FORMAT Portfolio Review March 2017 Reviewer Biographies

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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 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, Weekend Magazine, UK FIONA ROGERS – Global Business Development Manager, 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, 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, , UK REMI COIGNET – Editor-in-Chief for the review The Eyes, SALVATORE VITALE – Photographer and Editor, 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

Alexa holds an MA in art history and is the Acquisitions Editor for photography and art books for Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg (Germany). She sits on various juries and participates as a frequent reviewer in international photo festivals and their review programs, including FORMAT Festival. She advises

photographers on the procedure of book publishing and on their artistic work in general. Becker initiated the Trouvés series at Kehrer Verlag, which presents handmade limited books and related objects. Kehrer Verlag works closely with Kehrer Design Alexa Becker and runs a gallery in Berlin - Kehrer Galerie.

Acquisitions Editor, Kehrer Verlag, Germany www.kehrerverlag.com Type of work www.artbooksheidelberg.com interested/not interested www.kehrergalerie.com in: Alexa is looking forward

to see any kind of original photographs except for commercial work and nudes.

Alfredo Cramerotti is Director of MOSTYN Visual Arts Centre, UK. He complements his work in Wales with active participation in the international visual art world. In the past few years this has included co-curating pavilions at the Venice Biennale e.g. Mauritius (2015), Wales and Maldives (2013), directing

Sequences VII art festival in Reykjavik and EXPO VIDEO in Chicago, and co-curating Manifesta 8, Region of Murcia. He is in demand as Visiting Lecturer at major universities and art

colleges throughout Europe and the Americas and is a Alfredo Cramerotti significant figure within writing, broadcasting and publishing.

Director of MOSTYN http://www.mostyn.org/ Visual Arts Centre, UK

Alicia Hart is a Photo Editor, Producer and visiting Lecturer. She has worked with some of the most iconic magazines including The Face, Arena HOMME + , The Sunday Telegraph Magazine,

Wallpaper* and FT weekend magazine. Alicia has recently moved into working with Advertising and Creative Agencies such AMV BBDO, Show Media, Brave New World, Cedar Communications and Forward Publishing. Working with brands such as Patek Philippe, Swarovski, Piaget BT and British Airways. She has a master’s degree in Fine Art Photography Alicia Hart from the Royal College of Art. Alicia is also a visiting lecturer and practising artist, having won several awards for her Photo Editor , Producer photographic practice.

Ángel Luis González Fernández is Founder and Director of PhotoIreland, an organisation that promotes a critical engagement with Photography. It organises yearly an international photographic festival in Dublin during May. Ángel won the David Manley Entrepreneur Award in 2011 for PhotoIreland. In 2011 he launched 'The Library Project', a publicly accessible collection of publications about photography, whose

holdings are currently in excess of 1500 items from 200 publishers worldwide. The collection travels around the world to festivals and is Ángel Luis González loaned to exhibitions like the forthcoming 'Fenómeno Fotolibro' at Fernández CCCB, Barcelona. The Library Project gives its name to PhotoIreland's headquarters, a growing library, eclectic Art bookshop and productive Founder and Director, gallery. Angel has been a portfolio reviewer at such festivals as Les PhotoIreland, Ireland. Rencontres d'Arles, FORMAT Derby, and Encontros Da Imagem. He

published ‘'s Best Books of the Decade’ in 2011, ‘New Irish Type of work interested/not Works’ in 2013, and the latest series of ‘New Irish Works' in 2016. He interested in: I am was a contributor to the last edition of Landskrona Foto 2016, focused interested in finding out on Irish Photography, and lectures at the Fine Art Photography Master about the reviewee's at IED Madrid. practice, helping resolve any issues in specific http://photoireland.org projects, and focus on future opportunities.

