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AMRANE Soraya - FRANCE /

Curator / Gallerist - Atelier De Visu Marseille - Marseille

Language : French

4/07 morning & 5/07 morning

4/07 afternoon (Lucille LAGIER an Atelier de visu collaborator since 2005) French & English

Soraya Amrane co-founded the gallery Atelier de visu in 1998 with Antoine d'Agata. The gallery offers exhibitions, residencies, workshops, screenings and discussions, as well as research facilities and a small photographic library. De Visu's primary artistic project, overhauled yearly, is to produce a programme linking young as well as established artists to our strong desire to support and promote emerging talents, finding them an audience on the national and international photographic scenes. Atelier de visu is a member of Marseille Expos.

www.atelierdevisu.fr

ANGREMY Bérnénice - CHINA /

Caochangdi Festival

Languages : English and Chinese

4/07 afternoon & 5/07 afternoon

Biography currently being translated.

French version avalaible on the French interface.

www.ccdphotospring.com

ATTINGER Irène - FRANCE /

Curator / Librarian and bookseller - Paris

Languages : French, English, Spanish

3/07 morning, 4/07 morning, 5/07 morning

Irene Attinger was director of touring exhibitions and press and public relations officer for the Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne, from 1986-1994. She worked on the projects which led to international recognition of the museum. In 1990 she was curator for those parts of the exhibition l'Année de l'Est devoted to East Germany and Hungary. In 1995, she began the task of setting up the library at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie, and defining its aims and acquisitions policy. She is still its director. She was co-ordinating editor of the publication Festival de la Lumière (http://www.festivaloflight.net/). She has taken part in conferences and portfolio reviews and, for the Mois de la Photo 2008, organised a portfolio review by 25 international specialists. She has organised lectures, symposia, and meetings such as: The Importance of Books in the History of Photography, Japanese Photographic Books, Latin-American Photographic Books. She took part in a round-table discussion at Photo-London on Photographic Books and the Future of Publishing. She has been a photographic exhibition curator : DU: la revue culturelle d'une Suisse ouverte sur le monde - Irene Attinger produced a DVD for this; Le livre de nus (‘The Book of Nudes’) from the Bertolotti Collection; Fragments latino-américains : 16 artistes, 9 pays, 40 ans d'images (‘Latin-American Fragments : 16 artists, 9 countries, 40 years of pictures’).

BALSELLS David - SPAIN /

Photography curator - MNAC National Museum of Art of Catalonia - Bacelona

Languages : French, Spanish & Catalan

5/07 afternoon

Born in Lleida, (Catalunya) in 1947. Founder member in 1981 of the Forvm gallery in Tarragona and, until 1987, curator of the Photography Department at the Joan Miró Foundation in Barcelona. Director of the Primavera Fotografica Biennial from 1988 to 2002. In 1991 and 1992 David Balsells was part of the La Caixa Foundation's photographic technique commission in Barcelona. He is also a member of the International Collection Committee at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris. Since September 1996 he has been chief photography curator at the National Art Museum of Catalunya (MNAC). In 2002, for his work in the sphere of the arts, he was made a Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters by France's Minister of Culture and Communications. A founder member of the Forvm Foundation for Photography in Tarragona in 2008, he was also coordinator of the SCAN festival there in 2010. He has just received this year's National Cultural Award in Catalunya.

www.mnac.es

BEAMAN Matthew - UK /

Photography editor / Press - London

Language : English

5/07 morning & 6/07 morning

Matthew Beaman is the Photography Director at Forward Publishing, where he leads the Photography department and commissions, directs and produces still and moving image for a range of editorial and advertising clients.

Prior to his current position he spent 4 1/2 years as Deputy Photography Editor of the award-winning Wallpaper* magazine. Since he joined Wallpaper* in 2007 Matthew has worked with some of the industry's most revered photographers, shaping the look and feel of the magazine by commissioning work to illustrate a wide range of subjects from architecture, portraiture and interiors through to fashion and travel.

Matthew enjoys working with emerging photographers, providing a platform and starting point to their career by commissioning them for the various magazines and clients he works with. He is particularly interested in still life and is always on the lookout for fresh and innovative approaches to the genre."

http://www.patek.com/contents/default/en/ppmagazine.html

http://www.theforwardgroup.com/

BEAUSSE Pascal - FRANCE /

Collections manager of Centre National des Arts Plastiques

Language : French & English

7/07 whol day

Pascal Beausse is an Art Critic. He is Curator of Photographic Collections at CNAP, Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Paris. He teaches History and Theory of Photography at HEAD, Geneva University of Arts and Design.

He contributes regularly to Art Press, Critique d'art, Flash Art.

This summer, he presents the exhibitions Documents pour une information alternative at the Rencontres d'Arles and Número tres, de la casa a la fábrica at La Virreina - centre de la imatge, Barcelona.

BERNARD Sophie - FRANCE /

Chief editor - Images Magazine - Paris

Languages : English, French

3/07 morning & 4/07 morning

After a master’s degree in Modern Literature at La Sorbonne University obtained in 1991, Sophie Bernard began a journalistic career. She wrote for Photographies magazine from 1991 to 1998 before working for professionnal press in the phorography area. In 2003, she created Images magazine, for which she is still chief editor.

BIRGUS Vladimir - CZECH /

Curator - Prague Biennale

Languages : English, Russian, Czech, Slovak & Polish

4/07 morning & 6/07 morning

Vladimír Birgus, curator, photographer and critic of photography, is Head and Professor of the Institute of Creative Photography, Silesian University in Opava, Czech Republic. He is curator of Gallery Opera in Ostrava and House of Art in Opava, chief editor of Photorevue.com, Czech editor of Imago magazine and collaborator of many other magazines including Fotograf, Atelier, Photonews, European Photography, DIGI Foto etc. He is the author and co-author of 30 books, including Tschechoslowakische Fotografie der Gegenwart (Cologne and Heidelberg 1990), Czech Photographic Avant-Garde 1918-1948 (Prague and Stuttgart 1999, Cambridge, Mass. and London 2002), Photographer Frantiek Drtikol (Prague, 2000), Jaroslav Rössler – Czech Avant-Garde Photographer (Cambridge. Mass. and London 2003) and Czech Photography of the 20th Century (Bonn, 2009, and Prague, 2010). His photographs have been exhibited in over 60 one-person exhibitions. He has curated and co-curated number of exhibitions in many museums and galleries in Europe and the USA including Modern Beauty – Czech Photographic Avant-Garde, 1918-1948 (Barcelona, Paris, Lausanne, Prague and Munich, 1998-1999), Glocal Girls (Prague Biennale, 2007, Bratislava, Budapest, Lyon), New Life, New Document from the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia (Prague Biennale, Prague 2009) and Tschechoslowakische Fotografie des 20. Jahrhunderts (Bonn 2009). He is interested in all kinds of good creative, portrait, staged, documentary and reportage photography but not in commercial nudes or traditional lanscapes.

www.praguebiennale.org

BIROLEAU Anne - FRANCE /

Senior curator, in charge of 21st century photography - BNF Bibliothèque Nationale de France

Languages : English & French

3/07 morning & 6/07 morning

Chief Curator in the Engravings and Photography department at the French National Library (Bibliothèque nationale de France) and director of the contemporary photography collection. Exhibition Curator: Mutations (2004), Mario Giacomelli. Métamorphoses (2005), Jean-Louis Garnell (2005), Sebastiao Salgado. Territoires et vies (2005), Roger Ballen (2006), Carl de Keyzer. Trinity (2008), 70’s La photographie américaine (2008), John Batho (2009), Michael Kenna. Rétrospective (2009) ; Current: Joel Peter Witkin (March 2012). Joint curator : La France de Raymond Depardon (September 2010), France 14 (September 2010).

BLASER J. - Christophe - SWISS /

Conservator - Musée de l'Elysée - Lausanne

Langages : French, English, Spanish

2/07 whole day, 3/07 morning

Biography in hold

BLAU Emma - UK /

Creative director - Camera Press - London

Languages: English & French

4/07 morning & 5/07 morning

Emma Blau is an established photographer whose work is held in the permanent collection of the National Portrait Gallery, London. Her photographs have been published in leading publications including British Vogue and London’s Sunday Times Magazine. She has combined her editorial work with a number of independent projects and exhibitions.

Most notably, (IN)VISIBLE (IN)SIGHTS , Emma’s exhibition of striking photographic portraits of autistic adults, , has received numerous accolades. It was highly commended in the UK Observer Hodge Awards (2003) and went on to be nominated for the Citigroup Prize the following year. Most recently it was a winner of the Flash Forward award from the Magenta Foundation in Toronto, Canada, (2008). In 2007 she was responsible for organising the Rencontres D’Arles exhibition QEII@80 celebrating 60 years of Camera Press Ltd, the London based photo agency founded by her Grandfather, the photographer Tom Blau. Emma was previously Gallery Director of the Tom Blau Gallery, London, where she sourced and curated a number of critically acclaimed exhibitions. Emma continues to works as a successful photographic artist, curator and commentator on photography as well as being Creative Director of Camera Press. Recent projects have included publishing Queen Elizabeth II : A Photographic Portrait with Thames and Hudson, curating the exhibition Royal Wives in the Twentieth Century- images from the Camera Press Archive at The Club at The Ivy in London and contributing to the television documentary The Changing Faces of The Queen which was broadcast internationally this year. Emma is interested in seeing photographic projects with a strong thematic basis either ready for publication/ exhibition or work in progress but is not interested in travel, nude or stock photography.

www.camerapress.com

BONERA Daria - ITALY

Agent

Languages : English & Italian

6/07 afternoon & 7/07 morning

www.dariabonera.com

BORNSTEIN Françoise - FRANCE /

Manager Gallery Sit-Down - Paris

Language : French

3/07 afternoon & 4/07 afternoon

Biography currently being translated.

French version avalaible on the French interface.

www.sitdown.fr

BORTKIEWICZ Alexandra - GB

Photography director - Alamy Images

Languages : English & Polish

3/07 afternoon & 4/07 afternoon

Biography currently being translated.

French version avalaible on the French interface.

www.alamy.com

BOSAKOVA Michaela - SLOVAK REPUBLIC

Indepependant curator / Consultant / Editor - Bratislava

Languages : German, English, Slovak, Czech

5/07 morning & 6/07 morning

Curator and project manager at the Central European House of Photography in Bratislava, Slovakia. Event and exhibition organazing production editor of the first volume of the "History of European photography 1900-1938". Coordinator and assistant to the head of the Month of Photography. Prof. Vaclav Macek.

www.sedf.sk

BOSSAN Enrico - ITALY

Editorial director - Colors Magazine, La Fabrica - Treviso

Languages: Italian & English

3/07 whole day & 4/07 afternoon

Since 2005 he is head of the photography department at Fabrica and the editorial director of Colors Magazine. Colors is part of the publishing activity Fabrica, Benetton’s communication research centre, an applied creativity laboratory in which young artists come from all over the world to develop innovative projects. He is founder and art director of www.e-photoreview.com, a blog dedicated to contemporary photograhy released in may 2010. Through video interviews, selected upcoming talents in the field of photography and multimedia can present and promote thier work. In february 2012 he has lanched a new compelling MasterClass program where he act as a techer and tutor; www.enricobossanmasterclass.com. He has been collaborating with many public institutions for healthcare promotion which led him to publish many books over the past 10 years. His work has been exhibited at the Houston PhotoFest, Turin's International Biennale of Photography and in Amsterdam, Arles, Milan, Rome, Thessalonica, Tokyo, and Venice. Since 1992, he is represented by the photo agency Contrasto. He was curator of the 2011 New York Photo Festival, together with Elisabeth Biondi. He has been curator of many photography exhibitions, amoung others A est di Magnum for Magnum agency, and visiting professor at universities. Mr. Bossan is most interested in reviewing photojournalism, reportage and documentary projects. He is not interested in reviewing commercial work. Mr. Bossan can offer advices to photographers upon their career. If the artist’s work is worthing worthing, in exceptional cases he can feature an interviewed to be published in www.e-photoreview.com.

www.fabrica.it

BOURGEOIS-VIGNON Anne - GB /

Indepependant curator / Photo Editor - London

Languages : French & English

5/07 morning & 7/07 morning

Anne Bourgeois-Vignon is a senior commissioning editor at NOWNESS.com and an independent photography director, curator and writer, working with varied organisations such as TIME magazine NYC, CondeNast Paris, and La Lettre de la Photographie. Previously she worked as the Cultural Director of photographers' agency INSTITUTE in New York, and spent over five years as Forward Publishing's Picture Director in London, where she commissioned still and moving image work for a range of editorial and advertising clients. She writes about photography, participates in photography festivals world-wide as a portfolio reviewer, regularly guest lectures at universities, and is developing a curatorial practice, collaborating with collectives and spaces.

