AM sessions will run 8:30-12:30 PST and PM sessions will run 12:30-5:30PM PST
Jamie Allen, Curator & Head, Department of Photography, George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
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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 was the Editor-at-Large for Adore Noir magazine. He currently 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.
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Regina Anzeberger, Director, Anzeberger Gallery, Vienna
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Elizabeth Avedon, Photography Book and Exhibition Designer, New York, NY
Elizabeth Avedon has a rich history in photography, collaborating with museums, publishing houses, galleries and artists. She has received awards and recognition for her photography exhibition design and publishing projects, including the retrospective exhibition and book: “Avedon: 1949-1979″ for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, High Museum Atlanta, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts; and “Richard Avedon: In the American West” for the Amon Carter Museum, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, High Museum Atlanta and The Art Institute of Chicago, among many others. Former Director of Photo-Eye Gallery, Santa Fe and Creative Director for The Gere Foundation. Elizabeth also teaches ‘Book Design + Branding’ in the Masters in Digital Photography program at The School of Visual Arts, NY and online workshops for LACP.
As well as offering her personal critique, Elizabeth is always searching for new work to promote. She works with photographers at all stages of their career, emerging to established, to help edit and shape their work for exhibitions, books, presentations and photography events. She is interested in reviewing exceptional photography, cohesive bodies of work with a unique perspective; fine art, portraiture, documentary, photojournalism.
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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.
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Amanda Boe, Photo Editor, The New York Times
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Dimitri Bogachu, Founder of Form. Gallery / Publishing / Magazine, Dinard, France
Dimitri Bogachuk, Founder of Form. Gallery / Publishing / Magazine – and Form Photography Award (platform based in Britanny, France). Dimitri is a photography curator. He graduated from the National Academy of Culture and Arts in Kyiv, where he majored in art expertise. Form. photography has collaborated with in renowned events like Photo Basel, Rencontres d’Arles, AIPAD New York, Photo London, Unseen and Miami Scope to bring a curated selection of works that highlight innovative approaches to photography. This participation not only elevates the artists involved, but also reinforces the gallery’s dedication to fostering a global dialogue in the art community.
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Angela Bryant, Managing Director, ROSEGALLERY, and Founder, Abryant Gallery
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.
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Susan Burnstine, Contributor, Black & White Magazine (UK), Photographer and Educator
Susan Burnstine is an award-winning professional fine art and commercial photographer who builds homemade cameras and lenses using plastic, vintage camera parts, and random household objects. She’s represented in galleries across the world and widely published globally. Susan teaches workshops internationally, has curated over 30 exhibitions, and has written for several photography magazines, including a longstanding monthly column titled “American Connection” for Black & White Photography Magazine (UK). She has had over 35 solo exhibits internationally, her work is held in numerous museum and private collections, and she has had two award winning monographs, Within Shadows (Charta, 2011) and Absence of Being (Damiani Editore, 2016).
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Victoria Chapman, Curator, VC Projects & El Nido art space, Los Angeles, CA
Victoria Chapman is a Los Angeles–based curator, writer, and founder of VC Projects (est. 2014). With over 25 years of experience, she has worked with the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the Laguna Art Museum, and the Orange County Museum of Art, and contributed to the Victoria and Albert Museum. She served as Art Director for Daniel Fine Art Services and is a contributing curator and liaison to Casa Regis: Center for Culture and Contemporary Art.
She is the founder of El Nido, a Los Angeles–based art studio and salon, and part of the MA/ARTE international network as a creative outpost in collaboration with Zero Gravità Villa Cernigliaro (2025–2028).
Victoria is not interested in seeing fashion, commercial or street photography.
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Debra Klomp Ching, Co-Owner, Klompching Gallery, NYC
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Paris Chong, Gallery Director, Leica Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
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.
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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.
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Claudio Composti, Founder/Artistic Director mc2gallery, Consultant & Art Advisor, Milan, Italy
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Mia Daghlish, Co-Curator, Pictura Gallery, Bloomington, IN
Mia Dalglish works collaboratively as a Co-Curator for Pictura Gallery with Lisa Woodward. Pictura is a non-profit contemporary photography space housed in the FAR Center for Contemporary Arts in Bloomington, IN. For 13 years she has been producing a wide range of exhibitions and advising photographers through different phases of their careers.
Dalglish is looking for exceptional projects for the gallery’s 2024 exhibition programming and the Curious blog. Dalglish is open to projects with the capacity to push past the boundaries of the frame and into broader installations. Pictura looks for opportunities to pair its photography shows with other creative mediums for some unexpected collaborations with poets, chefs, dancers, musicians, etc. Projects do not need to be completed to be considered, but must show a high degree of thought and cohesion.
