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Light turns the ordinary into the magical.”
David Alan Harvey has photographed more than 40 articles for National Geographic, beginning with a story about Tangier Island, Virginia, in the November 1973 issue of the magazine.
In 1978, Harvey was named Magazine Photographer of the Year by the National Press Photographers Association (NPPA). His work has been exhibited at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Nikon Gallery, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. His photographs have appeared in Life, The New York Times, and Sports Illustrated. He is well known for his work on Spanish cultural migration into the Americas and has produced significant bodies of work in Mexico, Cuba and Brazil.
He has published five books, Cuba, Divided Soul, Jeju Haenyeo, Based on a True Story and a republication of his seminal 1967 project, Tell It Like It Is. Harvey is also the founder and editor of the award-winning Burn Magazine, featuring iconic and emerging photographers in print and online. He joined Magnum Photos as an associate in 1993 and became a member in 1997.
Yuting Duan has been dedicating herself to promoting Chinese contemporary photography for many years. In 2005, she co-founded the Lianzhou International Photo Festival, one of the biggest and most influential photo festivals in China, which she continues to direct today. Ms. Duan has also been involved with the following festivals around the world: FotoFest, FOTOBILD, Paris Photo Biennale, Rhubarb-Rhubarb festival, Thessaloniki Photo Biennale, Festival de la Luz and Moscow Photo Biennale. She has also been a nominator for the Prix Pictet Photography Prize and the Hasselblad Award. She is the author of Ten Years of Contemporary Photography in China 2005-2014. Most recently, she co-founded the Lianzhou Museum of Photography (LMP), the first public museum dedicated to contemporary photography in China, which opened in 2017. She is now the co-director of the museum.
Giulia Ticozzi is a photographer and a photo-editor living and working in Milan and Rome. She exhibited her photographic work in several locations including the MUFOCO, Museum of Contemporary Photography, the Cultural Heritage Institute of Emilia-Romagna, Careof and the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin. She worked as assistant to Francesco Jodice and as editor for the newspaper Il Post and La Stampa. Currently she teaches history of photography at the CFP Bauer School, collaborates in the research projects Borderlands and The Third Island, and works as photo-editor at La Repubblica.
Dewi Lewis was the founding Director of Cornerhouse, Manchester, a major UK centre for contemporary visual arts and film, where he established Cornerhouse Publications, a winner of the Sunday Times Small Publisher Award. He founded his own publishing company in 1994 and has published many leading international photographers such as Martin Parr, Simon Norfolk, Paolo Pellegrin and Bruce Gilden as well as emerging photographers. Many of the imprint’s titles have won or been shortlisted for various international prizes. In 2014, Dewi Lewis Publishing received the PHotoEspana award for “Outstanding Publishing House of the Year.”
A regular lecturer and portfolio reviewer and an occasional curator, Dewi was also a founding member of The European Publishers’ Award for Photography, which ran for over twenty years. In 2004 he was appointed an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society and in 2009 he was awarded the inaugural Royal Photographic Society Award for “Outstanding Services to Photography.” In 2012, he was awarded the Kraszna-Krausz Foundation Award for “Outstanding Contribution to Publishing” at the World Photography Awards.
Bisi Silva is the director of the Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA), Lagos and a curatorial consultant for Bisi Silva Projects. As director of CCA, she has curated numerous exhibitions including: El Anatsui, Playing with Chance (2014), Jide Alakija: Owambe, Aso-Ebi and the Politics of Dress (2011), and J. D ‘Okhai Ojeikere: Sartorial Moments and the Nearness of Yesterday (2010). Since 2010, she has also been the curator of Asiko, a pan-African, alternative, roaming art school. In 2015, she was Artistic Director of the 10th Bamako Encounters, the African Biennial of Photography held in Mali and in 2017, she co-curated the 2nd Changjiang International Biennale of Photography and Video in Chongqing, China.
Currently she is a member of the international jury for the Hasselblad Award in Photography, Gothenburg (2018) as well as the 12th Hugo Boss Prize for Contemporary Art (2018), which is administered by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation in New York City.
