Hamburg Portfolio Review

Reviewers HPR 2022

More reviewers will be added in the coming weeks.

Adrian Evans — Panos Pictures

Adrian Evans is based in London, UK and the director of Panos Pictures. He worked as a freelance graphic designer for three years after college before moving into photography at the Hutchison archive. In 1990 he joined Panos Pictures as Archive Director, buying a controlling stake in the agency in 1997. Under his direction Panos Pictures has become the pre-eminent photo agency for concerned photojournalism. Evans has also judged numerous photo competitions including the World Press Photo Award, the China International Press Photo Contest and Russia Press Photo. He has acted as a consultant on visual communications to a number of NGOs and has lectured on the subject at London College of Communications, University of Westminster and London School of Economics.

Alessia Glaviano — Vogue Italia

Alessia Glaviano is based in Milan, Italy and the brand visual director of Vogue Italia and director of the Photo Vogue Festival. In 2011 she launched Photo Vogue, an innovative platform on which users can share their own photographs knowing they can rely on the curatorial supervision of professional photo editors. Besides the editorial activity, Glaviano holds lectures and conferences, e.g. at the University of Brighton, Central Saint Martins, IED, Bocconi University and the Milan Polytechnic. She was a jury member in numerous internationally photo awards, including the World Press Photo Award and the Festival International de Mode et de Photographie à Hyères; and has participated in several portfolio review sessions, including the “New York Times Portfolio Reviews”.

Amélie Schneider — DIE ZEIT

Amélie Schneider is based in Hamburg and the Director of Photography at the ZEIT, the biggest weekly newspaper in Germany. She has worked at several German print magazines, among them titles such as GEO, Nido and Neon. She holds a BFA in Visual Comm-unication from ABKM Maastricht Academy of Fine Arts,The Netherlands, and is a jury member of several international awards.

Andreas Trampe – stern magazine

Andreas Trampe is based in Hamburg, Germany and has a long photographic history. Starting his career as a photo trainee, he went on to work as a freelance photojournalist for German daily newspapers and magazines including Bunte and Bild am Sonntag. In 1996, Andreas started working at Stern Magazine. He was first assigned Deputy of the Picture Desk before becoming the Director of Photography for nineteen years. Since February 2019, he has been Senior Picture Editor for the magazine. He is one of the founders of the Hamburg Portfolio Review.

Arianna Rinaldo — PhEST

Arianna Rinaldo is a Barcelona, Spain based freelance professional working with photography at a wide range. Since 2012 she is the artistic director of Cortona On The Move, the international festival of visual narrative in Italy. Rinaldo is also curator of photography for PhEST, a festival on contemporary photography and art focused on the Mediterranean. Rinaldo was archive director at Magnum Photos, NY; then picture editor for Colors Magazine in Italy and worked as photo consultant for various publications. For 7 years she was the director of OjodePez, the documentary photo magazine published in Spain. She is a regular participant in portfolio reviews and jury panels worldwide, as well as speaker and mentor. 

Armin Smailovic — Focus Agency

Armin Smailovic is a Munich, Germany and Sarajevo, Bosnia based photographer, curator and lecturer. His documentary work is involved in post-conflict societies and political issues. He co-directed two theatre plays based on his documentary projects, at the prestigious Thalia Theater in Hamburg. Smailovic`s works were awarded at several awards, e.g. the Hansel Mieth Award, including the Grand Prix in 2014, the Award of the City of Munich for outstanding photographic accomplishments, the LEAD AWARD and the 09. Marler Media Award for Human Rights 2016. Smailovic is a founding member and curator of the „Fotodoks“ Festival for Documentary Photography in. From April 2017 until February 2019 he lectured documentary photography at the Fachhochschule Bielefeld. In 2020 he became a founding member of Agentur Focus – Die Fotograf*innen.

