Jurors

2024 Critical Mass Prescreening Panel:

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.

@arianna_rinaldo_curator


Brittani Taylor, Exhibitions Director, The Light Factory — Charlotte, NC

Brittani Taylor 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.

brittanitaylorthelightfactory.org | @brittani.taylorr


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 2025.

risdmuseum.org | @cg.moy


Donna Garcia, DirectorEducation & 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, Curator + Writer + Consultant — New York, NY

Elizabeth Avedon is an independent curator, writer, 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


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 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.

blackismag.com | @blackismag


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


*Photolucida’s Interim Program Director, Polly Gaillard will also be on the prescreening team.


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