Thank you for your interest in the Portfolio Reviews. Please read the information on the FORMAT site carefully before you make a booking. Please email Seb at [email protected]for any queries. On the following pages you will find a biography for each of the Portfolio Reviewers. Please note, reviewers may be added or changed at any time. List of Reviewers: ALEXA BECKER – Acquisitions Editor, Kehrer Verlag, Germany ALFREDO CRAMEROTTI – Director of MOSTYN Visual Arts Centre, UK ALICIA HART – Photo Editor and Producer, UK ANGEL LUIS GONZALEZ – Founder and Director of PhotoIreland ANNA-KAISA RASTENBERGER – Artistic Director of the Festival of Political Photography, Helsinki, Finland ANNE BRAYBON – independent curator, creative director, photo historian and lecturer, UK ARIANNA RINALDO – Artistic Director Cortona On The Move, Italy BRIDGET COAKER – Director of Troika Editions; Picture Editor for The Guardian and Observer newspapers, UK CAMILLA BROWN – Curator, writer and lecturer on contemporary art, specialising in photography, UK CHARLIE FELLOWES – Owner and Director Edel Assanti, London, UK DAGMAR SEELAND – Picture Editor, stern Magazine, UK DEWI LEWIS – Publisher, Dewi Lewis Publishing, UK DIETER NEUBERT – Co Founder & Director of Kassel Fotobook Festival, Germany EMMA BOWKETT – Photo Editor, Financial Times Weekend Magazine, UK FIONA ROGERS – Global Business Development Manager, Magnum Photos GWEN LEE – Founder, Singapore International Photo Festival, Singapore HOLLY ROUSSELL – Independent curator, Prix Elysée and Travelling Exhibitions Coordinator (Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne) CH, Swizerland HUW DAVIES – Dean of the College of Arts, University of Derby & Co-Curator, Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival, UK IONA FERGUSSON – Independent Curator and Creative Director of Delhi Photo Festival, UK & India IRIS SIKKING – Independent Curator, Netherlands JIM CASPER – Editor-in-Chief and Co-founder of LensCulture, Netherlands JOHN DUNCAN – Co-editor, Source Photographic Review, Ireland KAREN HARVEY – Founder and Director of Shutter Hub, UK KIM KNOPPERS – Curator, Foam, Netherlands KRYSZTOF CANDROWICZ – Director of the International Festival of Photography in Lodz, Poland LARS WILLUMEIT – Independent Curator, Swizerland LISA BOTOS – Independent Curator, Singapore and Hong Kong MALCOLM DICKSON – Director, Street Level Photoworks, UK MARINA PAULENKA – Founder and Artistic Director of Organ Vida International Photography Festival, Croatia MAURO BEDONI – Programme Manager, QUAD Derby, UK NICOLA SHIPLEY – Director of GRAIN projects, UK NUNO RICOU SALGADO – Artistic Director, Flâneur, Founder & Chairman of the Board of Procur.arte, Portugal PEGGY SUE AMISON – Artistic Director, East Wing, UAE PIPPA OLDFIELD – Head of Programme, Impressions Gallery, UK REMI COIGNET – Editor-in-Chief for the review The Eyes, France SALVATORE VITALE – Photographer and Editor, Switzerland SHEYI BANKALE – Curator of Next Level Projects and Editor of Next Level magazine, UK SIAN BONNELL – Artist and Curator, UK TIM CLARK – Editor-in-Chief and Publisher at 1000 Words, UK TOM HUNTER – Artist and Lecturer, UK TOM SEYMOUR – BJP, UK WANG BAOGUO – Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Chinese Photographers Magazine, China W.M HUNT – Head Bear at Dancing Bear, USA YASMIN KEEL – Assistant to the Publisher, Schilt Publishing & Gallery, UK YINING HE – Independent writer, curator and founder of Go East Project, China FORMAT Portfolio Review March 2017 Reviewer Biographies
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Thank you for your interest in the Portfolio Reviews. Please read the information on the FORMAT site carefully before you
make a booking. Please email Seb at [email protected] for any queries. On the following pages you will find a
biography for each of the Portfolio Reviewers. Please note, reviewers may be added or changed at any time.