Ashfika Rahman — Pathshala South Asian Media Institute/ MAPS images agency

Ashfika Rahman is based in Dhaka, BD. She is a visual artist, teacher and art initiator. Her practice straddles art and documentary. In each of her works, she tries to challenge the mainstream perspective on complex systemic social issues in the periphery of her home country and raise awareness globally about these alarming threats to humanity.
Rahman has exhibited in festivals and museums internationally including Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR; Triennial of Photography Hamburg; Dhaka Art Summit, BD; Lumix Festival, DE; Chobi Mela X, BD; Jimei x Arles photo festival, CN; FORMAT Festival, UK; Alserkal Avenue, UAE; Photo 2022, AUS. She had a solo show at the Vitrine Gallery, CH and the Drik Gallery, BD. Ashfika holds lectures and conferences, e.g. at the Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst; FHNW - University of Applied Sciences Northwestern, Switzerland; Institut Kunst Gender Natur (IAGN), Switzerland and the Hochschule Hannover - University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Germany. She participated in several portfolio review sessions, including the Tbilisi Photo Festival and the Triennial of Photography Hamburg.
In 2018 she received the Joop Swart Master Class by World Press Photo Foundation. She joined as a teacher at Pathshala South Asian Media Institute, BD and is a member of the MAPS images agency. She is the artistic partner of The European Union National Institutes for Culture (EUNIC), Bangladesh.

Barbara Stauss — Studio Stauss & DEJAVU e.V.

Barbara Stauss is running the Berlin-based Studio Stauss where she and her team work as photo editors and visual directors for books, various publications and exhibitions. She was one of the founding members of MARE magazine and has been the magazine’s photo director for 25 years (until March 2022). Since 2009 Stauss has also been project manager of the annual photo book published by the German section of Reporters without Borders (RSF). She is a board member of the non-profit DEJAVU society for photography and perception, which publishes re-vue.org, a digital magazine, which tries to look beyond and to describe in words how we see, create and perceive photographs. Stauss is an appointed member of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Photographie (DGPh).

Bertan Selim — Prince Claus Fund

Bertan Selim is an Amsterdam based editor, curator and consultant in the arts, specia-lized in international grant-making in visual arts and photography. His work has centered on mentorship prog-rammes in the Middle East and the Balkans. In 2014 he helped set up the Arab Documentary Photography Programme (ADPP). And since 2017 he regularly lectures at the photo-graphy department of the Royal Academy of Visual Arts in The Hague (KABK). Bertan currently works as Head of Programmes at the Prince Claus Fund in Amsterdam and currently mentors about 12 artists from non-Western countries; add-itionally. In 2020 Bertan founded the VID Foundation for Photography to support photo-graphy in the Balkan region. Bertan is board member of the Amsterdam Fund for the Arts.

Bongani Isaac Mahlangu — Market Photo Workshop

Isaac Bongani Mahlangu is a South African born researcher, visual artist, Creative Industries administrator and facilitator currently studying towards a PhD at the University of the Witwatersrand. His PhD research is titled “the role of craft-hubs and post-school education in SME development: a focus on South Africa’s mohair industry”. In particular, the research is interested in and looks at the nature of the interactions/interface between government and academia from the context of knowledge production and skills development for industry as well as the development of SMEs value-adding mohair by producing intermediate and end user textile and clothing products.
Furthermore, Mr Mahlangu is an alumnus of the African Programme on Rethinking Development Economics (APORDE) class of 2010, a recipient of the NIHSS-SAHUDA PhD scholarship 2021, FP&MSETA scholarship 2016 and Crucial Learning facilitator for Vital Smarts America through the Human Edge which is a South African subsidiary of the programme. Since 2018, Mr Mahlangu serves on the National Department of Sport, Arts and Culture’s Craft Strategy Advisory Committee tasked with the responsibility of driving the South African national craft strategy.

Celina Lunsford — Fotografie Forum Frankfurt

Celina Lunsford is based in Frankfurt, Germany and has been responsible for the exhibition and academy program of the Fotografie Forum Frankfurt. She is a founder and curator of the RAY Triennale for Inter-national Photography, Frankfurt. Lunsford curated the Photography Festival Lodz and the Lianzhou International Photography Festival. She has mentored the Joop Swart Masterclass as well as the ASEF Forum for Photographers in Cork and Dublin. She is a mentor and curator for the Olympus Recommended Fellowship.

