AM sessions will run 8:30-12:30 PST and PM sessions will run 12:30-5:30PM PST
Tim Anderson, Educator & Publisher/Editor of Shadow & Light Magazine and The Journal
Anderson is the former publisher/managing editor of CameraArts magazine, and for ten-years has produced a variety of bi-weekly photography-related newsletters that now go out to more than 7,000 world-wide subscribers. He is also a publisher (Cygnet Press), and Editor-at-Large for Adore Noir magazine. He also publishes Shadow & Light Magazine, a PDF bi-monthly, 100-page photography magazine, which is now available in print, and The Journal, a photography-based monthly newsletter.
Reviewing days, Thur, Sat, Sun October 16, 18, 19 – All AM
Elizabeth Avedon, NO LONGER REVIEWING
Michael Behlen, Publisher, Analog Forever
Michael Behlen is an instant film addict and the founder and publisher of Analog Forever Magazine (2018-Present). Behlen has dedicated years to championing the work of emerging and established artists. Prior to Analog Forever, he launched the influential publishing projects PRYME Magazine and PRYME Editions (2014-2017). Through these ventures, Behlen has curated and showcased the work of over 300 artists from around the globe, organizing gallery exhibitions, publishing print magazines and books, and conducting in-depth online interviews and features. He has self-published two Polaroid photobooks -“Searching for Stillness, Vol. 1” and “I Was a Pioneer,” literally a boxed set of his instant film work. His latest book, Searching for Stillness Vol II was published in 2020 by Static Age. Behlen’s Polaroid photography can be found in various publications including Diffusion Magazine, Fraction Magazine, Seities Magazine, and Polaroid Now (Chronicle Books, 2021). He loves the magic sensuality of instant film: its saturated, surreal colors; the unpredictability of the medium; its addictive qualities as you watch it develop.
Reviewing days, Fri October 17 – PM, Sun October 19 – AM
Sherrie Berger, Photography Consultant
Sherrie Berger is a creative collaborator with expertise in entertainment and high-end celebrity portraiture, fine art photography, production, marketing and public relations. She designs and implements strategies for producing photo shoots, creates marketing and publicity campaigns for exhibitions, photography events and special projects. Sherrie offers career coaching and teaches workshops worldwide encouraging photographers to express their authentic vision.
Reviewing days, TBA
Angela Bryant, Sales Director, ROSEGALLERY, Sales Associate, Rajiv Menon Contemporary & Founder, Tommie Mae Arts Advisory
In 2009, Angela Bryant founded Abryant Gallery, an art consultation service and rotating contemporary art gallery for young/new and emerging artists. She has since curated several exhibitions, participated as both a juror and panelist, exhibited over 100 artists and installed 40 exhibits.
Although she was featured in Chicago magazine as one of “Six Young Art Curators You Should Know” Angela is a practicing artist. She is the recipient of several awards and honors and holds an MFA from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago. Angela has completed several murals over the years ranging from children’s room motifs to large scale outdoor murals. Her latest on-going project is for a public art commission with Western Illinois University. Bryant won the RFQ to design the terrazzo floor of the new Performing Arts Center.
Angela Bryant has served as an adjunct professor, an independent curator, guest lecturer at multiple institutions, and is the co-founder of MOUNT Curatorial Residency. She has also written contemporary art essays and has been published twice. For three years, Angela was the Director of Exhibitions for O’Connor Art Gallery at Dominican University where her programming highlighted the work of both emerging and established artists in two-person and group exhibitions. She is currently the managing director of ROSEGALLERY in Santa Monica, California.
Reviewing days, Wed October 15 – AM & PM, Thur October 16 – AM & PM, Fri October 17 – AM
Susan Burnstine, Contributor, Black & White Magazine (UK), Photographer and Educator
Susan Burnstine is an award winning fine art and commercial photographer originally from Chicago now based in Los Angeles. Susan is represented in galleries across the world, widely published throughout the globe and has also written for several photography magazines, including a monthly column entitled American Connection for Black & White Photography Magazine (UK). Burnstine regularly teaches workshops, is a frequent reviewer and has been invited to curate and act as juror many exhibitions for galleries and festivals across the country. Damiani Editore published her second book, Absence Of Being, in 2018.
Reviewing days, Fri October 17 – AM, Sat October 18 – AM
Milly Cai, Associate Director, Higher Pictures, NYC
Milly Cai is a New York–based photo historian and independent curator. She holds a master’s from NYU’s Institute of Fine Arts, where her research examined early practices of portraiture and policing. Her recent projects include After/Images, a two-person exhibition at Black Brick Projects. From 2023 to 2025 she was the Associate Director at the Bruce Silverstein Gallery in NYC and she recently joined the team at Higher Pictures, a Brooklyn gallery that focuses mainly on the work of contemporary photographers.