Dalglish can offer critiques and feedback to strengthen work aesthetically and conceptually. Of lesser interest are still life projects of personal artifacts from the past, nudes, and strictly commercial work.
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Jennifer DeCarlo, jdc Fine art, San Diego, CA
Jennifer DeCarlo has a strong connection to the photographic field through her work in commercial galleries and as a writer. Ms. DeCarlo established jdc Fine Art in 2011, a gallery dedicated to contemporary photography. Prior to opening the gallery she worked as the Assistant Director at the Schneider Gallery in Chicago. Ms. DeCarlo is active academically and professionally. She earned her Master of Fine Arts from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and wrote for the international photography association AIPAD for over four years. A seasoned reviewer, Ms. DeCarlo is critical but fair. Depending on where the work is in process, she is able to help the artist evaluate and reflect on completed work or pause to sharpen the point of work in progress. She is most interested in reviewing narrative, figurative work, but welcomes seeing other work that explores the creative potential of photography.
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Monique Deschaines, Director, Equinom Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Monique Deschaines, the Director of EUQINOM Gallery, is a curator, gallerist, and educator. She founded EUQINOM Gallery in 2015. EUQINOM Gallery is a prominent art gallery based in San Francisco, California which specializes in representing emerging and mid-career contemporary artists, with a particular emphasis on women artists. EUQINOM is dedicated to showcasing multidisciplinary works that push the boundaries of art history and photo-based practices. The gallery has organized over 40 solo exhibitions since its inception, actively promoting the work of emerging and established national and international artists across various mediums such as contemporary photography, painting, sculpture, and media-based art.
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Crista Dix, Executive Director at the Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA
Crista Dix is the Executive Director at the Griffin Museum of Photography, assuming that role in January of 2022 after two years as the Associate Director. Before coming to the Griffin Museum in 2020 she spent 15 years operating her own photography gallery, wall space creative, closing it in 2020 to make the move to New England and the Griffin. Having a career spanning many paths she has a background rooted in science, business and creative art. This well rounded experience provides a solid background for supporting the Griffin’s mission to encourage a broader understanding and appreciation of the visual, emotional and social impact of photographic art. The Griffin Museum curates over 50 exhibitions a year. As an institution, we are committed to ensuring that our mindset, our practice, our outreach, our programming and our exhibitions set a framework with priorities for building programs and exhibitions that consider diversity, equity, accessibility, and inclusion through our mission that is centered around the photograph.
Crista has written essays about photography, introducing creative artists work to a broader community. She has been a member of numerous panels and discussions on the craft of photography, juried creative competitions and has participated in major portfolio reviews across the country in cities like Houston, Portland, Los Angeles, Santa Fe and New Orleans.
She is open to view all types of photography, including moving images, installation and public projects. She is open to providing feedback on projects not yet completed and answering questions concerning next steps for projects or series not yet realized.
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Max Gorbatskyi, Head of Exhibitions, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, UK
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Isaac Huxtable, Assistant Curator of Photography, V&A Museum, London, UK
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Ann Jastrab, Executive Director, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA
Ann M. Jastrab, MFA, is the Executive Director at the Center for Photographic Art (CPA) in Carmel, California. Before coming onboard at CPA, Ann worked as the gallery director at RayKo Photo Center in San Francisco for 10 years until their closure in 2017. While being a champion of artists, she created a thriving artist-in-residence program at RayKo where multiple residents received Guggenheim Fellowships. Ann was also the gallery manager at Scott Nichols Gallery in San Francisco where she incorporated contemporary artists with the legends of photography.
During her tenure at the Center for Photographic Art, Ann has created important artist grant and scholarship programs to support creatives and students. She has also taken the organization from a regional arts center to one with members on 6 continents. She most recently launched a photography festival called PhotoCarmel that celebrates the medium on the central coast of California. Ann is a juror and reviewer for numerous organizations and institutions. She also taught for more than a decade at the Maine Photographic Workshops (now Maine Media Workshops) in Rockport, Maine.
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Shana Lopes, Assistant Curator of Photography,SFMOMA
Shana Lopes, Ph.D., is an Assistant Curator of Photography at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Since her arrival at the museum in 2019, she has organized exhibitions on cyanotypes, the 1906 earthquake, and Wright Morris. She is currently working on a show pairing recent acquisitions with existing work from the collection. Over the past decade, she has gained curatorial experience at the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, Arizona, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. She holds a doctorate in Art History from Rutgers University.