List of Reviewers: ALEXA BECKER – Acquisitions Editor, Kehrer Verlag, Germany ALFREDO CRAMEROTTI – Director of MOSTYN Visual Arts Centre, UK ALICIA HART – Photo Editor and Producer, UK ANGEL LUIS GONZALEZ – Founder and Director of PhotoIreland ANNA-KAISA RASTENBERGER – Artistic Director of the Festival of Political Photography, Helsinki, Finland ANNE BRAYBON – independent curator, creative director, photo historian and lecturer, UK ARIANNA RINALDO – Artistic Director Cortona On The Move, Italy BRIDGET COAKER – Director of Troika Editions; Picture Editor for The Guardian and Observer newspapers, UK CAMILLA BROWN – Curator, writer and lecturer on contemporary art, specialising in photography, UK
CHARLIE FELLOWES – Owner and Director Edel Assanti, London, UK DAGMAR SEELAND – Picture Editor, stern Magazine, UK DEWI LEWIS – Publisher, Dewi Lewis Publishing, UK DIETER NEUBERT – Co Founder & Director of Kassel Fotobook Festival, Germany EMMA BOWKETT – Photo Editor, Financial Times Weekend Magazine, UK FIONA ROGERS – Global Business Development Manager, Magnum Photos GWEN LEE – Founder, Singapore International Photo Festival, Singapore HOLLY ROUSSELL – Independent curator, Prix Elysée and Travelling Exhibitions Coordinator (Musée de
l’Elysée, Lausanne) CH, Swizerland HUW DAVIES – Dean of the College of Arts, University of Derby & Co-Curator, Berwick Film & Media Arts
Festival, UK IONA FERGUSSON – Independent Curator and Creative Director of Delhi Photo Festival, UK & India IRIS SIKKING – Independent Curator, Netherlands JIM CASPER – Editor-in-Chief and Co-founder of LensCulture, Netherlands JOHN DUNCAN – Co-editor, Source Photographic Review, Ireland KAREN HARVEY – Founder and Director of Shutter Hub, UK KIM KNOPPERS – Curator, Foam, Netherlands KRYSZTOF CANDROWICZ – Director of the International Festival of Photography in Lodz, Poland LARS WILLUMEIT – Independent Curator, Swizerland LISA BOTOS – Independent Curator, Singapore and Hong Kong MALCOLM DICKSON – Director, Street Level Photoworks, UK MARINA PAULENKA – Founder and Artistic Director of Organ Vida International Photography Festival, Croatia MAURO BEDONI – Programme Manager, QUAD Derby, UK NICOLA SHIPLEY – Director of GRAIN projects, UK NUNO RICOU SALGADO – Artistic Director, Flâneur, Founder & Chairman of the Board of Procur.arte, Portugal PEGGY SUE AMISON – Artistic Director, East Wing, UAE PIPPA OLDFIELD – Head of Programme, Impressions Gallery, UK REMI COIGNET – Editor-in-Chief for the review The Eyes, France SALVATORE VITALE – Photographer and Editor, Switzerland SHEYI BANKALE – Curator of Next Level Projects and Editor of Next Level magazine, UK SIAN BONNELL – Artist and Curator, UK TIM CLARK – Editor-in-Chief and Publisher at 1000 Words, UK TOM HUNTER – Artist and Lecturer, UK TOM SEYMOUR – BJP, UK WANG BAOGUO – Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Chinese Photographers Magazine, China W.M HUNT – Head Bear at Dancing Bear, USA YASMIN KEEL – Assistant to the Publisher, Schilt Publishing & Gallery, UK YINING HE – Independent writer, curator and founder of Go East Project, China
Independent creative director, photo historian and lecturer.
Type of work
interested/not interested
in: Anne is interested in
whatever projects the
photographer is working on
or developing with
enthusiasm and excitement.
Anne Braybon is an independent curator, creative director, photo
historian and lecturer. As an award winning editorial art director, she
worked in Amsterdam, Paris and London before joining the National
Portrait Gallery in 2005 where she researched and developed themed
series of photographic portraits. Anne currently writes, commissions,
lectures and leads courses on photography for the public and private
sector. Clients include the National Galleries, Scotland, The
Photographers' Gallery, and Sotheby’s Institute.
Anna-Kaisa Rastenberger, PhD, works as a Professor of Exhibition Studies and Spatiality at the Academy of Fine Arts of the University of the Arts Helsinki. She also runs a curatorial MA-program called Praxis-studies. Since 2009 she has worked as the Chief Curator at The Finnish Museum of Photography, which is the leading museum of photography in Finland. Along with the museum’s main exhibitions Rastenberger has been responsible for the gallery’s program for the emerging photographers. Rastenberger is also an artistic director and co-founder of ‘The Festival of Political Photography’, which examines ways of influencing with photographs and seeks to define what the word ‘political’ means in contemporary photographic practices. Rastenberger has extensive experience in exhibition projects, curating practices and the international exhibition scene of the contemporary arts. Her career among photography has included curating contemporary lens based art exhibitions (for example for the Hamburg Triennial of Photography and the Moscow Biennale) and writing for publications. Rastenberger is art historian specialising in contemporary art and photographic art. Her special interests are new forms of photography as contemporary art, exhibition as critical practice, art and society, feminism and digital environments. Previously she was engaged as a researcher in the Academy of Finland's project (2005–2009). She worked as an educational curator at The Helsinki Art Museum (2002–2005) and the editor-in-chief of KUVA – the magazine of visual culture (1998–2000). Since 2001 she has been lecturing in Helsinki University, Aalto-University (known before as University of Art and Design) and several other institutions. Rastenberger does also independent curating and writing. She has published widely about contemporary photography and contemporary art.
http://pvf.fi/en/
Anna-Kaisa Rastenberger, PhD
Artistic Director of the Festival of Political Photography, Helsinki, Finland Type of work interested/not interested in: Rastenberger is interested in both documentary projects and contemporary photographic art and lens based art, which has strong vision in conceptual and/or aesthetic approach. She is interested in art practices and displays, which seek to cross the dichotomy between physical and digital environments.
Bridget Coaker is a picture editor based in London, where she works for
the Guardian and is also Director of Photography for the contemporary
photography gallery Troika Editions, which she co-founded in 2008. She
has curated a number of exhibitions, including Residual Traces at
Photofusion, London and in 2009 was Director of the Hereford
Photography Festival where she presented the photography of
European photographers working with the image of the child in "Seen
But Not Heard" and curated the retrospective show of photojournalist
and filmmaker John Bulmer.