Christoph Bangert — Hanover University of Applied Sciences and Arts

Christoph Bangert works as a photographer, author and educator. He studied photojournalism and documentary photography at the International Center of Photography in New York. On assignment for the New York Times, he documented the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq from 2005 to 2013. He is the author of several books, including War Porn (Kehrer 2014), Rumors of War (Kehrer 2021) and The Fotobus Manual (Eigensinn 2022). Bangert is the founder of the Fotobus Society, one of the largest non-profit photography student projects worldwide. Currently, Bangert is a professor of photography at the Hanover University of Applied Sciences and Arts.

Claudia Hinterseer — South China Morning Post

Claudia Hinterseer is senior video producer at the award-winning South China Morning Post in Hong Kong. Before she worked as managing multimedia producer at China Daily Asia. Prior to pivoting from photography to video, she was photo editor at Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad. In 2007, she founded NOOR photo agency and served as its MD for seven years. Earlier in her career she set up photojournalistic educational programs around the globe for World Press Photo. She obtained an MA in Visual Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam.

Daniel Tchetchik — Haaretz

Daniel Tchetchik is a staff photographer and the founder/chief editor of the photography blog at Haaretz Newspaper He has displayed his personal works in prominent museums and galleries in Israel as well as on international stages in several destinations across the world. His recent large scale project Dark Waters was displayed last year at the Museum for Sepulkralkultur and published by Kehrer Verlag. Tchetchik’s works are part of the collections of The Museum of Tel Aviv, The Museum of Ramat Gan, The Peter Blum Gallery, The Umm El Fahem Gallery, Museum for Sepulkralkultur, The Marc Rich Foundation, The French Institute as well as several private collections. Tchetchik divides his time between local and international personal projects and documentary assignments, many times each approach provides inspiration for the other. His work has been featured on platforms of the The Financial Times, The Süddeutsche Zeitung, The New Yorker, Frankfurter Allgemeine, Haaretz Newspaper and more.

Demet Yildiz — Instanbul Museum of Modern Art

Demet Yıldız is based in Istanbul, Turkey and the photography department manager at the Istanbul Museum of Modern Art. She taught several courses on modern art at the Sabancı University and continued her career in contemporary art at the Istanbul Biennial before taking up her current position at Istanbul Modern in 2015. In addition to curating photography exhibitions, Yıldız contributes to various publications and holds jury membership and nominator positions at various international photography festivals and events.

Dudley Brooks — Washington Post

Dudley M. Brooks is based in Washington D.C, US and the deputy director of photography for The Washington Post. He is also the photo editor for The Washington Post Magazine. Proceeding this, Brooks was the director of photography and senior photo editor for the monthly magazine Ebony and its weekly sister periodical Jet - both published by Johnson Publishing Company in Chicago. These iconic publications chronicled the African American experience for over seven decades. In addition to his primary responsibilities at the Post, he is also a award winning photographer and a co-founder of The Obsidian Project – an organization committed to promoting culturally diverse points-of-view within the visual industry.

Edda Fahrenhorst — Horizonte Zingst

Edda Fahrenhorst lives and works in Hamburg. Since 2010 she has been co-owner and managing director of the agency Fotogloria | Büro für fotografische Zusammenarbeit. Since the summer of 2020, she has also been the curator of the environmental photography festival "horizonte zingst" and the expanded year-round exhibition program in Zingst. Edda is also one of the active members of the "Freundeskreis des Hauses der Photographie" in Hamburg and always works on at least two freelance projects at the same time, currently on the series #FacesOfPhotography and "6.0 - Wir zeigen Zukunft".

Fiona Shields — The Guardian

Fiona Shields is based in London, UK and head of photography for the Guardian News and Media Group. She has over twenty years‘ picture editing experience across a range of newspaper titles. Including ten years as a picture editor of the Guardian. Shields has been involved in the coverage of some of the most historic news stories of our time including the events surrounding 9/11, global conflicts, natural disasters, the humanitarian crises resulting from the growing refugee numbers across the world and now the global pandemic. She has joined the jury for World Press Photo, the Sony World Photography Awards, The Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize and is a regular nominator for the prestigious Prix Pictet Prize.

