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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.
Ahmed Najm — Metrography Agency
Ahmed Najm is an Iraq based editor and the managing director of Metrography Agency, the first and only photo agency in Iraq. Growing up during the civil war era, in the first seven years of his life, Najm and his family fled to Iran twice. He supervises photojournalists in various Iraqi communities and religions. He has also been training 15 women photojournalists, encouraging them to tell the stories that remain inaccessible to male photographers and is the organizer of the annual photo festival of Metrography which takes place in five cities in Iraq. Ahmed Najm was a jury member of the World Press Photo Award.
Thorsten Gerke — Der Spiegel
Thorsten Gerke is a Hamburg, Germany based photo editor. He grew up in northern Germany on the Baltic Sea. Before joining DER SPIEGEL in 2005, he was a freelance picture editor for various magazines. Gerke creates and conceptualizes in the field of portrait, reportage and still-life for digital and print projects with a narrative and humanistic focus.
Cyril Drouhet — Le Figaro
Cyril Drouhet is a Paris, France based historian, avid journalist and director of photography at Le Figaro Magazine (France). Besides that he is the curator of the Photo La Gacilly festival, the largest outdoor photography festival in Europe, which attracts more than 350,000 visitors each year. Until 2002 Drouhet was director of the Gamma news agency.
Nina Röder — Photographer/UE Professor
Nina Röder is a Berlin, Germany based Professor of photography at University of Europe for Applied Sciences, where she teaches artistic strategies & exhibiton methods. Next to her artistic activities she holds a Ph.D. in the field of artistic research. Her research focus lies on performative strategies in contemporary photography in the context of contingency. Exposing hidden and unconscious structures or mechanisms of biographical narratives characterises the approach of her work. Nina‘s series have been shown in international festivals and exhibitions.
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.
Denis Brudna — PHOTONEWS
Denis Brudna is based in Hamburg Germany and founder and since then editor of the magazine PHOTONEWS in 1989. He studied painting, graphics and photography in Prague. In 1971 Brudna was a founding member of the cultural and communication center FABRIK in Hamburg and responsible for graphics, advertising and CI there until early 2019. 1972 he founded the FABRIK FOTOFORUM and organized over 370 exhibitions. He was founding member of the Arbeitskreis für Fotografie in Hamburg (1989) and founding member of the association Netzwerk Fotoarchive (2011).
Anna Gripp — PHOTONEWS
Anna Gripp is based in Hamburg, Germany and editor in chief of the magazine Photonews. She is the main author of the book „Fotografie-Studium in Deutschland“ and founding member of the association Netzwerk Fotoarchive and since 2017 member of the Executive Board of the German Society for Photography, DGPh. Gripp participated in numerous competition juries, e.g. the BFF-Förderpreis, Peter Keetman Prize, n-ost Reportage Prize, Architekturbild, etc. and portfolio sightings, e.g. Houston FotoFest, PhotoEspana Madrid, Freundeskreis Photographie Hamburg and more. She also worked as a freelance photographer.
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.
Barbara Stauss — Mare magazine
Barbara Stauss is based in Berlin and was a founding member of the magazine Mare, whose picture editorial department she has headed ever since. Stauss is the Project Manager of the German edition of Reporters without Borders‘ annual photo book. She curates exhibitions, edits books and other publications. She is involved in the Joop Swart Master Class of the World Press Photo Foundation and is a jury member of various photography competitions.
Carol Körting — Leica Fotografie International LFI
Carol Körting was born in Bogotá, Colombia and is based in Berlin, Germany. She moved to Germany and after working as a freelance photographer, she studied photo editing at the Ostkreuz Schule für Fotografie. Carol has been the photo editor of the Leica Fotografie International Magazine since 2011. She has been part of the jury team in photo contest as Kuala Lumpur Photo Awards, The Independent Photographer, BarTur Photo Award, Belarus Prafota, Slideluck Editorial, Zenith Magazine.
Lucy Conticello — Le Monde
Lucy Conticello is based in Paris, France and the director of Photography of M, Le Monde‘s weekend magazine. She has worked for various magazines, e.g. Business Week, The New York Times, l‘Espresso, The New York Times magazine, Courrier International, as well as photography agencies such as Sipa Press and Magnum Photos. Conticello regularly takes part in international photography juries and portfolio reviews, e.g. at the World Press Photo Award, the Foam Paul Huf award, the Magenta Foundation Flash Forward, Photo Meet London, Fotografia Europea and more. She has guest curated an issue in Ojodepez magazine and conducted photography workshops at Fotofilmic Creative Immersion workshop in Bowen, the ISFCI Istituto Superiore di Fotografia e Comunicazione Integrata in Rome, the Internazionale Festival in Ferrara and the Canon Student Development Programme in Perpignan. Lucy Conticello has also been on the Advisory Committee for Unseen Amsterdam.
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”.
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.
NayanTara Gurung Kakshapati — Photo Kathmandu
NayanTara Gurung Kakshapati lives in Kathmandu, Nepal and works at the intersections of visual storytelling, research, pedagogy, and collective action. In 2007, she co-founded photo.circle; an independent artist-led platform that facilitates learning, exhibition making, publishing and a variety of other trans-disciplinary collaborative projects for Nepali visual practitioners. In 2011, she co-founded Nepal Picture Library; a digital archiving initiative that works towards diversifying Nepali socio-cultural and political history. NayanTara is also the co-founder and Festival Director of Photo Kathmandu. She has been a mentor for the World Press Photo Joop Swart Masterclass and chaired the 2021 World Press Photo Award Jury. NayanTara is a 2020-2022 Jane Lombard Fellow, presented by the Vera List Center for Art and Politics, The New School, New York.