Dr. Alasdair Foster is a writer, researcher and award-winning curator initiating intercultural photography and visual art projects around the world, especially in Asia and the Pacific Rim. He is Adjunct Professor in the School of Art of RMIT University, Melbourne and a member of the university’s Centre for Art, Society and Transformation. Dr. Foster has 20 years of experience heading national arts institutions and over 35 years of working in the public cultural sector. He was the founding director of Fotofeis Festival, one of Europe’s largest photo events during the 90s (1991–1997) and director of the Australian Centre for Photography (1998–2011).
Christy Havranek is the Photo Director at HuffPost, where she oversees a team of photo editors and photographers. She has 17 years of experience in the photo business, having worked at NBCUniversal, Frommer’s Travel, Polo Ralph Lauren and Bloomsbury Publishing, among others. Recently, Christy was the juror for “Photography as Response” at the Center for Fine Art Photography in Fort Collins, Colorado, and in 2017 served as a juror for the prestigious Review Santa Fe Project Launch. During Review Santa Fe, she co-presented a two-day workshop for photographers who are looking to reach the next level in the editorial space.
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.
Nothing’s more interesting than reality.”
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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 General Manager, Desta for Africa Creative Consulting PLC, Ethiopia
Alan Taylor, Senior Editor, The Atlantic, USA
Alessandra Capodacqua, Instructor, Photographer and Independent Curator, NYU, Italy
Alessia Glaviano, Senior Photo Editor, Vogue Italia and L'Uomo Vogue, Italy
Alex Webb, Photographer, Magnum
Alexa Becker, Acquisitions Editor, Kehrer Verlag Publishers, Germany
Alona Pardo, Curator, Barbican Art Gallery, UK
Amy Feitelberg, Photo Art Director, Square, USA
Amy Pereira, Photography Director, Curator and Consultant, USA
Amy Wolff, Photo Director, Hearst Digital Media, USA
Andy Greenacre, Director of Photography, Telegraph Magazine, UK
Ángel Luis González Fernández, Founder and CEO, PhotoIreland Foundation, Ireland
Anna Dickson, Visual Lead, Image Search, Google, USA
Anna Goldwater Alexander, Director of Photography, WIRED, USA
Anna Gripp, Editor-in-Chief, Photonews, Germany
Anna Walker Skillman, Owner/Director, Jackson Fine Arts, USA
Anne Bourgeois-Vignon, Executive Creative Director, Culture Trip, UK
Anne Farrar, Director of Photography, National Geographic Traveler, USA
Anne McNeill, Director, Impressions Gallery, UK
Anne Morin, Director, diChroma Photography, Spain
Anne Wilkes-Tucker, Curator, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 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, Chief Curator at Zeitz MOCAA, Nigeria
Barbara Čeferin, Owner, Galerija Fotografija, Slovenia
Barbara Tannenbaum, Curator of Photography, The Cleveland Museum of Art, USA
Bernadette Tuazon, Director of Photography, CNN Digital, USA
Bevin Bering Dubrowski, Curator, Photography Specialist, BBD Photography, USA
Bisi Silva, Founder and Director, Centre for Contemporary Art, Nigeria
Bonnie Rubenstein, Artistic Director, 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, Senior Photo Editor, The Washington Post, USA
Bruno Ceschel, Director, Self Publish, Be Happy, UK
Carlos Carvalho, Director, FestFoto de Porto Allegre, Brazil
Caroline Hunter, Picture Editor, Guardian Weekend Magazine, UK
Caroline Wall, Director, Robert Mann Gallery, USA
Catherine Edelman, Owner, Catherine Edelman Gallery, USA
Celia Davies, Curator, Arts Council England, 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, Head of Presentation, Museum Het Valkhof, Netherlands
Chelsea Matiash, Senior Editor, Digiital Storytelling, The New York Times, USA
Chris Littlewood, Independent Curator, Christopher Littlewood, UK
Chris Pichler, Founder & Publisher, Nazraeli Press, USA
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, Photo Director, Huffington Post, USA
Clare Grafik, Head of Exhibitions, The Photographer's Gallery, UK
Claude Bussac, Director, 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, Juana de Aizpuru, UK
Daphné Anglès, Journalist, The New York Times Paris, France
Daphne Palmer, Director, Fraenkel Gallery
