AM sessions will run 8:30-12:30 PST and PM sessions will run 12:30-5:30PM PST on Sep. 30, Oct. 1 & 2.
Jamie Allen, Curator & Head, Department of Photography, George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
Jamie M. Allen is the Stephen B. and Janice G. Ashley Curator and Head of the Department of Photography at the George Eastman Museum, where she has worked for over 18 years. Allen has curated exhibitions such as Ahndraya Parlato: TIME TO KILL (2026), Zig Jackson: The Journey of Rising Buffalo (2025), Adam Ekberg: Minor Spectacles (2023), Anastasia Samoylova: FloodZone (2022), Jess Dugan: To Survive on this Shore (2022), Bea Nettles: Harvest of Memory (2019–21), Nathan Lyons: In Pursuit of Magic (2019), #LarsonShindelman #Mobilize (2019); Photography and America’s National Parks (2016), and In the Garden (2015). Her books include Bea Nettles: Harvest of Memory (University of Texas Press, 2019), Nathan Lyons: In Pursuit of Magic (University of Texas Press, 2019), The Photographer in the Garden (Aperture, 2018), Picturing America’s National Parks (Aperture, 2016), and the essay “From Vision to Reality: A Transition from Pictorialism to Modernism” in Imogen Cunningham (TF Editores/D.A.P, 2012/2013).
Reviewing days, Thursday – AM
Tim Anderson, Educator & Publisher/Editor of Shadow & Light Magazine and The Journal
Tim Anderson is the publisher/managing editor of Shadow & Light Magazine, a PDF/print photography publication and The Journal, an international photo-based e-mail newsletter, read in more than 128 countries and by more than 5,000 readers and subscribers. Shadow & Light Magazine has recently entered its 12th year. Anderson has been a professional photographer for more than 50 years and has reviewed photography portfolios for a wide variety of organizations, including Photo Lucida, Review Santa Fe, Los Angeles Center of Photography, Review LA, Enchanted Lens Camera Club, Center for Fine Art Photography, etc.
Reviewing days, All days – PM
Regina Anzeberger, Director, Anzeberger Gallery, Vienna
Regina Maria Anzeberger is an artist, curator, founder and director of the Anzenberger Agency and Gallery; Director of the Vienna Photo Book Festival 2013-2017 and Curator of the Foto Wien BOOK DAYS 2023 and 2025. She is also a corresponding member of the German Photographic Association. Anzeberger was born in Vienna and raised in Pressbaum, Lower Austria. She has been painting and photographing since age 13 and has had numerous exhibitions and published many books.
The Anzenberger Gallery was founded in 2002 and is one of the major photography galleries in Vienna. In the showrooms in Vienna, the Anzenberger Gallery shows largely unseen young or established international artists over three exhibition cycles per year. The Anzenberger Gallery is offering high-quality contemporary, vintage black & white and color fine art prints and photography based mixed media works.
Reviewing days, Wednesday & Thursday – AM
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, and photojournalism.
Reviewing Days, Thursday and Friday – 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, Wednesday – AM, Thursday & Friday – PM
Amanda Boe, Contributing Photo Editor, The New York Times
Amanda Boe is a photographer and photo editor based in Brooklyn, New York. She is a contributing photo editor at The New York Times where she works on Culture stories, features, and special projects. She also managed photo research and licensing for The 1619 Project: A Visual Experience (2024) by Nikole Hannah-Jones and The New York Times Magazine.
Boe’s work is centered around personal narratives, drawing on the poetry of the everyday. She is a recipient of the 2017 Aaron Siskind Foundation Individual Photographer’s Fellowship, and she has exhibited her work in exhibitions across the United States and Europe. Her photographs have been published in Begin Anywhere: Paths of Mentorship and Collaboration (2017), along with various print and online features.
She looks forward to seeing editorial work (portraits, documentary, and photo essays) as well as personal projects.
Reviewing days, All days – AM
Dimitri Bogachuk, 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.
Reviewing days, Thursday & Friday – AM
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.
Reviewing days, Wednesday & Thursday – All day
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).
Reviewing days, Thursday & Friday – AM
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.