Thomas Borberg — Politiken
Thomas Borberg is based in Copenhagen, Denmark and since June 2021 staffphotographer at Politiken. For the past 11 years, Thomas has worked as Politiken’s photo editor-in-chief and as a visiting lecturer of photojournalism at photofestivals and universities around the world. He has also worked as photo editor for numerous bookprojects and as a jury member for national and international photo contests, including the 2016 World Press Photo Contest as a member of the Documentary and News jury and the 2018 World Press Photo contest as Chairman of the Sports jury.
Martina Bacigalupo — 6 Mois
Martina Bacigalupo is a photographer and picture editor of the French magazine 6 Mois. She worked for ten years as a freelance photographer in Burundi, East Africa, collaborating with magazines, foundations and international organisations. Her work, which investigates the visual dynamics between Africa and the West, is part of several collections, including the Artur Walther Collection in Germany and the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, USA. In 2013, she published the project "Gulu Real Art Studio" with Steidl. Interested in the migration crisis, she developed with Canadian researcher Sharon Sliwinski, "The Reverie project", an ongoing project that questions the representation of migrants. Bacigalupo is part of VU agency in Paris and holds professional workshops on documentary photo writing in France and abroad. Besides that she has been a jury member of international photography competitions, including the latest edition of World Press Photo Award.
Tina Ahrens — Philosophie Magazine
Tina Ahrens is the director of photography at Philosophie Magazine in Germany and a visual consultant providing project management, visual concepts and editorial development for corporate and editorial clients. After six years as a photographic editor at GEO magazine in Hamburg, Tina became a senior photographic editor at GEO magazine’s New York correspondent’s office, where she oversaw many of award-winning productions for the magazine. She went on to be a Visual Consultant for CNN Digital and was responsible for developing a new visual language for the redesign of GEO magazine with Art Director Anna-Clea Skoluda, and Philosophie magazine with Design-Duo Meire&Meire. Tina has been an affiliate Nieman Fellow at Harvard University and in 2017 she became the Impact Producer for the "The Enemy", an acclaimed virtual reality installation developed in collaboration with the M.I.T. Tina has been a jury member and portfolio reviewer at numerous international festivals and awards.
Lars Boering — European Journalism Center
Lars Boering is the director of the European Journalism Centre and is founder of Triggertale.com, a platform for visual communication and storytelling. He has been actively involved with photography for several years. From 2015 till 2021he led World Press Photo Foundation and has transformed it into an organization that is more than a contest. He calls himself a photopreneur, is an advisor on photography, teacher, collector and consultant. As an advisor, he is working together with several professional partners actively involved in the creative industries and advertising business. Together they add different opinions on and solutions to the projects and brands they work on. Lars has co-produced exhibitions with photographers, Festivals, museums and art foundations and works as picture editor and judges contests at the highest level. 2021 Lars works as the Director of the European Journalistic Center (EJC), EJC is making available a wide range of unique meetups, substantial grants, resources and training affordable or for free
Carla Rosorius — GEO/P.M.
Carla Rosorius is based in Hamburg and works as a photo editor for the GEO and P.M. Magazine families. Born and raised in the South of Germany, Carla studied Social Science and Art History in Berlin. Afterwards she attended Ostkreuzschule für Fotografie to get to know the field of Photo Editing. She gained her first working experiences as an intern at Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazine. Followed by prestigious magazines and newspapers like DER SPIEGEL and DIE ZEIT. Since 2015 she is working for GEO, mainly GEO kompakt and GEO WISSEN in a responsible position until 2019. She is now part of the Visual Board of GEO and P.M. Magazines. Since 2019 she is a jury board member of PUNKT – a journalistic award for science and technical photography. She was one of the reviewers at plattform9: perspective?! at Deichtorhallen in Hamburg in 2019.
Andreas Pufal — GEO/P.M.
Andreas Pufal is a Hamburg, Germany based visual director and has been working in the creative and publishing industry for over twenty years. He has produced fashion catalogues, given companies their CI, books their cover and magazines of many German and international publishing houses their appearance. His clients include Otto, Mercedes, Rowohlt, Brand eins, National Geographic, Geo, P.M.. Pufal has always worked very closely with photographers. As a visual "storyteller", he briefs photographers and evaluates offered reportages.
Jenny Smets — Curator
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.
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.
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".
Lekgetho Makola — Javett Art Centre
Lekgetho Makola is currently the CEO of Javett Art Centre at the University of Pretoria in South Africa. He is the former Head of Market Photo Workshop in Johannesburg. Makola has been part of a number of diverse visual storytelling platforms and curatorial committees that included the Rencontres de Bamako in Mali, New York Times portfolio reviews and chairing the World Press Photo Awards General Jury 2020. Lekgetho Makola’s artistic philosophy is embedded in social justice and advocacy as an International Ford Foundation Fellow on Social Justice. He sits on the advisory committees to the boards of CathLight and Social Documentary Network. Lekgetho, a graduate of Howard University MFA Film Studies, has accumulated extensive strategic experience in arts administration and artistic programming from institutions he worked for in over two decades. He is a founding member of Centres of Learning for Photography in Africa, a continental network for photographic hubs.