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Alejandro is founder-director of IC Visual Lab (ICVL), an independent photography platform recently appointed to lead the second edition of Bristol Photo Festival. With ICVL, Alejandro has produced curatorial & publishing projects with Bristol Museums & Archives, Arnolfini Gallery, Eastside Projects, Format Festival Derby, Getxophoto international festival & Photo Kathmandu, with support from Arts Council England, Historic England, Heritage Lottery Fund & the British Council. Beyond ICVL, he has a track record of activating historic archives, including Historical Photographs of China 1850-1950 (University of Bristol), The Nepal Picture Library and the British Empire & Commonwealth Collection and as a consultant for collections like the Martin Parr Foundation Library. He is also an Associate Lecturer on the MA Photography programme at the University of South Wales.

Alejandro is interested in seeing projects that explore ideas around Time (The Present, Rituals, Memory, Time restrictions, sci-fi, utopia…)

Amara Eno is Deputy Photography Editor at HTSI, the Financial Times’ weekly luxury lifestyle magazine, where she commissions photographers internationally across portraiture, interiors, entertaining, culture and travel features.

She was previously a photo editor at Monocle and Konfekt magazines, following earlier roles as a Producer at the British Red Cross and as a Production and Agent’s Assistant at boutique artists’ agency Supervision.

Alongside this, Amara has a background as a working photographer, widely commissioned editorially by publications including The New York Times and The Guardian.

Her work is also held in the permanent collection of the National Galleries of Scotland. Amara is passionate about collaboration and committed to amplifying underrepresented voices in the industry and periodically mentors emerging photography talent.

Amara is interested in Portraiture, documentary/longer-form photo stories.

Anne Nwakalor is a 2025 World Press Photo Contest jury member. She is the Founding Editor of No! Wahala Magazine, one of Africa’s first-ever contemporary photography magazine dedicated to showcasing authentic visual stories told by African creatives. Alongside this, Anne is a Curator, Writer and presently works as a Communication Expert within the art sector.

Anne is interested in conceptual work and work that represents ancestral history and representation.

Arianna is a freelance professional working with photography at a wide range. From 2012 to 2021 she was the artistic director of Cortona On The Move, international festival of visual narrative. Since 2016, she is the photography curator at PhEST, a festival on contemporary photography and arts in Puglia.   

Arianna’s relationship with photography started in 1998 as Archive Director at Magnum Photos, NY; and then, back in Italy, as photo editor for Colors magazine. From 2004 to 2011, in Milan, she worked as editorial consultant and curator for exhibitions and special projects. For 4 years she was photo consultant at D, the weekend supplement of La Repubblica. For almost 10 years she was the director of OjodePez, a bilingual documentary photo quarterly published by La Fabrica in Madrid.  

Based in Barcelona since 2012, Arianna is active as consultant, teacher, curator and editor. She participates in photo events and festivals around the world as speaker and portfolio reviewer; and she is regularly invited on jury panels and selections committees for international institutions and organizations. Arianna is intrigued by the amazing stories told through images. She is interested in contemporary documentary and original storytelling: visions on the current world and stories of humankind living on this planet, and beyond.  

Arianna is interested in contemporary storytelling, experimental documentary. Stories of our world and visions of mankind living on this planet, and beyond. She is not interested in seeing fashion or still life.

Photo by Paolo Verzone.

Ben Harman is the Senior Curator of Photography at the National Galleries of Scotland where he works on temporary exhibitions and helps to oversee a collection of over 55,000 photographs dating from the 1840s to the present day. Prior to joining NGS in 2024, he was the Director of Stills: Centre for Photography, Edinburgh where his curated exhibitions included a variety of solo and group presentations of new photography from Scotland as well as showcases of work by internationally renowned artists such as Markéta Luskačová, Ishiuchi Miyako, Cindy Sherman and Jo Spence. Ben is a Trustee of the Richard and Siobhán Coward Foundation which aims to promote the use of analogue photography and community photography to improve the health and wellbeing of young people.

‘I am excited about discovering a range of new work with a particular interest in uses of analogue photography techniques, content that raises awareness to social justice issues, content that draws upon historical research and collections, links to Scotland.’