Bridget is a visiting lecturer at UK Universities, including the University
for the Creative Arts, University of Derby, Plymouth College of Art and
the University of Westminster.
In 2011 she joined the steering committee of the FORMAT International
Photography Festival and participated in the North East Photography
Network Symposium Photography Publishing and the Future of the
Photo Book.
Bridget has also written about photography including for the online art
photography magazine, 1000 Words, The Daily Telegraph and is a
contributing writer for the book "Exhibiting Photography" published by
Focal Press.
In 2015 Bridget was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of
Photography, UK.
www.troikaeditions.co.uk
www.theguardian.com
Bridget Coaker
Director of Troika Editions; Picture Editor for The Guardian and Observer newspapers Type of work interested/not interested in: I am interested in seeing projects that are finished or nearly finished. I am less interested in seeing general portfolios.
Arianna Rinaldo is a freelance professional working with photography at
a wide range. She is the artistic director of Cortona On The Move, the
international photo festival in Tuscany, Italy. For almost 10 years she
was also the director of OjodePez magazine, the only documentary
photography quarterly published in Spain.
Arianna’s relationship with photography started in 1998 in New York, as
Archive Director at Magnum Photos. Back in Italy in 2001, as picture
editor for Colors magazine she commissioned international
photographers to produce documentary projects all over the world.
Based in Milan from 2004 to 2011, Arianna has been a freelance
curator for exhibits and a photo consultant for various publications,
among which 4 years at D, the weekend supplement of one of Italy’s
main daily, La Repubblica. She is a regular participant in portfolio
reviews and jury panels worldwide, as well as speaker and teacher. She
was part of the World Press Photo jury in 2009, Fotopres, Spain in 2012
and has been a Photolucida Critical Mass juror since 2009.
Camilla Brown is a curator, writer and lecturer on contemporary art,
specialising in photography based in the UK. For ten years she was
Senior curator at The Photographers’ Gallery, London previous to which
she was Exhibitions Curator at Tate Liverpool. She is on the Board of
Directors at QUAD, Derby and on the steering group for FORMAT
Photography Festival. She has held a number of academic posts and in
2015 was appointed Visiting Fellow in Photography at the University of
Derby. She has recently taken up a new role as Associate Curator for
GRAIN a West Midlands based arts organisation dedicated to
commissioning high quality photography projects, events and
exhibitions. She regularly gives talks at universities, museums and
galleries. She writes for artists’ monographs and history of photography
books. In 2016 she will publish a chapter titled ‘A curators perspective’
for a forthcoming book Photography and research: the idea, the process
and the project, a Practical Guide for Photographers to be published by
Focal Press. She is also a regular contributor to Photomonitor.co.uk
writing on photographers with forthcoming essays on the work of Clare
Strand and Sarah Pickering.
Charlie Fellowes
Owner and Director Edel Assanti, London, UK Type of work interested/not interested in: Charlie is interested in reviewing Fine Art Photographic work. He is not interested in seeing commercial or fashion work. He is interested in meeting artists that could compliment the galleries existing roster or be a good fit for other independent curatorial projects he is currently working on.
Charlie Fellowes opened Edel Assanti, with Jeremy Epstein, as an itinerant project space in 2010 in London. In 2013 it evolved into a commercial gallery based in Victoria, before moving to its current location in Fitzrovia in 2015. Prior to that Charlie spent five years working at Hamilton’s, one of London's pre-eminent galleries for photography. Over the the last five years Edel Assanti has assisted the gallery's artists in participating in institutional exhibitions, biennials and curatorial projects throughout Europe and Asia. Alongside Edel Assanti, Charlie has sat on the Tate's acquisition committee for photography and the board of the young patrons of the Photographers Gallery in London. www.edelassanti.com
Type of work interested/not interested in: Other than illustrative travel photography and nude photography, Dewi Lewis is interested in seeing any work suitable for publication in book form which has the potential to generate reasonable interest from a book buying audience.
Dagmar Seeland
Photo Editor, Stern Magazine
Type of work interested/not
interested in: A wide range of
photographic genres, provided it
has a strong narrative which
may appeal to a mainstream
international readership.
Photojournalism, documentary,
street photography and portraiture are her main focus.
She is interested in conceptual
and fashion photography too,
though generally not in
architecture.
Dagmar Seeland is the UK Photo Editor of the German weekly stern
magazine. She proposes story and feature ideas, commissions and
buys work for stern and writes features about culture and photography
for this renowned publication. Dagmar also contributes to the
magazine’s associated titles such as the monthly VIEW and the bi-
monthly stern CRIME and runs K&R Media, a photo agency and
correspondents’ service for various German and Swiss media clients
such as Die Zeit, Brigitte, the Swiss broadsheet NZZ and the
broadcaster ARD. She is passionate about discovering and developing
new talent and has led workshops and talks about editorial photography
both in the UK and abroad.
http://www.stern.de/
Before establishing the imprint Dewi Lewis was the founding Director of Cornerhouse, one of the major UK Centres for Contemporary Visual Arts and Film, based in Manchester. In 1987 he established Cornerhouse Publications which achieved recognition internationally for its ambitious and imaginative publishing programme and was a winner of the Sunday Times Award for Small Publisher of the Year. Many of the titles published by the company have been shortlisted for a range of international prizes and several have won awards. Dewi’s own book entitled Publishing Photography was selected by Photo-eye (USA) as the Best Photography Resource Book of the Year.