She would like to see engaging and committed photographic projects, that have a strong internal coherence. She is particularly interested in meeting photographers who also direct moving image work.

www.nowness.com

BOUTOGRAPHIES - FRANCE /

Christian Maccotta and Peter Vass, Creative director - Montpellier

Languages : English, French, Spanish

5/07 morning & 7/07 afternoon

Biography currently being translated.

French version avalaible on the French interface.

www.boutographies.com

CANDROWICZ Krzysztof - POLAND

Artistic director, teacher, galerist

Languages : English, Russian, Polish

5/07 afternoon, 6/07 afternoon, 7/07 whole day

Krzysztof Candrowicz is a founder and director of Lodz Art Center and Foundation of Visual Education based in Lodz in Poland. The foundation has started organization of the International Festival of Photography since 2001. Every year over 50 exhibitions and numerous workshops, lectures, projections and movie presentations are being organized. As a director and chief curator of the event, he established a network of 30 European festivals of photography, called PHOTO FESTIVAL UNION. The organization is responsible for common activities of European photo events, such as annual meetings, publications, photographic exchange and common promotion. From October 2005 he became a director of Lodz Art Center. Since June 2012 he also became a curator of the PUNCTUM Gallery in Lodz, Poland.

Mr. Candrowicz is interested in viewing work of international interest, particularly creative photography, documentary projects and new interdisciplinary approaches to the medium. He is not, however, interested in viewing nude, landscapes, flowers or glamour photography.

www.fotofestiwal.com, www.festivalunion.com, www.lodzartcenter.com

CASPER Jim - FRANCE /

Lens Culture

Languages : French & English

3/07 morning & 3/07 afternoon

Jim Casper is the founder and director of Lens Culture, an international photography-based arts organization based in Paris since 2005. He is editor-in-chief of Lens Culture’s popular international online magazine (www.lensculture.com) which explores contemporary photography, art, media, and world cultures. The Lens Culture website attracts more than 3 million visitors per year from 50 countries.

In 2010, Lens Culture launched the first large-scale international photography portfolio review conference in Paris, called Lens Culture FotoFest Paris at Spéos (www.fotofest-paris.com). This has become a very successful international event: 163 photographers and 52 reviewers came from 36 countries to participate for 3 days in 2011. The third annual portfolio review in Paris will take place 12-14 November 2012, to coincide with the Paris Photo art fair, and the Month of Photography in Paris.

In 2009, Casper launched the yearly Lens Culture International Exposure Awards competition for photography and multimedia, (www.lensculture.com/awards).A video screening of 34 Award winners is currently being shown at arts institutions and photography/film festivals worldwide, including the Voies Off Festival in Arles, France.

Casper also produces a series of audio and video interviews, titled “Lens Culture Conversations with Photographers”. He serves on juries of several international photo competitions, curates shows, lectures, and writes about photography.

www.lensculture.com

CHARLET Dominique - FRANCE /

Agent & curator

Languages : French & English

4/07 morning & 5/07 morning & 6/07 morning

Ten years ago, after running GETTY Images France and then the photo press agency SYGMA/Corbis, Dominique Charlet founded TAIGA Images, a production and distribution agency for photographic subjects, working with magazines such as Paris Match, Géo, VSD, Stern, Time and Newsweek. As a result of this activity he has been a frequent member of the jury for SCOOP, the international journalism festival in Angers. He became president of the jury and then, from 2008 to 2010, Delegate Director for photography Dominique Charlet was chosen as curator of the French pavilion at the Pingyao International Photography Festival in 2009 and 2010. His contact with the various Chinese federations of photography as well as with a huge number of Chinese photographers led him to start the festival IMAGES de CHINE, which provided an opportunity to discover the incredible wealth and diversity of ways of seeing that the Chinese themselves bring to their continent-sized state. Dominique Charlet has acted as an exhibition curator since 2004, with the launch of Art Event/Lille, and then, in 2006, the Salon des Indépendances, devoted to young contemporary photography. As a co-founder, with Pierre Gassin, of Caféfoto and Photocollection, from 2008 to 2010, in Paris and Arles, he is permanently committed to the promotion of new talent in photography.

He also acts as an adviser to private collectors, auction houses and institutions. Alongside his work as an exhibition curator, Dominique Charlet is an artists’ agent whose knowledge of photography, his passion for the subject, and also his two eyes, are an invaluable resource for photographers.

CLEMENTS Louise - UK /

Independant curator / Museum director / Artistic director

Language : English

6/07 morning & 7/07 morning

Artistic Director of QUAD, a centre for contemporary art & film. Co-founder, Artistic Director/Curator since 2004 of FORMAT International Photography Festival Derby UK. QUAD, contains galleries, an independent cinema, artist studios, digital and physical production spaces and a British Film Institute Mediatheque. As a curator, since 1998 Louise has initiated and curated many commissions and exhibitions of international and emerging contemporary art, artists residencies, conferences, debates, produced many publications and film works. QUAD programme organizes several exhibitions per year, many of which tour internationally.

FORMAT is one of the UKs leading contemporary photography festivals, the biennial programme in March, celebrates the wealth of contemporary practice in international photography. FORMAT is the place to see an incredible range of new work alongside some of the best-known practitioners in the world. FORMAT is focused on developing opportunities for audiences to see, debate, develop and engage in the best of what contemporary international photography is and can be alongside a commissioning, education and professional practice programme. Louise writes about photography for catalogues and magazines in both print and online media including: Kwartalnik Fotografia, Creative Review, Next Level, AN magazine, South Korean Photography, Troika Editions, Arts Professional and a regular contributor and non-executive Director for the online magazine www.1000wordsmag.com a non profit organisation dedicated to promoting and supporting contemporary photography through publishing, exhibiting, workshops and awards. She is currently collaborating on a major publication with Mark McPherson at Big City Press, titled Hijacked3 contemporary photography from Australia/UK. She is keen to see photographers who are interested to discuss ideas and open to see work at any stage of project development. Interested in anything from documentary, photo-journalism, archive, photo/cross artform installation and contemporary/narrative photography, including film and performance. She is less interested to see travel, commercial, advertising, stock unless they fit into the above.

www.formatfestival.comwww.derbyquad.co.uk

COAKER Bridget - UK /

Curator / Festival / Gallery / Picture editor

Language : English

5/07 afternoon & 6/07 afternoon

Bridget Coaker is a picture editor based in London, where she works for the Guardian and Observer newspapers and is also Director of Photography for the contemporary photography gallery Troika Editions, which she founded in 2008. She has curated a number of exhibitions and in 2009 was Director of the Hereford Photography Festival where she presented the photography of European photographers working with the image of the child in "Seen But Not Heard" and curated the retrospective show of photojournalist and filmmaker John Bulmer. Bridget is a visiting lecturer at UK Universities, including the University for the Creative Arts, University of Derby and the Hereford College of Art. In 2011 she joined the steering committee of the FORMAT International Photography Festival and participated in the North East Photography Network Symposium - Photography Publishing and the Future of the Photo-Book. Bridget has also written about photography including for the online art photography magazine, 1000 Words, The Daily Telegraph and is a contributing writer for the book "Exhibiting Photography"published by Focal Press.

Bridget prefers to see work that is completed and is ready for publication or exhibiting. It can be either journalistic or art based, but clear in its intent and purpose. She also prefers to see prints rather than laptop slide shows, unless pertinent to the presentation of the work. Her advice will centre on the work shown with recommendations of how to take it forward through publication and/or exhibitions and offer suggestions about social media and traditional forms of marketing projects and provide advice on career progression.

www.guardian.co.ukwww.troikaeditions.co.uk

DANYSZ Magda - PARIS & SHANGHAI /

Magda Danysz gallery director

Languages : Franch & English

2/07 morning & 3/07 morning

Biography currently being translated.

French version avalaible on the French interface.

www.magda-gallery.com

DI FELICE Paul - LUXEMBOURG /

Curator / Artistic director / Teacher / Critic - Luxembourg

Languages : German, English, French, Italian

3/07 afternoon & 4/07 morning

Lives and works in Luxembourg. Research lecturer at the University of Luxembourg; artist; editor; member of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA); founder member of the editorial team of the online magazine lacritique.org, of the publication Café Crème, and of the University of Luxembourg pedagogical journal transfert ; international expert and independent exhibition curator for the International Photography Triennial in Tampere, Finland and for the European Month of Photography (Paris, Berlin, Vienna, Rome, Bratislava, Moscow and Luxembourg). Co-founder and co-ordinator of the art workshop in collaboration with the Casino Luxembourg - Forum of Contemporary Art. Director of the visual arts laboratory in the Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education (FLSHASE) at the University of Luxembourg; researcher with IPSE. Teaches Historyof Art and Photography (20th century).

www.cafecreme-art.lu www.emoplux.lu wwwfr.uni.lu

DITTRICH Kristin - ALLEMAGNE /

Director of the german international - F/Stop Fotofestival -

and Independent Curator for contemporary Photography

Languages : English, French, German

5/07 afternoon, 6/07 whole day & 7/07 morning

Kristin Dittrich is the founder of the internationally reknowned F/Stop photo festival in Leipzig, Germany. This annual, themed festival, which Dittrich directed from 2007 to 2010, presents a rich variety of exceptional new work by established artists as well as by novice photographers from the four corners of the globe. In her work, Dittrich focuses on solo and group shows, organised by themes such as “Trust” in 2007, “Closer” in 2008 or “In The Hidden” in 2010, where she brought together more than 90 artists from 15 different countries. This year Dittrich is working for Documenta 13 in Kassel, Germany.

DOSSE Ellen - THE NETHERLANDS /

Photographers agent/ Curator / Consultant

Languages : Dutch, English

3/07 afternoon & 4/07 afternoon

Producer and creative services consultant. Works with clients and photographers, actualizes their projects as a coach or a producer. More than a decade working for the advertising industry for brands as Nivea, Nissan, Canon Europe. Since 2003 she worked as a coordinator and teacher at the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague. She has been a guest curator for the Photo festival Naarden, is a jury member and a portfolio reviewer at several photography events. Currently she is working for Hazazah Film & Photography as a producer and is interested in photographers who know how to find a good balance between their art- and commercial projects.