Billy-Jay manages exhibitions for The Royal Photographic Society, responsible for the curation and delivery of exhibitions, call for entries, tours and other collaborative projects. Her curated exhibitions for The RPS have included most recently the International Photography Exhibition 166 at Saatchi Gallery, London, To Shine a Light / Who Dared to Dream, and Only Human: Aneesa Dawoojee. Billy-Jay’s key interests are accessibility for all, supporting emerging artists and photographers, community engagement and contemporary storytelling. Billy-Jay studied BA Documentary Photography at Newport (UWCN) with her degree show focusing on studies of a community in Ireland connected to her grandfather. She developed extensive experience in the commercial and advertising photography sector after graduating.

Billy-Jay is interested in seeing all kinds of work including documentary photography, fine art, portraiture, editorial and projects that focus on raising awareness to political and social issues.

Bob Gelsthorpe (he/him) works as Creative Producer at Ffotogallery, Cardiff and freelance as a curator/ producer. From an artist-led background, Bob works with artists and photographers to create opportunities, and develop practice. Recent freelance projects include: Witnessing Wales: Mohamed Hassan, Pierhead Futures Gallery, Cardiff (2024); On Loss and Damage, Turner House Gallery, Penarth (2023), guest tutorials, The Other MA, Southend (2021).

Bob is interested in speaking with artists and photographers with an expanded approach to photography, or an installation-based practice that incorporates lens-based media. He is very interested in speaking about moving image, and how this can be developed for gallery presentation, or those with practical questions about how to bring presentations together for galleries. And is particularly interested to hear about collaborations between artists/photographers.

Born and living on Wurundjeri country (Narrm/Melbourne, Australia), Brendan McCleary is a curator with over 15 years experience. For the past 6 years he has been Curator at PHOTO Australia, recently presenting PHOTO 2024 International Festival of Photography, and was recently co-curator for the exhibition On Country: Photography from Australia at the Renctontres d’Arles, 2025.

Brendan is open minded and interested in human experience, long form narrative, books, through to works in development and finished projects. As a LGBTIQIA+ person this is also an area he has a strong background in working.

Daniel T Wheeler is a Midlands-based photographer and darkroom practitioner whose work explores ideas of place, belonging, and spirituality through analogue and experimental processes. His projects, including Normanton, Grangewood, Allotment, and Pilgrimage, move between the documentary and the poetic, reflecting on the connections between landscape, memory, and community.

In 2024, Wheeler collaborated with artist Wolfgang Buttress on Murmur, a major exhibition at BEAM Gallery, Nottingham, combining glass-plate photography with mixed media to explore the fleeting beauty of murmurations. His work has been exhibited internationally, including at FORMAT Festival and the Italian Cultural Institute in Hamburg.

Alongside his artistic practice, Wheeler is the founder of Sequence: Nottingham Centre for Photography and Social Engagement and serves as Education and Community Manager at Take It Easy Lab, Leeds. With over two decades of experience in photography education, he continues to mentor and consult with artists, institutions, and community projects.

Across his work, Wheeler positions photography as both a reflective and socially engaged medium—an intersection of craft, collaboration, and lived experience.

Dan is particularly interested in seeing work from emerging artists who are exploring new ways of thinking about photography — whether through process, collaboration, or concept. He is drawn to projects that examine our relationship with place, identity, and community, and that use photography as a means of reflection or dialogue. He is also excited by experimental and interdisciplinary practices that push beyond the traditional boundaries of the medium, challenging how photographs are made, presented, and experienced. Above all, Dan values work that feels honest, considered, and connected to the world around it.

Debora Moritz is Assistant Curator of Photography at the V&A Museum, specialising in contemporary photography. At the V&A, they also co-chair the LGBTQ+ Working Group. Their research includes the arts and visual culture of Brazil, with a focus on queer photography and film, and decolonial curatorial praxis. They have contributed to publications, including the photobook ‘Calling the Shots: A Queer History of Photography’, and ‘The Artist’s Sketchbook’, both published in 2024 by Thames & Hudson in partnership with the V&A.

Diane Smyth is Editor of the British Journal of Photography and the Photoworks Annual. She also teaches History and Theory of Photography at the London College of Communications, University of the Arts London, and has given talks and workshops at institutions such as London School of Economics and King’s College London. Diane has written about photography for The Guardian, FT Weekend Magazine, Aperture, FOAM, Trigger, Apollo, The Art Newspaper, and more, and contributed essays to many photography catalogues and monographs. She originally studied for a BA in English Language and Literature at the University of Birmingham, graduating with a First and the Tibbatt’s Memorial Prize. She also holds an MA in Modern Literatures in English from Birkbeck College, University of London, taken while working full time.

