Mazie Harris, Ph.D., is an associate 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.

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Jamie Spence is a London-based Visuals Director, Art Buyer, and Senior Creative Producer with extensive experience across editorial and commercial photography. As Global Visuals Director - EU for Vogue at Condé Nast, he leads creative strategy and original content development across Vogue publications worldwide.

A trusted creative voice for brands including GQ, Tommy Hilfiger, Swarovski, Belstaff, Jo Malone London, and Estée Lauder, Jamie blends bold storytelling with a vision for a more inclusive industry. His production of British Vogue's May 2023 issue — celebrating disabled changemakers — exemplifies his commitment to reshaping the narrative around diversity. Behind the scenes, he continues to empower underrepresented creatives to thrive, lead, and redefine the future of the creative sector.

In addition to his role at Vogue, Jamie is an active member of the PhotoVogue Committee, where he judges Open Calls, conducts portfolio reviews, and participates in panel discussions to support emerging artistic talent.

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Asha Iman Veal is a curator and professor of interdisciplinary contemporary art, focused on contemporary photography and moving-image, cross diasporic projects, and intercultural dialogues through methodologies of art education. She began working in the art and culture field in 2004 in New York City.

Veal's recent large-scale exhibitions "LOVE: Still Not the Lesser" (Museum of Contemporary Photography Chicago 2023) and "Beautiful Diaspora / You Are Not the Lesser Part" (MoCP Chicago 2022) brought together cross-diasporic conversations between global artists Xyza Cruz Bacani, Widline Cadet, Cognate Collective, Sunil Gupta, Kelvin Haizel, Ngadi Smart, and more; and celebrations of love and desire by Jorian Charlton, Jess T. Dugan, and Mous Lamrabat, among others. Her Chicago Architecture Biennial 2021 partner program and exhibition "RAISIN (vol. 1)" commissioned several new artworks and generated community among more than 35 global artists, including Işıl Eğrikavuk, Amanda Williams, and Tintin Wulia. She has organized and worked on several projects and/or arts research since 2004, in New York, Tokyo, Havana, Vietnam, Edinburgh, Darby/London, Berlin, Juárez, and Chicago; and held staff roles in New York and Chicago. She is a board member at Filter Photo (Chicago).

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Following studies in art history, specializes in the history of modern/contemporary photography. Curator of Tokyo Photographic Art Museum from 2018, through curator of Izu Photo Museum (2014-2018). Organized the exhibition Fiona Tan: Ascent (2016), Terri Weifenbach: The May Sun (2017), Forever (and again) (2018), Memories Penetrate the Ground and Permeate the Wind: Contemporary Japanese Photography vol. 18 (2021), Motohashi Seiichi and Robert Doisneau: Narrative Passages (2023). co-curated I know something about love, asian contemporary photography (2018) and life actually (2023) with KASAHARA Michiko, Reversible Destiny: Australian and Japanese contemporary photography (2021) with Natalie KING. Part-time lecturer of Meiji Gakuin University.

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Sam Mercer is an artist, curator and producer. Since 2014, Sam has been working on the digital programme at The Photographers' Gallery, London, curating a number of projects for their Media Wall and online, and assistant curating the exhibition All I Know Is What's On The Internet. In 2019 and 2020, Sam co-curated Data / Set / Match, a year-long programme of commissions that sought new ways to present, visualise and interrogate scientific image datasets, followed by Imagin(in)g Networks (2021–2022), Aarati Akkapeddi – A-Kin (2022) and Between Worlds (2023) and Planetary Portals – I am in your dreams and you are not in mine (2025)

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Moshe is the founder, creative director and lead curator of Head On Photo Festival, Australia's premier photography event, showcasing the work of international and local photographers of all genres and career stages.

Moshe's career spans over 40 years as a photojournalist, commercial photographer, educator and an award-winning television producer/director at SBS Television. Moshe's work has been screened, published and exhibited in Australia and overseas.

He has led the judging panels for the annual Head On Awards since 2004 in Portrait, Landscape, Mobile, Photobook, Moving Image and Student categories. Moshe has also served as a judge for numerous awards including the City of Sydney's Art & About and the Walkley Prize for Photojournalism, portfolio reviewer in Rencontre d'Arles and is a nominator for Joop Swart Masterclass and Prix Pictet.

Moshe has Masters in Journalism from the University of Technology, Sydney where he also taught photojournalism as well as in many other higher education institutions.

In 2018, Moshe was awarded an Order of Australia Medal (OAM) for his contribution to Visual Arts, in particular, photography.

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Arianna Rinaldo is a freelance professional working with photography at a wide range. From 2012 to 2021 she was the artistic director of Cortona On The Move, international festival of visual narrative. Since 2016 she is the photography curator at PhEST, a festival of contemporary photography and arts in Puglia.

