Open Call: Will be announced soon
Opening: 16 September 2022
Reviews: 17 September 2022
Panels/Lectures: 18 September 2022
Reviewers HPR 2021.
The reviewers of the Hamburg Portfolio Review 2022 will be announced soon.
Sarker Protick — Pathshala-South Asian Media Institute, Chobi Mela International Festival of Photography
Sarker Protick is a Visual Artist from Dhaka, Bangladesh. He is the recipient of Joop Swart Masterclass, Magnum Foun-dation Fund and the World Press Photo Award. His work has been shown in museums, galleries and festivals including Yokohama Triennale, Hamburg Triennale, Paris Photo, 4A Center of Contemporary Asian Art, RMIT Gallery, Singa-pore Art Week and more. Protick is represented by East Wing Gallery and is a faculty member at Pathshala-South Asian Media Institute and cocurator at Chobi Mela International Festival of Photography.
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.
Lars Lindemann — GEO/P.M.
Lars Lindemann is a Hamburg, Germany based photo editor, lecturer and curator. He is the GEO and P.M. family of maga-zines Director of Photography and Deputy Visual Director. Lars has been a jury member for various national and international photo contests, including the World Press Photo Contest in 2020 and 2021. In 2019 he became an appointed of the German Photographic Society DGPH. He´s one of the founders of the Hamburg Portfolio Review.
Laetitia Ganaye — Maps Agency
Laetitia Ganaye is a Paris based editorial manager of MAPS agency since 2017. She was in charge of the international development at the editorial department of VU' from 2007 to 2015. Ganaye developed a network of partner agencies throughout the world. Since 2018 she regularly gives portfolio reviews, e.g. for the Canon Student Program at Visa pour l'Image. Between 2019 and 2020 Ganaye coordinated the carte blanche given to MAPS by the Institute for photography (Lille, France).
Muhammed Muheisen — Photographer
Muhammed Muheisen is a Netherland based world renowned photographer. A two time Pulitzer Prize winner, a National Geographic Photographer, founder and chairman of the Dutch NGO Everyday Refugees Foundation, Global Ambassador for Jordan Tourism Board, Royal Jordanian Airlines and Canon, he is repre-sented by National Geographic Image Collection. For over a decade he has been documenting the refugee crisis in different parts of the world.
Arianna Rinaldo — Cortona On The Move
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.
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.
Sudhanshu Malhotra — Greenpeace International Hong Kong
Sudhanshu Malhotra is a multimedia editor at Greenpeace International, based in Hong Kong. He grew up in Delhi, India, where he worked as a documentary photographer before joining Greenpeace. He has been a career environmentalist for 13 years and has a keen interest in personal narratives fused with social themes.
Karen Fromm — LUMIX Festival / FH Hannover
Prof. Dr. Karen Fromm is Professor at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Hanover, where she teaches photo theory, pictorial languages and the documentary.
In the past she managed the Galerie Pfefferberg in Berlin and was a member of the management of the FOCUS photography and press agency. She has founded the platform Image Matters and edited the volumes Images in Conflict (2018) and image/con/text. Documentary Practices between Journalism, Art and Activism (2020). She is Head of the International Class for Photojournalism and Documentary Photography in Hanover and director of the LUMIX Festival for Young Visual Journalism.
In the past she managed the Galerie Pfefferberg in Berlin and was a member of the management of the FOCUS photography and press agency. She has founded the platform Image Matters and edited the volumes Images in Conflict (2018) and image/con/text. Documentary Practices between Journalism, Art and Activism (2020). She is Head of the International Class for Photojournalism and Documentary Photography in Hanover and director of the LUMIX Festival for Young Visual Journalism.
Jerome Huffer — Paris Match
Jerome Huffer is based in Paris, France where he sits as head of the picture desk of the french weekly news magazine Paris Match. He believes emotion is a strong means for communication, and combined with accurate journalism, can become the strongest vector for information: the beauty of photojournalism. Huffer has served on photographic award juries including World Press Photo, The Visa d’or, The Bayeux festival, The Lagardere Foundation or The Prix Pierre and Alexandra Boulat.
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.