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Juli Lowe, Curator, 21st Century Hotel, Chicago, IL
Juli Lowe – With a deep knowledge of and passion for contemporary art and photography, Juli Lowe promotes the work of unrepresented and established photographers through exhibitions, acquisition and press opportunities. Juli has curated solo and group exhibitions including New Formations; Selina Trepp: I’m thinking about painting; Emma McKee: Championship Bulls Banners; Kiki McGrath: 8hrs; Tanya Lunina: Rhythm of the Lake;Kelly Kristin Jones: Rib of Disaster; Michelle Hartney: Unplanned parenthood: letters to an army of millions; and Michele Pred: Equal Pay. In 2022, she started an annual commission at 21c Chicago for a site-specific video projection series titled Rm 921, and an Artist in Residence program in response to seeing a need for prolonged engagement with artists. As the Director of Collections at 21c, Juli leads the collection team in traveling curated exhibitions and the long-term care of an extensive private collection of contemporary art. As the former long-time Director at Catherine Edelman Gallery and Director at PATRON Gallery, Juli has studied the fine art market since 2006.
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Yuwei Lu, Curator and Founder, Yiwei Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Yiwei Lu is a curator and founder of Yiwei Gallery, an international contemporary art platform established in Los Angeles. She holds a B.A. in Film Production from Loyola Marymount University and an M.A. in Visual Anthropology from the University of Southern California, where her research and training shaped her engagement with photography and visual culture.
Lu has curated exhibitions and projects across the U.S., Asia, and Europe, and her gallery has participated in fairs including Photofairs New York and Photofairs Shanghai . She has also served as a juror for the International Photography Awards (IPA). Her curatorial practice is rooted in cross-cultural dialogue, with a strong interest in how works construct narrative, identity, and contemporary experience.
I am interested in contemporary photographic practices and enjoy working with photographers who are looking to position their work within the fine art context.
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Caleb Cain Markus, Publication Design Director, Workshop Arts and Luminosity Lab, NYC
Caleb Cain Marcus runs a print and design studio, Luminosity Lab in NYC where he has designed books and printed for ClampArt, Damiani Editore, Donna Ferrato, Double Elephant Editions, Joyce Tenneson, Kris Graves Projects, Lucien Clergue, Mikael Owunna, National Academy of Sciences, Nydia Blas and others. Marcus has published six books of his own photography and his photographic works are in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Getty Museum, among others.
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Lilian Michel, Curatorial Assistant, Photography, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
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Carol McCusker, Curator of Photography, Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL
For thirteen years, Dr. Carol McCusker has been the Curator of Photography at the Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida, Gainesville, where she has curated twenty-nine exhibitions. Standouts are Aftermath: The Fallout of War in response to the 2014 Syrian civil war (it won a National Endowment for the Arts grant and Warhol Foundation Award), and Shadow to Substance, co-curated with Dr. Porchia Moore, in response to the Black Lives Matter movement.
Before arriving in Florida, McCusker was Curator at the Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego for nine years where she curated or oversaw approximately forty-five exhibitions and wrote a roster of essays for numerous artists’ catalogues. She was also Adjunct Professor at the University of San Diego and the University of California/San Diego, and staff writer for Color and Bl & Wh magazines.
McCusker received her B.F.A. in studio art and art history at Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in art history with an emphasis on the history of photography at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. McCusker received the Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship Award, the Beaumont Newhall Award, two National Endowment for the Arts Awards, and an Ansel Adams Fellowship from the Center for Creative Photography, Tucson.
In 2009, she was invited to curate at the Lishui Photo Festival in China where her exhibition of photographs by Los Angeles photographer, Stephen Berkman, won the festival’s First Prize. She was Juror for the prestigious International Center of Photography Infinity Award/New York, 2010. And has juried the Clarence John Laughlin Award for the New Orleans Photo Alliance, and reviewed portfolios for the Griffin Museum of Photography, FotoFest/Houston, Palm Springs Photo Fest, Critical Mass/Portland, and Atlanta Celebrates Photography, where meeting new and mid-career photographers has been essential to her exhibitions and professional growth.
Writing, teaching and curating from photography’s complete history defines McCusker’s enthusiasm for the medium’s inspiring creative range and ever-changing technology from William Henry Fox Talbot’s 1840s calotypes to cellphone videos and AI imagery.