Reviewing days, Thur, Fri, Sat October 16, 17, 18 – All AM
Victoria Chapman, Curator, VC Projects & El Nido art space, Los Angeles, CA
VC Projects was founded in 2014 by British-born Victoria Chapman, who is a Los Angeles-based curator. The company assist artists with their studio and exhibition development as well as representation at art fairs. Chapman has spent over twenty-five years working domestically and internationally in a variety of means with artists, galleries, museums, art consultants, and art institutions, assisting with administrative, curatorial, and exhibition planning. Chapman’s work experience has taken her to museums such as The Isabella Gardener Museum, The Victoria and Albert Museum, Orange County Museum of Art, to name a few. For 16 years, Chapman worked for Daniel Fine Art Services as an Art Director working alongside senior curators to create art collections for boutique hotels. She is also a published writer and speaker about art history and the creative process. A featured curator for “Small Talks” (England), Call with CURA, Hieronyvision, Art Confidential Magazine and LACP’s Conversations with a Curator (Los Angeles). Further, produced VC Projects Podcast Conversations About Art on Spotify. In addition, Chapman is a Curatorial Advisor and Liaison to Casa Regis: Center for Culture and Contemporary Art, Italy and a club member of Cromwell Place, London, England.
In 2021 Chapman opened El NIDO art space featuring art exhibitions, sound installations, and classical and avant-garde music programs. The curatorial program is a balance of national and international artists. Regardless of the creative medium, El NIDO works to support a sacred space for individuation.
Victoria is not interested in seeing fashion, commercial or street photography.
Reviewing days, Wed October 15 – PM, Fri October 17 – PM, Sat October 18 – AM
Paris Chong, Gallery Director, Leica Gallery
Paris Chong is the Gallery Director of the prestigious Leica Gallery Los Angeles. With over two decades of experience as a Curator she has represented galleries and artists in events including Photo LA, Photo SF, Paris Photo, Paris Photo LA, The Palm Springs Photo Festival in addition to promoting Leica Gallery Los Angeles at international shows such as Art Basel and Photo Paris. Ms. Chong has also served as a respected and sought-after portfolio reviewer for The IPA Photo Awards, Fresh Look, Photoville, The Palm Springs Photo Festival and the ongoing Meet the Curator portfolio reviews for Leica Akademie USA.
Reviewing days, Thur October 16 – PM, Fri October 17 – PM
Katie Clifford, Editorial Director, GOST Books, London, UK
Katie Clifford is the editorial director at GOST Books. Prior to GOST, she was an editor at Aperture Foundation and has also held positions with photographer Elliott Erwitt, HotShoe magazine, Eric Franck Fine Art and the Norman Parkinson Archive. She holds an MA in Photography (Historical and Contemporary) from Sotheby’s Institute of Art, London.
Reviewing days, Wed, Thur, Fri October 15, 16, 17 – All PM
Arthur Dayras, Chief of Staff to the Director, Musée National d’Art Moderne & Head of Partnerships and Writer, L’Œil de la Photographie, Paris France
Arthur Dayras is Chief of Staff to the Director of the Musée National d’Art Moderne and Head of Partnerships for the daily L’Œil de la Photographie. He previously worked as publishing manager at the Musée d’art moderne et contemporain de Saint-Étienne Métropole and as curator-assistant at the Dia Art Foundation. He is the author of his first novel, Que brûle la nuit, published by Editions Robert Laffont in 2024.
Reviewing days, Wed October 15 – AM, Thur October 16 – AM
Jason Eskenazi, Publisher, Red Hook Editions, New York
Jason Eskenazi is the publisher of Red Hook Editions, which gives the tools to photographers to take complete control of their work in book form. He formerly served as the International Curator and Creative Director for the Bursa Photo Fest in Turkey, and the International Curator for FotoIstanbul in 2014 and 2015 . An acclaimed photographer, Eskenazi has been awarded a Guggenheim fellowship, a Fulbright, the Dorothea Lange/Paul Taylor Prize and the Alicia Patterson Foundation Grant, and his work has appeared in Time, Newsweek, and The New York Times. His first book Wonderland: A Fairy Tale of the Soviet Monolith, which followed his travels through post-Soviet states after the fall of the Berlin Wall, won Best Photography Book 2008 from Pictures of the Year International. He later created The Black Garden, set in the geographical locations known to the ancient Greeks, investigating the east-west divide. Eskenazi has also led cross-cultural photo workshops, co-founded the philosophy-photography newspaper Dog Food, co-edited the MET Museum guards’ magazine SW!PE, and created The Americans List about The Americans, by Robert Frank.