Arianna's relationship with photography started in 1998 as archive director at Magnum Photos in New York; and later as photo editor for Colors magazine in Italy. Based in Milan from 2004 to 2011, Arianna worked as a freelance curator and a photo consultant for various publications, among which 4 years at D, the weekend supplement of La Repubblica (2008-2011). In the meantime, for 8 years she was the editorial director of OjodePez, the bilingual documentary photo magazine published by La Fabrica, Madrid.

Based in Barcelona since 2012, Arianna continues to develop photography projects at an international level. Besides her curatorial activity, Arianna is engaged in leading workshops and masterclasses, as well as private mentorship sessions. She is in the selection committee of various institutions among which the Leica Oskar Barnack Award, the British Journal of Photography "Ones to Watch", and the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize.

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Dr. Marta Weiss is Senior Curator of Photography at the V&A and Lead Curator of the second phase of the V&A Photography Centre, opening in 2023. She joined the museum in 2007 after two years in the Department of Photographs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She studied history of art, specialising in photography, at Harvard (BA) and Princeton (MA, PhD). Her V&A exhibitions include Julia Margaret Cameron (2015); The Camera Exposed (2016); Staying Power: Photographs of Black British Experience 1950s-1990s (2015); Making It Up: Photographic Fictions (2013); and Light from the Middle East: New Photography (2012). She is author of four books and numerous essays, on topics ranging from Victorian photocollage to Diane Arbus. Her most recent book is Autofocus: The Car in Photography (Thames & Hudson/V&A 2019).

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Cassidy Paul is the Managing Editor, Digital at Aperture. She is responsible for managing and producing editorial content for Aperture's website, pitching and commissioning stories for the website alongside editorial features from Aperture publications. She is also the managing editor for Introducing, a web-exclusive series that highlights exciting new voices in photography, as well as an editor for Creating Stories for Tomorrow, a partnership between FUJIFILM and Aperture. Joining Aperture in 2016, she has previously held positions as the publicity associate, social editor, and digital editor. Prior to joining Aperture, she worked as a photo editor at TIME magazine. Her writing has appeared in Aperture and TIME. She holds a BFA in photography from Parsons School of Design at the New School, New York.

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Robert Morat is the owner and director of Robert Morat Gallery in Berlin. The gallery program focuses on emerging and mid-career positions in contemporary photography, representing artists such aa Christian Patterson, Ron Jude, Jessica Backhaus, Bertien van Manen, Hans Christian Schink, Lia Darjes, Mårten Lange, Simon Roberts, Andrea Grützner and many others. Robert, an art historian, went to Journalism School and started out as an editor working for magazines, newspapers and TV. He opened the gallery in Hamburg in 2004 and started showing at international art fairs in 2007. Today, the gallery is a regular exhibitor at art fairs such as PARIS PHOTO, UNSEEN Amsterdam or Photo London. In 2009, Robert became a member of AIPAD, the Association of International Photography Art Dealers, and served as a director and member of the board from 2010 to 2015. In 20015 the gallery relocated to Berlin and is found today on Linienstrasse in the Mitte art district, showing an alternating program of represented artists, guest exhibitors (John Divola (2019), Max Pinckers (2020)), book presentations and artist talks.

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Diane Smyth is Editor of the British Journal of Photography and the Photoworks Annual. She also lectures on History and Theory of Photography at the London College of Communications, University of the Arts London, and has given talks and workshops at many other institutions, including London School of Economics and King's College London. Diane has written about photography for publications such as The Guardian, FT Weekend Magazine, Aperture, FOAM, Trigger, Apollo and The Art Newspaper and has contributed essays to many photography catalogues and monographs. She originally studied for a BA in English Language and Literature at the University of Birmingham, graduating with a First and the Tibbatt's Memorial Prize. She also holds an MA in Modern Literatures in English from Birkbeck College, University of London, taken while working full time. @dismy

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Andreas Müller-Pohle is a Berlin-based media artist and the founder and publisher of European Photography, an independent art magazine for international contemporary photography that celebrates its 45th anniversary this year. He has published the major works by media philosopher Vilém Flusser, available in the ten-volume Edition Flusser, including the seminal Philosophy of Photography, and has been a visiting professor and lecturer at institutions in Europe, North and South America, and Asia. Andreas has worked with photography and media projects since the late 1970s. Recently, he has been pursuing two long-term projects: Studies on Water, with portraits of the water landscapes of the Danube and the megalopolis of Hong Kong, and Studies on Traffic, in which he investigates traffic phenomena in various regions of the world. His works have been widely published and exhibited and are included in numerous private and museum collections worldwide. In 2001, he was awarded the European Photography Prize from the Reind M. De Vries Foundation, a one-time distinction for his achievements in photography.