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Wiktoria Michałkiewicz, Curator/Founder of REZO, Advisor, Arts & Culture strategist, Talent Agent
Wiktoria Michałkiewicz is an arts and culture strategist, talent agent, curator and founder of REZO, a global consulting agency focused on career and talent development for visual artists, art advisory services, developing international partnerships in the cultural sector, and merging art with business and academia. Her academic journey encompasses five academic degrees that include a PhD in Sociology and MA degrees in Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies from Stockholm University, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Lumière University Lyon 2, and Jagiellonian University. Dr. Michałkiewicz serves as a contributing editor for renowned international magazines, including National Geographic, Harper’s Bazaar, and Vogue. As an exhibition producer and curator, she has curated multiple exhibitions featuring celebrated artists, collaborating closely with international festivals and esteemed institutions. In one of her roles, she played an integral part in the expansion of Fotografiska Stockholm to Tallinn and New York as part of Fotografiska International. Dr. Michałkiewicz often works with most prestigious international art events, galleries, organisations, and venues as a contributor, jury member, speaker, and consultant.
Spoken Languages: English, Polish, Swedish
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Robin O’Dell, Executive Curator, Florida Museum of Photographic Arts, Tampa, FL
Robin O’Dell is the Executive Curator at the Florida Museum of Photographic Arts in Tampa, Florida, where she oversees the collection and is responsible for curating over a dozen exhibitions each year. She is also a contributing writer for The Artisan Magazine, as well as Creative Pinellas’ Arts Coast Magazine. She was formerly the Curator of Photography at the Museum of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg, Florida and has also worked with the Keith Haring Archive in New York City, the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, the Tampa Museum of Art and the Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art.
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Kathryn Poindexter-Akers, Head of Exhibitions at UCR ARTS: California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA
Kathryn Poindexter-Akers is Senior Curator at the California Museum of Photography and Culver Center of the Arts (UCR ARTS), part of University of California, Riverside. She has curated dozens of exhibitions, including Lenard Smith: Fortuitous Encounters (2026); Shadow Archive: Meggan Gould (2025); Off Reservation: Sofia Valiente and Photo Students of Sherman Indian High School (2025); Fictive Kin: Sarah Conaway, Annette Kelm, Kim Schoen (2017); and Aaron Siskind: Pleasures and Terrors (2015), among others, at UCR ARTS; and several contemporary and collection exhibitions at Riverside Art Museum. Over the past sixteen years, she has contributed to the curatorial and scholarly activities of the California Museum of Photography, Riverside Art Museum, and the USC Visual Studies Research Institute. She is the 2026 recipient of the Peter E. Palmquist Award for Historical Photographic Research for a forthcoming exhibition and publication on photographer Will Connell. She earned her MA in Art History along with a Visual Studies Graduate Certificate from University of Southern California, a BA in Studio Art from UC Irvine, and completed the study abroad program at University of British Columbia.
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Suzanne Revy, Associate Editor of What Will You Remember?, Educator and Photographer
Suzanne Révy is a photographer, writer and educator who earned a BFA from the Pratt Institute in 1984. She worked in editorial and magazine publishing as a photography editor for fifteen years before the arrival of two sons, and created a long term photographic diaries of their lives. She earned an MFA from the New Hampshire Institute of Art (now IAD @NEC) in 2016, teaches at Clark University in Worcester, MA and is the Associate Editor of the online photography magazine “What Will You Remember?”
She has had solo shows at the Danforth Museum of Art, the Griffin Museum of Photography and the Garner Center Gallery at the New England School of Photography. Her pictures have been included in numerous group curated and juried shows. Her monograph, “A Murmur in the Trees” was published by Workshop Arts in 2024, and her work is in the collection of the Worcester Art Museum.
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Jaushua Rombaoa, Associate Director, ROSEGALLERY, Santa Monica, CA & 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.
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Dr. Rotem Rozental, Executive Director and Chief 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.
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Eve Schillo, Associate Photo Curator, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), LA, CA
Eve Schillo is an Associate Curator in the Wallis Annenberg Photography Department at LACMA. She curates exhibitions that span photographic history and appear in galleries dedicated to American, Latin American, Modern, Contemporary, and Japanese Art, as well as those devoted to photography. Recent projects include Mariana Yampolsky (2018); Golden Hour (2021-22) an exhibition celebrating California photography; In the Now: Gender and Nation in Europe (2021); Before You Now: Capturing the Self in Portraiture (2024-25) and most recently, Nature on Notice: Contemporary Art and Ecology (part of the city-wide “PST ART,” 2025). Her upcoming exhibition will focus on photo-hybridity (2027-28)and will tour several Southern California venues as part of LACMA’s Local Access initiative.