Reviewing days, TBA
Jon Feinstein, Co-founder Humble Arts Foundation, Writer, & Photographer
Jon Feinstein is a curator, photographer, writer, and co-founder of Humble Arts Foundation. Jon has curated countless exhibitions for over 15+ years at galleries and institutions, including: Photoville; Blue Sky Gallery, PDX; The Ogden Museum in New Orleans for PhotoNola; Photographic Center Northwest; Colorado Photographic Arts Center; and Barclays Arena in Brooklyn, NY for ArtBridge. He is a recipient of the 2019 BlueSky Curatorial Prize and the 2021 Peter S. Reed Photography Grant. His writing on photography has appeared in VICE, Aperture, The Adobe Blog, The Squarespace Blog, TIME, PDN, Photograph, Hyperallergic, and Lenscratch.
Jon is particularly interested in reviewing art photography, conceptual work, social documentary, portraiture, still life, abstract photography, collage, landscape, and video. He is not interested in reviewing nude portraits of women by straight male photographers.
Reviewing days, Wed October 15 – AM & PM, Thur October 16 – PM, Fri October 17 – PM
Alex Fierro, Fine Art Specialist, Los Angeles Modern Auctions, Los Angeles, CA
Alex Fierro is a fine art specialist and auctioneer at Los Angeles Modern Auctions and board member of Photographic Arts Council. Prior to joining LAMA, she was the Director of Robert Berman Gallery and Santa Monica Auctions. She has proudly developed the first photo-based auctions for her company, which is now expanding from its Los Angeles LAMA home base to also being offered via Rago auctions in New Jersey. In addition, she has fostered their first LGBTQ+ sale titled: LOUD + PROUD: LGBTQ+ Art. Her professional focus is to elevate, celebrate and share discoveries with anyone – art should be shared and available for all to enjoy.
Reviewing days, Sat October 18 – AM, Sun October 19 – AM
Hope Flores, Curatorial Assistant, LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
Hope Flores (she/her) is the current Curatorial Assistant in the Wallis Annenberg Photography Department at LACMA (2021–present). In addition to assisting with collection building, exhibition planning, and curatorial administration, Flores is a key collaborator in the inaugural installation of the forthcoming Geffen Galleries (set to open in April 2026). She is also managing major museum commissions with artists Todd Gray and Jonathon Keats, the latter of which is slated for public installation in September 2025.
Flores is concurrently earning an MA in Art History through the ASU-LACMA Master’s Fellowship, and she holds a BA in Art History from California State University, Long Beach. She has previously held positions at the Museum of Latin American Art, Vincent Price Art Museum, LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes, Self Help Graphics & Art, and was notably an A.W. Mellon Undergraduate Curatorial Fellow at LACMA from 2016–18. Her research interests are inspired by her Mexican, Native American, and Armenian ancestry, and range from photography to performance and protest art. Her thesis work focuses on Chicanx photographers working in experimental analog photography, as a means of exploring and negotiating personal and communal identity.
Reviewing days, Wed, Thur October 15, 16 – PM, Fri, Sat October 17, 18 – AM
Stephen Frailey, Editor, Dear Dave Magazine
Stephen Frailey is a photographer, writer and educator, and is the founder and editor of Dear Dave, magazine since 2007. A book of his short essays about contemporary photography, Looking at Photography, was published by Damiani Editore in 2020.
He was the Director of the photography program at the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College from 1998 to 2004, and was the Chair of the BFA Photography and Video Department at the School of Visual Arts in New York from 1998 to 2018. He is the co-founder of the MPS Fashion Photography Program at the School of Visual Arts and created the Auction for Photographic Education in Afghanistan to create a photography department at Kabul University in 2003. He is a Chair Emeritus of SVA The School of Visual Arts.
His work is in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the International Center for Photography, New York; the Princeton University Art Museum; the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University; and Vassar College. He has received two MacDowell Colony Fellowships, a National Endowment for the Arts Grant and an Aaron Siskind Foundation Grant. His critical writing on photography has appeared recently in Artforum, Aperture, The Brooklyn Rail, Frieze and photograph magazine.
FOCUS: Frailey is interested in reviewing all genres and sensibilities, and work that is original, surprising, and undermines conventions. He is not interested in clichés.
Reviewing days, Wed, Thur, Fri October 15, 16, 17 – All AM
Jennifer M. Friess, Associate Curator of Photography, University of Michigan Museum of Art
Jennifer M. Friess (she/her) is the associate curator of photography at the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She joined UMMA in 2016 as the museum’s inaugural curator of photography and has since curated numerous exhibitions on themes of memory, place, and identity. Jennifer’s current exhibition Future Cache features a commission by Andrea Carlson, which surfaces histories and futures of Indigenous sovereignty and displacement in Michigan.