Reviewing days, All days – PM
Debra Klomp Ching, Co-Owner, Klompching Gallery, NYC
Debra Klomp Ching is the co-owner of the Klompching Gallery in New York. Mrs. Ching can provide feedback on overall aesthetics, concept etc. of fine art photographs, as well as tangible insight regarding fine art market readiness.
Reviewing days, Wednesday – AM
Paris Chong, Gallery Director, Leica Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Paris Chong is the Gallery Director and Curator at the prestigious Leica Gallery Los Angeles. With over two decades of experience as a Curator she has represented galleries and artists at events including Photo LA, Photo SF, Paris Photo, Paris Photo LA and The Palm Springs Photo Festival in addition to promoting Leica Gallery LA in international shows such as Art Basel and Photo Paris. Ms. Chong has also served as a respected and sought-after juror and portfolio reviewer for The International Photography Awards (IPA, Lucies), Recontres d’ Arles, FotoFest, refocus Awards, Critical Mass, Paris International Street Photography Awards (PISPA). Rome Photo Lab, NEPR with the Griffin Museum, Leica Women Photo Project, LACP, ASMP, Photo Lucida and the ongoing Meet the Curator portfolio reviews for Leica Akademie US.
With her extensive involvement in the art community, Ms. Chong’s responsibilities over many years have also seen her coordinating both intimate and large-scale group events at Leica’s flagship store in West Hollywood. Celebrated artists range from the legendary Henri Cartier Bresson and Sebastiao Salgado to contemporary powerhouse names such as Neal Preston, Julian Lennon, Lenny Kravitz, Nikki Sixx, Jim Marshall, Mary Ellen Mark and Ralph Gibson to name a few.
She is also a pioneer in the Pop-Up arena with successful events both locally and in other destinations including The Gansevoort Hotel, NYC, Las Vegas, Napa Valley and Palm Springs.
Ms. Chong has also found time to give back to the community on multiple levels such as serving as a Board Member for The West Hollywood Design District (WHDD) and The Foundation for The AIDS Monument (FAM), a non-profit formed to secure funding for a memorial monument in West Hollywood unveiled last year.
Further to her philanthropic side, Ms. Chong also curates still life photography showings for The American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) at its historic Hollywood headquarters.
Miss Chong is also a podcast host on The Paris Chong Show @pchoshow where she sits down to chat with her artistic friends.
Reviewing days, Wednesday & Thursday – 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, All days – AM
Claudio Composti, Founder/Artistic Director mc2gallery, Consultant & Art Advisor, Milan, Italy
Claudio Composti is an independent curator and art advisor with nearly thirty years of experience in contemporary art and photography. Founder of mc2gallery in Milan, he has developed a curatorial practice that brings together artistic research, cultural vision, and an in-depth understanding of market dynamics, working with galleries, museums, and international collectors. Since 2018, he has worked as a consultant for private and corporate collections, supporting companies and foundations in the development of high-profile cultural and heritage projects.
He is regularly invited as a folio reviewer and talent scout at major international events such as Les Rencontres de la Photographie d’Arles and Face à la Mer, and has served as Course Leader of the Master in Photography at Raffles Milan.
He is Artistic Director of the permanent photography gallery at the Plaza e de Russie hotel in Viareggio, where he curates collections and residency programmes, and of the Premio Irinox Save The Food for MIA Photo Fair Milan. His recent projects include exhibitions by Quayola at the M7 Museum in Doha, Céline Croze at the PAC in Milan, Cabaret Vienna. Archivio Manassè at the MART in Rovereto, and Mario Dondero. Inediti at the Forte di Bard in Aosta Valley. He is also Artistic Director of the M.A.P. project for Modulnova and curatorial consultant for Frassinago, a leading landscape design company.
Reviewing days, All days – AM
Mia Daghlish, Co-Curator, Pictura Gallery, Bloomington, IN
Mia Dalglish is co-curator for Pictura Gallery, a non-profit contemporary photography space housed in the FAR Center for Contemporary Arts, in Bloomington, IN. With 15 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. Mia and her colleague Lisa Woodward jury competitions and serve as portfolio reviewers for international conferences and festivals such as Review Santa Fe, Filter, Fotofest, Life Framer, Critical Mass and Les Rencontres d’Arles.
Mia would like to see: a balance of aesthetic and conceptual concerns, emotionally meaningful work with well-considered ideas, and excellent craft and expert use of materials. Of lesser interest: AI generated imagery, or strictly commercial work.
