Arianna Rinaldo, Independent Curator + Photo Editor + Photo Consultant — Barcelona, Spain
Arianna is a freelance professional working with photographers on various projects. From 2012 to 2021, she was the artistic director of Cortona On The Move, an international festival of visual narrative. Since 2016, she has been the photography curator at PhEST, a festival on contemporary photography and arts in Puglia.
Since 2012, Arianna has been based in Barcelona. She is active as a consultant, teacher, curator, and editor. She also speaks at and reviews portfolios at photo events and festivals around the world, and she is regularly invited to jury panels and selection committees for international institutions and organizations.
Brittani Taylor, Exhibitions Director, The Light Factory — Charlotte, NC
Brittani is currently the Director of Exhibitions at The Light Factory in Charlotte, NC, and a freelance photographer specializing in portraits, events, and products. She continues to be inspired by the world and the people she meets along her artistic journey. She is a visual artist, creative director, and photographer who loves art and the creative process.
brittanitaylor | thelightfactory.org | @brittani.taylorr
C. Meier, Exhibitions Director, Blue Sky, Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts
C. (they/them) is a non-binary artist and curator based in Portland, OR. Their art practice explores materiality, reveling in the hybridization of processes, including drawing and photographic methods. They earned their MFA in Photography from Columbia College Chicago (2017) and BFA in Studio Art from Pacific Lutheran University (2004).
Meier has exhibited at Hyde Park Art Center, Mana Contemporary (Chicago), Filter Space, Blue Sky, The Neon Heater, among others, and their work is part of the Permanent Collection of Pacific Lutheran University (Tacoma, WA). Meier co-curated the 2017 exhibition re:collection at the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago (MoCP), and curated the 2023 exhibition Size Matters for Medium Photo, San Diego. Professional roles include Collections Manager/Registrar (2018-2020) at the MoCP, Studio Assistant to Barbara Kasten (2019-2020), and Exhibitions Director (2021 – current), at Blue Sky, Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts.
Camilla Marrese, Visual Director, PhMuseum — Bologna, Italy
Camilla is a photographer and designer based in Italy. Her practice intersects documentary photography, design for publishing and writing, aiming for the expression and visual articulation of complex issues. She is currently working as a Visual Editor at PhMuseum.
Her work is a finalist for the Luigi Ghirri Award 2024 and the recipient of the PhMuseum Criticae Prize 2022. It has also been exhibited in collective exhibitions at Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven, Fotografia Europea, Reggio Emilia, Espaço Alto, San Paolo, PhMuseum Lab, Bologna, Spazio MAD Magadino, Locarno, and Kranj Foto Fest, Slovenia. She graduated from MA Information Design at Design Academy Eindhoven after a BA in Graphic Design and Visual Communication from ISIA Urbino.
www.camillamarrese.it | PhMuseum | @camillamarrese
Conor Moynihan, Associate Curator, RISD Museum — Providence, RI
Conor is the Acting Department Head and Associate Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs at the RISD Museum. He focuses on the modern and contemporary collection, with a particular research interest in identity-based practices. Moynihan also serves as the chair of the Accessibility SEI Task Force and a co-founding member of the LGBTQIA2S+ Working Group. Moynihan’s recent exhibitions at the RISD Museum include Perception and Presence in Contemporary Drawing (2022), Variance: Making, Unmaking, and Remaking Disability (2022), and The Performative Self-Portrait (2023. He is currently working with Christina Alderman to help the young artists and art enthusiasts of RISD Art Circle to curate a permanent collection exhibition from a teen perspective in Spring 2024.