Dewi Lewis was appointed an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society in 2004 and in November 2009 he was awarded the inaugural Royal Photographic Society Award for Outstanding Services to Photography. He was awarded the Kraszna-Krausz Foundation Award for Outstanding Contribution to Publishing at the World Photography Awards in April 2012.
Type of work interested/not interested in: I am interested in all types of photographic work which shows individual differences to other photographer’s work.
Dieter Neubert is from Kassel, Germany. He has studied visual
communication at the Kassel University and is the Founder and Director
of the Kassel Fotobookfestival and Founder of the Kassel Photobook
and Dummy Awards. He is also the chief editor of the monographic
magazine PHOTOPAPER. He has edited and published several books
like the Daido Moriyama anthology ON DAIDO, the artist book KASSEL
MENU by Martin Parr and some volumes of the annual catalogue BEST
PHOTOBOOKS. Currently he is preparing the 10th International
Fotobookfestival Kassel 2018 and working on PHOTOPAPER issues 13,
14 and 15.
www.fotobookfestival.org
www.photopaper.world
www.fotobookfestival.org
Emma Bowkett
Photography Director of
the Financial Times FT
Weekend Magazine
Type of work interested/not interested in: Emma is interested in still life, portraiture and stories.
Emma Bowkett is Director of Photography at the Financial Times FT
Weekend Magazine. She is a visiting university lecturer, and regularly
participates at international portfolio reviews, festivals, art fairs and
awards, including Unseen, Foam Paul Huf, and the Kraszner-Krausz
Foundation Book Award. Emma has been a Master at both Foam and
Fabrica Masterclasses and is part of Magnum Photos Professional
Practice, which supports young and emerging photographers. She co-
curates a Financial Times special supplement and day of events as part
of Photo London. She recently won the inaugural Firecracker
Contributors Award, which recognises women who have had a
substantial impact on the photography industry and is voted for by
After 6 years of experience in museum industry, Gwen Lee went on to pursue her first love for photography. Since then, Gwen has tumbled down the rabbit hole into the Wonderland of silver halides. Together with friends, a photo gallery known as 2902 Gallery was established in 2008. However, curiosity got the better of her and resulted in a biennale photo festival in 2008, known as Singapore International Photography Festival (SIPF), a biennale international photography platform. For her daring vision, she received an arts award from Japan Chamber of Commerce & Trade for her contribution to the Singapore arts community in 2010. In 2013 she went on curatorial study trip in Germany supported by Goethe Institut Singapore & National Arts Council. In 2013, SIPF receive seed grants from the arts council to further develop photography education in Singapore. In 2014, Gwen and team created an independent creative container art space call “DECK” to provide platform and residency programme for photographers. DECK is awarded President’s Design Award 2015 (Singapore) for its innovative design & impact on the arts community. In 2016, DECK is one of the 3 visual arts space in Singapore to receive NAC Major Company Grant to develop its organisation ability and programme.
Since 2008, she curate & organised close to 45 photography exhibitions both in Singapore and overseas. Most recently she has curated a special photobook exhibition with Steidl publishing at DECK. On regular basis, she gave talks on professional development for photographers, participated as a jury and portfolio reviewer in Asia and Europe.
www.sipf.sg
Fiona Rogers is the Global Business Development Manager at
Magnum Photos International, working to implement new business
innovations and strategic partnerships. Prior to this she was the
Cultural & Education Manager, conceiving and delivering international
exhibitions and events and creating Magnum’s global Education
department in 2006. Fiona has extensive experience as a project
manager, producing global exhibitions, cultural projects, and
photographic assignments for a variety of clients.
Fiona is also the founder of Firecracker, a platform supporting female
photographers. In 2012, Firecracker launched an annual grant, offered
to photographers to complete a long-term documentary photography
project. Fiona has a strong interest in emerging photographers and has
participated in international platforms such as Recontres D’Arles,
Format Festival and the Singapore International Photography Festival.
She has participated as a judge for several notable competitions
including the Mack First Book Award and the Getty Images Grant for
Independent curator, Prix Elysée and Travelling Exhibitions Coordinator (Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne) CH Type of work interested/not
interested in: Passionate about the
stories artists can tell through their
images, I hope to see creative
photographic projects (works in
progress or finished work) that address
contemporary issues and the world in
which we live. With a wide range of
interests in photography ranging from
landscape, documentary, cityscape,
street photography, still-life or more
conceptual works. Particularly
interested in works relating to the
theme of civilization.
I am currently less interested in seeing: fashion, travel, wildlife, nudes or strictly
commercial photography.
Huw Davies is a photographer, filmmaker and curator. He is currently Professor of Lens Media at the University of Derby. Huw was a Jury member for FORMAT Open Call 2017 and co-founded the Berwick, Film & Media Arts Festival in 2004 and is currently Chair of its Board. BFMAF is unique in the UK, in its combination of installation, artists’ film and video and independent cinema, set in the distinctive architectural location of England’s most northern town. The Festival has frequently shown work, which has explored the relationship between the still and the moving image.