Jennifer is interested in reviewing projects in all stages of development by emerging to established photographers who are open to a dialogue about the conceptual and formal choices and intentions surrounding their work. She can provide insights into strengths of projects, modes of display, socialization strategies, and contextualization of your work. Jennifer is not interested in reviewing commercial photography.
Reviewing days, Thur October 16 – AM, Fri October 17 – AM
Susan F. Gray, Art and Cultural Development Consultant for Public and Private Art
Susan F. Gray is an independent art consultant who helps create communal spaces where the public can be welcomed and respected through cultural connections. She has 30 years’ experience leading arts and cultural initiatives within government, educational, non-profit, and private sectors. Susan can apply design thinking to creatively respond to any assignment, with proven ability to plan and deliver complex programs through lasting partnerships. A quietly assertive leader, and valued consensus builder, she can think expansively within and outside of complex organizations to forge highly productive relationships. She has extensive command of arts district, cultural facility, placemaking, and public art commissioning, having worked with creative practitioners in various urban settings.
With the consultancy of Susan F. Gray & Co. established in 2021, Susan has completed assignments for the State of California, Los Angeles County, and the city of Ontario. Current projects include the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority terminal rebuild; Johnny Carson Park for the City of Burbank; and the Bruce’s Beach restorative justice project for the City of Manhattan Beach.
She would be more comfortable reviewing worked that is not intended for commercial purposes.
Reviewing days, Wed October 15 – AM & PM
Mark Edward Harris, Writer (Vanity Fair, NYT, Lens, PPA) & Photographer
Assignments have taken Mark Edward Harris to more than 100 countries on all seven continents. His editorial work has appeared in publications such as Vanity Fair, LIFE, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Time Magazine, GEO, Newsweek, Conde Nast Traveler, National Geographic Traveler, Hemispheres, AFAR, Paris Match, VICE, Wallpaper, Vogue, Architectural Digest, The Los Angeles Times Magazine, and The London Sunday Times Travel Magazine as well as all the major photography and in-flight magazines. Among his numerous accolades are CLIO, ACE, Impact DOCS Award of Excellence, Aurora Gold, New York Book Show Book of the Year and IPA awards. His books include Faces of the Twentieth Century: Master Photographers and Their Work, The Way of the Japanese Bath, Wanderlust, North Korea, South Korea, Inside Iran, The Travel Photo Essay: Describing A Journey Through Images and his latest, The People of the Forest, a book about orangutans.
Reviewing days, Wed October 15 – AM & PM, Thur October 16 – PM
Isaac Huxtable, Assistant Curator of Photography, V&A Museum, London, UK
Isaac Huxtable is a Yorkshire-born, London-based writer and curator. He works across the photographic medium with a central focus on race, identity, and realism. Isaac is currently an Assistant Curator in Photography at the Victoria and Albert Museum. He studied at the Courtauld Institute of Art, followed by roles at the British Journal of Photography, the Photographers’ Gallery, and the art agency Artiq. His words have featured in the British Journal of Photography, Elephant Magazine, Galerie Peter Sillem, The Photographers’ Gallery, and The South London Gallery. He is particularly interested in documentary practices, speculation, gender, class, and the body.
He is keen to see a range of work. He works across museums and magazines with a focus on (expanded) documentary and realism, but is open to a variety of styles and genres.
Reviewing days, Thur October 16 – AM & PM, Sun October 19 – AM
Frances Jakubek, Image-maker, Independent Curator and Consultant for Artists
Frances Jakubek is an image-maker, independent curator, and consultant for artists. She is the co-founder of A Yellow Rose Project, past Director of the Bruce Silverstein Gallery in New York City, and past Associate Curator of the Griffin Museum of Photography in Massachusetts.
Recent curatorial appointments include Critical Mass, Potential Space: A Serious Look at Child’s Play featuring works by Nancy Richards Farese, Filter Photo, The Griffin Museum of Photography, British Journal of Photography, Les Rencontres d’Arles, Save Art Space, and Photo District News.
Jakubek has been a panelist for the Massachusetts Cultural Council’s Photography fellowships, speaker for SPE National and Colorado Photographic Arts Center, and lecturer for the School of Visual Arts, Boston University, University of New Mexico, and Washington and Lee University. She has taught workshops for The Southeast Center for Photography, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Maine Media, and the University of Iowa.