Languages: Dutch, English

www.hazazah.com

www.ellendosse.nl

DUFRENNOY Emeline - FRANCE /

La Chambre Gallery - Strasbourg

Languages : French & English & German

5/07 afternoon & 6/07 afternoon

Emeline Dufrennoy is director of La Chambre, a space for exhibitions and teaching about the image. The programme she has developed there is devoted to contemporary photography, with an emphasis on increasing the prestige of young, international creative work and the organisation of one-person shows by recognized photographers. There is also a historically biased show each summer. Emeline Dufrennoy has in addition developed a number of activities for young, particularly French and German, photographers. La Chambre is the scene of many activities designed to encourage image mediation and training, through courses, classes and visiting artists.

www.la-chambre.org

ESCOULEN Fanny - FR /

Deputy director Le Bal - Paris

Language : French & English

5/07 morning & 6/07 morning

Bio coming soon

www.le-bal.fr

FARMANI Hossein - USA /

Director - Farmani Gallery

Language : English

3/07 afternoon & 4/07 afternoon

Hossein Farmani is the founder of The Lucie Awards, The International Photography Awards, Paris Photo Prize (px3), Focus on Aids and the Month of Photography in Los Angeles. He is also the owner of the Farmani Gallery, a contemporary photography gallery in New York, boasting over 12 exhibitions per year of established and emerging photographic talent. Hossein Farmani has curated over 80 photographic exhibitions through out the world. He is a jury at many competitions and does portfolio reviews around the world. Hossein Farmani’s personal collection of contemporary and vintage photography is one of the most important private collections in Los Angeles. At Photo Folio Review, Hossein Farmani is interested in Fine Art photography.

www.farmanigallery.comwww.lucieawards.com

FERREIRA Angela - PORTUGAL /

Indepandant curator / Artistic director / Teacher / Director of Festival

Languages : Portuguese, English

2/07 afternoon & 3/07 afternoon

Portugal, 1975

Ângela is co-director of the Portuguese Festival of photography: Encontros da Imagem| Braga. Teacher of Photography and Digital Art at the Art School of Oporto_Portugal, where she was also director of the Photography Department. She is graduated at Utrecht School of Arts-Holland and has the European Media Master in Digital Photography. She received the MFA at curatorial studies and art direction from the Esap_Guimarães.

PHD student at Photography at Universidade Federal Rio de Janeiro and Universidade do Minho, Portugal.

www.encontrosdaimagem.com

FETART Organisation create to support the new photography scene - FRANCE /

Languages : French &English

5/07 afternoon & 6/07 afternoon

A public interest association under the terms of the 1901 French statute, Fetart's goal is to sponsor emerging photographers by giving them an initial opportunity to show their work. Known as a springboard for launching photographers' careers, the association has been able to bring to light numerous talents and give them a foothold in the art world. Most of these photographers are today shown in galleries, agented, or exhibited in international festivals.

The Fetart team, which includes ten volunteers, all passionate about photography, has organized over 40 exhibitions and has presented 100 artists, both French and European. Thanks to the success of these events, the vitality of the contemporary photo scene has been laid out for a large audience to see. The number of visitors and the presence of numerous professionals (gallery owners, artists' agents ) testify as to the success of this process. Over the years Fetart has created a strong network of contacts among image collectives, festival organizers, galleries, publications and photography schools, which has enabled it to build a real dynamic for European photography.

The association's interest in Europe is demonstrated by the 2009 founding of 'Entrevues', a visual dialogue between two European photographers accessible on Fetart's web site. This interest is also visible in the first annual Circulation(s), the top festival for young European photographers, sponsored in 2011 by Fetart. As a continuation of the group's efforts to showcase tomorrow's talent, the Circulation(s) festival offers a dialogue on Europe by bringing together 42 European photographers.

www.fetart.org www.festival-circulations.com

FETISSOVA Liza - FRANCE /

Russiantearoom gallery director

Languages : French, English, Russian

6/07 afternoon & 7/07 morning

Liza Fetissova is the Director of RussianTeaRoom Gallery in Paris, France. RussianTeaRoom, founded in 2007, was initially a gallery representing Russian photography in France that has successfully launched several artists in Europe (Oleg DOU, Sergey Maximishin, Margo Ovcharenko). However, since November 2010, the gallery has been showing more and more international photographic work. Liza has curated approximately 40 exhibitions both in France and abroad. Additionally, she has published two books and a dozen portfolios. Mrs. Fetissova has also conducted seminars in both Moscow and St. Petersburg, Russia, specifically on the issue of the photographic market.

In the past, Liza Fetissova has reviewed portfolios at Rencontres photographiques in Arles, France (2009 & 2010), Encontros da Imagem Braga, Portugal (2011), FotoFest Paris (2011) and FotoFest Houston, USA (2012). As a portfolio reviewer, Mrs Fetissova offers participants professional development, guidance, and curatorial insight. Being a discovery and risk taking type of the gallerist, she is currently looking for new artists who’s work is or can be of impact of the photographic medium.

Liza Fetissova is interested in unique and exceptional projects anchored in 20th century photography, as well as contemporary art projects that explore and search for a new photographic language.

http://rtrgallery.com/html.php?lang=fr&id=1

FLEETWOOD John - SOUTH AFRICA

Director Market Photo Workshop

Language : English

3/07 afternoon & 4/07 aflernoon

John Fleetwood is the Head of the Market Photo Workshop, a school and gallery for photography in Johannesburg, South Africa. He initiated The Photo Workshop gallery, one of few photography dedicated galleries in South Africa; the Photojournalism Documentary Photography Programme, the sole photojournalism training programme of this nature on the African continent; as well as various mentorship programmes for developing photographers, including the Edward Ruiz Mentorship, the longest established photography mentorship on the continent. He is teaches and curates in various capacities.Fleetwood is the curator for Photoquai 2013 Africa, nominator for the Joop Swart Masterclass, judge for the Encounters of Bamako 2009, nominator for the ICP Infinity Awards 2011, judge at Plattform, Fotomuseum Winterthur 2011.

www.marketphotoworkshop.co.za

FOUNES Frédérique - FRANCE /

Co-fonder Signatures/ Houses of photographer / Curator / Artistic director

Languages : French, English

5/07 morning & afternoon

After post-graduate audio-visual studies, Frédérique Founès held the posts of press-relations manager and production manager for the Fnac Photo Galleries exhibitions. In 2005 she joined the association Les Petits Frères des Pauvres as marketing director. There she helped set up the social documentary photo gallery Fait&Cause, handling press-relations and fund-raising and part of the production of exhibitions. She joined the press agency Editing in 2002 as director of cultural projects. En 2008, with Marie Karsenty, she founded the photographers’ agency Signatures, which works with 50 photographers on their documentary projects. Signatures is something between an agency and a collective; its mission is to produce and distribute news stories about realities of society, everyday life, politics and economics for the press, public relations, and institutions. Frédérique Founès has curated the following exhibitions : La traversée du siècle, group (2000), Amours de vieux, Eric Dexheimer (2002), Galerie Fait&Cause ; Gens d’Irak, Hien Lam Duc, Rencontres d’Arles 2003 ; Lambours toujours, Xavier Lambours, and Fille indienne, Didier Goupy at Mois de la photo, Paris 2006 ; Europe échelle 27, group ; XL27, Xavier Lambours at Mois de la photo, Paris 2008.

GAUTIER Valérie - FRANCE /

Artistic Director / Photo editor- La Martinière - Paris

Language : French

6/07 morning & 7/07 whole day

Art director of the La Martinière publishing group, Valérie Gautier spent fifteen years in communication as creative director for the CLM-BBDO group's Proximité agency, before moving back into publishing as art director at Éditions Flammarion, then at Éditions du Seuil. She works closely with photographers Raymond Depardon and Gérard Rondeau on publication of their books.

GEISS Claude - FRANCE /

Artistic director Festival Chroniques Nomades - Reims

Languages : English, French

6/07 afternoon & 7/07 morning

Bio coming soon

www.chroniquesnomades.com

GIUDICI Guido - SWITZERLAND /

Curator / Gallery owner - Chiasso

Languages : English, French, Italian

2/07 morning, 3/07 morning & 4/07 morning

Director with Daniela Giudici of the Galleria Cons Arc, Chiasso, a photography exhibition space since 1990. Committee member, director and organiser of the Biennale dell'Immagine in Chiasso Switzerland, member of ASIP (Swiss Association of Institutions concerned with Photography).

www.consarc.ch

http://consarc.ch/bi/bi.htm

GIULIANI Alberto - ITALY /

Photographers agent / Artistic director

Languages : English, Italian, Spanish

5/07 morning & 5/07 afternoon

Born in Italy in 1975. Photographer and writer, he his co-founder and editorial director of LUZ Photo agency in Italy (www.luzphoto.com). He has been represented by Grazia Neri photo-agency from 1995 to 2009. He works for the most important Italian magazines covering assignments on social issues around the world. He spent 3 years concentrating his works on the Italian mafias named Malacarne - MARRIED TO THE MOB. This work won many prizes. The writer Roberto Saviano chose this work for the last monologue at the Festival delle Letterature Roma 2009. He realized a work named NEXTONOTHING, published in a book in 2004. Nextonothing became a theatre-show (debut in Ravello Festival 2008). He his working since many years on a project about Argentina. He won several prizes amongst which: Leica for Reportage 2010, finalist at the W.E. Smith Grant, Siani Award with the high acknowledgment of the Italian Republic Precidency, Canon prize, Agfa. He has been selected for the World Press Photo J.S. Masterclass 2005. He writes articles and stories for some Italian magazines.

www.luzphoto.com

GRANDE Chantal - SPAIN /

Gallerist / Photographers agent / Collector Independant curator / Artistic director

Languages : English, Italian, Spanish

5/07 afternoon

Born in Corrèze, France. Lives and works in Tarragona, Spain. Owner/director of the Forvm photography gallery in Tarragona, which from 1981–2006 presented top Spanish and international artists. Founder member, director and curator since 1988 of the Tinglado 2 Centre for Contemporary Art, on Tarragona harbour. The diaphanous, 900 square metre centre offers artists carte blanche for the creation of new projects. Artists who have shown there include Keichi Tahara, Anne and Patrick Poirier, Alain Fleischer, Jan Fabre, Joan Fontcuberta, Francesc Torres, Wim Delvoye, Hannah Collins and Francesco Jodice. A work by Stéphane Couturier is in the planning stages.

Exhibitions director at the Printemps de Cahors photo festival in 1994 and 1996. President of the Forvm Foundation for Photography, in partnership with the City of Tarragona, since 2007, and art director of the SCAN festival in Tarragona in 2010. Sits on the juries of the International Photography Prize and the Book Award in Arles. Member of the Acquisitions Committee at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris.

www.scan.tarragona.cat

GUERRINI Sara - Italy

Picture Editor at D magazine (La Repubblica)

Languages : German, English, Italian

6/07 morning & 7/07 afternoon

Sara Guerrini is picture editor at D magazine , weekend supplement of newspaper La Repubblica. She just moved back from London where she worked for Gallery Stock, an image library showcasing the archives of some of the world's leading photographers. Previously Sara Guerrini worked or contributed as a picture editor at D Magazine. Panorama First Magazine, Colors, Grazia Casa and La Repubblica newspaper. Started gaining experience in photography in Germany, training at Ostkreuz - Agentur der Fotografen and Stern Magazine and then working with Grazia Neri International Photo Agency in Italy. During the past few years she focused more on looking into various areas within Photography (Reportage, Fine Art, Fashion, Beauty, etc.) dealing with its potential, both editorial as well as commercial, and working on personal projects. She is strongly interested to see and discuss young artists' projects and is open to all new photographer conversation regarding editing, projects, publishing, market their works, etc.

http://periodici.repubblica.it/d/

HARRINGTON Guy - UK

Managing Director of Artefact Editions.