Diane is interested in seeing works that explore photography as a medium.

Francesca Hummler has been the Community Manager and Program Curator at Der Greif, a contemporary photography organization based in Munich, since 2022. In 2024, she launched Der Greif’s Face-to-Face program at Les Rencontres d’Arles, offering feedback sessions for photographers and culminating in a celebratory screening of participants’ work. She also organized a symposium on AI in photography in collaboration with FOAM Magazine, Photoworks, and The Photographers’ Gallery during Paris Photo.

Francesca graduated with distinction from the Royal College of Art with an MA in Photography in 2022. At Der Greif, she leads curation, partnerships, publications, and events. Previously, she worked as an Educational Delivery Manager and Photography Tutor at Photofusion in London, where she curated exhibitions and led community-focused photography programs, combining teaching, curriculum development, and career support for underrepresented groups.

An award-winning photographic artist, Francesca’s practice focuses on identity, drawing from her experience as the daughter of German immigrants in the United States. She explores the archive, familial intimacy, and generational trauma through a methodology inspired by photo-therapy. She has reviewed portfolios for UWE BA Photo, FORMAT25, Fotofestiwal Łódź, Shutter Hub, and Offspring Photo Meet, and guest lectured at Paperdrop Lab and Fachhochschule Dortmund.

Francesca is interested in seeing work driven by personal narrative.

Gemma Padley is a writer and editor on photography. Her most recent book The Women Who Changed Photography was published by Laurence King in 2024. Other photography books include Look At This If You Love Great Photography, Into the Wild: The Story of the World’s Greatest Wildlife Photography, From Above: The Story of Aerial Photography (with Eamonn McCabe) and Joel Meyerowitz: How I Make Photographs.

Gemma is open to seeing and discussing all work, but is especially interested in work that explores themes related to the environment, the natural world, sustainability, and the textiles industry/fast fashion. She is also interested in seeing photobooks at any stage of production, and work that uses text in creative ways. She has an interest in photography for children/how photography can be used to inspire young minds in early years.

Hana Kaluznick is Assistant Curator of Photography at the Victoria & Albert Museum. From 2020 to 2023 she worked on the expansion of the V&A’s Photography Centre (opened May 2023), which is now the largest space for a permanent collection of photography in the UK. She is currently undertaking doctoral research on the plurality of early colour photographic processes in Britain before the consolidation of colour photography by major industrial companies in the 1930s. She is co-author of Calling the Shots: A Queer History of Photography (Thames and Hudson/V&A, 2024), and a contributor to Pandemic Objects (AA Publications, 2024) and Another Country: British Documentary Photography since 1945 (Thames and Hudson, 2022).

Originally from Normandy, Jean-Christophe Godet began his professional career in the arts as an administrator, working within prestigious institutions such as the London Philharmonic Orchestra at the Southbank Centre and the Barbican Centre in London. He later chose to fully dedicate himself to his true passion: photography.

In 2010, Jean-Christophe founded the Guernsey Photography Festival, for which he serves as the artistic director. Each year, this festival brings together renowned international photographers and emerging young talents on the small Channel Island of Guernsey for a month rich in exhibitions, talks, screenings, workshops, and community events. It is now recognized as one of the most important cultural events in Guernsey.

Passionate about interdisciplinarity, accessibility, and engaging diverse audiences, Jean-Christophe created the first Photo-Symphony in 2021: a unique event where a selection of contemporary photographs is projected on a large screen and accompanied live by a symphony orchestra, creating an immersive visual and musical experience.

Since 2023, he has also been the co-founder and artistic director of the GLAZ Festival, a major international event dedicated to photography, based in Rennes, Brittany (France).

Karen Harvey MBE is the Founder and Creative Director of Shutter Hub, the UK based photography organisation providing opportunities, support and networking for creative photographers worldwide. She founded the organisation to create a supportive community for photographers and to provide a platform for the development of ideas and careers. 