Danny Sanchez, Associate Director, Themes+Projects Gallery
Danny is the associate director at Themes+Projects gallery (formally Modernbook). Since 2006, he has helped to cultivate the fine art careers of the gallery’s emerging talent in topics such as editing and sequencing, strategic analysis of a body of work for the current marketplace, pricing and editioning, etc. Outside the gallery, he had the pleasure of being a reviewer for Review Santa Fe, Medium Photo, and PhotoAlliance; he was invited to guest curate for the San Francisco Art Dealer’s Association and participated as a panelist for the San Francisco Artist Network. Sanchez is a Bay Area native and earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography from San Jose State University.
themes+projects.com | @themesandprojects
Donna Garcia, Director, Education & Programs, Griffin Museum — Boston, MA
Donna is a lens-based artist, curator, educator, podcaster, and arts advocate. Best known for her conceptual self-portraiture and uncanny noir style, her work explores the performative potential of the medium of photography as well as the idea of how we exist within liminal space. She is a contributing editor for LENSCRATCH, co-host/co-founder of the Modern Art and Culture Podcast, she has taught workshops and been a portfolio reviewer nationally, and has been an editorial/assignment photographer, creating work for international fashion brands to legacy environmental conservation publications.
She is the former co-owner of the Garcia Wilburn Gallery and the former Executive Director of the Atlanta Photography Group and Gallery. In addition, as Regional Marketing and Creative Director at Ogilvy in NYC, she developed, managed, and executed major art installations/programming around Art Base Miami, Flux Nights Atlanta, Art Nights DC, James Bond’s Skyfall, Coachella, Ultra Miami, World Cup, South Beach Food and Wine Festival, The Latin Grammys, and the Oscars.
donnagarcia.com | Griffin Museum | @donnagarcia23
Draženka Jalšić Ernečić, Senior Curator, Koprivnica Museum — Croatia
Draženka is a Senior Curator at Koprivnica Museum, where she curates the museum’s art collections. She emphasizes graphic design, photography, and printing processes. She writes articles, critics, essays, and reviews on photography, the anthropology of photography, and visual communication. She writes on photography in professional and specialized magazines, portals, and online editions. Exhibition and portfolio reviews, essays, and selections on photography were in specialized websites and magazines in Europe and America. She is a member of the jury and photo curator in the Culture in Focus Annual Competition, the biennial of fine art photography Vizura, and the biennial of applied and commercial photography ProART.
www.muzej-koprivnica.hr | @djalsic
Elizabeth Avedon, Independent Curator + Photo Consultant — New York, NY
Elizabeth is an independent curator and photo consultant, often contributing to L’Oeil de la Photographie. Former director of Photo-eye Gallery and Creative Director for the Gere Foundation, Elizabeth has received recognition for her curatorial work, exhibition design, and publishing projects, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art; the Amon Carter Museum, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, and Art Institute of Chicago. She’s juried for the Leica Women Foto Project Awards, the Lucie Photo Book Awards and the Prix Carmignac Fondation Photojournalism Award in Paris. In 2017, Elizabeth received a “Lifetime Achievement Award” from the Griffin Museum of Photography.
elizabethavedon.com | @elizabethavedon
Federico Estol, Artistic Director, San José Foto Festival – Uruguay
Federico is a Uruguayan photographer and artist. He works as a visual storyteller producing stories in Latin America; his long-term projects focus on the relationship between cultural identity, inequality, and social justice. In addition, he is the artistic director of the international festival SAN JOSÉ FOTO and editor of photobooks at El Ministerio Ediciones. He is represented by the East Wing Gallery.
Estol holds a bachelor’s degree in photography from UPC-Barcelona Tech University and a degree in popular education from MFAL Franciscan Multiversity. His awards include the Emergentes award at Encontros da Imagem festival (Portugal), IILA-FOTOGRAFIA award (Italy), Critical Mass Top 50 Finalist (USA), FELIFA best International photobook award (Argentina), Jury award at Lenzburg Photofestival (Switzerland), Latin American photobook award from Montevideo Center of Photography (Uruguay) and Expert Award of the Lishui Photography Museum (China).
sanjosefoto.uy | federicoestol.com
Gail Fletcher, Photo Editor, The Guardian
Gail is a Photo Editor at The Guardian, where she develops and produces visual stories. She is on faculty at the International Center of Photography and was previously an Associate Photo Editor at National Geographic. She is originally from South Florida and holds a bachelor’s degree in history and government from Cornell University.