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Markus Hartmann runs (together with his wife Angelika Hartmann) Hartmann Books (publishing) and Hartmann Projects (gallery and exhibition space) in downtown Stuttgart. Hartmann Books publish about 10-12 photobooks a year on topics the publishers have a personal interest in such as documentary-, architectural-, experimental-, portrait-, landscape- to conceptual photography.

He was born and grew up in Berlin in a family of printers and art book publishers trained publishing at Verlag Gerd Hatje, Stuttgart (1982–1984), and was publishing director for photography and contemporary art at Hatje Cantz Publishers until 2013. He started Hartmann Projects an exhibition space and agency for exhibition organization in 2013 and Hartmann Books in 2016 (both with his wife and collaborator Angelika Hartmann). He is an occasional contributor to magazines and blogs, writing on photography and book related themes, regular juror and lecturer at Photofestivals, and curated shows for the Rencontres d'Arles with Markus Brunetti (2015), Alfred Seiland (2016), Norman Behrendt (2017). He lives in and works from Stuttgart, Germany, EU.

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Amy Kellner is a senior photo editor at The New York Times Magazine. She has been at the magazine since 2011, where she commissions, produces and edits photography and video for features, covers, special issues and photo essays. Photography and video projects that she has conceived and produced for the magazine have been finalists for a News & Documentary Emmy and a Pulitzer, and have been recognized by The Society of Publication Designers, American Photography, The Art Directors Club, The Lucie Awards, The Overseas Press Club of America, World Press Photo, and Pictures of the Year International. Previously, she was at Vice Media for 10 years as a contributing writer, the managing editor of Vice Magazine, and a video producer of original documentary series for Vice TV.

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Maysa Moroni has been photo editor for the Italian weekly magazine Internazionale since 2008, specifically in charge of the cover.

Before working at Internazionale, she graduated from the Riccardo Bauer school of photography in Milan, traveled the world as an assistant photographer, was an iconographic researcher for the Franca Speranza Photographic Agency, a production assistant for the Contrasto Photojournalistic Agency, and a photoeditor for the Gruppo Editoriale L'Espresso. She holds occasional meetings on the creative process behind the cover.

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Jim Casper is the editor-in-chief of LensCulture, one of the leading online destinations to discover new contemporary photography from around the world. As an active member in the contemporary photography world, Casper loves to meet with photographers and review their portfolios. He curates art exhibitions, publishes books, conducts workshops, serves as an international juror and nominator for key awards, and is an advisor to arts and education organizations.

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After 6 years of experience in the museum industry, Gwen Lee co-founded Singapore International Photography Festival (SIPF), a biennale international photography platform in 2008. Since then, she has curated & organised numerous photography exhibitions both in Singapore and overseas. In 2014, she curated Flux: Contemporary Photography from China at Art Science Museum. In 2016, she curated a special photobook exhibition with Steidl publishing at DECK, and a solo exhibition of Daido Moriyama at DECK. On regular basis, she gives talks on professional development for photographers, and participates as a juror and portfolio reviewer in Asia and Europe.

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American contemporary multimedia artist Steven Evans has worked in a range of cultural practices, and his artwork has been exhibited in New York City, Los Angeles, Basel, Berlin, Houston, Lisbon, Paris, and Stockholm, among other cities.

Evans (b. 1964, Key West, Florida) was originally active from the mid-1980s to the early 2000s, reemerging in 2013. He works across a wide variety of media, including neon, photography, installation, sculpture, painting, and curatorial projects. He is currently Executive Director of FotoFest, Houston, TX. His work is recently included in exhibitions at Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York; Jonathan Hopson Gallery, Houston; and Spritmuseum, Stockholm. His song title works and a new installation were the subject of an exhibition at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston in 2019.

Evans's visual work explores memory, history, and identity, as well as popular culture. The work is rooted in an examination of the formation of and shifts within sexual and gender identity, as well as the vocabularies of sub-cultures.

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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. While respecting these West Coast traditions, CPA is also at the vanguard of the future of photographic imagery. Before joining CPA, Ann worked as the gallery director at RayKo Photo Center and as the gallery manager at Scott Nichols Gallery in San Francisco.

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István Virágvölgyi (1982 – Budapest, Hungary) studied freehand drawing, desktop publishing, photography and earned a master's degree from library and information studies at Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest, Hungary). He worked at the leading Hungarian news portal Origo first as photo editor and then as head of photography between 2007 and 2011. Then he joined MTI Hungarian News Agency and served as head of the photo desk for three years. He lectured about documentary photography and photo editing at the Budapest Metropolitan University between 2014–2019 and about photo history at Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design in 2022–2023. Since 2014 he workes as curator of the Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center, since 2022 he also serves as artistic director, he is secretary of the Capa Grand Prize Hungary and the editor of Weekly Fortepan blog. Since 2016 he is cultural advisor of the Archabbey of Pannonhalma and since 2018 volunteer editor of the Fortepan digital photo archive. He is married, has two children, lives and works in Budapest.

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