Darius Himes, International Head of Photographs, Christie's, USA
Darren Ching, Owner, Klompching Gallery, USA
David Alan Harvey, Photographer, Magnum Photos, USA
David Campbell, Director, Programs, World Press Photo, Netherlands
David Chickey, Publisher, Radius Books, USA
David Drake, Director, Ffotogallery, UK
David Hurn, Photographer, Magnum Photos, UK
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 Director, Bloomberg LP, USA
Dr. Shahidul Alam, Director, Chobi Mela Festival of Photography, Bangladesh
Ed Carey, Director, Gallery 291, USA
Eder Chiodetto, Independent Photography Curator, Brazil
Elena Boille, Deputy Editor-in-Chief and Photo Editor, Internazionale, Italy
Elena Firsova, Managing Editor, Foto&Video Magazine Moscow Russian Federation
Elie Domit, Director, East Wing Gallery, Qatar
Elinor Carucci, Photographer, USA
Elisa Medde, Editor, FOAM Magazine, Netherlands
Elissa Curtis, Deputy Photo Director, The Wall Street Journal, USA
Elizabeth Avedon, Independent Curator, Photo Editor, USA
Els Barents, Photo Historian, Writer & Researcher, Els Barents, Netherlands
Emilia van Lynden, Art Consultant, Emilia Van Lynden Art Consultancy, Netherlands
Emma Bowkett, Director of Photography, FT Weekend Magazine, UK
Enrico Bossan, Project Head, Galerrie delle prigioni, Italy
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, Chief Operating Officer, Magnum Photos, UK
Fiona Shields, Head of Photography, The Guardian, UK
Francesca Morisini, Photo Editor at Condé Nast Italia
Francis Hodgson, Professor of Photography, University of Brighton, UK
Francoise Callier, Program Coordinator, Angkor Photo Festival, France
Fred Ritchin, Dean of the School, International Center of Photography, USA
Frits Gierstberg, Curator, Nederlands Fotomuseum, Netherlands
Gaia Tripoli, Photo Editor, The New York Times, UK
Gail Marowitz, Creative Director, The Visual Strategist, USA
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
Gunther Dietrich, Director, Photo Edition Gallery, Germany
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
Iata Cannabrava, Photographer & Festival Organizer, Estudio 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
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 Murray, Executive Director, Filter Photo, 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, Photo Editor, The New York Times, USA
Joanna Milter, Director of Photography, THE NEW YORKER
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, Head of Photography, Tortoise Media, 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
Kacy Burdette, Photo Editor, Adweek, USA
Karen Davis, Director/Co-owner, Davis Orton Gallery,USA
Karen McQuaid, Curator, The Photographers’ Gallery, UK
Karol Hordziej, Artistic Director, Krakow Photomonth, Poland
Kathy Moran, Senior Editor, National Geographic Magazine, USA
Kathy Ryan, Director of Photography, The New York Times Magazine, USA
Kaycee Olsen, Art Consultant & Fine Art Appraiser, Kevin Barry Fine Art, USA
Kenneth Dickerman, Photo Editor, The Washington Post, USA
Kottie Gaydos, Curator & Editor in Chief, Detroit Center for Contemporary Photography, USA
Kristen Gresh, Curator of Photographs, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, USA
Lars Boering, Managing Director, World Press Photo, Netherlands
Laura Moya, Director, Photolucida, USA
Laura Pressley, Executive Director, CENTER, USA
Lauren Ford, Commissioning Director and Producer, Dazed Magazine, UK
Lekgetho Makola, Director, Market Photo Workshop, South Africa
Lesley Martin, Creative Director, Aperture Foundation, USA
Linda Benedict-Jones, Executive Director, Silver Eye Center for Photography, USA
Lisa J. Sutcliffe, Curator of Photography and Media Arts, Milwaukee Art Museum, 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
Lucy Conticello, Director of Photography, M Magazine, Le Monde, France
Maarten Schilt, Publisher & Gallerist, Schilt Publishing & Gallery, Netherlands
Magdalena Herrera, Director of Photography, GEO France, France
Manila Camarini, Photo Editor, D La Repubblica, Italy
Manuel Rivera-Ortiz, President & Founder, Manuel Rivera-Ortiz Foundation for Documentary Photography & Film, USA
Marc Prüst, Artistic Director, Photography Consultant and Curator, Netherlands
Marcel Feil, Artistic Deputy Director, 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
Marion Hislen, Déléguée à la photographie, Ministere de la Culture, France