Reviewing days, Wed October 15 – AM, Thur October 16 – AM
Aneta Kowalczyk, Publisher, Blow Up Press, Warsaw, Poland
Aneta Kowalczyk is the Photo Editor and Book Designer at BLOW UP PRESS. She creates visually compelling photo and art books, celebrated internationally for their concept and form. Photo books designed by her were acknowledged by contests such as Les Rencontres d’Arles Book Awards, Lucie Photo Book Award, PhotoEspaña, European Design Awards, Polish Graphic Design Awards, Prix Bob Calle du livre d’artiste and others. In 2018, she was named one of the three Magazine Visual Editors of the Year by Pictures of the Year International (POY75).
Aneta definitely likes thought-provoking, multi-layered, conceptual projects and is not a fan of street photography.
Reviewing days, Thur October 16 – AM, Fri October 17 – AM, Sat October 18 – AM
Kate Kraczon, Director of Exhibitions and Chief Curator, Brown University, Providence, RI
Kate Kraczon is the Director of Exhibitions and Chief Curator of the Brown Arts Institute / David Winton Bell Gallery at Brown University. Joining Brown in fall 2019 as Curator, Kraczon oversees the Brown Arts Institute’s exhibition program, which includes The Bell and its growing collection of over 7,000 works in List Art Center, the Cohen Gallery in the Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, and Brown’s robust Public Art program. As a member of the BAI leadership team, Kraczon builds programs across campus and within the Lindemann Performing Arts Center. Kraczon is also involved in many aspects of the BAI’s academic program. Since joining the BAI, Kraczon has curated solo exhibitions with artists Julien Creuzet, Franklin Williams, Elisabeth Subrin, Savannah Knoop, Jules Gimbrone, Hartman Deetz, and a two-person exhibition with Harry Gould Harvey IV and Faith Wilding. Previously the Laporte Associate Curator at the Institute for Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania from 2008-2019, she organized over thirty exhibitions while at ICA, including Ree Morton’s first major retrospective in the United States in over three decades (2018).
Reviewing days, Wed October 15 – AM and Thur October 16 – AM
Calin Kruse, Founder, dienacht Magazine & dienacht Publishing, Leipzig, Germany
Calin Kruse, Founder of dienacht Magazine & dienacht Publishing, and director of Leipzig Photobook Festival in Leipzig, Germany.
Calin Kruse studied Graphic Design. He is the founder and maker of dienacht Magazine and dienacht Publishing, director of the Leipzig Photobook Festival and of Thousandfold Photobook Fair, and is a photographer himself. Calin is also a curator, holds guest talks, lectures, makes photobook workshops and masterclasses around the world (Berlin, Vienna, Barcelona, Copenhagen, Istanbul, Moscow, Lagos, Georgetown, Mexico City, Yangon, Yerevan, etc.), and reviews portfolios for photography and photobook festivals.
Dienacht Publishing is an independent photobook publisher whose aim is to showcase carefully selected photographers through a limited circulation of beautifully produced books. dienacht Publishing have received several awards for its publications: Best German Photobook Awards, Best Books of the Year, Shortlist at the Paris Photo – Aperture Award, a range of LeadAwards and the Fedrigoni Top Award.
Reviewing days, Wed October 15 – AM, Fri October 17 – AM, Sat October 18 – AM
Sarah Leen, Editor, Teacher, Mentor, Curator
In 2013 Sarah Leen became the first female Director of Photography at National Geographic Magazine and Partners. In 2020 she co-founded the Visual Thinking Collective, a community for independent women dedicated to supporting visual storytelling. She worked as a contributing photographer to the National Geographic magazine for 20 years.
Leen works with individual photographers and publishers editing visual projects and photography books. Books include the 2020 FotoEvidence and World Press Photo Book Award winner HABIBI by Antonio Faccilongo and the winner of the 2022 Lucie Book Award for Independent Book The Phoenician Collapse by Diego Ibarra Sanchez, We Cry in Silence by Smita Sharma and A Troubled Home by Anush Babajanyan. She was also the photo editor for FotoEvidence of Ukraine: A War Crime War which won the Photography Book of the Year from Pictures of the Year International in 2024.
Leen has taught photography and photo editing workshops at the Missouri Photo Workshops, the International Center for Photography in New York, the Maine Photographic Workshops, the Santa Fe Workshops, and Female Perspectives on Visual Storytelling in Maine.
Leen is on the Board of Advisors of the Eddie Adams Workshop, the Lucie Foundation and on the Board of Directors of the International League of Conservation Photographers.