Language : English

5/07 afternoon & 6/07 morning

Managing Director of Soho Management since 2000. Member of the Royal Photographic Society Awards committee since 2007. Editor of several books the most recent of which, Englishman in New York, was exhibited in the National Portrait Gallery 2010-11.

www.sohomanagement.co.uk

HATT Etienne - FRANCE /

Agence Vu

Languages : French & English

6/07 afternoon

Biography currently being translated. French version avalaible on the French interface.

www.galerievu.com

HERSCHDORFER Nathalie - SWITZERLAND /

Curator

Languages : English, French

3/07 morning, 4/07 morning, 5/07 morning

Curator and art historian, specializes in the history of photography. Director of the Swiss photography festival Alt. +1000 and curator at the Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography (FEP, Minneapolis, Paris, Lausanne), Ms. Herschdorfer was previously a curator at the Musée de lElysée, Lausanne, Switzerland, where she worked for twelve years on major international exhibitions and their publications. She worked on major retrospectives dedicated to photographers Edward Steichen, Leonard Freed and Ray K. Metzker. She regularly works with contemporary photographers at various stages of their careers. Among her recent projects are mid-career retrospectives of the French photographer Valérie Belin and the Italian photographer Carlo Valsecchi. Ms Herschdorfer co-curated the two editions of the international project, reGeneration: Tomorrow’s Photographers Today (2005 and 2010). In 2011, she completed work on a new book project: Afterwards: Contemporary Photography Confronting the Past, to be published by Thames & Hudson (London/Paris/New York) in September. She currently works on a dictionary of photography (Thames & Hudson), a mid-career retrospective of the French photographer Stéphane Couturier and an exhibition dedicated to 10 decades of fashion photography at Condé Nast (New York, Paris, Milan). These two exhibitions, produced by FEP, will travel internationally from 2012.

www.plus1000.ch www.fep-paris.org

HISLEN Marion - FRANCE

Photo Fnac gallery manager

Languages : French & English

Bio in hold

6/07 afternoon

www.fnac.com/galerie-photo-fnac/ct21606/w-4

HUNTW. M. - USA /

Collector / Curator / Consultant

Language : English

3/07 morning & 4/07 morning

W.M. Hunt (Bill Hunt) is a New York-based collector, curator and consultant, a champion of photography. He loves fresh talent. He is responsible for introducing many major contemporary artists in the US, including Luc Delahaye, Julian Faulhaber, Andreas Gefeller, Erwin Olaf, Martin Schoeller, and Paolo Ventura, etc. Most recently he curated FRESH, a debut photography annual for new talent at KlompChing Gallery in DUMBO

His “Collection Dancing Bear” of photographs is the subject of a new book, to be published this fall as “The Unseen Eye: PPhotographs from the Unconscious” by Thames & Hudson in the UK and Aperture in the US and as “L’Oeil Invisible” by Actes Sud in France. Highlights of the collection were exhibited as “Sans Regard” in 2005 in Arles, and subsequently in Lausanne and Amsterdam. The first major US show will go on view at the George Eastman House in October.

Hunt has been a longtime board member of the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund, AIPAD (Association of International Photography and Art Dealers), and The Center for Photography at Woodstock. He also teaches at the School of Visual Arts and for many years he has produced the “Your Picture ” panels for PDN. He has also written for a number of publications and monographs (Bill Armstrong, Mark Beard, Manuel Geerinck, Bohnchang Koo, Luis Mallo, Jeff Sheng, etc.) He was one of the principles in Hasted Hunt (and more recently Hasted Hunt Kraeutler) and Ricco/Maresca Gallery.

www.wmhunt.com

JAMES Simon with LAND David- UK

Consultants / Press

Language : English

4/07 afternoon & 6/07 morning

Simon is managing director of EC1 Publishing Ltd, in London, where he is publisher of The Royal Photographic Society Journal and F2 Freelance Photographer magazines

As a specialist in the editorial, rather than fine art arena, at Arles 2012 he is particularly keen to look at the work of recent graduates taking their first steps towards a career in editorial photography and also photographers turning professional at a mid-career point.

Simon James spent a number of years working as an editorial and portrait photographer for London based magazines. His first book, "Signs of Life", was published by Cornerhouse Publications in 1993, and “Mind The Gap”, with an introduction by Michael Palin, followed in 2001. His photographs are held in several collections in the UK and USA including the National Portrait Gallery, London, and Imperial War Museum, London.

www.ec1publishing.com

KARPF Barbara - ALLEMAGNE /

Publisher at Kehrer Verlag

Languages : German & English

3/07 morning, 4/07 morrning, 5/07 morning, 6/07 morning

Barbara Karpf is an editor for Kehrer Verlag – a publisher of high profile mainly art photography books, though the list contains some documentary and reportage photo books. Having obtained her Master's in Art History from the University of Heidelberg, she started her career working for Kehrer Verlag in the 1990’s. She has developed projects on the work of artists such as Peter Granser, Jessica Backhaus, Andrej Krementschouk, and has published articles and essays on art and photography in popular and academic venues. Barbara is especially interested in seeing any work suitable for publication in book form. She can offer photographers a realistic understanding of the market for photography books and is happy to offer critical advice and encouragement about how best to proceed with a possible

publishing project.

www.kehrerverlag.com

KAVALIAUSKAS Mindaugas - LITHUANIA /

Director at KAUNAS PHOTO Festival

English, French, German, Russian, Polish, Lithuanian

4/07 afternoon & 5/07 afternoon

Mindaugas Kavaliauskas is photographer, historian, critic, publicist, curator, lecturer, publisher of photography. Since 2004 he has been directing KAUNAS PHOTO festival, now the longest running art photography festival in the Baltic states. In 2004, after the first edition of the festival, he started a small gallery F Galerija in Kaunas, located on the upper station of Kaunas aliakalnis funicular, which he keeps directing. The gallery focuses on showing works of emerging photographers from all over the world. Both Kaunas Photo festival and the F Galerija are now in the ninth year of activity. Kaunas Photo festival exhibits a variety of artists, making both personal exhibitions and thematic group shows. He has curated a number of exhibitions in photographic festivals, galleries, museums: FotoGrafia (Rome), Lodz photo festival (Poland, Italy) in Festival of Maritime photography in Vannes (France), Backlight triennial in Tampere (Finland), Pingyao and Lishui festivals (China). He has been reviewing portfolios in numerous festivals and institutions: Fotofest-Houston, PhotoLucida-Portland, Foto Espana-Madrid, Hamburg, Odense, Bratislava, Vienna, FotoFreo, Backlight-Tampere, also in Kaunas Photo, with its portfolio review competition KAUNAS PHOTO STAR.

He has been teaching photography in different universities, schools and consulting artists. He is a frequent portfolio reviewer, conference speaker, member of jury panels, in competitions, festivals of photography in Europe, USA, China, Australia. He is author of over thirty articles about photographers, photographic festivals, history of photography, published in books, catalogs, scientific publications and art magazines in Lithuania and a number of introductory texts to books and presentations of artists.

Mindaugas Kavaliauskas is interested in reviewing all types of photography except of glamour, artistic nudes and wildlife.

www.kaunasphoto.info

KAWAN Eric - BELGIUM /

Language : French & English

6/07 morning & 7/07 morning

Biography currently being translated. French version avalaible on the French interface.

www.sitdown.frhttp://www.nka-gallery.com/

KEHRER Klaus - ALLEMAGNE /

Publisher at Kehrer Verlag

Languages : German & English

3/07 afternoon & 4/07 afternoon

Klaus Kehrer founded Kehrer Verlag, based in Germany, in 1995. Today it is one of the foremost international photographic publishers. Its authors have included leading international photographers such as Saul Leiter, Thomas Ruff, Jessica Backhaus, Thomas Wrede, Charles Fréger, Andrew Phelps, Rinko Kawauchi, Andrej Krementschouk, as well as numerous emerging artists. Kehrer Verlag is a member of The European Publishers Award for Photography. Klaus is most interested in reviewing work for which a book seems like the next logical step.

www.kehrerverlag.com

KIANG Tanya - IRLANDE /

Photography Curator of the Irish Gallery of Photography

Language : Anglais

2/07 afternoon & 3/07 morning

Following six years as Editor of ‘Circa’, Ireland’s leading journal of visual culture, Tanya Kiang joined the Gallery of Photography Ireland in 1998. She is responsible for exhibition curation with Trish Lambe and has particular interest in publishing catalogues, monographs and artists’ books. She regularly lectures and reviews on contemporary photography. She is a Nominator or Jury Member for numerous national and international artists awards & commissions including the new SHOWCASE award, the New York Photo Festival Awards, Prix Pictet and others. Recent acclaimed projects include exhibitions by: Jackie Nickerson ‘Ten Miles Round’ (Winner of the AIB Prize); John Gerrard ‘New Work in New Media’; Anthony Haughey ‘Disputed Territory’; Richard Torchia / O’Donnell+Tuomey ‘camera obscura installation’; Simon Burch ‘Under a Grey Sky’. Curation with Trish Lambe of photography section of The Moderns, Irish Museum of Modern Art; and The Collector’s Eye, a new curated exhibition of Irish vintage prints from the Sean Sexton collection.

Interested in reviewing critically engaged social / documentary work, or work that explores the boundaries of lens-based media. Special interest in books and monographs. No fashion or straight travel photography, please.

www.galleryofphotography.ie

KOUWENHOVEN Bill - USA /

Independant curator / Journalist / Photographic Critic

Languages : English, German, Spanish

2/07 whole day, 3/07 whole day

Bill Kouwenhoven is International Editor of HotShoe magazine and a frequent contributor to numerous other contemporary photography journals in the United States, England and Europe including Afterimage, Aperture, British Journal of Photography, Foto 8, Photonews, Foto, European Photography, and Camera Austria. He is the author of several monographs, and the major survey of contemporary Spanish Photography and Video, Nuevas Historias. He lives and works in Berlin and New York.

He is especially interested in documentary and photojournalism oriented work as well as compelling work addressing contemporary issues whether abstract or concrete. He is not interested in commercial or fashion related work, but can always be persuaded by the quality and strength of vision expressed by the photographer in any genre.

He is looking for well-edited portfolios to include in the magazine to which he contributes or edits as well as for the purposes of nominating work for other photography festivals. Mr. Kouwenhoven brings an experience of over 15 years in photography and a thorough knowledge of contemporary practice, gallery tastes, and publishing.

www.hotshoeinternational.com

LACOSTE Anne - SWISS /

Collector / Curator - Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne -

Languages : English & French

5/07 afternoon & 6/07 morning

Biography currently being translate.

French version available on the "French" interface.

LAJOIX Frédérique - FRANCE

Picture editor - Prisma corporate media -

Languages : French

5/07 morning & 5/07 afternoon

After taking a postgraduate diploma in ‘Aesthetics, History and Practical Art and Photography’ (University of Paris VIII, 2003), Frédérique Lajoix went on to write a doctoral thesis on the works of Francesca Woodman. As a practising photographer, she took a further course in ‘Art, Creation and Therapy’ (École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Bourges, 2008), which qualified her to set up photo workshops in children’s psychiatric hospitals.

She was photo editor for some ten years for various press titles, including Vogue, Sciences et Avenir, Les Inrockuptibles and Le Nouvel Observateur and then for the Textuel agency. She now works as picture editor in the photo department of Prisma Corporate Media, the magazine Aéroports de Paris Lifestyle. At the same time she has been involved over the last five years in a number of practical and theoretical teaching activities in the field of art: personal tuition in photography, artistic advice on presentation of portfolios, membership of juries (for photography students) and supervising research in Art History (for several American universities in Paris). Frédérique Lajoix is the author of articles in monographs – in publication – for the Maison Européenne de la Photographie.