Mia 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.
Reviewing days, Thursday & Friday – AM
Jennifer DeCarlo, jdc Fine art, San Diego, CA
Jennifer DeCarlo has a strong connection to the photographic field through her work and education. DeCarlo established jdc Fine Art in 2011 in San Diego, CA As a platform to champion content-driven contemporary artists, specializing in photography. After maintaining a physical space and regular shows for a over a decade, she now works as a private dealer, is a member of AIPAD (Association of International Photography Art Dealers), and exhibits at their Photo Show in NYC each spring. Prior to launching her own gallery DeCarlo worked as Writer for AIPAD, Assistant Director for Schneider Gallery, and earned her MFA from UW-Madison and BFA from Knox College in Studio Art and French. Her review style bridges fine art training and a dealer’s eye. She prefers to shape feedback in accordance with Artist’s goals and enjoys understanding the psychology driving the Artist. She is comfortable addressing established work, unrefined projects, sparking inspiration/braking artist’s block, or giving feedback on artist statements/essential documents (CV), website presence, and outreach strategies. She most enjoys narrative figurative work that anchor to art historical traditions or contemplate contemporary issues. She is more interested in sharing ideas and cultivating relationships than seeking new talent for flash-in the pan opportunities.
Reviewing days, Wednesday & Thursday – PM
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.
Reviewing days, Wednesday – PM
Crista Dix, Executive Director at the Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA
Crista Dix is the Executive Director of the Griffin Museum of Photography, where she has led a period of institutional growth since assuming the role in 2022, following two years as Associate Director. Under her leadership, the museum has broadened its exhibition model beyond the traditional gallery framework, producing nearly fifty exhibitions annually across its Winchester campus and satellite spaces throughout New England while advancing ambitious initiatives in public art, artist residencies, educational programming, and community engagement.
A curator, writer, and administrator for contemporary photographic practices, Ms. Dix is particularly interested in work that challenges the conventional boundaries of the medium through installation, moving image, sound, and interdisciplinary collaboration. Her curatorial approach emphasizes photography as an experiential and socially engaged form, creating opportunities for artists to activate spaces both within and beyond museum walls. In 2024, she helped launch new residency programs, scholarship opportunities, and public-facing initiatives designed to deepen access to photographic arts and strengthen connections between artists and audiences.
Prior to joining the Griffin Museum in 2020, Dix spent more than fifteen years was the founder and director of Wall Space Creative, a photography gallery and project space known for its support of emerging and established lens-based artists. She has been a guest curator for exhibitions, written and contributed essays on photography and visual culture, served as a juror and portfolio reviewer for national organizations and festivals, and participated in panels and critical dialogues surrounding contemporary image-making.
Dix remains committed to fostering experimental and evolving photographic practices and welcomes conversations around works in progress, conceptual development, and projects that extend photography into immersive, public, and cross-disciplinary forms.
Reviewing days, Thursday & Friday – AM
Chandra Glick, Photo Director at Artforum magazine, New York
Chandra Glick is Photo Director at Artforum, where she has shaped the magazine’s visual identity for over a decade. She is also Faculty at the International Center of Photography. Chandra holds an MFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts and an AB in Visual Art from Brown University. She began her publishing career working as a Photo Researcher at VISIONAIRE and in the photo department at Details magazine (Condé Nast), experiences that gave her a grounding in both experimental art publishing and high-volume editorial production. As an educator and curator, Chandra has taught at Rutgers University, the School of Visual Arts, Phillips Exeter Academy, and the Maine Photographic Workshops, and has lectured at Hunter College, SVA, and the Fashion Institute of Technology. She juried Halide Project’s (Philadelphia) first annual call-for-entry exhibition “Living Image.” Her writing and interviews have been published in Artforum, Artforum.com, and Bookforum. Chandra is particularly drawn to experimental approaches to photography and conceptually driven projects.
Reviewing days, Friday – AM
Max Gorbatskyi, Head of Exhibitions, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, UK
Max Gorbatskyi is the Head of Exhibitions at Open Eye Gallery in Liverpool, UK. He was a curator of Ukrainian National Pavilion at the 60th Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia (2024), the HOME programme for EuroFestival/Eurovision 2023 in Liverpool City Region, as well as exhibitions at BredaPhoto Festival, Stills Centre for Photography in Edinburgh and UK Parliament in London.