www.derby.ac.uk/arts www.berwickfilm-artsfest.com
Holly Roussell Perret-Gentil is an independent curator and serves as coordinator of the worldwide travelling exhibitions program and photography prize, the Prix Elysée, for the Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne. From 2012-2014 she worked as assistant curator on the major 21st century survey of landscape photography with William Ewing, Landmark: The Fields of Landscape Photography, and the accompanying publication (Thames & Hudson, 2014). Recently, she was co-curator of the Chinese photography exhibition, Works in Progress: Photography in China 2015, presented at the Folkwang Museum in Essen. Most recently she was a contributing author to Dictionary of Photography (Thames & Hudson, 2015), and Prix Elysée Nominees’ Book (Editions Photosynthèses/ Musée de l’Elysée, 2017) and in ELSE Magazine. Holly Roussell Perret-Gentil has degrees in both Art History and Museology. Her current areas of research are exhibition histories, contemporary photography from Asia, and the role of 21st century photography in depicting and creating our civilization. https://ch.linkedin.com/in/hollyroussellperretgentil www.prixeylsee.ch www.elysee.ch
Iona Fergusson is an independent curator based out of London as well
as Creative Director of the Delhi Photo Festival, an international
photography biennial in India. She joined the festival team in 2015 as
Director of Programmes responsible for Talks and Education.
In 2007 she joined the launch team of Vogue India in Mumbai as
Photo Editor responsible for setting up the photography department
and commissioning photographers, artists and illustrators from India
and around the world. She has worked for Maxim magazine in New
Delhi and in fine art publishing in the UK.
She has a Masters degree in Photography: Historical and
Contemporary from Sothebys Institute of Art.
www.delhiphotofestival.com
As a curator she currently works on thematic group exhibitions as well as monographic exhibitions for venues in the Netherlands and abroad. In 2016 she was a guest curator for the Krakow Photomonth and compiled the exhibition A New Display: Visual Storytelling at a Crossroads. Through working for different venues and institutions she has gained ample experience in exhibition design, and using multimedia presentation formats. In the past she worked on cross platform projects, and the publication of photo books. Her research is on narrative and digital strategies used by photographers to find a visual language and presentation format for their stories. Her background as a filmeditor has proven to be an asset in the way she looks at photographic work, and positions her in the overlapping field of film and photography. One day a week, she is a Tutor at the Film and Photography department, AKV|St.Joost (Breda, NL).
Kim Knoppers (b. 1976) is an art historian (University of Amsterdam) and curator at Foam. Since 2011, she has worked on exhibitions including Collaborate: On Artists’ Collectives, Re-Search: Alumni Rijksakademie, Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin, Anne de Vries, Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs, Geert Goiris, Paul Bogaers, Bertien van Manen, JH Engström, Jan Hoek, Lorenzo Vitturi, Jan Rosseel, Anika Schwarzlose and Jaya Pelupessy. Knoppers is also founder and curator of Artists’ Recipes which explores the intersection of art and food. She lives and works in Amsterdam and stays on a regular basis in Istanbul (Image credit: Bram Prins).
www.foam.org
Karen Harvey is Founder and Director of Shutter Hub, the
photography organisation supporting and promoting creative
photographers internationally through exhibitions, networking and
opportunities.
With a wide range of experience working as a photographer and
writer, creative consultant, mentor and curator, Karen has spoken
about developing a career in the photography industry on many
occasions, most notably at Foam Museum Amsterdam, the National
Photography Symposium, London Art Fair, London Photomonth, the
Festival of Creative Industries, and across the UK at universities and
colleges.
The Shutter Hub goal is to bring photographers together to help them
further their careers, get better opportunities and be part of something
Krzysztof Candrowicz is a curator, researcher and art director. He is the founder and director of the International Festival of Photography in Lodz, the Foundation of Visual Education and the Lodz Art Center. Krzysztof Candrowicz is also working as a consultant, guest curator and visiting lecturer in numerous organizations, museums, schools and festivals in Europe and worldwide. Since 2014, he is the artistic director of the Hamburg Triennial of Photography in Germany.
WWW.FOTOFESTIWAL.COM WWW.PHOTOTRIENNALE.DE
Lars Willumeit (born 1974) is a German social anthropologist based in Zurich, Switzerland. As an independent curator, author, and photo editor, he has been working with the medium of photography in different modes since 1993. His interests lie in photography, documentarisms, regimes of representation, and visual cultures. Since the early 2000s, Willumeit has served in the capacity of photoeditor for numerous magazines, most notably for GEO magazine, in Hamburg and New York, and as photo director, from 2008–2013, for the Zurich-based Du: Die Zeitschrift der Kultur. Between 2013 and 2015, he curated exhibitions and festival presentations for East Wing (an exhibition space and platform for photography basedin Dubai) and the FORMAT International Photography Festival in Derby; and was a contributing author to the photobook Deposit by Yann Mingard, as well as to a dictionary entitled Factory Tools, which was published within Fabrik, the catalogue of the German Pavilion (curated by Florian Ebner) at the 2015 Venice Biennale. In 2016 he was chief curator of Krakow Photomonth in Poland.
Lisa Botos is a curator, cultural producer and former gallerist. Based in Singapore, she founded Botos, an arts-related, project-orientated initiative with a focus on independent and collaborative curatorial projects, publishing, and advisory. Along with curating exhibitions and producing catalogues, she also develops and manages art projects, programming and events in Singapore, Hong Kong, Southeast Asia and in the USA. In 2008, she co-founded Ooi Botos, a Hong Kong-based, avant-garde contemporary art gallery. Prior, she was head of photography for Time magazine in Asia. Botos served as an international curator for the Vladivostok Biennale of Visual Arts 2013 and on the advisory council for Photo Shanghai. An advisor to the WYNG Foundation (Hong Kong) from 2011-2016, she counselled on the development and management of the WMA Masters Award (formerly the WYNG Masters Award), an international, issues-focused photography award program. In 2017 she joins the WMA Masters advisory group. She is a 2015 Fellow of the University of Hong Kong-Clore Advanced Cultural Leadership Programme, an associate curator for Artist Pension Trust (APT), a member of the board of VII Association, the not-for-profit body of VII Photo, a consultant for the Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography (FEP) and she provides fundraising communications and idea generation in support of Playeum, a Singapore-based organization that champions children through play and creativity.