Julian Lucas, Founder, Mirrored Society + Photolucida Board — Los Angeles, CA
Julian Lucas is a fine art photographer/photojournalist and writer in Los Angeles. He is the founder and owner of the Mirrored Society bookstore, which has published several publications for photographers nationally and internationally. He most recently organized the Print Pomona Art Book Fair, which was held at the Benton Museum at Pomona College and primarily supports artists, photographers, and smaller galleries. Julian is currently working on an initiative to provide a professional platform to serve as a resource to culturally underserved communities.
mirroredsociety.com | julian-lucas.com | @mirroredsociety
Lia J. Latty, Founder, Black Is Magazine — Baltimore, MD
Lia is a photographer who strives to connect with others to share their voices as a collective and initiate dialogue about social issues. Her work has been exhibited in Baltimore, New York, and at MICA, where she recently received her BFA. Lia is also the founder of Black Is, a publication that publishes the stories and work of Black photographers worldwide. Black Is is dedicated to creating a platform to showcase Black photographers whose work speaks to the diversity of Black communities and Black people. The magazine acts as a place of discussion and an archival platform, keeping a database of all the Black photographers they interview/share their work.
Zsolt Batori, Director, PH21 Gallery — Budapest
After earning his PhD in Philosophy from Rutgers University, Zsolt has taught and conducted research at universities in Hungary, the USA, Argentina, and Spain. As a photographer, he has exhibited his work internationally. Zsolt’s primary area of research is the philosophy of art and aesthetics, particularly focusing on the philosophy and theory of photography. He is a member of Phrónesis, an Analytic Philosophy Group, and ARESMUR, an Aesthetics and Theory of Art Group at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Murcia. Currently, Zsolt is also a senior visitor at Logos, Research Group in Analytic Philosophy, University of Barcelona.
Zsolt is the founder, director, and curator of PH21 Gallery. For over a decade, PH21 Gallery has been organizing group and solo exhibitions for photographers internationally in Budapest and collaborating with galleries in Barcelona, Jersey City, and Rome.
ph21gallery.com | zsoltbatori.com
*Photolucida’s Program Director, Polly Gaillard, will also be on the prescreening team.
Alex Harris, Photographer + Writer + Founder, Duke Center for Documentary Studies
Alexa Dilworth, Independent Editor + Writer (former Publishing Director and Senior Editor, Duke Center for Documentary Studies)
Aline Smithson, Founder + Editor, LENSCRATCH
Allie Haeusslein, Director, Pier 24 Photography
Andrew Fedynak, Publisher + Designer, Zatara Press
Angela Bryant, Director, Rose Gallery
Ângela Ferreira, Artistic Director, Museu de Fotografia – Brazil
Ann Jastrab, Executive Director, Center for Photographic Art
Anna Alexander, Director of Photography, WIRED
Anne Massoni, Executive Director, Houston Center for Photography
*Arianna Rinaldo, Independent Curator + Photo Editor + Photo Consultant
Arthur Ollman, Independent Curator, Founding Director, Museum of Photographic Arts
Aurélie Jouan, Independent Visual Curator
Barbara Tannenbaum, Curator of Photography, Cleveland Museum of Art
Blue Mitchell, Publisher, One Twelve Publishing
Bree Lamb, Managing Editor, Fraction Magazine
*Brittani Taylor, Exhibitions Director, The Light Factory
*C. Meier, Exhibition Director, Blue Sky, Blue Sky, the Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts
* Camilla Marrese, Visual Director, PhMuseum, Bologna, Italy
Catherine Couturier, Founder + Director, Catherine Couturier Gallery
Chloe Coleman, Foreign Photo Editor, The Washington Post