Reviewing days, Fri October 17 – AM
Nikolay Maslov, Curator, California Museum of Photography/UCR Arts, Riverside, CA
Nikolay Maslov is a curator, educator, and photographer deeply engaged with photographic arts, film, and digital media. Currently serving as Curator of Film & Media Projects at UCR ARTS, University of California, Riverside, Nikolay has curated and organized major exhibitions such as Digital Capture: Southern California and the Pixel-Based Image World as part of the Getty’s Pacific Standard Time initiative. His curatorial approach explores intersections of photographic history, technological transformation, and regional visual culture. Nikolay holds an MA from USC’s School of Cinematic Arts.
He is open to seeing anything, but particularly likes landscape and nature photography.
Reviewing days, Thur October 16 – PM
Melanie McWhorter, Photography Consultant
Melanie McWhorter has gained a reputation as a knowledgeable photography professional; has been interviewed about photography in numerous print and online publications including PDN and NPR’s The Picture Show; curated exhibitions including Trust the Story at Baldwin Photographic Gallery; has judged the prestigious photography competitions including Fotografia: Fotofestival di Roma’s Book Prize; has reviewed portfolios at New England Portfolio Reviews, Fotografia, Photolucida, Review Santa Fe and PhotoNOLA; and taught and lectured at numerous venues including Santa Fe Workshops, PhotoNOLA and University of North Texas. After moving to New Mexico in 1997, she managed the internationally recognized photo-eye Bookstore + Project Space until 2016. She consults at melaniemcwhorter.com and sells photobooks at grenadeinajar.com.
Reviewing days, Wed, Thur, Fri October 15, 16, 17 – All AM
Stacy Arezou Mehrfar, Visual Artist
Working with photography, photobooks, and video, Stacy Arezou Mehrfar explores the emotional and social facets of community. Her works look closely at the tension between belonging and alienation, and how individuals form meaning through their embodied presence in place. Mehrfar has exhibited her works at TEDxSydney, Australia; KMAC Contemporary Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky; and the International Center of Photography, New York. In 2025, Mehrfar’s work will be a featured exhibition of the Glaz Photography Festival in Rennes, France, and included in an exhibition at the ANU Museum in Tel Aviv. A 2022 Silver List nominee, Mehrfar has received the Joseph Robert Foundation Grant, a Puffin Foundation Artist Grant, and the Australian Postgraduate Award. Her residencies include Interlude, I-Park Foundation, and the Wassaic Project. She is a 2025 LABA Lab fellow and Studio Arts resident at the Clemente Center. Her most recent monograph, The Moon Belongs to Everyone, was published by GOST Books in 2021. Mehrfar holds an MFA in Photomedia from the University of NSW School of Art and Design, Sydney, a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and a Certificate in Creative Practices from ICP, New York. She teaches at the School of Visual Arts and ICP. Stacy is a first-generation Iranian-American artist. Arezou, her middle name, means “wish” in Farsi.
Reviewing days, TBA
Quentin Nardi, Chief Photo Editor, Smithsonian Magazine
Quentin Nardi is chief photo editor for Smithsonian magazine. A visual storyteller, photo editor and director professional with 25 years of national magazine experience in both print and digital platforms, Nardi strives to foster and create engagement that coalesces editorial and social media consistency. Her challenge and objective has always been to produce compelling, award-winning photography; positively affect staff efficiency–and to push boundaries in the digital space.
Prior to Smithsonian, Nardi spent 15 years as a photo editor for Outside, Ski magazine and as director of photography for AARP, where she helped to redefine the visual direction of AARP The Magazine and help to launch a ground-breaking digital platform. Nardi earned a BFA in photography from the University of New Mexico. She has been the Chief Photo Editor for Smithsonian since February 2017.
Ms. Nardi is the recipient of many awards including most recently–the 2023 National Magazine Award for photography.
Reviewing days, Wed, Thur, Fri October 15, 16, 17 – All AM
Ashby Nickerson, Gallery Director, Candela Books + Gallery, Richmond, VA
Ashby Nickerson is the Gallery Director at Candela Books + Gallery, a Richmond-based fine art photography gallery and independent publisher. Since joining the gallery in 2014, she has continued to help shape and evolve the gallery’s curatorial vision, supporting contemporary photography through conceptually driven exhibitions with a focus on science, politics, and experimental approaches to the medium.
Candela presents 6–10 exhibitions annually, showcasing regional, national, and international artists, and is home to UnBound!—an annual, free-to-enter open call that serves as a broad survey of contemporary photography, offering select artists honorariums and collection opportunities.
Nickerson is particularly interested in photography that pushes the boundaries of the medium—whether through alternative processes, sculptural or object-based approaches, or strong conceptual frameworks. She’s less drawn to conventional travel portraiture or traditional nude studies. In addition to curatorial work, she is committed to mentoring artists and supporting the development of thoughtful, sustainable practices.
