leen, Director of Photography, National Geographic Magazine, USA
Sarina Finkelstein, Photo Editor, Money Magazine, USA
Scott McKiernan, Founder/Director, ThePicturesofTheDay.com, USA
Sean Corcoran, Curator of Prints and Photographs, Museum of the City of New York, USA
Sean O’Hagan, Critic and Writer, The Guardian and The Observer, UK
Sébastian Hau, Director, Polycopies and COSMOS Photobook Fairs, France
Selva Barni, Founder & Editor, Fantom Editions, Italy
Serge Belet, Senior Exhibitions Manager, National Gallery of Canada, Canada
Silvia Mangialardi, Director, Fotomundo Magazine, Argentina
Simon Bainbridge, Editorial Director, British Journal of Photography, UK
Siobhán Bohnacker, Senior Photo Editor, The New Yorker, USA
Stacey Baker, Associate Photo Editor, The New York Times Magazine, USA
Stephen Mayes, Executive Director, Tim Hetherington Trust, USA
Stephen Perloff, Editor, The Photo Review, USA
Sujong Song, Curator and Photo Editor, South Korea
Susan Meiselas, Photographer, Magnum Photos, USA
Susan Spiritus, Owner, Susan Spiritus Gallery, USA
Susan White, Photography Director, Vanity Fair Magazine, USA
Susan Zadeh, Founder/Photography Director, Eyemazing Editions, Netherlands
Suzanne Opton, Photographer/Educator, International Center for Photography, USA
Taj Forer, Cofounder, Fabl and Daylight Books, USA
Thomas Seelig, Director, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
Tiffany Hagler-Geard, Photo Editor, ABC News, USA
Todd Hido, Artist and Photographer, USA
Todd James, Senior Photo Editor, National Geographic Society, USA
Todd Tubutis, Associate Director, Sheldon Museum of Art, USA
Tomoka Aya, Owner/Director, The Third EyeGallery Aya, Tokyo, Japan
Ute Noll, Photo Director, Du Kulturmagazin, Germany
Valerie Fougeirol, Co-commissioner, Asymetria Gallery, France
Vangelis Ioakimidis, Coordinator, TransEurope Photo Project, Greece
Volker Lensch, Photo Editor, Stern Magazine, Germany
Whitney Johnson, VP Visual Experiences, National Geographic, USA
Wim Melis, Curator, Noorderlicht Photography, Netherlands
Xavier Canonne, Director, Musée de la Photographie, Belgium
Xavier Soule, CEO, Agence VU & Gallery VU, France
Yasunori Hoki, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief, Super Labo Publishing, Japan
Yuko Yamaji, Curator, Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Japan
Yumi Goto, Curator, Editor, Publisher, Founder, Reminders Project, Japan
Yuting Duan, Festival Founder and Director, Lianzhou Foto, China









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