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. Anna-Kaisa

Rastenberger, PhD Rastenberger has extensive experience in exhibition projects, curating practices and the international exhibition scene of the contemporary

Artistic Director of the Festival of arts. Her career among photography has included curating Political Photography, Helsinki, contemporary lens based art exhibitions (for example for the Hamburg Finland Triennial of Photography and the Moscow Biennale) and writing for publications. Rastenberger is art historian specialising in contemporary Type of work interested/not art and photographic art. Her special interests are new forms of interested in: Rastenberger is photography as contemporary art, exhibition as critical practice, art and interested in both documentary society, feminism and digital environments. Previously she was projects and contemporary engaged as a researcher in the Academy of Finland's project (2005– photographic art and lens based 2009). She worked as an educational curator at The Helsinki Art art, which has strong vision in Museum (2002–2005) and the editor-in-chief of KUVA – the magazine conceptual and/or aesthetic approach. She is interested in of visual culture (1998–2000). Since 2001 she has been lecturing in art practices and displays, which Helsinki University, Aalto-University (known before as University of Art seek to cross the dichotomy and Design) and several other institutions. Rastenberger does also between physical and digital independent curating and writing. She has published widely about environments. contemporary photography and contemporary art.

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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. Anne Braybon 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.

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, Arianna Rinaldo 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 Artistic Director Cortona On reviews and jury panels worldwide, as well as speaker and teacher. She The Move was part of the World Press Photo jury in 2009, Fotopres, Spain in 2012 Type of work and has been a Photolucida Critical Mass juror since 2009. interested/not interested in: Interested in documentary work that https://www.linkedin.com/in/arianna-rinaldo-8626b31 tells an interesting story, of all styles. http://www.cortonaonthemove.com/en/

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

Bridget Coaker the University of Westminster.

Director of Troika Editions; In 2011 she joined the steering committee of the FORMAT International Picture Editor for The Photography Festival and participated in the North East Photography Guardian and Observer Network Symposium Photography Publishing and the Future of the newspapers Photo Book. Type of work interested/not interested Bridget has also written about photography including for the online art in: I am interested in seeing photography magazine, 1000 Words, and is a projects that are finished or contributing writer for the book "Exhibiting Photography" published by nearly finished. I am less interested in seeing general Focal Press. portfolios. In 2015 Bridget was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Photography, UK.

www.troikaeditions.co.uk

www.theguardian.com

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 Camilla Brown galleries. She writes for artists’ monographs and history of photography Curator, writer and lecturer on books. In 2016 she will publish a chapter titled ‘A curators perspective’ contemporary art, specialising for a forthcoming book Photography and research: the idea, the process in photography and the project, a Practical Guide for Photographers to be published by Focal Press. She is also a regular contributor to Photomonitor.co.uk Type of work interested/not writing on photographers with forthcoming essays on the work of Clare interested in: I am interested in Strand and Sarah Pickering. the work of women photographers in general and also in landscape photography. My background is as a curator so I am not interested in commercial portfolios of work.

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 Charlie Fellowes Photographers Gallery in London.

Owner and Director www.edelassanti.com 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.

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

Dagmar Seeland new talent and has led workshops and talks about editorial photography Photo Editor, Stern Magazine both in the UK and abroad.

Type of work interested/not http://www.stern.de/ 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.

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 Dewi Lewis Photographic Society in 2004 and in November 2009 he was awarded the inaugural Royal Photographic Society Award for Outstanding Publisher, Dewi Lewis Services to Photography. He was awarded the Kraszna-Krausz Publishing Foundation Award for Outstanding Contribution to Publishing at the World Photography Awards in April 2012. Type of work interested/not interested in: Other than www.dewilewis.com 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.

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, Dieter Neubert 14 and 15. Co-founder and director of Kassel Fotobookfestival www.fotobookfestival.org

Type of work www.photopaper.world interested/not interested in: I am interested in all types of photographic work which shows individual differences to other photographer’s work.

www.fotobookfestival.org

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 professional photographers.

Emma Bowkett www.ft.com/magazine

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.