LAMBE Trish - IRELAND /

Co-curator at Irish Gallery of Photography

Language : English

2/07 afternoon & 3/07 morning

Trish Lambe is Curator/ Projects director at the Gallery of Photography – Ireland’s leading centre for contemporary photography. She is responsible, with Tanya Kiang, for the curation of the exhibition programme. She has particular interest in both contemporary and archival work. She is director of the Borderlines project – a major archive project addressing legacy of conflict in Ireland. Curation with Tanya Kiang of photography section of The Moderns, Irish Museum of Modern Art, and The Collector’s Eye – major exhibition of Irish vintage prints from the Sean Sexton collection. Nominator & member of jury panel for numerous national and international artists’ awards to include: SHOWCASE Award 2012 – Ireland’s leading photography award; Google Photography Award 2012; New York Photo Festival Awards 2011; Lucie International Photo Awards 2011; Propeller Artist Award 2011; and Source Magazine Graduate Submission 2011. She has been a nominator for Prix Pictet International Prize for Photography since 2009. Interested in reviewing critically engaged social/documentary work, or work that explores the boundaries of lens-based media. Is not interested in reviewing travel photography.

www.galleryofphotography.ie

LANZA Patricia - USA /

The Annenberg Space for Photography

Language : English

4/07 morning & 5/07 morning

Patricia Lanza is currently working with the Annenberg Foundation as the

Director of Talent and Programming for their new center of Photography in Los Angeles. The Annenberg Space for Photography produces exhibitions, which includes a print exhibition and a film production created for each show. She worked on the development of the photographic gallery from its inception to its opening in 2009, researching and writing an initiative on photography for Wallis Annenberg.

The Annenberg Space for Photography was the recipient of the Julius Shulman Communications award, and the Beauty Culture exhibition won the Lucie Award for the exhibition of the year in 2011.

She began her career in photography with the National Geographic Society in Washington DC where she had over 700 pictures published over a 10 year period. Assignments have taken her to five continents and 40 countries. She as well produced articles for a variety of international newspapers and magazines, and was under contract with the Tribune Syndicate News Corporation.

www.annenbergspaceforphotography.org

LE BESCONT Patrick - FRANCE /

Filigranes Editions

Languages : French

4/07 morning & 5 /07 morning

Biography currently being translate.

French version available on the "French" interface.

www.filigranes.com

LECUILLIER Clotilde - FRANCE

Photo Producer - Contour by gettyimages

Language : French & English

6/07 morning

French version available on the "French" interface.

www.contourbygettyimages.com

LE GRUIEC Gilou - FRANCE /

Gallery Vu'

Language : French

3/07 afternoon

Bio coming soon

http://www.agencevu.com/

LEVY Carrie - USA

Senior Photo Editor- Wired Magazine

Languages : English

3/07 morning & 4/07 morning

Carrie Levy is the senior photo editor at Wired Magazined in San Francisco, CA.

Wired Magazine publishes innovative stories and photography about science, technology, business and contemporary culture. Often Wired is referred to as a magazine for the future.

Levy has also been a photo editor at numerous prestigious publications such as The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, GQ, and New York Magazine.

She is also a photographer who has exhibited her photographs throughout the US, Asia, and Europe. Trolley Books published her first monograph in 2005 titled "51 Months". Levy is also a part-time professor, having taught at School of Visual Arts and Parsons The New School of Design. She received her BFA from the School of Visual Arts in 2000 and her MFA from The Royal College of Art, London, in 2005.

www.wired.com

LEWIS Dewi - UK /

Director publisher

Language : English

4/07 morning & 5/07 morning

Dewi Lewis established his publishing house in 1994. Internationally known, its authors have included leading photographers such as Martin Parr, Simon Norfolk, William Klein, Frank Horvat, Paolo Pellegrin, Sergio Larrain and Bruce Gilden. He also works in close collaboration with a number of European publishers and is a founding member of The European Publishers Award for Photography, now in its 18th year. An Honorary Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society, Dewi was awarded the Society’s inaugural RPS Award for Outstanding Services to Photography in 2009. He has acted as a portfolio reviewer at innumerable international photography events including Fotofest, USA; Lodz Festival, Poland; PhotoEspana, Spain; Review Santa Fe, USA. He was also a ‘Master’ for both the 2009 and 2010 World Press Photo Joop Swart Masterclasses. As well as his own book, Publishing Photography, he has written occasional texts on photography and curated exhibitions including a survey show of the famous UK magazine, Picture Post, for the 2010 Atri Festival. Dewi Lewis is particularly interested in seeing projects which are conceived as book projects. He is not interested in nude, fashion or illustrative travel photography.

www.dewilewispublishing.com

MARY Yolande - FRANCE /

Artistic director / Confluence Gallery - Nantes

Languages : French, English

3/07 morning, 4/07 morning, 4/07 afternoon, 6/07 morning

Hubert Van Genneken and Yolande Mary opened the gallery Confluence in 2004. It was conceived as a continuation of the work they had done in the Quinzaine Photographique festival: “Our initial interest was the current state of contemporary photography – the nature of the medium being an integral part of the work – and we alternated exhibitions by artists like T. Cuisset, M. Giacomelli, M. Bernard-Reymond with exhibitions by young photographers like G. Baumont, V. Donsbecke ou Aurore Millet, whose artistic approach appealed to us.

Over the years, the Galerie Confluence gradually defined its artistic leanings, moving more and more towards art photography, with a careful balance between the aesthetic and the conceptual. Basically, it is neither the style nor the choice of subject that determines our artistic policy but the emphasis that the artist lays on the statement underlying the image and the way he makes us look at the world.

This is the perspective we have taken on recognized authors that we have exhibited such as G. Rousse, P.Kekarainen, C. Van de Puttelaar or A. R. Minkkinen, as well as young artists who have already shown signs of their artistic maturity like M. Vainio, Ji-Yeon Sung, ou R. Brulat. We follow their careers attentively and try to promote their work with collectors, French regional art collections, museums, and other cultural institutions in France and abroad.

The originality of our gallery also lies in the privileged connections we have with Finland, which also explains the fact that works by a Finnish artist are to be seen on the walls of Confluence. The gallery organises meetings with artists, lectures and discussions about photography, exhibitions in other spaces, as well as visits to many fairs and festivals of contemporary art. These days, the gallery has created its own identity and is readily recognized by visitors, collectors, and regional, national and international cultural institutions.

www.galerie-confluence.fr

MCCLELLAND Rebecca - GB

Director of photography, teacher

Languages : English

6/07 morning & 7/07 morning

Rebecca McClelland is NewStatesman magazine's first Photography Editor tasked with overseeing the visual content of the newly redesigned magazine. She is also Creative Director of The Ian Parry Scholarship, an international award for photojournalists and Associate Lecturer at UCA Farnham, specializing in Professional Practice. She has worked on editorials in London for the last 12 years, spending many years with the Sunday Times magazine and continuing to edit picture desks at the Evening Standard, Wallpaper* and Art World magazine

MESSER William - USA /

Curator / Teacher / Critic

Languages : English & French

3/07 afternoon & 5/07 afternoon

WM is an internationally exhibited, collected and published photographer, critic, writer, curator and educator, based in the US. As critic, his writing has been published in more than two dozen publications in half as many countries. He currently serves on the board of l'Association International des Critiques d'Art (AICA) and its Commission on Censorship and Freedom of Expression. More than 80 exhibitions curated by Messer have been presented in nearly 30 countries and he has directed non-profit photography spaces in the UK and the USA. For a time he was the leading independent authority on contemporary British and European photography. Currently he acts as an independent curator internationally and curates exhibitions for a space called Iris in the US, which specializes in contemporary black and white photography. As a teacher, in June, 2012, he will be giving the workshop "Naked Truth: The Body as Portraiture" in Tbilisi, Georgia and recently led the Graduate Fine Art Seminar at the University of Cincinnati. He believes photography is dying and is interested in seeing work which, for the moment, proves him wrong.

MILO Yossi - USA /

Owner Gallery Milo, New-York

Languages : English, Greek

2/07 morning & 3/07 morning

Bio coming soon

www.yossimilo.com

MORSCH Laura - FRANCE /

Gallery / Curator

Language : French

2/07 afternoon, 3/07 morning, 3/07 afternoon

Laura Morsch holds postgraduate degrees in Science and Technology (Art and Photography) and in History of Art and Photography. She joined the Galerie du jour agnès b, Paris, in 2008 as an exhibition co-ordinator then, in 2010, the Fonds de Dotation agnès b. To date, she has co-ordinated more than 20 exhibitions.

www.galeriedujour.com

NEURATH Johanna - GB /

Thames & Hudson, London

Language : English

5/07 whole day

Johanna has worked in book publishing for 25 years. Firstly as a "hands-on" picture editor, typographer, award winning book and jacket designer, and since 2004 she has been Design Director at Thames & Hudson where she is responsible for the overall look of the publishing programme as well as being Commissioning Editor for a few photography titles.

Over the years she has worked side by side with many photographers and artists helping them to realise their projects as successful books and guiding them through the publishing process. In the last couple of years she has commissioned, designed or been especially involved in the creative direction of "Street Photography Now"; "Magnum Contact Sheets" and "Reuters Our Wold Now". Forthcoming in October 2012 are Maciej Dakowicz's "Cardiff After Dark" and "Story Teller" by Tim Walker.

When not making books - or helping others to do the same - she is an active member of the (street) photography community and her photographs have featured in various group exhibitions throughout Europe and the USA.

She is also a regular portfolio reviewer at international photography festivals. In 2011 she devised and led the practical workshop “Editing, Sequencing and Bookmaking for Photographers” for Photofusion Gallery, London.

www.thamesandhudson.com

NIJARADZE Nestan - GEORGIA /

Director Photo Festival Tbilissi

Languages : French, English, Russian

5/07 afternoon & 6/07 afternoon

Nestan Nijaradze is joint founder and joint artistic director of the Tbilisi Photo Festival – founded in 2010 in partnership with Les Rencontres d'Arles. She is also founder and director of the Tbilisi Photography House, an institution for the promotion of photography in Georgia. Between 2007 and 2009 she was editor of Photo Magazine – the first photo magazine to be published in Georgia. She also works as a free-lance curator, regularly organising exhibitions in Georgia and abroad. Over the last ten years Nestan Nijaradze has published many articles on photography in the Georgian press.

NOBLE Laura - UK /

Co-director - Diemar / Noble Photography -

Language: English

2/07 afternoon, 3/07 morning, 3/07 afternoon, 4/07 morning, 4/07 afternoon

Laura Noble is the Co-Director of the commercial art gallery Diemar/Noble Photography in London. She is also a curator & author of The Art Of Collecting Photography, with primary essays in many monographs & catalogues including, By Coastal (Marcus Doyle) Circus & Chrysalis (Anderson & Low), Somewhere I have never travelled, gladly beyond (Jennie Gunhammar), Undisclosed (Bertil Nilsson), Crazy God (Yvonne De Rosa) with a contributed chapter in the forthcoming Companion to Photography, published later this year.

She curates & lectures on all aspects of collecting photography, professional & gallery practice worldwide. As an avid collector she prides herself on discovereing new talent & write extensively on photography in numerous journals worldwide including: Eyemazing, GUP, fLIP, Hotshoe, Snoeks, f22/State magazine, Next Level & Image magazine. She was also Editor at large for Photoicon for two years.