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
Matthew Craig, Co-Founder and CEO, Blink, USA
Matthew Tucker, Broadcast Journalist/Picture Producer, BBC News Online, UK
Maya Byskov, Project Manager, Centrifuge, Germany
Mazie Harris, Assistant Curator, Getty Museum, USA
Meaghan Looram, Director of Photography, The New York Times, USA
Melissa Ryan, Deputy Director of Photography, Nature Conservancy Magazine, USA
Mia Diehl, Photography Director, Fortune Magazine, USA
Michael Dooney, Director, Jarvis Dooney Galerry, Germany
Michael Famighetti, Editor, Aperture Magazine, USA
Michael Foley, Owner, Foley Gallery, USA
Michael Hoppen, Owner, Michael Hoppen Gallery, UK
Michael Mack, Founder, MACK Books, UK
Michael Weir, Director/Founder, Belfast Photo Festival, UK
Michelle Dunn Marsh, Chief Strategist, Photographic Center Northwest, USA
Miyako Yoshinaga, Director, Mikayo Yoshinga Gallery, USA
Molly Roberts, Senior Photography Editor, National Geographic Magazine, USA
Monica Allende, Artistic Director, GetxoPhoto & Landskrona Foto Festival, UK
Moritz Neumüller, Academic Director of Photography, IED Madrid, Spain
Moshe Rosenzveig, Founder and Director, Head On Photo Festival, Australia
Muhammed Muheisen, Pulitzer Prize-winning Photojournalist, Netherlands
Mutsuko Ota, Editorial Director, IMA magazine, Japan
Nadav Kander, Award-Winning Photographer, UK
Nakamori Yasufumi, Assistant Curator, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, USA
Natalie Matutschovsky, Photography & Content, Apple, USA
Natasha Egan, Executive Director, Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College, USA
Newsha Tavakolian, Photographer, Magnum Photos, Iran
Nicolas Jimenez, Director of Photography, Le Monde, France
Oliva Maria Rubio, Directora Artística de La Fábrica, PhotoEspaña
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, Qatar
Phillip Prodger, Senior Research Scholar, Yale Center For British Art, USA
Raffaela Lepanto, Photo Editor/University of the Arts London, 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), Hong Kong
Richard Renaldi, Photographer, Richard Renaldi Photography, USA
Roger Archibald, Photo Editor, Society of Environmental Journalists, USA
Ron Haviv, Visual Journalist, Filmmaker, Co-Founder, The VII Foundation, USA
Roxanne Behr, Visuals Director, GQ Magazine, USA
Roy Kahmann, Founder & Owner, Kahmann Gallery | GUP Magazine, Netherlands
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
Sarah Leen, Director of Photography, National Geographic Magazine, 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
Selva Barni, Founder & Editor, Fantom Editions, Italy
Serge Belet, Senior Exhibitions Manager, National Gallery of Canada, Canada
Shoair Mavlian, Director & Curator, PHOTOWORKS, UK
Silvia Mangialardi, Artistic Director, Encuentros Abiertos, 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
Steven Evans, Executive Director, FotoFest International, USA
Sujong Song, Independent Photography Professional, South Korea
Susan Spiritus, Owner, Susan Spiritus Gallery, USA
Susan White, Photography Director, WeWork, USA
Susan Zadeh, Founder/Photography Director, Eyemazing Editions, Netherlands
Taj Forer, Cofounder, Fabl and Daylight Books, USA
Thomas Seelig, Director, Folkwang Museum, Switzerland
Todd Hido, Artist and Photographer, USA
Todd James, Senior Photo Editor, National Geographic Society, USA
Todd Tubutis, Director, Art Museum of West Virginia University, USA
Tomoka Aya, Owner/Director, The Third EyeGallery Aya, Tokyo, Japan
Ute Noll, Photo Director, Du Kulturmagazin, Germany
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
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
Emerging Talents Festival, Rome, Italy
Encontros da Imagem Photography Festival, Braga, Portugal
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 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
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
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
Thank you so much for your thoughtful review. This is the first time I have submitted a body of work before and I found your comments constructive and thoughtful. I was particularly struck by your feedback about the repetitiveness in this body of work and the emphasis on a technique—it was like being hit by a Zen master and his stick!