Botos primarily works between Singapore and Hong Kong.
Malcolm Dickson is a writer, curator and organiser. He is the Director of Street Level Photoworks, a leading photography arts organisation that provides artists and the public with a range of opportunities to make and engage with photography. He curates and co-ordinates a programme which embraces different genres of photography, which is extended through a network of local and community venues, regional art galleries, and through national and international partners. The organisation is a lead partner in Scotland’s Season of Photography which links the diverse exhibitions and events around photography across the country. Recent exhibitions curated by him include ‘Tabula Rasa II’ (at Street Level and Kaunas Photography Gallery); Scottish based work at Uncertain States Annual as part of Photomonth East London; ‘A Window on Glasgow’ and work by Yohanne Lamoulere and Franck Pourcel as part of a Glasgow/Marseille exchange; ‘Surface Tension: New Process Based Photography’,‘Maud Sulter – Passion’ at Street Level and Impressions Gallery, Bradford (co-curated). www.streetlevelphotoworks.org www.institutephotographyscotland.org
Marina Paulenka is a photographer, a founder and artistic director of
the Croatian festival Organ Vida—International Photography Festival,
Zagreb and the Organ Vida Photography Association, the leading
institution for contemporary photography in Croatia. Organ Vida
Festival promotes the work of international contemporary artists, both
emerging and well-known and reflects upon the medium of
photography in a wider social context.
Marina has a MA in Photography at the Academy of Dramatic Art in
Zagreb (Croatia) and a MA in Graphic Design at the Faculty of
Graphic Arts Zagreb (Croatia). She is member of the Croatian
Freelance Artists' Association. She is an international juror/nominator,
curator and portfolio reviewer at many institutions, awards, festivals
and galleries. In her dual role as a photographer and festival director,
Marina has had the opportunity and pleasure of curating photo
exhibitions, meeting artists and taking part in many discourses on
current trends in contemporary photography in numerous countries.
Type of work interested/not interested in: Nicola is interested in seeing fine art photography and bodies of work that have a clear subject or story to tell, which the photographer explores in an original way. This could be within documentary, portraiture, still life or fine art. She is interested in a wide range of photographic genres including emerging practices. She is not interested in seeing fashion photography, photojournalism or architectural photography.
Mauro Bedoni
Programme Manager, QUAD
Derby
Type of work interested/not interested in: Mauro is interested in meeting documentary photographers working with different genres and original approaches and styles of photography, preferably experimenting new ways of storytelling. Mauro Bedoni can review in Italian, French, Spanish and English.
Nicola Shipley works as a Producer, Curator, Project Manager, Mentor
and Consultant specialising in photography. She trained as an art
historian, has an MA in History of Art, and a background in the visual arts,
including in commissioning, exhibitions, collections, public art, artists
education and professional development.
She is currently Director of GRAIN Projects, based in Birmingham UK,
facilitating the hub and network and leading on the programme and
activities which include commissioning new work, curating exhibitions,
developing artist’s and photographer’s training, development and
networking opportunities, organising talks and symposia and developing
new audiences. In her capacity at GRAIN she is interested in working
with emerging and established artists and photographers.
Nicola also works in a freelance capacity and has worked with a wide
range of visual arts organisations, public and private sector stakeholders,
HE and FE partners and has worked as a visiting lecturer and mentor for
a number of regional universities.
Recent projects include collaborations with Format International
Photography Festival, Magnum Photos, Redeye Photography Network,
Brighton Photo Biennial, Library of Birmingham, The Hive Arts Centre,
Compton Verney, Birmingham City University, University of Birmingham,
IED – Madrid, Guangzhou Libraryand British Council China,
Ffotogalleriet, Oslo, Appetite – Creative People and Places, mac
Birmingham and Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery.
www.grainphotographyhub.co.uk
www.nicola.shipley.co.uk
Mauro Bedoni was born in Italy in 1979 and graduated from the
University of Padua with a degree thesis on Photojournalism. In 2007
he started working as the photo editor of COLORS Magazine and
assigned more than 150 photographers in 60+ countries. In 2015, he
moved to New York and worked as a freelance photo editor on the
2016 TIME 100 issue and then as a creative consultant and
production editor for Shinola on the first issue of a new magazine, part
of the content marketing strategy of the company. He is
now programme manager at QUAD Derby, the organiser of Format
photo festival. He has served as a portfolio reviewer and juror in
several international photo festivals and photography awards and
grants and he's been nominated for picture editor of the year at the
Lucie Awards 2011. As a curator, in 2015 he pulled together two
group shows: the Fabrica exhibition at the Łodz Fotofestiwal and the
Afterlife exhibition at the Athens Photo Festival.