Claire Sykes, Partner + Curator, Circuit Gallery, Toronto
*Conor Moynihan, Assistant Curator, RISD Museum
Daniel Milnor, Artist + Educator + Blurb Evangelist
*Danny Sanchez, Associate Director, Themes+Projects Gallery
Darren Ching, Co-Founder, Klompching Gallery
David Clifton-Strawn, Executive Director, Atlanta Photography Group
Debra Klomp Ching, Co-Founder, Klompching Gallery
Denise Froehlich, Director + Curator, Maine Museum of Photographic Art
Dennis Keeley, Artist + Educator
Dina Mitrani, Founding Director, Dina Mitrani Gallery – Miami
* Donna Garcia , Director, Education & Programs, Griffin Museum
Douglas McCulloh, Senior Curator + Interim Executive Director, UCR ARTS: California Museum of Photography
*Drazenka Jalsic Ernecic, Senior Curator, Koprivnica Museum – Croatia
Eirini Alexandrou, Independent Curator, Amsterdam
Elin Spring, Founding Editor, What Will You Remember
*Elizabeth Avedon, Independent Curator + Photo Consultant
Elizabeth Greenberg, Arnold & Augusta Newman Provost, Maine Media
Emi Kawashima, Editor, Shashin Hihyou Magazine
*Federico Estol, Artistic Director, San José Foto Festival – Uruguay
Frances Jakubek, Independent Consultant
Frank Meo, Director, Projections
*Gail Fletcher, Photo Editor, The Guardian
Gordon Stettinius, Director, Candela Books + Gallery
Guo Jing, Chief Art Director, Shangtuf Image and Art
Holly Lynton, Artist + Educator
Sybylla Smith, Independent Curator, Educator + Consultant
James Barker, Director, PhotoPlace Gallery
Jeff Moorfoot, Editor and publisher of BETA developments in photography
Jens Friis, Photo Art Historian + Publisher, KATALOG – Journal of Photography & Video
Jessica Burko, Creative Director, Photographic Resource Center
John Jenkins, Publisher, Decode Books
*Julian Lucas, Founder, Mirrored Society + Photolucida Board
Kari Wehrs, Photography Program Chair, Maine Media
*Lia J. Latty, Founder, Black Is Magazine
Lisa Cates, Director, New Orleans Photo Alliance
Louie Palu, Photographer + Founder,, Archive 192
Madeline Yale Preston, Photography Specialist + Arts Advisor
Manolis Moresopoulos, Artistic Director, Athens Photo Festival
Marieke van der Krabben, Executive Director, Saint Petersburg Month of Photography (SPMOP) + Lumen Photo Fest
Mark Sink, Founding Director, Month of Photography, Denver
Mary Anne Redding, Curator, Turchin Center for Visual Arts
Mary Stanley, Independent Curator
Mia Dalglish + Lisa Woodward, Co-Curators, Pictura Gallery
Michael Itkoff, Co-founder, Daylight Books
Michael Kirchoff, Editor, Analog Forever Magazine
Michelle Dunn Marsh, Founder, Minor Matters Books
Nancy Farese, Founder, Catchlight
Paloma Shutes, Photo Editor
Paris Chong, Manager + Curator, Leica Gallery
Pascale Georgiev, Publisher + Editorial Director, Atelier Editions
Paul Kopeikin, Founder, Kopeikin Gallery
Paula Tognarelli, Independent Curator
Peter M. Krask, Creative Director + Photolucida Board
*Polly Gaillard, Program Director, Photolucida
Rachael Nusbaum, Photo Editor + Photolucida Board
Regina Anzenberger, Founder, AnzenbergerGallery, Austria
Rodrigo Orrantia Gomez, Photography Historian + Curator
Rotem Rozental, Executive Director, Los Angeles Center for Photography
Samantha Johnston, Executive Director + Curator, Colorado Photographic Arts Center
Sandee McGee, Assistant Manager, Simi Valley Cultural Arts Center
Sarah Leen, Founder + Editor, Visual Thinking Collective
Shana Lopes, PhD, Assistant Curator of Photography, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Sharon Lavier O’Keefe, Director, Camerawork Gallery
Stu Levy, Portland Art Museum Photo Council, Photolucida Board
Tiffany Jones, Founder, Overlapse Books
Tina Schelhorn, Independent Curator
Tomasz Trzebiatowski, Editor + Founder, Frames Magazine
Ute Noll, Owner + Curator + Editor, Uno Art Space + Ute Noll Visual Projects
* Zsolt Batori, Director, PH21 Gallery – Budapest
*Pre-screening jurors