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Aline Smithson, Founder/Editor Lenscratch, Photographer, and Educator
Aline Smithson is an interdisciplinary artist, educator, editor, and filmmaker based in Los Angeles, California. She has exhibited widely including over 50 solo shows at a variety of international institutions and her work has been featured in publications including The New York Times, The New Yorker, and PDN. Smithson is the Founder and Editor- in-Chief of Lenscratch, a daily journal on photography. She received the Rising Star Award through the Griffin Museum of Photography and also received the prestigious Excellence in Teaching Award from CENTER. In 2014, 2019, and 2025, Smithson’s work was selected for the Critical Mass Top 50. The Smithsonian Air and Space Museum commissioned Smithson to create a series of portraits for the Faces of Our Planet Exhibition. In 2018 and 2019, her work was exhibited in the National Portrait Gallery in London. In 2022, Smithson was recognized as a Hasselblad Heroine. With the exception of her iPhone, she only shoots film.
Smithson is looking for projects that are deeply considered, made over time, and link the personal to the universal. Happy to consider projects in process. Not interested in nudes or commercial photography.
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Diane Smyth, Editor, British Journal of Photography and Photoworks Annual
Diane Smyth is Editor of the British Journal of Photography and the Photoworks Annual. She also teaches History and Theory of Photography at the London College of Communications, University of the Arts London, and has given talks and workshops for institutions such as London School of Economics, King’s College London, and Magnum Photos. Diane has written about photography for publications such as The Guardian, FOAM, Trigger, Apollo, and The Art Newspaper, and contributed essays to many photography catalogues and monographs. She holds a BA in English Language and Literature at the University of Birmingham, and an MA in Modern Literatures in English from Birkbeck College, University of London @dismy .
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Elin Spring, Founder and Editor, What Will You Remember?
Elin Spring is Founder & Editor of the online photography review magazine, What Will You Remember? and a contributing writer to magazines, exhibition catalogs and photography books. She serves as juror for photography competitions such as Critical Mass and The FENCE, curates exhibits, teaches writing workshops and conducts portfolio reviews at national photography festivals, highlighting newly discovered work online. In 2014, her photography writing was recognized with the Scribe FOCUS Award from the Griffin Museum of Photography. Before concentrating full-time on WWYR?, for over two decades she specialized in professional portraiture in and around Boston. Elin earned her bachelor’s degree from Brown University and Ph.D. in Neuroscience from University of Pennsylvania.
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L. Mikelle Standbridge, Founder and Curator of Casa Regis – Center for Culture and Contemporary Art, Italy.
L. Mikelle Standbridge, based outside of Milan, is founder and artistic director of Casa Regis – Center for Culture and Contemporary Art in Northern Italy, and part of a new trend – Arts in Rural European Areas – as well as being a satellite location for New European Bauhaus (European Union) events. Standbridge has been curating exhibitions and running artist residencies in this 17th C. ex monastery since 2019, and in parallel has developed partnerships with exhibition spaces in China, L.A., Milan, and Paris, curating itinerant shows in each of these venues. Standbridge has a B.A. in Interdisciplinary and Experimental Art with an emphasis in Photography from San Francisco State University and a M.F.A in Photography from University of Chicago. She is represented by the Gli Eroici Furori gallery in Milan, and was just recently selected as a finalist for the Academic Photography section of the Lishui International Photography Festival in China. Standbridge promotes installation based, conceptual, experimental, cross-disciplinary and all contemporary approaches to Photography.
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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.
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Lisa Woodward, Co-Curator, Pictura Gallery, Bloomington, IN
Lisa Woodward is co-curator for Pictura Gallery, a non-profit contemporary photography space housed in the FAR Center for Contemporary Arts, in Bloomington, IN. With 16 years at Pictura, she has produced a wide range of exhibitions and written works on photography, while advising artists through different phases of their careers. Lisa and her colleague Mia Dalglish jury competitions and serve as portfolio reviewers for international conferences and festivals such as Review Santa Fe, Filter, Fotofest, and Les Rencontres d’Arles. Lisa would like to see: a balance of aesthetic and conceptual concerns, emotionally meaningful work with well-considered ideas, excellent craft and expert use of materials. Of lesser interest: still life projects of personal artifacts from the past, nudes, AI generated imagery, or strictly commercial work. The gallery is open to projects with the capacity to push past the boundaries of the frame and into broader installations or sculptural forms. Pictura looks for opportunities to pair its photography shows with other creative mediums for some unexpected collaborations with
poets, chefs, dancers, musicians, etc.
Lisa can offer critique and feedback to strengthen work aesthetically and conceptually, or sort a new edit for consideration and help talk through ideas for display. Projects do not need to be completed to be considered but must show a high degree of thought and cohesion. Reviewees are welcome to bring any specific questions or goals to their session.
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Alice Sachs Zimet, President, Arts + Business Partners
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