Artistic Director and Manager of “Flâneur”: Flâneur - New Urban Narratives is a network project based on an international partnership of about 20 organisations from 11 different countries. Its main purpose is to carry out artistic interventions by commissioning photographers around Europe, inspired by the Cities and using contemporary photography as its main artistic media.
Artistic Director and Manager of “Entre Margens”, a three year cultural project comprising of public photography, installations and multi-disciplinary performances. Artistic Director and Manager of “FORMAS – Plataforma para as Artes Performativas de Tavira”. Cultural event focus on the promotion of the Mediterranean performing arts. Integrates a component market and street art performances. Curator and Production director of the Exhibition “Real:Surreal”, in Lisbon, 2004.
Nuno works on international projects all year round and is always interested in good stories and meeting emerging phoographers.
Peggy Sue Amison is Artistic Director for East Wing - a platform for photography based in Dubai, UAE. As a curator, writer, strategist, mentor and photographic consultant, Peggy Sue has collaborated with numerous emerging and established photographers, festivals and publications internationally. Before beginning her position at East Wing in 2014, Peggy Sue was Artistic Director of Sirius Arts Centre in Ireland (2001 – 2014) where she headed a multidisciplinary visual arts and residency programme. Working with a wide range of visual artists, but specifically in photography, Peggy Sue has curated exhibitions in Dubai, Ireland, Berlin, Poland and China, written for various photographic publications and artist catalogues and has independently produced photographic events. She has been an invited speaker, juror and critic at numerous meeting places for photography and contests.
www.east-wing.org
Dr. Pippa Oldfield is Head of Programme at Impressions Gallery, one of the UK’s leading public-funded spaces for contemporary photography. She has curated numerous touring exhibitions including The Home Front by Melanie Friend; Bringing the War Home: Photographic Responses to Recent Conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan; The Factory of Dreams: Inside Mexico’s Soap Operas by Stefan Ruiz; and co-curated Once More, With Feeling: Recent Photography From Colombia. A regular contributor to journals, books and exhibition catalogues, Pippa is also an Honorary Research Fellow at Durham University. www.impressions-gallery.com
Rémi Coignet is the editor in chief for the review The Eyes dedicated to Europe and photography. In 2014, he published Conversations a book of his interviews with photographers, publishers and designers. In 2016 came out a second volume Conversations 2. Both books are available in a French and an English edition. He runs the blog Des Livres et des photos on Le Monde website since 2008. He also has been a chronicler for the french photographic magazine Polka. His writings appeared in various national and international magazines. He has been working in the press and publishing for over 20 years. www.theeyes.eu/en/
Rémi Coignet
Editor-in-Chief for the review
The Eyes
Type of work interested/not
interested in: Rémi is
interested in book orientated
projects and any form of
documentary photography
Salvatore Vitale
Photographer and Editor
Type of work interested/not interested in: I’m mainly interested in long-term projects, focusing especially on the use of different techniques for visual storytelling.
Salvatore Vitale is a Swiss-based photographer and editor born and raised in Palermo, Italy. After his degree in Communication, in 2014 he attended the International Center of Photography—ICP’s class with Allen Frame and was selected for the ISSP International Masterclass by Andrei Polikanov and Yuri Kozyrev. In 2015 he was named among Die Besten 2014 at Swiss Photo Awards. In 2015-2016 he is a recipient of the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia’s grant for his long-term research on the production of security in Switzerland on which he has been worked on the past 2 years. The project explores the production of the national security in Switzerland, which is known as one of the safest countries on earth. It analyzes the ways in which things that are elusive – such as safety and security – becomes stabilized through standard operating procedures. The aim is to capitalize on the actual fluidity or abstractness of the country’s security measures, as well as to focus upon the “matter-of- fact” types of instructions, protocols, bureaucracies and clear-cut solutions that are applied to what is, in fact, a highly fleeting phenomenon. He is also the co-founder and editor-in- chief of YET magazine, an international photography magazine and platform which showcases works by both emerging and established photographers as well as critic and in-depth content focusing on the evolution of photography with a particular eye on the contemporary field. He has been featured and published internationally, and also runs workshops and gives lectures and talks about his work. www.salvatore-vitale.com
Curator of Next Level Projects and Editor of Next Level magazine
Type of work interested/not
interested in: Photography
as contemporary art,
photography as object,
African photo artists
Sheyi Bankale is Curator of Next Level Projects and Editor of Next Level magazine. Next Level is one of Europe’s seminal art photography magazines with a dynamic mix of photography as contemporary art. The publication features a diverse range of the world’s most influential photo artists. It aims to bring awareness and debate to contemporary culture, showcasing and celebrating artists, across various disciplines and alongside inspiring, provocative and critical writing. Sheyi Bankale’s wealth of experience is well received by his peers and frequently acts as panelist, judge and nominator for The Art Foundation, Google Photography Prize, CONTACT Photography Festival BMW Prize, The Prix Pictet and Next Level Awards. He is a leading expert on photography at major international portfolio reviews such as Houston Fotofest and Les Rencontres D’Arles, Finnish Museum of Photography, Scotiabank CONTACT and facilitates the acquisition of photo art works with international museums, art collectors and private clients. Previously he has been Visiting Professor of Photography at the University of Derby and lectured on ‘Photography as Contemporary Art’ at Sotheby’s Institute of Art, University of Westminster, City University - London, University for the Creative Arts and Centre of Contemporary Art - Lagos. Sheyi Bankale is renowned for his curatorial work in recent years at Next Level Projects while curating an extensive touring exhibition on contemporary photography, ‘Alice in Wonderland’, for the European City of Culture 2011. The largest exhibition of contemporary photographic art displayed in Finland. As well as Guest Curator for Saatchi Art’s Special Guest Curator Programme, and the 2015 Curator for the prestigious Photo 50 exhibition at the London Art Fair.
www.nextleveluk.com
Sian Bonnell
Artist and Curator
Type of work
interested/not interested
in: Sian is interested in
almost all kinds of
photography but draws the
line at glamour…
Sian Bonnell is a UK based artist and curator. Educated at Chelsea
School of Art and Northumbria University, her images have been
exhibited and published widely. After 25 years living and working in the
South West of England she re-located to the North in April 2016 to work
at Manchester School of Art.