Michael Danner — Photographer/UE Professor
Michael Danner is a Berlin, Germany based photographer and professor. His artistic works adopt a political and anthropological approach, in which he investigates contested sites and histories. The work takes the form of photographs and moving image, which often include archive material and text and are intertwined into multilayered systems. Danner is a professor of photography at the Univer-sity of Europe for Applied Sciences, he has been exhi-bited internationally, his work is represented in wellknown collections and has received numerous grants and prizes.
Teona Gogichaishvili — Kolga Tblisi Photo Festival
Teona Gogichaishvili is based in Cologne, Germany. She has been a Photographer and Lecturer at various universities and institutions. Besides that she has been the co-organizer of the International Photo Festival Kolga Tbilisi Photo in Tbilisi, Georgia and curated various exhibitions. Gogichaishvili has also worked
as a freelance photographic expert and portfolio reviewer at Voies Off Photo Festival in Arles.
as a freelance photographic expert and portfolio reviewer at Voies Off Photo Festival in Arles.
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.
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 publica-tions and holds jury membership and nominator positions at various international photography festivals and events.
Jay Davies — Getty Images
Jay Davies is the director of news photography for Getty Images in London, UK. There he manages the agency‘s news coverage within EMEA countries, working with a roster of staff and freelance photographers and regional partner agencies. He has worked with Getty Images since 2012, previously in its Reportage division and administering its editorial grants program. Prior to Getty Images, he worked at Newsweek, The New York Times and as a freelance photographer in New York City.
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.
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.
Ilija Prokopiev — Private Print
Ilija Prokopiev is based in Skopje, North Macedonia. He is a publisher, graphic designer and visual artist. He is a co-founder of PrivatePrint, a publishing studio for artists‘ books and related publications, where he is also working as an editor and a graphic designer by including interdisciplinary approaches and different media. Prokopiev won several Awards, such as the Young Visual Artist Award and is also the author of two artist`s books.
Kathryn Cook — International Committee of the Red Cross
Kathryn Cook is head of content for the International Committee of the Red Cross. She has more than a decade working as a photographer - first with the Associated Press in Latin America, and then freelance, working for international publications. At the ICRC her work there focuses on honing a distinct eye and voice to critical humanitarian issues through visual storytelling across digital and media platforms.
Lois Lammerhuber — Edition Lammerhuber
Lois Lammerhuber is a reportage photographer based in Baden, Austria. Together with Silvia Lammerhuber he manages the publishing house Edition Lammerhuber, which has been voted the best photo book publisher in Europe several times. He founded the Alfred Fried Photography Award in cooperation with World Press Photo, UNESCO, The International Press Institute and the Austrian Parliament. Lammerhuber founded La Gacilly-Baden Photo Festival and is a member of the Art Directors Club New York.
Candice Jansen — Market Photo Workshop
Candice Jansen is based in Johannesburg, SA and responsible for research, archives & exhibitions programming at the Market Photo Workshop. She spent a year at Duke’s Centre for Documentary Studies as Exhibition Assistant where Jansen co-curated, BINNEGOED: Coloured & South African Photography (2015). Jansen holds a PHD fellow in Art History. Her dissertation, COLOURED BLACK: The Life & Works of South African Photographers, Cedric Nunn and Ernest Cole (2019) was completed at Northwestern University’s Program for Critical Theory in the Global South. She has written and spoken on photography for various photographic platforms, e.g. the Toronto Photography Seminar, Aperture, Centres for Learning Photography in Africa, the Johannesburg Art Gallery, the Tate Modern and more.
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.
Orsolya Groenewold — stern magazine
Orsolya Groenewold is a Hamburg, Germany based photo editor. After graduating at the University of Budapest in Slavic studies and literature Orsolya Groenewold moved to Germany in the late 1980s. She started working at the publishing house Gruner+ Jahr. From then on photography became her passion and profession. She changed her career and became a freelance photo editor for various magazines like Der Spiegel, FTD Weekend, Die Woche and more. Since 2000 she is member of the stern picture desk. Besides the resorts science, culture, travel and leisure, she was the responsible photo editor for several line extensions of Gruner + Jahr.
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.