Her commitment to emerging photographers is furthered through internship programs at the gallery & portfolio reviews which she conducts both at Diermar/Noble Photography & several photography fairs worldwide.

www.lauraannnoble.com

O'BREEN Caroline - NETHERLANDS /

Seelevel Gallery, Amsterdam

Languages : Dutch & English

3/07 morning, 4/07 morning, 5/07 morning

Caroline O'Breen, art collector, curator and gallery-owner and founder of Seelevel Gallery, the first online gallery with temporary exhibitions on different locations in the Netherlands. Seelevel has occupied many different exhibition spaces in Amsterdam. The gallery is specilized in young and upcoming and mid-careeer artists in photography and aims to encourage artists to explore and expand the diversity of the photographic medium. Seelevel provides a platform for artists who focus on examining the transformations in function and meaning of the photographic image, and also in its elaboration are looking for a broadening of the medium. Caroline O'Breen has been curator for many photography exhibitons for Seelevel Gallery, The Foundation Young in Prison, the Amsterdam Centre for Photography and SBK Amsterdam. Also she worked as a career coach for artists for the foundation Kunstenaars&CO in The Netherlands. She is specialized in career guidance for young and upcoming photographers and has taken part in different conferences and portfolio reviews for photography festivals in the Netherlands.

www.seelevel.nl

OLLIER Christine - FRANCE /

Les filles du Calvaire Gallery, Paris

Languages : French & English

3/07 afternoon, 5/07 afternoon

Christine Ollier is a specialist in cultural engineering and an art historian (17th, 18th and 20th centuries) She is artistic director of the gallery Les Filles du Calvaire, which she founded with and for Stéphane Magnan in 1996 in Paris and in 2001 in Brussels. Since its inception, one of the main concerns of the gallery has been to show all aspects of contemporary photography: documentary, staged, objective and conceptual; the idea being to provide the contemporary art public with the full range of photography in all its complexity.

The gallery programme was initially intended to promote the work of French artists but it has increased its scope in order to place the French scene in a wider perspective and to encourage recognition of the great founding artists of the 80s and 90s. At the same time, however, emerging artists are promoted if their creativity complements or contrasts with their forerunners and gives rise to a personal photographical language.

Christine Ollier is taking part in this edition of Photo Folio Review in order to give advice about distribution; in particular, to help some approach the people in the network and to help others to define their own artistic issues. She is not especially interested in photo-reportage, auteur photography, decorative, floral or nudes. Nor is she interested in an overly autobiographical approach. In general terms her centre of interest is issues concerning the language of the image rather than its subject.

www.fillesducalvaire.com

PFAB Anna - GB /

Shilt Publishing

Languages : German & English

5/07 afternoon, 6/07 afternoon, 7/07 morning, 7/07 afternoon

Based in London, UK since 2005, Anna-Maria Pfab is currently working for internationally renowned photo book publisher Schilt Publishing. Photographers published include Jodi Bieber, Stanley Greene, Martin Parr, Paolo Pellegrin, Jacob Aue Sobol and Alex Webb among many others and since 2008, Schilt is also the leading publishers of the World Press Photo Yearbook. In her role, Pfab is responsible for promoting all publications with exhibitions, events and press throughout Europe.

Before joining Schilt Publishing in the beginning of 2011, Pfab has not only worked in numerous galleries and institutions such as the Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland and HOST Gallery / Foto8, London but has also curated exhibitions independently.

www.schiltpublishing.com

PRATA Rui - PORTUGAL /

Curator / Artistic director

Languages : English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

3/07 afternoon, 4/07 afternoon

Born in 1955, Rui Prata began his professional career as a history professor and has been the Director of Braga Image Museum since its opening in 1999. He is the Director of Encontros da Imagem Festival (Meetings of Images), in which he has participated since it opened in 1987. Since 2008 he has lectured on contemporary photography throughout Europe and in Brazil, and acted as a curator for both national and international exhibitions. In 2008 he became a member of the Committee Acquisitions of Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris. Prata is a portfolio reviewer for several international festivals, including the Mois de la Photo festivals in Paris et Montreal; PhotoEspanha, Madrid, Spain; Primavera Fotografica, Barcelona, Spain; Month of Photography, Bratislava; Fotobienal de Bienne, Switzerland; Festival of Curituba, Brazil; Fotonoviembre de Tenerife, Spain and Rencontres d’Arles, France. Rui Prata has a masters in history from Porto university, a post graduate degree in Fine Art direction from Escola Superior Artistica do Porto, and a masters degree in Curatorial & Contemporary Museology from Porto Fine Arts University.

RASTENBERGER Anna-Kaisa - FINLAND /

Teacher / Journalist / Chief Curator at The Finnish Museum of Photography in Helsinki

Languages : English, Finnish, Swedish

2/07 morning, 3/07 morning, 4/07 morning

Anna-Kaisa Rastenberger works as the Chief Curator at The Finnish Museum of Photography, which is the special museum for photography exhibiting mostly contemporary photographic art. Along with the main exhibitions the museum runs the exhibition program for the emerging photographers at the museum’s project rooms.

Rastenberger is art historian specialising in contemporary photographic art. Previously she was engaged as a researcher in the Academy of Finland's and The Finnish Museum of Photography's project (2005–2009). She worked as an educational curator at The Helsinki Art Museum (2002–2005) and the editor-in-chief of KUVA – the Finnish magazine of visual culture (1998–2000). Since 2001 she has been lecturing in Helsinki University, Aalto-University (known before as TAIK) and several other institutions. Rastenberger does also independent curating. Recently she curated shows for the 4th Moscow Biennale, special projects (2011) and City of Helsinki (2012). She likes bubbles and sparks – both conceptual and concrete – and she is interested in all forms of contemporary lens based art.

www.valokuvataiteenmuseo.fi/en

RAVACHE Martine - FRANCE /

Photo editor / Journalist / Teacher

Language : French

3/07 afternoon & 7/07 morning

Graduate of the École du Louvre, art historian, journalist, photography critic for, amongst others, Connaissance des Arts, Beaux-Arts Magazine, and 6Mois, picture editor for the Cité de la Musique, specialist in image semiology (Arts&Métiers, Drouot Formations), author of several books about photography: Enquête sur Portraits (Éditions Filigranes, 1998) ; L’Album photo des Français (Éditions du Chêne, 2004) ; Les années cool (Éditions du Panama, 2007) ; author of the texts in Le fleuve des sables (Éditions du Chêne, 2002) ; Les Sudre, une famille de photographes (Éditions Delpire, 2010) ; Founder of Ateliers du Regard, pour un apprentissage du mieux voir.

REGGAD Yasmina - GB /

Commissaire indépendante

Languages : French & English

3/07 morning, 7/07 morning

Yasmina Reggad graduated in History from the Sorbonne University. She is an independent curator based in London and works internationally. Recent projects include ‘Ce n’est pas du sang, c’est du rouge’ with Gohar Dashti and Shilpa Gupta (March 2012), and ‘Mitosis’ with Jonny Briggs (April 2012), both for the White Project Gallery in Paris.

She is the director and founder of Photo-Festivals for which she initiated and presently curates artist residencies (Crossing Point), development and public programmes.

Yasmina’s passionate promotion of the photo festival culture and in particular the photo collectives has resulted in a series of notable collaborations including Paraty em Foco in Brazil, the WPO’s London Festival, Format International Photography Festival and Brighton Photo Fringe in the UK, Lodz Fotofestiwal in Poland and nofound_photofair in France.

Yasmina Reggad is regularly called upon to participate in panel discussions and talks for organisations and galleries such as the Delfina Foundation, the National Photography Symposium, Cornerhouse in the UK, Casa Tomada in Brazil or the Sharjah Art Foundation March Meeting in the UAE.

In addition to judging and nominating for Fondation Blachère Prize at Bamako Biennial, Pictet Prize, London Festival of Photography Award 2012, Google & Saatchi Students Award 2012, International Street Photography Award 2011, she also reviews portfolio internationally.

She is a Co-Founder of the Photo Forum Beirut (Lebanon) and a member of the curatorial board of Paraty em Foco (Brazil).Since January 2012, she is the co-ordinator of /A.R.I.A/ Artist Residency in Algiers established by visual artist Zineb Sedira.

What type of work would you like to see?

Yasmina Reggad is interested in viewing long-term personal projects, creative photography with conceptual and artistic approaches, documentary projects and new interdisciplinary approaches to the medium. She is not interested in viewing photojournalism, editorial or commercial work.

ROSPAPE Jean-François - FRANCE /

Director L'imagerie, Lannion

Languages : French & English

4/07 morning & 5/07 morning

Jean-François Rospape founded the ‘Mai-Photographies-Quimper’ festival and ran it until 1996. He is now artistic director of the gallery L'Imagerie-Lannion and curator of the Estivales Photographiques du Trégor, a series of themed exhibitions in Brittany. In 2010 the exhibition, on an animal theme, was entitled ‘Our Friends’, with contributions from, amongst others, Michel Van den Eeckhoudt, Giacomo Brunelli and Bertrand Desprez. In 2011 the title was ‘The World as seen from their Bedroom’, with Thibaut Cuisset, Jurgen Nefzger and Eric Dessert. In 2012, ‘Human Conditions’ with Joakim Eskildsen, Edith Roux and Xiao Zhang. During the year the gallery hosts monographic exhibitions of recognized contemporary artists such as Bernard Plossu, Georges Rousse, Alain Fleischer or William Klein, and also the work of young photographers. Laurent Millet, Pascal Mirande, and Isabelle Vaillant had their first (or nearly first) exhibitions there.

L'Imagerie has three exhibition rooms in a total area of more than 500m2 (5,400 sq. ft.) and is supported by the City of Lannion, the Conseil Général des Côtes d'Armor, the Conseil Régional de Bretagne and the French Ministry of Culture and Communication (Drac Bretagne).

www.imagerie-lannion.com

ROTTEVEEL Marga - NETHERLANDS /

Independant curator - Photorevolt

Language: English

3/07 afternoon & 4/07 afternoon

Marga Rotteveel (1966), studied photography at the Art Academy St.Joost in Breda, the Netherlands. Rotteveel worked a couple of years as a photographer and for the last fourteen years as a curator. She started at Photofestival Naarden as one of the curators, and in a later edition of the festival she became the creative director. Furthermore she is a lecture at two Art Acadmies in the Netherlands (Master and Bachelor Photography St. Joost, Breda and the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague). She also works as an advisor for several photography committees within the fiels of photography and fine art. Often she works as a jury member and is portfolio reviewer at several photography events. A couple of years ago she started her own independent freelance business (Photorevolt) with the specialty to work with young talented photographers as a curator, advisor and coach. As a curator Rotteveel produced several shows were she worked with young, as well as with established photographers in national and international shows (China, Lishui international Photofestival and ‘DutchDocSpace’ for the New York Photofestival). Rotteveel is always focused on trying to find the best platform for the most talented photographers and projects.

SAMUEL Claude - FRANCE

Gallerist - Galerie Claude Samuel - Paris

Language : French

3/07 morning & 4/07 morning & 6/07 morning

After studying philosophy and law, Claude Samuel developped his carrer in international business. He founded the Claude Samuel gallery in 1986 and has been its director ever since. Very early, in 1990, he organised exhibitions of visual artists.