I couldn’t be more thankful for this valuable advice. Revisiting my submission after reading the review has been both enlightening and enriching. I would like to extend my deep thanks to the reviewer and to the LensCulture team for taking the time to encourage amateurs and professional photographers, giving them a chance to show their work, and finally to offer direct feedback that helps to improve our work. Thank you very much!
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The LensCulture Street Photography Award was amazing! The amount of recognition and the great feedback I got after winning was so exciting. The impact included many interviews appearing in all kinds of magazines, blogs and sites that published my work and helped create even wider exposure! In sum, the experience was wonderful and I enjoyed it so much.
Ilan BurlaStreet Photography Awards 2017IsraelIt’s one thing to make the photographs, but to get those pictures in a forum to motivate change: that’s the most important thing. So to win an award from LensCulture—to be on this platform with millions of viewers—no one could ask for something better than that.
Renée ByerEarth Awards 2015United StatesSince recognition as a Juror’s Pick in last year’s Street Photography Awards, I was the Best Series winner of the PHoS Athens festival as well as a finalist at the Miami Street Photography Festival. I was also a 2nd place winner in the “Street” category of the Chromatic Awards, and a winner in the PDN 7th annual Exposure Awards.
StreetmaxStreet Photography Awards 2017United KingdomThis year has been amazing! First, as a winner of Chelsea International Photography Competition, I have a chance to show my work at Agora Gallery in NYC. I also had solo and a group show in Milan. Furthermore, as a finalist of the Laguna Art Prize, I will be exhibited in the Arsenale di Venezia! Other upcoming shows include Gaffa Gallery in Sydney and one in Los Angeles as a PDN Emerging Photographer 2018.
Antonio PriviteraStreet Photography Awards 2017ItalyThe LensCulture award led to a lot of exposure as well as licensing of the images, a couple of exhibitions, and a ton of interviews, so it has truly been great. A lot of doors have been opened because of this. I'm now starting to work on my next project.
Rasmus DegnbolExposure Awards 2017DenmarkThe BBC are featuring a story from Milan Fashion Week where the Gucci models are carrying “Fake” heads under their arms as they walk down the runway—did my picture and the LensCulture Street Photography Awards influence Gucci? Concretely, the audience that visited my website is huge and my profile has definitely been raised during 2017. I was also featured in PhotoOxford last year with a picture from my “Blue Frames” series.
David BarrettStreet Photography Awards 2017United KingdomBecause of the press from the Emerging Talent awards, I had my work featured in the New Journal of Zurich, one of the oldest newspapers in the world. My series was also written about in a number of publications, from Fast Company to Wired. I was also fortunate to show the work at the Aperture Foundation in their Summer Open exhibition, titled “On Freedom.” Next month I’ll be showing at Candela Gallery in Richmond for an exhibition “The Theory of Place.” Lastly, I’m working with Daylight Books on the production of my first monograph due out next summer, "No Man’s Land: Views from a Surveillance State."
Marcus DeSienoEmerging Talent Awards 2016United StatesIt’s been a very good experience for me. I had my photo featured on the BBC and Daily Telegraph and Amateur Photographer websites, amongst others. After the announcement, I also had requests to print the image in two publications (one in France, one in Germany) among other news.
Alan O’RiordanExposure Awards 2017United KingdomAmong other things, being selected as a Juror’s Pick by Susan White (Photography Director of Vanity Fair magazine) in the LensCulture Portrait Awards 2017 led to representation by a prestigious gallery.
Marinka MasséusPortrait Awards 2017NetherlandsAfter I was named a finalist in the Exposure Awards, my work was published in the following publications: İgnant, My Modern Met, Kwerfeldein, Art Upon, Fotoblogia, Lonely Planet, Fubiz and P3. My work was also published in two printed magazines: Les Others and Renk.
Nadir BucanExposure Awards 2017TurkeyBeing selected as a finalist in the Awards brought positive news indeed. I was contacted by several websites and was published in several online publications. The best were National Geographic Travel and Wired! Hypebeast, Highsnobiety, Unrated, and a few other sites published my work as well. I was also really glad to be included in The Best of LensCulture. The Awards definitely helped my project receive exposure! Many thanks!
Sylvain HeraudExposure Awards 2017France
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