Previously, Gorbatskyi was a curator at Mystetskyi Arsenal in Kyiv, Ukraine.
He is an Academy member of the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize, was a jury member for the British Journal of Photography’s Portrait of Humanity award, and selector for the Royal Photographic Society International Exhibition. He holds an MA in the History of Photography from Birkbeck College, University of London, and an MA in Cultural Management from the University of Bologna.
Max is open to seeing all types of work.
Reviewing days, Thursday & Friday – AM
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, realism, and speculation. 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 and the Photographers’ Gallery. His words have featured in the British Journal of Photography, Elephant Magazine, Galerie Peter Sillem, The Photographers’ Gallery, V&A, and South London Gallery, among others. He is particularly interested in documentary practices, narrative control, and critical fabulation.
Reviewing days, Wednesday & Thursday – AM
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.
Reviewing days, Wednesday – AM
Zoe Lemelson, Founder, Luhz Press, Los Angeles, CA
Zoe Lemelson is a book designer, visual artist, and the founder of Luhz Press, an independent art book publisher with a focus on photography and photo-based work. Prior to launching Luhz Press, she worked across arts and publishing in Los Angeles, notably at the LA-based publisher Inventory Press and, prior, at ROSEGALLERY, a contemporary photography gallery in Santa Monica. She is a current MFA Candidate in Image Text at Cornell University.
As a book design studio, Luhz Press works in close collaboration with artists to produce books that promote playfulness and explore image-making through print. From idea to edit and design to print, the press oversees all stages of production to ensure a book’s material presence resonates with its imagery.
Reviewing days, Wednesday & Thursday – PM
Shana Lopes, Assistant Curator of Photography, SFMOMA
Shana Lopes, PhD, is an Assistant Curator of Photography at SFMOMA. Born and raised in San Francisco, she has curated or co-curated exhibitions such as Constellations: Photographs in Dialogue, Sightlines: Photographs from the Collection, A Living for Us All: Artists and the WPA, Zanele Muholi: Eye Me, The SECA 2024 Art Award, People Make This Place: SFAI Stories, and Alejandro Cartagena: Ground Rules. Over the past sixteen years, she has gained curatorial experience at the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, Arizona, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Reviewing days, Friday – PM
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.
Reviewing days, Friday – AM
Yiwei 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.
Reviewing days, Wednesday & Thursday – PM
Caleb Cain Markus, Publication Design Director, Workshop Arts and Luminosity Lab, NYC
Caleb Cain Marcus is the creative director of Luminosity Lab, where he transforms cultural ideas into books that define legacies.
He partners with museums, publishers, curators, and artists to develop creative strategies that translate their ideas, scholarship and exhibitions into lasting publications that build reputation and cultural significance.
Notable projects include Carrie Mae Weems: Varying Shades of Brown for Brown University, hailedas “a sculptural object—proving that books still push boundaries in a screen-dominated era” by Cent Magazine; along with Taking Care: Black Angels of Sea View Hospital for the Staten Island Museum and New York Home: Now for the Museum of the City of New York.
His design excellence and innovation has been recognized by the Art Directors Club AIGA, Red Dot Design Award, Communication Arts and Tokyo Type Directors Club.
Reviewing days, Thursday & Friday – AM
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.
Reviewing days, Wednesday & Thursday – AM
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
Reviewing days, Wednesday – AM
Lilian Michel, Curatorial Assistant, Photography, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Lillian Michel is Curatorial Assistant for the photography department at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. She earned an MA in Art History from the University of Houston and has previously held positions at the Dallas Museum of Art and Blanton Museum of Art in Austin. Lillian is particularly interested in seeing work by student and emerging photographers as well as photographers looking for feedback on work in progress or assistance with articulating artist/project statements. She would prefer not to review any nude photography. Please be aware Lillian cannot consider acquisitions or exhibitions for the MFAH as a result of reviews during Exposure 2026.
Reviewing days, Thursday & Friday – PM
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.
Reviewing days, Wednesday & Friday – AM
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.
Reviewing days, Thursday & Friday – PM
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.
Reviewing days, Wednesday & Friday – AM
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.