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 Fiona Rogers to photographers to complete a long-term documentary photography project. Fiona has a strong interest in emerging photographers and has Global Business Development participated in international platforms such as Recontres D’Arles, Manager, Magnum Photos Format Festival and the Singapore International Photography Festival. International & Founder, Firecracker, UK She has participated as a judge for several notable competitions including the Mack First Book Award and the Getty Images Grant for

Type of work interested/not Editorial Photography. interested in: I'm looking for long- term work about world/social www.magnumphotos.com issues, with particular interest in smaller, lesser known stories. I'm www.fire-cracker.org also hoping to see regional work by regional photographers, and projects with a deep personal connection. 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 Gwen Lee provide platform and residency programme for photographers. DECK is awarded President’s Design Award 2015 (Singapore) for its innovative Founder of Singapore design & impact on the arts community. In 2016, DECK is one of the 3 International Photography visual arts space in Singapore to receive NAC Major Company Grant to Festival. develop its organisation ability and programme. Type of work interested/not Since 2008, she curate & organised close to 45 photography interested in: I am interested in exhibitions both in Singapore and overseas. Most recently she has contemporary work (both curated a special photobook exhibition with Steidl publishing at DECK. documentary and conceptual) On regular basis, she gave talks on professional development for and long term project. photographers, participated as a jury and portfolio reviewer in Asia and I am not keen in commercial and Europe. fashion photography. www.sipf.sg

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 Holly Roussell was co-curator of the Chinese photography exhibition, Works in Progress: Photography in China 2015, presented at the Folkwang Independent curator, Prix Elysée and Museum in Essen. Most recently she was a contributing author to Travelling Exhibitions Coordinator Dictionary of Photography (Thames & Hudson, 2015), and Prix Elysée (Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne) CH Nominees’ Book (Editions Photosynthèses/ Musée de l’Elysée, 2017) Type of work interested/not and in ELSE Magazine. interested in: Passionate about the stories artists can tell through their Holly Roussell Perret-Gentil has degrees in both Art History and images, I hope to see creative Museology. Her current areas of research are exhibition histories, photographic projects (works in contemporary photography from Asia, and the role of 21st century progress or finished work) that address photography in depicting and creating our civilization. contemporary issues and the world in which we live. With a wide range of interests in photography ranging from https://ch.linkedin.com/in/hollyroussellperretgentil landscape, documentary, cityscape, www.prixeylsee.ch street photography, still-life or more www.elysee.ch 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 Huw Davies between the still and the moving image.

Dean of the College of Arts, University of Derby & Co-Curator, www.derby.ac.uk/arts Berwick Film & Media Arts www.berwickfilm-artsfest.com Festival, UK

Type of work interested/not interested in: Huw is particularly interested in work which is multi- disciplinary in approach, site specific and explores relationships between art and technology. 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.

Iona Fergusson www.delhiphotofestival.com

Independent curator and Creative Director of Delhi Photo Festival

Type of work interested/not interested in: Iona is interested in meeting photography students and early career photographers who are working across a broad range of different genres.

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 Iris Sikking 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 Independent curator and Photography department, AKV|St.Joost (Breda, NL).

Type of work interested/not interested in: I am interested www.linkedin.com/in/irissikking to see long term photographic projects, well researched and visually layered. And furthermore projects that make use of moving images or digital formats. I am not interested in fashion, editorial work or fine art work.

Jim Casper is the editor-in-chief and co-founder 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. LensCulture currently

Jim Casper reaches an audience of more than 2 million every month.

Editor-in-Chief and Co- lensculture.com Founder of LensCulture

Type of work interested/not interested in: Casper is interested in all kinds of photography, but prefers to not review commercial advertising portfolios. He is especially interested in discovering great visual storytelling and explorations of new forms in the language of photography.

John Duncan studied photography in Newport and Glasgow School of Art. He has been one of the editors of Source magazine since

1994. He also continues to make his own photographic work and his book Bonfires was published by Belfast Exposed/ Photoworks / Steidl in 2008. To give it focus, on its portfolio pages, Source magazine only publishes work by photographer's from Ireland or the UK or by photographers living there.