Karen has extensive experience of working within the photography industry, from curating exhibitions, publishing books and judging several photographic awards, to funding, commissioning and consulting, as well as undertaking her own photographic practice. She has reviewed portfolios in the UK, Europe and North America; at Unseen Amsterdam, FORMAT International Photography Festival, Belfast Photo Festival, London Photomonth, The Photographers’ Gallery, Getty Images Gallery, Griffin Museum of Photography, Photo Vogue Festival, the Photographic Resource Center, and more. 

Karen is dedicated to creating fair access to photography and opening up opportunities for everyone. She’d love to see work by creative photographers who are looking for support and direction, who want to exhibit their work, develop their networks, and connect with others. 

Lars Lindemann is a Hamburg-based curator, consultant, and creative director. He is currently working on a range of exhibition projects in Germany and abroad. From 2015 to 2023, he served as Director of Photography at GEO magazine and, from 2020, held the same role for the GEO and PM group. He has been a jury member for numerous international photography awards, including the Prix Carmignac du Photojournalisme and the World Press Photo Awards (2020 and 2021).

A central focus of his work is the support of emerging photographic talent. He is a co-founder of the Hamburg Portfolio Review, a long-standing mentor for the Canon Student Development Program, and lectures at various European photography schools. Since 2023, he has served as International Projects Curator for the Italian photo festival Cortona On The Move. In recognition of his contributions to photography, Lars Lindemann was appointed to the German Society for Photography (DGPh) in 2019.

Lars would be interested in seeing: Long-term documentary projects; Visually driven storytelling with a clear narrative arc; Projects engaging with social, political, or environmental issues; Work that experiments with form while maintaining journalistic or conceptual integrity; Photographers exploring new modes of authorship or collaborative storytelling and Projects with potential for exhibitions, publications, or cross-media formats

He is not interested in seeing: Commercial/editorial portfolio work without a unifying theme or deeper intent; Travel or street photography lacking narrative, context, or originality; AI-generated imagery presented without conceptual framing or
Work that imitates current visual trends without a personal or critical voice.

Apart from his own artistic pursuit as a photographer, Lau Ching Ping has played multiple roles in Hong Kong photography. As a mentor, he has guided countless new practitioners and helped take their work and career to the next level. As the artistic director and curator of the Hong Kong International Photo Festival from 2018 to 2022, he initiated the emerging artists nurturing platforms Satellite Exhibitions and Photographer Incubator, and bridged the photography organisations of the SEA region together through curatorial collaboration such as the Photography Cinema project. In the 1990s, together with Lee Ka-sing, Holly Lee, they published the photography journal NuNaHeDuo (Dislocation) that set the scene for contemporary photography of Hong Kong. He is the recipient of The WYNG Air Commission (2013-14).

Lee Elkins is the founder and Creative Director of The Lost Light Recordings. Established in 2018, Lost Light Recordings is an independent publisher that works with photographers to realise projects through the medium of the photobook. The books he has created under the imprint since 2018, including Lewis Khan’s Theatre, Sadie Catt’s Woodstock and an artists edition of Harrowdown by John Spinks, explore the political landscape and its effect on people and place.

Passionate about creating authentic expressions of photographers’ work, Elkins collaborates creatively with both established photographic artists and new talent to create distinctive photobooks. Elkins manages the whole process of creating a book with intense detail: from the editing down and sequencing of photographs with the artist, the graphic design, materiality, personally overseeing the printing, to hand binding the books. This attention to detail calls on Elkins conviction that a photobook is more than a book of photographs, which in the right hands can become a complex intellectual dialogue between photographer and reader and his experience as a master bookbinder in the printing industry. Elkins worked as a bookbinder for twenty years in Frome, Somerset, for one of the UK’s most significant printers before gaining a first class BA (Hons) in Photography from the University of the West of England and an MA in Photography and the Book from Plymouth University.

Lee Elkins is Senior Lecturer in Photography at the University of the West of England, Bristol.

Lee is particularly intere4sted in seeing Photobooks but has an interest in any project that plays with narrative, images and text and documentary.

Louise Fedotov-Clements, Director of Photoworks since 2023, where she leads the strategic vision and artistic direction of the organisation. Established in 1995, Photoworks is an international platform focussed on the development of photography through a programme of exhibitions, residencies, publications, engagement and the biennale Photoworks Festival. Photoworks also directs the prestigious Ampersand Photography Fellowship and the Jerwood Photography Awards.