Reviewing days, Sat October 18 – AM, Sun October 19 – AM
Laura Noble, Director, Laura Noble Gallery, UK
Laura Noble is an artist, collector and the Director of L A Noble Gallery (LANG) in London and FIX Photo Festival. She represents emerging and established artists and champions them through LANG exhibitions, festivals and museums in the UK and abroad. Curating both at LANG and independently at venues globally, working with organizations promoting photography, residency programs and also as a portfolio reviewer at photo festivals worldwide, her commitment to art is paramount. She launched FIX Photo Festival in 2016 garnering worldwide recognition, opportunities and participation.Laura’s advice on professional practice and the art market is also keenly received at several museums, universities and institutions around the world. Laura is dedicated to helping emerging photographers. She is interested in all forms of photography, with no interest in misogyny and dedicated to inclusivity in the arts and championing wide representation and diversity throughout. Her interest in conceptual and 3D work intersecting with other art forms is also welcomed. She is less interested in seeing commercial work.
Reviewing days, Sat October 18 – AM, Sun October 19 – AM
Isotta Poggi, Photography Curator, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA
Isotta Poggi is associate curator of photographs at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. Her collecting interests focus on the cultural history of photography from the nineteenth century through contemporary, as a medium for documentary and artistic practice, and as a narrative tool in albums, photobooks, and artists’ books. She recently co-curated the exhibitions What They Saw: Historical Photobooks by Women, 1943–1999 at the Getty Research Institute and in 2018 the exhibition Promote, Tolerate, Ban: Art and Culture in Cold War Hungary at the Wende Museum. Drawing on the extensive archival holdings and special collections of the Getty Research Institute, she is studying photography as independent artistic practice in 1980s East Germany (more info here).
Reviewing days, Fri October 17 – PM
Jaushua Rombaoa, Senior Curatorial Assistant, MOAH, Lancaster, CA
Jaushua Rombaoa is a Los Angeles-based artist and curator. He currently serves as the Senior Curatorial Assistant at the Lancaster Museum of Art and History in Lancaster, California, and as the Associate Director and Curatorial Advisor at ROSEGALLERY in Santa Monica, California.
Reviewing days, Fri, Sat, Sun October 17, 18, 19 – All AM
Jessica Roscio, Director and Curator, The Danforth Art Museum, Framingham, MA
Jessica Roscio joined the Danforth Art Museum in 2011, was appointed Curator in 2015, and Director in 2020. Selected exhibitions include Barbara Swan: Reflected Self, The Memory Palace: Domesticity, Objects, and the Interior, Beautiful Decay, Dressed, Family Circle, and Lois Tarlow: Material Vocabulary. Jessica has held positions at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C., and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She has taught courses at Emerson College and Suffolk University, has served as a juror for regional and national exhibitions, and is a regular contributor to Aspect Initiative, an online gallery focusing on contemporary photography in New England. Jessica has an MA in Art History from the University at Buffalo and a Ph.D. in American Studies, with a focus on the History of Photography, from Boston University.
Reviewing days, Wed October 15 – AM & Sat October 18 – AM
Rotem Rozental, Executive Director and Curator, LACP, Los Angeles, CA
Rotem Rozental, Ph.D, is the Executive Director of the Los Angeles Center of Photography. Between 2016-2022, she served as Chief Curator at American Jewish University, where she was also Assistant Dean of the Whizin Center for Continuing Education and Senior Director of Arts and Creative Programming. Her book, Pre-State Photographic Archives and the Zionist Movement (Routledge, 2023) was named recipient of the Jordan Schnitzer First Book Award by the Association for Jewish Studies.
Rotem is a lecturer at USC Roski School of Art and Design Critical Studies Department, and mentors artists worldwide. She contributes regularly to magazines, journals and exhibition catalogues. Her writings about contemporary art and image-based media were published in Artforum, Artillery, Photographies, Jewish Currents, Tablet, Forward and Cobra Milk, among other outlets. Her essay, “Call the Midlife” is forthcoming in Afterimage in December 2025. More recently, her nonfiction story, “A Scar, Visible Only to Me” was published in the anthology Scars by Beyond Words Magazine.
Reviewing days, Wed October 15 – PM, Thur October 16 – AM
Kristine Schomaker, Artist, Curator, Publisher, and Mentor, Shoebox Arts
Kristine Schomaker is a multidisciplinary artist, curator, publisher, and mentor who has been a driving force in the LA art community for over a decade. She founded Shoebox Arts in 2014 and launched Art and Cake magazine in 2015 to champion underrepresented artists and create vital community connections throughout Southern California. She currently runs Shoebox Projects, an alternative art space providing emerging artists with professional opportunities.