The gallery went to the Bâle fair un 1996,1997 and 1998. It was also presented at Paris Photo in 1998 and 1999 as well as at l’ARCO in Madrid many times. Claude Samuel organises exhibitions with renown photographers but also young artists. He presents their work and often curates their first solo exhibition. The gallery has exhibited : Shimon Attie, Cendrillon Bélanger, Leandro Berra, Gilles Delmas, Patricia Dreyfus, Thierry Dreyfus, François Fontaine, Isabel Formosa, Christian Gattinoni, Rafaël Goldchain, Jean-Baptiste Huyn, Uchechukwu James-Iroha, Laurence Leblanc, Dominique Maurizi, Gilles Plazy, Isabelle Rozenbaum, Malick Sidibé, Bernadette Tintaud, Paola Yacoub Michel Lasserre... Claude Samuel is most interested in portrait, memory work, absence-presence as well as fine arts photography and documentary photography.

SCHAAP Till - SWITZERLAND /

Consultant / Editeur - Benteli Verlag -

Languages : French, German, English

6/07 afternoon & 7/07 morning

Born in Bern, Switzerland. Studied Art History and Graphic Engineering. For several years director of sales and distribution of art books and photo books in Switzerland, Germany, Austria, France and the United States. Since 1991, director of the publishers Benteli Verlag. Benteli Publish art and photography books. The photo side is an extremely important part of our programme. We publish monographs and thematic works, reportages and fascinating documentaries hitherto unpublished and genuine.

I am responsible for commissioning and acquiring new projects. Our books are displayed at the Frankfurt Book Fair. I am in permanent contact with the authors and photographers, giving them advice and working hand in hand with them. In 2010 we were awarded both the gold and silver medals for the most beautiful book of photographs in Germany (Deutscher Fotobuchpreis). Every year we also publish World Press Photo in French and German. I have an intimate knowledge of both the German and the international market. We work with several other publishing houses, including Schilt publishing, Thames & Hudson, and Hazan.

www.benteli.ch

SCHELHORN Tina - GERMANY

Galerie Lichtblick, Köln

Languages : German & English

2/07 whole day

1986 founded Galerie Lichtblick, which has presented more than 200 exhibitions.

1990-1996 Organisation of festival Internationale Fotoszene Koeln

1995-2001 curator/organizer of festival Internationale Fototage Herten and International Price for Young Photojournalism.

2005 curator/organizer of Internationale Fototage Mannheim/Ludwigshafen - 140 exhibitions with 85 on Contemporary American Photography.

1996-2006 Board of Directors of DGPH (German Society of Photography). Head of Image Section with exhibitions of Dr. Erich Salomon- and Otto-Steinert-Preis on photokina fair.

Portfolio reviewer and exchange with international festivals: Arles/F, Braga/P, Houston/USA, Madrid/E, Milano/I, Noorderlicht/NL, Odense/DK, Perpignan/F, Plovdiv/BG, Portland/USA, Sundsvall/S, Rhubarb/UK, Sao Paulo/BR, Tampere/FI, Lodz/PL, Seoul/ROK, Budapest/H, Athens/GR, Vienna/A and Tbilisi/GE.

Founding member of Festival of Light and European Festivalunion; Member of Oracle – international association of photography curators. Published numerous books and catalogues.

2011 start of Lichtblick-School, Cologne with Wolfgang Zurborn

2012 curator/organizer of Kolga Tbilisi Photo Meeting – June 2012 in Georgia

Websites and exhibition projects Images against War (since 2003) and Images against Walls (since 2009) feature more than 900 international photographers.

www.lichtblicknet.com

SERANI Laura - FRANCE /

Commissariat / Consultante / Directrice artistique

6/07 afternoon & 7/07 whole day

Biography currently being translated.

French version avalaible on the French interface.

SHAUL Matthew - UK

Artistic Director, UH Galleries

Languages : English & French

2/07 afternoon & 3/07 morning

Biography coming soon

Website

SHENAI Jason - UK

Director of Millennium Images

Languages : English & French

5/07 afternoon & 6/07 morning

Jason is founder and director of Millennium Images which specialises in reproduction rights in contemporary photography. Millennium is recognized worldwide as one of the leading image resources in this field, representing the work of more than 700 creative photographers (www.milim.com) Jason has also recently started MilimGallery, the print sales division of Millennium.

Jason is photography judge on The Koestler Awards. He regularly reviews photographers’ portfolios at event such as the Arles Festival, Rhubarb-Rhubarb and many photography institutions such as Speos in Paris and various universities in the UK.

Jason started life as a freelance photographer regularly working for a variety of magazines and newspapers including The Observer and The Sunday Telegraph. In the early 1990s Jason started Inside Eye, a project run within Wandsworth Prison which helped prisoners to document their lives in photography. A highly successful touring exhibition of the work was first shown at The Photographers’ Gallery, London. At around the same time he also started lecturing at Westminster University, running the course on Documentary Photography.

The book Wines of South-West France, is the third in series of collaborations between Jason, as photographer, and the writer Paul Strang. It is published in French by Editions du Rouergue and in English by University of California Press.

www.milim.com

www.milimgallery.com

SINGH Alexia - USA

Picture editor - Thomson Reuters -

Language : English & French

3/07 afternoon & 4/07 afternoon

Editor in Charge Wider Image Desk

Alexia Singh has worked for Reuters since 1998. She is currently Editor-in-Charge of the Wider Image Desk. She started in London as Assignments Editor for the UK Picture desk directing photographers covering breaking news, sport and features. She then set up the Wider Image desk, running a team of editors packaging Reuters’ global news production for online and magazine clients. In 2005 she expanded the Wider Image desk into Singapore and Paris, where she was based for five years. Singh has worked as an editor on many international assignments for Reuters from the Sydney 2000 Olympics to the recent UK royal wedding, and edited several books, exhibitions and multimedia productions.

books.reuters.com/ourworldnow

STOPIN Raphaëlle - FRANCE /

Photo Curator, Festival d'Hyères / Art director, ArtLigue / Free lance writer

Languages : English, French, Spanish

4/07 afternoon & 5/07 afternoon

Raphaëlle Stopin is a curator and an art critic. For the past ten years, she has been curator in charge of the photographic section for the Hyères festival, bringing together established artists and avant-garde creation. She has notably served as guest curator at The Photographers’ Gallery in London or FNAC Photo Galleries.

She is also art director for ArtLigue, a website and Paris gallery dedicated to art edition.

Her publications include prefaces to the works of Charles Fréger, Joël Tettamanti, Mathieu Bernard-Reymond, Loan Nguyen, Melvin Sokolsky, Cyrille Weiner, Laura Henno and many more. She is a graduate in Art History from the Sorbonne.

www.villanoailles-hyeres.com/hyeres2012

www.artligue.fr

SUDER Monica - GERMANY & USA /

Consultant / Picture editor / Teacher

Languages : English, German, French

3/07 afternoon, 4/07 morning, 5/07 morning, 5/07 afternoon

Monica Suder works with the international photographic community as a creative and career coach, consultant, lecturer, panelist and educator.

She brings to her multi-cultural practice over 30 years of professional experience in New York City and San Francisco. She has been an award-winning photo editor, and has worked as a director of photography and consultant to publishers. As an editor, she worked at Magnum Photos, Time-Life, Rolling Stone, Outside and other publications in the US.

As a creative consultant and coach, Monica has been assisting photographers for 15 years in developing outstanding personal work, books and exhibitions in the US and in Europe.

She is an expert at editing portfolios and websites and helps photographers to develop their careers internationally.

Monica Suder taught graduate classes in photography in San Francisco and has been a popular guest lecturer at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.

www.monicasuder.com

TAPIA Corinne - USA /

Director Sous les Etoiles Gallery, New-York

Languages : English, French

5/07 afternoon, 6/07 morning, 6/07 afternoon

Corinne Tapia, Director of Sous Les Etoiles Gallery, is involved since 20 years in the photography world as a collector and consultant. She is always looking to receive bodies of work suitable for exhibition. Aside from offering criticism and critique of the photography itself, Corinne Tapia can also provide advice and directions in term of promoting projects.

Corinne Tapia also collaborates in portfolio reviews with FotoFest(Houston), ICP (New York), and Les Rencontres d’Arles (France). She initiates exchange artist program with international photo galleries as well. She recently focused on the contemporary Japanese photography with several thematic exhibitions of Japanese photographers with the partnerships of Gallery 21 in Tokyo. Member of TOKYO-GA commissioner’s board in Japan, Corinne Tapia is in charge of this project in U.S.A.

www.souslesetoilesgallery.net

TAVERNIER Gisèle - FRANCE /

Journalist - Le journal des Arts -

Languages : Français, Anglais

4/07 morning, 6/07 morning

Gisèle Tavernier trained in photography (EFET,Paris), and journalism (CFPJ, Paris) after postgraduate studies in Oriental Civilisations at INALCO, (National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations), Paris, and in Sociology at EHESS (Ecole des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales), Paris. She has worked in the Japanese media and is a specialist in photographic criticism (Le Journal des Arts, Connaissance des Arts Photo, La Gazette Drouot) and the international art market (photo: Le Journal des Arts, Connaissance des Arts Photo; arts: L’expansion, and Vogue). She has worked as a television director on various cultural magazine programmes for TV5 Monde and France3.

Gisèle Tavernier takes a cosmopolitan interest in the forms photographic expression can take throughout the world and enjoys discovering ‘unformatted’ talent – photographers and artists whose spontaneous work encompasses human as well as aesthetic considerations. She has served on various juries: 2007, École d’Arts Graphiques et d’Architecture de la Ville de Paris; 2009, PhotoEspana festival (Madrid); 2011, Prix SWZ (Zürich); 2008, PhotoBeijing Fair (Beijing) – a conference on the international photography market.

VAN SINDEREN Wim - THE NETHERLANDS /

Curator of the Den Haag Fotomuseum

Languages : English, German, Dutch

4/07 morning & 4/07 afternoon

Wim van Sinderen (b. 1958) began his career in the 1980s as an art journalist and picture editor. From 1992-2001 he was curator of the Kunsthal Rotterdam. Van Sinderen conservator of the photography collection of the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag.

The Hague Museum of Photography opened in December 2002 with the successful exhibition Photographers in the Netherlands 1852-2002. Each year the museum aims to present at least four innovative exhibitions focusing both on established names and new talent. The museum works hand in hand with the Special Collections Department of the Leiden University Library, which holds one of the largest and most important collections of historical photographs in Europe.

As a curator Van Sinderen has produced several monographic exhibitions, ranging from historical photographers such as Erwin Blumenfeld, Manuel Alvarez Bravo and Leonard Desiree Dolron, Paolo Ventura, Jasper de Beijer and Erwin Olaf. In 2012 he organised two mid-career retrospectives of the works of Pieter Hugo and Antoine d'Agata.