Gilles Steinmann — Neue Zürcher Zeitung

Gilles Steinmann is the Director of Photography for the daily newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ) in Switzerland. He has been a photo editor for over 16 years, worked for various major Swiss publications and has been involved in the coverage of some of the most historic global news stories. One of his other main tasks at the newspaper is in developing new ways of storytelling both in print and online to bring indepth visual reporting to his readership. From 2017 until 2020 he published over 150 photo-essays in print and online as a "Foto Tableau" giving photographers an platform to tell their stories. Gilles has been a jury member for national and international photo contests such as the Lumix Festival for Photojournalism in Hanover, Germany.

Giulietta Palumbo — Magnum Photos

Giulietta Palumbo is based in Paris, France and the content editor and editorial production manager at Magnum Photos. After studying photography and anthropology in Italy, in 2013 she joined Magnum Photos in Paris, where she started working in the Digital Department on image post-production, archive management and images distribution. She is now coordinating the Editorial Productions of Magnum Photos, assisting photographers in developing their stories and liaison with major clients and publishers as a Content editor.

Heike Ollertz — Focus Agency/UE Professor

Prof. Heike Ollertz is a Hamburg, Germany based photographer, professor of photography and dean of the faculty Art & Design at the University of Europe for Applied Sciences. She worked for a wide variety of magazines, e.g. Mare, GEO, National Geographic, Stern, der Spiegel and more. In 2019 Ollertz became an appointed member of the German Photographic Society DGPH. In 2020 she became a founding member of Agentur Focus – Die Fotograf*innen. Heike Ollertz is one of the founders of the Hamburg Portfolio Review.

Hideko Kataoka — Newsweek Japan

Hideko Kataoka is based in Tokyo, Japan. She has been director of photography at Newsweek Japan since 2001. In 2004, She launched the Picture Power section in the magazine, a weekly photo essay that captures underreported topics around the world. Published for the last 17 years, Picture Power continues to provide a printed showcase for contemporary photograp-hers’ work. Hideko is a lecturer at Tokyo Polytechnic University, serves as a member of the external review committee at Tokyo Photographic Art Museum and as a juror at international photography festivals and competitions, e.g. World Press Photo.

Ian Landsberg — African News Agency (ANA)

Ian Landsberg is the head of photography of the African News Agency (ANA) and the joint Picture Editor of two of South Africa's oldest newspapers, Cape Argus and Cape Times, since 2007 (and Head of Photography for African News Agency (ANA). He manages and mentors a national team of 20 award-winning photographers and curators across South Africa . A veteran of news, reportage, event and sports photography. He frequently participates in photojournalism talks and lectures, curate photo exhibitions and adjudicating competitions, including international photo competitions such as the Andrei Stenin International Photo Contest.

James Estrin — New York Times

James Estrin is based in New York, USA and a New York Times staff photographer and writer. He was a founder and co-editor of Lens, The New York Times photography blog. Estrin was part of a team that won a 2001 Pulitzer Prize for “How Race Is Lived In America." He is also the co-executive producer of the documentary film "Underfire: The Untold Story of Pfc. Tony Vaccaro" which appeared on HBO in November 2016. Estrin is also an adjunct professor at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York.

Jenny Smets — Docs + Tales

Jenny Smets is an art-historian, specialising in contemporary photography based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. She works both in art and media as a curator, photo editor and consultant on contemporary photography. Jenny hosts international workshops and masterclasses, is editor of photobooks and visual stories and writes on photography. She worked amongst others for clients as the Dutch magazine Vrij Nederland (director of photography) , Stedelijk Museum Breda, Fotodok-space for photography in Utrecht (curator), World Press Photo, and the KABK art academie based in The Hague. Jenny’s company is called Docs+Tales.

Jury HPR 2022

Introducing the Jury of the Hamburg Portfolio Review 2022.

Consisting of members of the founding partners Stern, GEO and UE.