Reviewing days, All days – AM
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” appeared 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, Wednesday & Thursday – AM, Friday – PM
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.
Reviewing days, Friday – AM
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.
Reviewing days, All days – PM
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 .
Reviewing days, Wednesday – AM
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.
Reviewing days, All days – AM
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.
Reviewing days, Thursday & Friday – AM
Mary Statzer, Curator of Prints & Photographs, University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM
Mary Statzer is Senior Curator at University of New Mexico Art Museum, where the collection includes over 13,000 photographs covering the history of the medium. She organizes exhibitions ranging in size, scope, and medium. These include photography exhibitions that focus on women and LGBTQ+ issues (Rachel Cox, Jess T. Dugan, jessamyn lovell, and Anne Noggle). Recently, Mary has focused on innovating collaborative curatorial strategies, amplifying student/diverse voices, and fostering meaningful campus engagement.
Mary holds an MFA in printmaking from Arizona State University and PhD in art history with specialties in the history of photography and museum studies from University of Arizona. She edited the book, The Photographic Object 1970 (University of California Press, 2016).
Mary is open to seeing a range of work but is particularly interested in discussing how photographers can pitch developed bodies of work as acquisitions and exhibitions with ample opportunities for programs and other forms of engagement.
Reviewing days, Friday – AM
Kristin Taylor, Curator of Exhibitions and Public Engagement, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
Kristin Taylor is the Curator of Exhibitions and Public Engagement at the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago. Notable exhibitions she has organized include Collaboration: A Potential History of Photography in Dialogue with the MoCP Collection (co-curated with Wendy Ewald, Susan Meiselas, and Laura Wexler) and Reproductive: Health, Fertility, Agency (co-curated with Karen Irvine), and a Tonika Lewis Johnson solo exhibition in 2027. Beyond MoCP, she has organized exhibitions at Perspectives Gallery and Riverside Arts Center, and her writing has appeared in Panorama: Journal of the Association of Art Historians. Kristin teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She holds a BFA in painting from the Kansas City Art Institute and an MA in arts management from Columbia College Chicago.
Reviewing days, Thursday – 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. She is currently working for the Modern collections department of the Centre Pompidou and is involved in the essential curation of the museum and the organization of exhibitions. Thibodot has collaborated on 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, All days – AM
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.
Reviewing days, Wednesday & Friday – AM
Alice Sachs Zimet, President, Arts + Business Partners
Alice Sachs Zimet is President, Arts + Business Partners, a consultancy she founded in 1999 to advise collectors and photographers about the fine art photography marketplace. As a collector, advisor, and educator, Alice began to collect fine art photography in 1985 and has amassed a museum-quality collecton of roughly 350 images by nearly 150 different photographers — from 20th – 21st Century masters (Carter-Bresson, Berenice Abbot, Elliot Erwit, Robert Mapplethorpe) to the present (Cindy Sherman, Andres Serrano, Zanele Muholi).
As an educator for the last 15+ years, Alice offers workshops for collectors at all levels on how to buy photography and for photographers, how to better access the market. She teaches for the ICP School, Maine Media College + Workshops, Houston Center of Photography, Swann Auction Galleries, Colorado Photographic Art Center (CPAC) and, most recently, Sotheby’s Instiute (among others).
Zimet pioneered the field of corporate sponsorship as Director, Worldwide Cultural Affairs, The Chase Manhattan Bank (20 years) where she used the arts as a strategic marketng tool across 14 countries and 20 US cites, generatng $2 billion in new business for the bank.
Alice holds Bachelor and Master of Arts degrees in Art History, began her career at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and contnues to live, work and collect in New York City. In 2024, Alice received the APAG Distinguished Service Award for her contributions in the field of fine art photography.
Zimet has been featured in over 20 articles including Admical, American Photo Magazine, Art + Auction, Bazaar, Business Mexico (Mexico), Crain’s New York Business, Exibart (Italy), Florida Trend, Forbes, IEG Sponsorship Report, Inside Philanthropy, Intelligent Collector, Journal of Financial Advertising & Marketing, L’Evenementel (France), New York Magazine, New York Observer, The New York Times, Photo District News, Private Air, Revue Banque (France), The Photograph Collector, and The Wall Street Journal.
Reviewing days, Wednesday & Friday – AM