John Duncan When reviewing portfolios, we prefer to look at prints. If you have a project as a book dummy please also have a set of loose prints so Editor of SOURCE Magazine that we can make an edit of the work. We only publish around 8 -10 and Photographer images from any project. We do not want to look at work on laptops or iPads. Type of work interested/not interested in: The magazine www.source.ie is particularly interested in seeing new personal work.

Source likes to publish previously unpublished work, but are happy to consider work that has appeared in short run (less than 500 edition) artists books or online.

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 Karen Harvey colleges. Founder and Director of The Shutter Hub goal is to bring photographers together to help them Shutter Hub further their careers, get better opportunities and be part of something Type of work interested/not positive and supportive. interested in: Emerging photographers, those looking https://shutterhub.org.uk/ to exhibit, creative/art photography.

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). Kim Knoppers www.foam.org Curator, Foam, Netherlands

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. Krzysztof Candrowicz

Founder and Artistic Director WWW.FOTOFESTIWAL.COM of the International Festival of

Photography. WWW.PHOTOTRIENNALE.DE

Type of work interested/not interested in: All types of creative and documentary work.

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 Lars Willumeit author to the photobook Deposit by Yann Mingard, as well as to a dictionary entitled Factory Tools, which was published within Fabrik, the Independent Curator, Switzerland 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.

www.larswillumeit.com www.photomonth.com/en

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 Lisa Botos Kong-Clore Advanced Cultural Leadership Programme, an associate curator for Artist Pension Trust (APT), a member of the board of VII Curator and Photography Association, the not-for-profit body of VII Photo, a consultant for the specialist. Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography (FEP) and she provides fundraising communications and idea generation in support of Playeum, Type of work interested/not a Singapore-based organization that champions children through play interested in: I am interested and creativity. in viewing non-conventional work that takes a fresh Botos primarily works between Singapore and Hong Kong. approach to photography; work that pushes the www.ooibotos.com boundaries and extends the idea of the medium through www.wyng.hk/wp material, through unusual conceptual development or through presentation, for example. I am interested in artists, photographers and image makers that use photography and video in their practice or as part of their process - the medium need not be central to their practice. Additionally, I am interested to see the work of good storytellers, particularly work by image makers working in their own communities, telling those stories. Work can be documentary or conceptual. And finally , I am interested in artists and work with connections to Asia - artists in the diaspora, etc.

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 Malcolm Dickson Uncertain States Annual as part of Photomonth East London; ‘A Window on Glasgow’ and work by Yohanne Lamoulere and Franck Director, Street Level Pourcel as part of a Glasgow/Marseille exchange; ‘Surface Tension: Photoworks, UK New Process Based Photography’,‘Maud Sulter – Passion’ at Street Level and Impressions Gallery, Bradford (co-curated). Type of work interested/not interested in: Bodies of work in their www.streetlevelphotoworks.org early stages, or substantially developed – blending experimental www.institutephotographyscotland.org approaches and social documentary; conceptual in interrogating the nature of photography; work that tells a compelling story; lyrical and narrative. Advice will be given on the basis of the work seen. Not interested in fashion, commercial or classical modes of documentary.

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 Paulenka Marina has a MA in Photography at the Academy of Dramatic Art in

Founder and Artistic Director of Zagreb (Croatia) and a MA in Graphic Design at the Faculty of Organ Vida International Graphic Arts Zagreb (Croatia). She is member of the Croatian Photography Festival Freelance Artists' Association. She is an international juror/nominator, Type of work interested/not curator and portfolio reviewer at many institutions, awards, festivals interested in: Marina is interested and galleries. In her dual role as a photographer and festival director,

in critically engaged social / Marina has had the opportunity and pleasure of curating photo documentary / conceptual works exhibitions, meeting artists and taking part in many discourses on

which address contemporary issues, current trends in contemporary photography in numerous countries. relevant stories and meaning but also inner author engagement — work in progress or finished. She is www.organvida.com also looking for potential portfolios to include in the Festival Organ Vida in the future.