She is the CoFounder/former Director FORMAT Festival and previous Artistic Director QUAD, a centre for contemporary art and film. Previously National Curator of Contemporary Art, Forestry England, and currently Jury Chair of Earth Photo with the Royal Geographical Society, Forestry England and Parker Harris.

As a creative director since 1998 Louise has led commissions, festivals, publications, mass participation, film/photography programmes/exhibitions around the world. Guest Curator for international exhibitions/festivals including Dong Gang South Korea; Photoquai Biennale Musée du quai Branly Paris; Les Rencontres Arles, Discoveries; Dali Photo, China; Venice Biennale EM15; Photo Beijing, and Lishui Photo China; Korea International Photo Festival. Louise has written about photography for Photo Researcher, Next Level, South Korean Photography, 1000words, co-editor of Hijacked III UK/AUS, PHOTOCINEMA.

She is an international photography curator, juror, advisor and nominator, a regular portfolio reviewer at festivals and galleries worldwide. She is also a board member for Archivo and Pagrav Dance Company; Advisory Board member of Sensing the Forest, Queen Mary University of London; UKRI/AHRC research programme Let the Forest Speak, using the internet of things and creative ai; Patron of FORMAT International Photography Festival and Vice Chair of Inspirate.

Louise is open to seeing all kinds of work, at any stage of production.

Malcolm is a curator, writer and organiser. He is the Director of Street Level Photoworks, a leading photography arts organisation in Scotland that provides artists and the public with a range of opportunities to make and engage with photography. He co-ordinates a programme which embraces different genres of photography and is extended through a network of local and community venues, and through national and international partners. Recent exhibitions Jenny Matthews, Simon Murphy, and curated group shows Depth of Field, and The Scene Within. Partnerships include Impressions (Bradford), Belfast Exposed, Ffotogallery (Cardiff), Grain (Birmingham), and RPS. Exchange residencies include Northern Photographic Centre (Finland), and Artlink (Ireland). Street Level manage the Photography Networks in Scotland platform and is a member of Scotland’s Workshops, a network of artists production centres in Scotland.

Interested in viewing bodies of work in their early stages as well as substantially developed bodies of work from artists and photographers which blend experimental approaches, conceptual or issue based themes; photography as social practice; work that tells a compelling story. No fashion or commercial photography and prefer not to give advice to students who should seek advice from their experienced tutors, and from existing resources available online.

Markéta is a director of Fotograf Gallery, Festival and editor-in-chief of Fotograf Magazine based in Prague. She has ongoing experience as a portfolio reviewer or jury member for different competitions. She is also an independent artist working with photography as a tool of conceptual art. Her author’s book What You See Is What You Think was published as the artistic part of the doctoral thesis under the title Oppositional Reading of Public Space, which she defended at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague in 2019. She studied photography at the Faculty of Art and Design at the Jan Evangelista Purkyne? University in Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic. She is the head of the Documentary Photography Studio at the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU) since 2016. She attended several artists residencies as in Centro de la Imagen – FONCA, Mexico city, Mexico and Artist in residence, Rotor – Association for Contemporary Art, Graz, Austria.

Fotograf Magazine is a periodical mapping the world of contemporary photography. Every four months comes out special-themed issue dedicated to photography, visual culture and contemporary art. Fotograf Gallery is space dedicated to solo exhibition projects of contemporary art artists using medium of photography as well as artist with photographic background. Fotograf Festival is annual occasion to meet special-themed and curated photographic exhibitions in Prague as well as professionals, theoreticians and artists passionate about the medium.

Markéta is the most interested in reviewing conceptual art projects, experimental projects, public art projects, documentary photography crossing boarder of its classical attitude. She is also interested in independent publishing, artists books and zines. As an magazine editor and festival co-founder she is interested in wide range of approaches in sense of depiction world around us in a distinctive way.

Max Gorbatskyi is a curator at Open Eye Gallery in Liverpool, UK. Together with Viktoria Bavykina, he co-founded Ukrainian.Photographies, a platform dedicated to international research on Ukrainian photography. Their curatorial collaborations include the Ukrainian National Pavilion at the 60th Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia (2024), the HOME programme for EuroFestival/Eurovision 2023 in Liverpool City Region, as well as exhibitions at BredaPhoto Festival, Stills Centre for Photography in Edinburgh and UK Parliament in London.