Kristine’s artistic practice centers on conceptual autobiography, exploring body image, gender identity, and society’s relationship with beauty through painting, photography, performance, digital media, and social practice. Drawing inspiration from artists like Lynn Hershman Leeson, Hannah Wilke, and Ana Mendieta, her work has been featured at prestigious venues including Cal State LA, UCLA, the Torrance Art Museum, and 18th Street Art Center, with notable solo exhibitions like Perceive Me and A Comfortable Skin at UCLA’s Kerckhoff Hall Art Gallery
As a reviewer, Kristine enjoys seeing work that pushes boundaries, whether experimental, identity-based, or narrative-driven, but she is eager to connect with artists at all stages of their careers and help them develop their voice and find new opportunities for their work.
Reviewing days, Wed October 15 – PM, Fri October 17 – PM, Sun October 19 – AM
Aline Smithson, Founder/Editor Lenscratch, Photographer, and Educator
Aline Smithson has given exposure to thousands of photographers over the years, curated and juried exhibitions, and has been a reviewer at photo festivals across the country. Her own work has been exhibited and published world wide and she has an understanding of the reviewing experience from both sides of the table. Aline is open to all types of fine art photography, but is looking for projects created with intention and deep consideration.
Reviewing days, Wed October 15 – PM, Thur October 16 – PM, Fri October 17 – PM
Kristin Taylor, Curator, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
Kristin Taylor is the Curator of Academic Programs and Collections at the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago. Select exhibitions she curated include Collaboration: A Potential History of Photography (co-curated with Wendy Ewald, Susan Meiselas, and Laura Wexler), Captured Earth, Reproductive: Health, Fertility, Agency (co-cured with Karen Irvine), and Chicago Stories: Carlos Javier Ortiz and David Schalliol. Kristin leads the museum’s education initiatives and hosts its podcast, Focal Point. She also teaches at Columbia College Chicago and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Kristin holds a BFA in Painting from the Kansas City Art Institute and an MA in Visual Arts Management from Columbia College Chicago.
I am open to reviewing many types of work, but I especially love seeing conceptual works and works that employ experimental processes. Some exhibitions I curated explored topics of reexamining archives, female bodily autonomy, and human relationships with nature.
Reviewing days, Wed October 15 – AM, Thur October 16 – AM
Manon Thibodot, Curatorial Projects Officer, Centre Pompidou, Paris
Manon Thibodot, graduated from Sciences Po Paris and the École du Louvre, specializing in modern art, photography and fashion/luxury is currently working for the Modern collections department of the Centre Pompidou. She is involved in the essential curation of the museum rooms and the organization of exhibitions. Thibodot has collaborated in various photographic shows and contests in Paris and worked for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 2019, where she participated in provenance research on a collection of 19th and early 20th century photographs. She has contributed to many institutional exhibitions such as ‘Philippe Starck, Paris est Pataphysique’ (2023), at the musée Carnavalet – Histoire de Paris, ‘Isamu Noguchi, sculpter le monde’ (2023) at the Lille Métropole musée d’art modern, d’art contemporain et d’art brut, and ‘Bernard Réquichot, je n’ai jamais commencé à peindre’ (2024) at the Centre Pompidou. She also gives lectures and classes independently for the EIDM – International Fashion & Luxury Business School in Paris and the auction staff of the Crédit Municipal de Paris.
Reviewing days, Wed, Fri, Sat, Sun October 15, 17, 18, 19 – All AM
Noah Waldeck, founder and curator Subjectively Objective
Noah Waldeck is a publisher, curator, designer, photographer, educator, and color and print expert. He is the founder & chief curator of the independent publisher and gallery Subjectively Objective, where he focuses on creating highly curated photobooks and magazines on contemporary landscape and documentary photography with impeccable color reproduction and print quality. He’s published the work of over 500 photographers from around the world, and sold over 12,000 publications to collectors in 61 countries. He also hosts exhibitions at his Detroit area gallery space, and particularly enjoys giving artists their first opportunity to have their work published.
Noah serves as a faculty member and special lecturer at the College for Creative Studies and Oakland University. He also runs Noah Waldeck Studios, a custom lab which specializes in providing artists with museum-quality printing and finishing, image editing, photobook design, and publishing consulting services. He previously served as a board member and exhibitions director at the Detroit Center for Contemporary Photography.
Noah is particularly interested in seeing contemporary landscape and documentary work, especially projects that are ready to publish.
Reviewing days, Wed October 15 – PM, Thur October 16 – PM, Fri October 17 – PM