TRACE, the curation and publishing project, which she established in
1999 at her home in Dorset, will now re-launch in the North of England
with many new initiatives being planned. Sian has continued to mentor
emerging photographers and artists as well as curating numerous
exhibitions in London and abroad. Most recently she has curated a
series of large exhibitions of UK tertiary level student photographic work
for the 2014, 2015 and 2016 Pingyao International Photography
Festivals held each September in China and has been invited to select
photographic work again for the 2017 PIP.
She is regularly invited to review portfolios at international photography
festivals and has judged major competitions including The Jerwood
Photography Prize in 2006 and the Taylor Wessing Portrait Award at
Tim Clark is the Editor in Chief and Director at 1000 Words, nominated
in the Photography Magazine of the Year category at the Lucie Awards
2014 and 2016. As the former Associate Curator at Media Space at the
Science Museum in London, exhibitions he worked on included
Gathered Leaves: Photographs by Alec Soth, a major, mid-career
touring retrospective named as The Guardian’s Photography Exhibition
of 2015.
Clark is a member of the academy of nominators for The Deutsche
Börse Photography Foundation Prize, MACK First Book Award and has
judged The Paul Huf Award, freshfacedandwildeyed, Sony World
Photography Awards and Magnum Photos/Photo London Graduate
Photographers Award.
His writing has appeared in FOAM, TIME Lightbox, The Telegraph, The
Sunday Times, Next Level, The British Journal of Photography as well
as in numerous exhibition catalogues and photobooks, including the
Archive of Modern Conflict’s AMC Journal 10 published to coincide
with LagosPhoto 2014 and Photography Never Dies, as part of the
European Capital of Culture Wroclaw 2016. He is also a visiting
lecturer at NABA, Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti Milano and one of the
mentors for the Jerwood/Photoworks Awards 2017.
He is interested in seeing new, critically-engaged bodies of work that
have a strong approach to their subjects with the view to either
publication in the magazine or inclusion in forthcoming curatorial
projects.
www.1000wordsmag.com
Tom Hunter
Artist and Lecturer
Type of work interested/not
interested in: Tom is
interested in the crossover
between fine art and
documentary photography.
Tom Hunter’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally in major solo and group shows, recently: Life and Death in Hackney, National Gallery Washing D.C. USA; Seduced by Art, National Gallery, UK; A Palace for Us, Serpentine Gallery, UK; Another Story, Photography from the Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden. He has published five books including Le Crowbar (Here press 2013) The Way Home (Hatje Cantz, 2012).
Tom has earned several awards during his career, including an Honorary Doctorate of the Arts from the University of East London (2011) and an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society in 2010. He is a Professor of Photography Research at the London College of Communication, University of the Arts London.
In 2006 Tom became the only artist to have a solo photography show at the National Gallery for his series ‘Living in Hell and Other Stories’. Tom has been commissioned by the Serpentine Gallery London, The Victoria and Albert Museum, the Museum of London and The Royal Shakespeare Company. His works are in many collections around the world including; MOMA, New York, The V&A, London, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Smithsonian, Washington, National Gallery, Washington, National Gallery, London and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Wang Baoguo is Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Chinese Photographers
magazine, part of the Chinese Academy of Arts. Wang has worked as a
photographer, Picture and Commissioning Editor for magazines across
Asia. He is often invited to be a speaker at international conferences
including- China and Spain, 1936-39: Robert Capa and the Global
Popular Front, organised by Columbia University (USA) and
International Center of Photography, NY. A member of several
international juries including of Visa pour l’Image (France), Dali
International Photography Festival, Yunnan (China), and International
Photo Awards (China region, Lucie Foundation). Wang published China
Through Lens of Orientalism: China in Western Photography Since
1840 (SDX Joint Publishing Company, 2016).
W.M. - Bill - Hunt is a photography collector, curator and consultant who lives and works in New York. Founding partner of the gallery Hasted Hunt, Hunt has been collecting, looking at and talking about photography for over 40 years. He is the author of "The Unseen Eye: Photographs from the Unconscious" (Aperture, Thames & Hudson, and Actes Sud as “L’Oeil Invisible”). His exhibition “Hunt’s Three Ring Circus - Photographs of American Groups before 1950” was seen in New York last year. He teaches at the School of Visual Arts, Aperture and ICP; he lectures, reviews portfolios, judges competitions, and serves on the board of the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund. He will be offering his workshop “How I Look at Photographs” at the Somerset House on Saturday, March 18th. Photographers being reviewed should look upon these 20 minute sessions as unique opportunities to meet new people, who are motivated to help them. But these are introductions, not marriages, so keep breathing.