Previously, Gorbatskyi was a curator at the Department of Contemporary Art at Mystetskyi Arsenal in Kyiv, Ukraine, where he led the photography direction and co-curated the landmark exhibition Sensitivity. Contemporary Ukrainian Photography. He is an Academy member of the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize and a jury member for the British Journal of Photography’s Portrait of Humanity award. He holds an MA in the History of Photography from Birkbeck College, University of London, and an MA in Cultural Management from the University of Bologna. He is also a recipient of the UK Government’s Chevening Scholarship.

Max is open to seeing all types of work.

Michael Itkoff is a Cofounder of Daylight Books, a non-profit organisation dedicated to publishing art and photography books. For two decades, Daylight has been dedicated to publishing art and photography via its print and digital publishing programs. By exploring the documentary mode along with the more conceptual concerns of fine-art, Daylight’s uniquely collectible publications work to revitalise the relationship between art, photography, and the world-at-large. 

Michael has been deeply involved in the publishing industry in both print and digital media and has written for the NYTimes Lens blog, Art Asia Pacific, Nueva Luz, Conscientious blog and the Forward. Before starting Daylight, Michael spent time at the Annie?Leibovitz?Studio, Aperture Foundation and Rizzoli International Publications.? His monograph, ‘Street Portraits’, was published by Charta Editions in 2009. 

Michael is open to seeing any long-form bodies of work that are ready for publication. He is not interested in commercial work or nudes

Niall Ó Faircheallaigh is Curator of Exhibitions at Nottingham Contemporary and an independent writer with texts appearing in Plinth, Frieze, Museums Journal and Corridor8.

At Nottingham Contemporary he has experience working on major thematic exhibitions such as Your Ears Later Will Know to Listen (2025), Donald Rodney Visceral Canker (2024) and Hollow Earth: Art, Caves & The Subterranean Imaginary (2022). He has also worked closely with artists to realise ambitious new commissions and solo exhibitions such as Shahana Rajani Four Acts of Recovery (2026), Daniel Lind-Ramos Ensemblajes (2025), Dora Budor Again (2024) and Eva Koťátková How many giraffes are in the air we breathe? (2023).

Niall is interested in practices that engage with ideas around speculative futures, technology, internet and gaming culture, mythological pasts and human/nonhuman connections. I am interested in speaking with artists at any stage of their career and would be especially interested in photographers with a fine-art, conceptual or research-based approach to their work. I am not really interested in commercial work or photo-journalism.

Nicola is the Director and Stephen is the Project Producer of GRAIN Projects, an arts organisation dedicated to commissioning, facilitating and delivering ambitious, engaging and high quality photography projects, commissions, events and exhibitions. GRAIN is a hub, network and platform for contemporary photography and engages with people in the U.K and internationally to make co-curated and co-authored work.

They would be very interested in seeing personal projects, strong narratives, documentary, conceptual, fine art, socially engaged photography, portraiture, editorial, fine art as well as socially engaged and collaborative practices. They are interested in a wide range of photographic genres and supporting emerging practitioners. They are not interested in seeing commercial work, wedding, wildlife or similar

Peggy Sue is Artistic Director for East Wing, a platform for international photography founded in Doha, Qatar. As a curator, writer, strategist, mentor and photographic consultant, Peggy Sue has collaborated with numerous emerging and established photographers, festivals and publications internationally. Before beginning her position at East Wing, Peggy Sue was Artistic Director of Sirius Arts Centre in Ireland (2001 – 2014) where she headed a multidisciplinary visual arts and residency programme. Peggy was also a board member of the Belfast Photo Festival in Northern Ireland (2012 – 2016). She is presently based in Berlin.

Peggy is most interested to in reviewing works that are well researched with an innovative point of view. As a curator, producer and consultant, Peggy Sue can help artists consider strategies for developing their projects through editing and sequencing, but also she can suggest ways to grow their professional practice and promote their work to a larger audience internationally. She is not interested in most fashion, nudes or commercial photography.

Ricardo Reverón Blanco is a writer, curator and mentor. He has curated contemporary exhibitions and artistic programmes for organisations such as Aspex Portsmouth, Photoworks and Peckham24. He is one of four co-founders of UnderExposed, a photography platform and collective dedicated to encouraging artistic collaboration. Ricardo’s practice is informed by collectivity and supportive methodologies for artistic production, dissemination and assimilation.