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 Mauro Bedoni several international photo festivals and photography awards and Programme Manager, QUAD grants and he's been nominated for picture editor of the year at the Derby Lucie Awards 2011. As a curator, in 2015 he pulled together two group shows: the Fabrica exhibition at the Łódź Fotofestiwal and the Type of work interested/not Afterlife exhibition at the Athens Photo Festival. interested in: Mauro is interested in meeting documentary He's now based between Derby and Berlin. photographers working with different genres and original approaches and styles of www.derbyquad.co.uk 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 Shipley Nicola also works in a freelance capacity and has worked with a wide Director of GRAIN projects range of visual arts organisations, public and private sector stakeholders, HE and FE partners and has worked as a visiting lecturer and mentor for Type of work interested/not a number of regional universities. interested in: Nicola is interested in seeing fine art Recent projects include collaborations with Format International photography and bodies of work that have a clear subject Photography Festival, Magnum Photos, Redeye Photography Network, or story to tell, which the , Library of Birmingham, The Hive Arts Centre, photographer explores in an Compton Verney, Birmingham City University, University of Birmingham, original way. This could be IED – Madrid, Guangzhou Libraryand British Council China, within documentary, portraiture, Ffotogalleriet, Oslo, Appetite – Creative People and Places, mac still life or fine art. She is interested in a wide range of Birmingham and Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery. photographic genres including emerging practices. She is not www.grainphotographyhub.co.uk interested in seeing fashion photography, photojournalism www.nicola.shipley.co.uk or architectural photography.

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 – Nuno Ricou Salgado Plataforma para as Artes Performativas de Tavira”. Cultural event focus on the promotion of the Mediterranean performing arts. Integrates a Founding member and component market and street art performances. Curator and Chairman of the Board of Production director of the Exhibition “Real:Surreal”, in Lisbon, 2004. Procur.arte Nuno works on international projects all year round and is always interested in good stories and meeting emerging phoographers.

www.procurarte.org www.flnr.org www.entremargens.org

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 Peggy Sue Amison photographic publications and artist catalogues and has independently produced photographic events. She has been an invited speaker, juror Artistic Director, East Wing, and critic at numerous meeting places for photography and contests. UAE 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 Pippa Oldfield catalogues, Pippa is also an Honorary Research Fellow at Durham University. Head of Programme, Impressions

Gallery (Bradford, UK) www.impressions-gallery.com

Type of work interested/not interested in: She is particularly interested in seeing critically-engaged photography with relevance to contemporary issues, and is happy to offer feedback on both developed projects and work in progress. She would prefer to see prints (work prints are fine) rather than view images on a screen.

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.

Rémi Coignet www.theeyes.eu/en/

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 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 Salvatore Vitale 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 Photographer and Editor instructions, protocols, bureaucracies and clear-cut solutions that are applied to what is, in fact, a highly fleeting phenomenon. Type of work interested/not

interested in: I’m mainly He is also the co-founder and editor-in- chief of YET magazine, an interested in long-term projects, focusing especially international photography magazine and platform which showcases on the use of works by both emerging and established photographers as well as critic different techniques for visual and in-depth content focusing on the evolution of photography with a storytelling. 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

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 Sheyi Bankale photography at major international portfolio reviews such as Houston Fotofest and Les Rencontres D’Arles, Finnish Museum of Photography, Curator of Next Level Scotiabank CONTACT and facilitates the acquisition of photo art works Projects and Editor of Next with international museums, art collectors and private clients. Previously Level magazine he has been Visiting Professor of Photography at the University of Derby and lectured on ‘Photography as Contemporary Art’ at Sotheby’s Type of work interested/not Institute of Art, University of Westminster, City University - London, interested in: Photography University for the Creative Arts and Centre of Contemporary Art - Lagos. as contemporary art, Sheyi Bankale is renowned for his curatorial work in recent years at p hotography as object, Next Level Projects while curating an extensive touring exhibition on African photo artists 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 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 Sian Bonnell for the 2014, 2015 and 2016 Pingyao International Photography Festivals held each September in China and has been invited to select Artist and Curator photographic work again for the 2017 PIP.