Recent curated exhibitions include ‘Labours of Love’ (2025) a queer exhibition co-curated with Gemma Rolls-Bentley featuring works by Emily Witham, Alana Lake, BoyBlue and Daira Ronzoni for UK Pride, ‘Traces of the Non-Existent’ (2025) by Ebun Sodipo, ‘CLASSifications’ (2024) featuring Dinu Li, Jamila Prowse, Jasleen Kaur and Joshua Raffell, ‘☰pa●○pa☴’ (2023) by Rae-Yen Song, and ‘Home is Not a Place’ (2022) by Johnny Pitts co-curated with Shoair Mavlian amongst many others.

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Sebah is experienced in working at international world class festivals, projects and events. She is Co-Founder of ReFramed, a photographic based visual arts network, supporting the community and artists who are from the Global Majority. She is Director of Sebahtage, a new organisation supporting artists and writers from under-represented backgrounds. She curated and produced the first exhibition at Stockroom, Chosen Family Album, a brand-new cultural art centre in the heart of Stockport. She is currently Producer of Photography Champions at Photoworks.

Sebah was Creative Producer & Assistant Curator on an international British Council funded project with Ffotogallery, The Place I Call Home, connecting the UK to the Gulf region. From 2013 — 2017, Sebah was Coordinator & Curator at FORMAT Festival. Sebah reviews portfolios internationally and mentor’s artists. She has also curated a number of exhibitions as a freelancer, most recently, the Global Sino Photo Awards at Christie’s, and an exhibition by Jeremy Jeffs at Oxo Tower Gallery, London in Sept 2025.

She has been on the Jury for Portrait of Britain, RPS, RBSA and many others, In 2025, she joined the nominator list for the prestigious Joop Swart Masterclass. She reviews internationally at FORMAT Festival (Derby), Fotofest (Houston) and Les Rencontres d’Arles (Arles).

Advisory Group member at FORMAT Festival and a Trustee at The Royal Photographic Society and COMMUN.

Sebah would prefer to see documentary projects or projects that tell a story, but is open to giving feedback on all projects. She would prefer not to see fashion photography or nude photography.

Sian Bonnell is a UK based artist, living and working in Devon. Her work is concerned with concepts surrounding photography and its relations with objects, environment and performance. Sian’s work has been exhibited and published widely and is held in many public and corporate collections.

Sian established TRACE, the curation, publishing and mentoring project in 1999.

Artist books published under the imprint TRACE Editions include Wild Track the first book of poetry by Mark Haworth-Booth, Imagine Finding Me by Chino Otsuka and Villa Mona by Marjolaine Ryley. Between 2014 and 2019 she curated an annual exhibition of UK graduate photography, featuring over 250 images selected from 16 Universities for the Pingyao International Photography Festival held each September in China.

TRACE has supported artists for over 20 years at all stages in their careers, through mentoring. In 2022 Sian in partnership with Sebah Chaudhry and Haley Morris-Cafiero initiated the inaugural year-long TRACE Mentorship Programme for 24 female-identifying photographers over the age of 35, with generous support from the Genesis Kickstart Fund. Further iterations of the programme both online and in person are being planned for commencement in 2025 after the TRACE project relocation to Plymouth in the South West.

Sian is interested in seeing all kinds of work.

Tim Boddy (he/him) is the Picture Editor of New Scientist, and an experienced photographer based in London. He’s a graduate of London College of Communication’s MA Photojournalism and Documentary Photography course.

Tim’s main practice documents the LGBTQ+ community in a participatory way. His series Queer Spaces, made possible by funding secured from a UAL Mead Fellowship, is a podcast and photography series that maps LGBTQ+ spaces in London. He also provided all photography for the book Queer London, released by ACC Books.

Tim enjoys using alternative photographic processes such as anthoypes (which entails utilising the botanical world to create imagery, highlighting a sustainable method of creating prints) and cyanotypes. His series COVID-19 Plant Prints, which used these processes, was published by the BBC. Tim has also run workshops on these processes.

At New Scientist magazine, Tim collaborates with photographers to showcase compelling visual storytelling on topics ranging from the climate crisis to the latest astronomical discoveries.

Tim is open to seeing all types of work but is particularly interested in subjecs of climate and LGBTQ+ issues.

With over 16 years of experience in photography, environment, climate change, and conservation, Toby Smith is the Director of Development at Belfast Photo Festival, a leading international platform for contemporary photography.

In this role, Toby is responsible for the activities, income, and growth of the festival, as well as supporting the strategy, business, and partnership development of the festival and its related projects.

Toby is passionate about using photography as a tool for communication, education, and advocacy on environmental and social issues. He has worked with various sectors and organisations, such as the Guardian, TED Countdown, Climate Visuals, Natural England, and the Climate and Land Use Alliance, to produce, commission, and promote evidence-based and diverse visual narratives for climate change and nature conservation.

“As a reviewer, you can expect frank creative feedback and/or honest career advice. I would be most valuable to photographers looking to hone or progress developing or near complete bodies of work in nearly any realm. My strength is in reportage, contemporary and/or photography striving for impact or discussion. However, my sector knowledge is weak regarding fashion, event or sports photography.”

Trish Lambe is the Artistic Director/CEO at Photo Museum Ireland, Ireland’s national centre for contemporary photography. She leads the artistic programming and the development of the museum’s collection initiative. Her curatorial practice is concerned with work that addresses socio-political issues, diversity, climate action and emerging practices in Ireland and internationally. She is a nominator, juror and portfolio reviewer for national and international artists’ awards and commissions.

Trish is interested in contemporary and practices interrogating archives. She is not interested in travel or commerical work.

Vincent is an anthropologist and curator working on and around photography and archival practices. His work explores themes of time, memory, and the political imagination.

Currently part of the curatorial team at Peckham 24 (2025, 2022, 2021), other past projects include exhibitions at Permanent/Temporary (London Design Festival 2022), Photobook Cafe (2022), Polycopies (2022), and Format International Festival of Photography (2021). He has taught workshops and delivered guest lectures at Pathshala South Asian Media Institute, The Photographers’ Gallery and GRAIN Projects amongst others; and regularly conducts portfolio reviews.

Vincent’s current PhD project in the Department of Anthropology at UCL focuses on the everyday lives and political imagination of photographic archives and the images they house. His research is funded by the London Arts and Humanities Partnership (AHRC).

He is based between London and Dhaka.

Vincent is interested in discussing narrative work, across a range of genres, and is just as interested in ongoing projects as finished ones. Also happy to discuss image/text, research practices in (and beyond) photography, and project development more broadly. Further areas of interest are book projects and independent publishing.

[image by Sarker Protick]

Vivienne Gamble is Stills Centre for Photography Director. Vivienne Gamble is Co-Founder and previous Artistic Director of Peckham 24 festival. Established in 2016, Peckham 24 festival of contemporary photography takes place annually during Photo London Week. With a focus on supporting new talent and experimental artists working with photography, the festival creates a vibrant takeover of a number of warehouse and gallery spaces across Copeland Park and the Bussey Building in the heart of Peckham’s artistic scene. Peckham 24 is proud to partner with the South London Gallery and the V&A. In 2023 the V&A launched the Parasol Foundation Prize for Women in Photography in partnership with Peckham 24, bringing an exhibition of the inaugural winners of the prize to Peckham 24 2023. From 2015-2023 Vivienne ran Seen Fifteen Gallery, also in Peckham, Seen Fifteen’s programme was dedicated to contemporary photography, and the most recent curatorial project, The Troubles Generation, considered the legacy and impact of the Northern Irish Troubles on artists who were brought up in the shadow of the conflict. Vivienne lectures in photography and exhibition practice as an Associate Lecturer at University of the Arts, London.

Vivienne is interested in seeing complete bodies of work and projects that are ready for exhibition.

Zelda Cheatle is an international curator (most recently Siwa Oasis, Egypt), the organiser of PhotoMonth October 2025 and author of ‘The Photograph that changed my Life’ with over 50 photographs chosen by those in the arts.

She has a long history of working with photography as art, both in a gallery and museum context. Recent international exhibitions were in Dubai, UAE, Riyadh in Saudi Arabia, and in China. Zelda has several corporate spaces in London that she organises exhibitions for and is a consultant for the Arts Council.

Zelda is interested in seeing anything.