Type of work She is regularly invited to review portfolios at international photography interested/not interested in: Sian is interested in festivals and has judged major competitions including The Jerwood Photography Prize in 2006 and the Taylor Wessing Portrait Award at almost all kinds of photography but draws the the National Portrait Gallery in 2009. line at glamour… www.sianbonnell.com

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 , 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.

Tim Clark His writing has appeared in FOAM, TIME Lightbox, The Telegraph, The Sunday Times, Next Level, The British Journal of Photography as well

Curator and Editor-in-Chief, as in numerous exhibition catalogues and photobooks, including the 1000 Words, UK Archive of Modern Conflict’s AMC Journal 10 published to coincide Type of work interested/not with LagosPhoto 2014 and Photography Never Dies, as part of the interested in: He is interested in European Capital of Culture Wroclaw 2016. He is also a visiting seeing new, critically-engaged lecturer at NABA, Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti Milano and one of the bodies of work that have a mentors for the Jerwood/Photoworks Awards 2017. strong approach to their subjects, with the view to either He is interested in seeing new, critically-engaged bodies of work that publication in the magazine or have a strong approach to their subjects with the view to either inclusion in forthcoming publication in the magazine or inclusion in forthcoming curatorial curatorial projects. projects.

Tom Hunter’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally in major solo and group shows, recently: Life and Death in Hackney, Nationalwww.1000wordsmag.com 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 Tom Hunter College of Communication, University of the Arts London.

Artist and Lecturer 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 Type of work interested/not has been commissioned by the Serpentine Gallery London, The Victoria

interested in: Tom is and Albert Museum, the Museum of London and The Royal interested in the crossover Shakespeare Company. His works are in many collections around the between fine art and world including; MOMA, New York, The V&A, London, Moderna Museet, documentary photography. Stockholm, Smithsonian, Washington, National Gallery, Washington, National Gallery, London and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

www.tomhunter.org

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 Wang Baoguo Through Lens of Orientalism: China in Western Photography Since 1840 (SDX Joint Publishing Company, 2016). Deputy Editor-in-Chief of

Chinese Photographers magazine Type of work

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in documentary or photojournalistic works, but photography as art is ok too.

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.

W.M Hunt Photographers being reviewed should look upon these 20 minute sessions as unique opportunities to meet new people, who are Head Bear at Dancing Bear. motivated to help them. But these are introductions, not marriages, so keep breathing.

Type of work interested/not inter ested in: He can offer http://wmhunt.com critical and career advice. He prefers looking at projects that have been or that are nearly completed. He doesn’t have much to say about nudes but sex pictures are ok.

Yasmin Keel works for Schilt Publishing & Gallery as assistant to the publisher Maarten Schilt, and marketing manager. Schilt Publishing is

an art and photography book publisher based in Amsterdam, along with sister company Schilt Gallery. We are the leading publishers of World Press Photo and FotoFest International. Our books range from high profile journalistic, documentary and art photography monographs, to comprehensive overview books on photographic subjects and contemporary Arab art. Our commercial gallery represents a wide range of established artists from all over the world and organises 3-4

exhibitions per year.

Yasmin Keel www.schiltpublishing.com

Assistant to the Publisher, Schilt

Publishing & Gallery.

Type of work interested/not interested in: I am interested in seeing documentary stories and contemporary photography/art series, no matter what stage the project is in.

Please visit our website to get an idea of the quality and the variety of work we publish and exhibit.

Yining He is an independent writer and curator, and founder of Go East . Project, which aims at introducing contemporary Chinese photography

to the West. Her current research focuses on the cultural identity and photography representation in England, history and contemporary Chinese landscape photography and contemporary photography publishing in China.

www.heyining.com Yining He

Independent writer, curator and founder of Go East Project

Type of work interested/not interested in: I am interested to see both photojournalism & documentary photography as well as art photography works. I am not interested to see fashion and commercial one.

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