Wim van Sinderen is an active member of Oracle Photo, an international collaboration of curators of photography.

www.fotomuseumdenhaag.nl

VERNERET Gilles - FRANCE /

Director - Galerie Le Bleu du Ciel - / Artistic director - Lyon Septembre de la Photographie -

Language : French, English, Italian

6/07 morning, 7/07 morning

Artistic director since 2001 of the Lyon Photography Biennale ‘Lyon septembre de la photographie’. Director of the ‘Bleu du Ciel’ photography centre since 1999, specialising in contemporary photography display. Founder of the Blooworkshops school and workshops, (www.blooworkshops.com) which he has run since 2009. Gilles Verneret teaches at the Université de Savoie (Institute of management). He has published prefaces in many monographs (including Dessert, Konopka, Nori, and Dumas). In 2010 he published a book about American photography The New American Photographic Dream, (Editions Silvana). In 2009, with Gilles Mora: Puzzle of Downfall Children, (Éditions Silvana).

www.lebleuduciel.net www.9ph.fr

VILAMAJO Jésus et LLORETA Natàlia - SPAIN /

Curator of the international SCAN Tarragona festival

Languages : Spanish & English

6/07 afternoon

Born in Tàrrega, Catalonia in 1963. Jésus Vilamajo lives and works in Lleida, Catalonia. He is a professional photographer and was the founder and Art director of Emergent-Lleida, International Festival of Phtography between 2008-2011. He currently works as the curator of FULL CONTACT, an activity inside SCAN Tarragona Festival to promote emerging artists. He is looking for emerging photographers for this year’s edition of SCAN Tarragona, in october.He is the co-founder of INTERSECCIÓ, a new company to promote cultural and artisitic projects.

www.tarragona.cat/lajuntament/conselleries/cultura/arts-visuals-i-exposicions/festival-scan/

Natalià Lloreta is graduate in Audiovisual Comunication (UPF, Barcelona, 2002) and postgraduate in Digital Video (IDEC-UPF, Barcelona, 2007) and Creativity on Advertising (URL, Barcelo,a 2003). She has worked in the professionals office of FiraTàrrega (International Street Theatre Festival), in the organization of a variety of cultural festivals and as freelance in documentary film productions. She is the co-founder of Interseccio, a new company to promote cultural, audiovisual and artisitic projects and the coordinator of FullContact, a portfolio exchange activity inside SCAN Tarragona Festival.

VISSER Hripsimé - THE NETHERLANDS /

Curator of Photography - Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

Language : French, German, English, Dutch

3/07 afternoon & 4/07 afternoon

Hripsimé Visser is the Curator of Photography at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Hripsime Visser (1954) studied art history at the University of Leiden. She worked as a freelance art historian on projects at the Gemeentemuseum, The Hague. In 1982 she got her Master's degree in contemporary art history, with a focus on the history of photography, at the University of Leiden.

She worked as Lecturer of art history at the teacher training college at ZWN, Delft, was a staff member and member of the editorial board of Perspektief magazine for photography, academic assistant at the History of photography department (University of Leiden), and exhibition planning and educational programme writer for Perspektief foundation for photography. Since 1990 Visser is Curator of photography at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. She published two books about the collection, 100 x Photo in 1996 and Fotografie in het Stedelijk, de geschiedenis van een collectie (Photography at the Stedelijk, the history of a collection) in 2009.

Selected exhibitions Ed van der Elsken (1991), Lewis Baltz/catalogue (1992), Lee Miller (1993)*, Koen Wessing (1993), Hans Aarsman (1994), Anton Corbijn (1994), Peter Hujar*/book (1994), Bertien van Manen (1994), Robert Frank (1995)*, Oscar van Alphen (1995), Emmy Andriesse/book (1996), Gerald van der Kaap (1996), Nan Goldin (1997)*, Vojta Dukat (1997) Boris Mikhailov/catalogue (1998), Thomas Struth/book (1998)*, Katharina Sieverding/catalogue (1998)*, Beat Streuli/Gabriele Basilico/catalogue (2000), Jitka Hanzlova (2001), Footloose (2001), Sam Taylor-Wood/catalogue (2002), Rineke Dijkstra/book (2004) (* co-productions), Facts,Fictions and Stories: two projects by Broomberg & Chanarin (2006)

Selected articles in: : Perspektief Magazine for Photography; Camera Austria; European Photography; Lexicon Geschiedenis van de Nederlandse Fotografie; Kunstschrift; Bulletin Stedelijk Museum; Vrij Nederland; Dictionary of Art (Macmillan,, London); Veronica's Revenge (ed. Elizabeth Janus, Scalo, Zurich, etc. 1998); Ed van der Elsken, Fotografie+Film 1949-1990 (Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, 2000), Dutch Eyes, a critical history of Dutch Photography (Zwolle Waanders 2007)Various (international) editorial, administrative and educational responsibilities.

www.stedelijk.nl

VROEGE Bas - THE NETHERLANDS

Consultant / Artistic director / Teacher / Director - Paradox -

Languages : Dutch, English, French, German

3/07 morning, 4/07 morning, 6/07 morning

Bas Vroege (b. 1958) studied economics at Erasmus University Rotterdam and photography at Academie Sint-Joost in Breda. He was editor in chief of Perspektief Magazine (1980-1995). Since 1993 he is director of Paradox.

Paradox produces photography related projects (exhibitions, books, films, websites) driven by a social agenda. Among the projects realized are: 'Go No Go' (on migration in Europe, 2003, photography: Ad van Denderen), 'The Last Days of Shishmaref' (on global warming with filmmaker Jan Louter and photographer Dana Lixenberg, 2008), 'We Are The World' (on consumerism, 2010) and 'ANGRY' (on radicalization of youth, 2011). In 2011-2012 Paradox launched 'Via PanAm' with photographer Kadir van Lohuizen (iPad App) as well as projects with photographer/filmmaker Hans van der Meer ('The Netherlands - of the shelf'), journalist Antoinette de Jong and photographer Robert Knoth on the worldwide effects of the destabilisation of Afghanistan ('POPPY') and 'Offside' on Nagorno Karabakh (with writer/historian Arthur Huizinga and photographer Dirk-Jan Visser).

'POPPY - Trails of Afghan Heroin', 'The Netherlands - of the shelf' and 'Offside - Football in Exile' are exhibitions as well as book titles co-published with YdocPublishing. YdocPublishing is part of the activities of the YdocFoundation, a not for profit that was established in 2012 with the aim of promoting independent documentary production.

Bas Vroege teaches editorial and curatorial practice at the Masters in Film and Photographic Studies (University Leiden, The Netherlands). He joined the Supervisory Board of World Press Photo in 2006 and acts as an advisor to the Three Shadows Photography Art Centre in Beijing.

www.paradox.nl

VROONS Erik - THE NETHERLANDS

Chief editor - GUP Magazine - Amsterdam

Languages : Dutch, English, German, Spanish (a little)

3/07 whole day, 4/07 afternoon

MA Mediastudies (University of Amsterdam, 2001) & MA Photographic Studies (University Leiden, 2009). I was curator for an exhibition of Dutch-Turkish photographer Ahmet Polat, at Breda Photofestival 2008. Since then, I have collaborated with Ahmet Polat in a documentary on Turks of African Descent, leading to a publication and several exhibitions, both in Turkey and The Netherlands. In 2009, I was the author of an essay on Magnum-photographer Leonard Freed (Indonesians in Holland)

I am currently Chief editor of international photography magazine GUP, based in Amsterdam.GUP Magazine is a bimonthly, internationally distributed magazine, available in over 20 countries worldwide. GUP devotes each issue to a specific theme, featuring every angle of photography. From extensive portfolios of respected photographers and young talent to a complete international gallery and museum exhibition guide. This, and more, makes GUP a smart and inspirational guide for photographers, professionals in the business and all those interested in the art of photography.

www.gupmagazine.com

VUOMA Laura - FINLAND /

Picture editor Photo Raw Magzine

Language : Anglais

4/07 afternoon & 6/07 afternoon

Born 1978, living and working in Helsinki, Finland. Studied photography in the University of Art and Design in Finland and photojournalism in the School of Media and Journalism in Århus, Denmark. Since 2006 has been working as a photo editor for Finnish content agency Alma 360. Since 2011 has been working as a photo editor and member of the editorial board for Photo Raw Magazine. Photo Raw is an awarded, high-quality magazine that focuses on documentary photography and photojournalism. It is published quarterly in Finland and distributed worldwide. The magazine provides an internationally respected platform for photographers to publish long photo essays. Photo Raw has published several renowned photographers, for example Jodi Bieber, Loretta Lux, Lauren Greenfield, Paolo Pellegrin, Barbara Davidson, Laura Pannack and Anastasia Taylor-Lind. Alongside established photographers the magazine is looking for works from emerging talents. We are interested in photo essays and long term photography projects with a strong personal insight rather than news reportages. Photo Raw is also looking for multimedia projects to be published online.

http://www.photoraw.org/

WARHURST Caroline - GB /

Publisher

Language : English

4/07 morning & 5/07 morning

Caroline Warhurst worked at Manchester Studies and the Documentary Photography Archive from 1976 to 1988 commisioning new work from, among others, Martin Parr, Clement Cooper and Tom Wood. Running of a photography gallery in Manchester and initiating exhibitions from the archive on a local community level as well as national touring exhibitions.

Since 1996 a partner of Dewi Lewis Publishing. Its authors include a number of leading British and international photographers such as Martin Parr, Simon Norfolk, William Klein, Paolo Pellegrin, Sergio Larrain, Frank Horvat and Bruce Gilden. The aim of the company is to bring to the attention of a wider public, accessible but challenging contemporary photography by both established and lesser known practitioners.

The company has a worldwide distribution network and is recognised as one of the leading photographic publishers in the world. It publishes around 18 new titles each year.

Dewi Lewis Publishing works in close collaboration with a number of European publishers and is a founding member of The European Publishers Award for Photography, which is now its 19th year.

Caroline Warhurst is interested in seeing projects that have the potential to become publications. The project does not have to be complete or presented in the format of a book. Interested in all subject areas apart from nude photography, fashion or illustrative travel photography.

www.dewilewispublishing.com

WATSON Hannah - UK /

Artistic director / Publisher - Trolley Books -

Languague : English

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Hannah Watson joined Trolley in 2005, and is currently Managing Editor of Trolley Books and Director of Trolley Gallery. Her background is in contemporary art, and after studying History of Art at UCL, worked for online contemporary art gallery Londonart.co.uk organising exhibitions and as Editor of the online magazine. This was followed by an internship at the Peggy Guggenheim Museum in Venice. A focus on photography lead to current position at Trolley. Trolley Books are known for predominantly reportage photography titles, often focusing on underexposed issues, from conflicts to unique stories in photojournalism, as well as in contemporary art.

Trolley has produced numerous respected and important books by photographers, among them Philip Jones Griffiths’s “Agent Orange – Collateral Damage in Viet Nam’, Paolo Pellegrin’s ‘Double Blind’, Stanley Greene’s ‘Open Wound’, Nick Waplington's 'You Love Life', Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin's 'Ghetto', and most recently Alixandra Fazzina's 'A Million Shillings - Escape from Somalia.' In 2005 Trolley Books received a special commendation from the Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards for its outstanding contribution to photography book publishing. Trolley Gallery's program concentrates on presenting emerging artists and those who haven't shown in the UK before.

www.trolleybooks.com

WOMBELL Paul - GB /

Curator Mois de la Photo, Montréal 2013

Language : English

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Paul Wombell is an independent curator and writer on photography living in London (UK). He has been the Director of Impressions Gallery, York (1986-1994), Director of The Photographers’ Gallery, London (1994-2005) and Festival Director of the Hereford Photography Festival (2006-2007). He was a Visiting Professor at the University of Sunderland (2002-2007). Since 2010 he has been advising the gallery Brancolini Grimaldi, London on their artistic programme.

He has curated exhibitions for the annual photographic festival PHotoEspaña in Madrid and for FotoGrafia Festival Internazionale di Roma. In 2013 he will be the Guest Curator for the Le Mois of Photo á Montréal.

He regularly writes for publications and magazines. He has edited six books on photography: The 70s: Photography and Everyday Life (2009) co-edited with Sergio Mah; Local: The End of Globalization (2007); Sportscape, The Evolution of Sports Photography (2000); Photovideo, Photography in the Age of the Computer, (1991); The Globe, (1989) and Battle, Passchendaele 1917 (1981).

ZOLLNER Manfred - GERMANY

Journalist / Picture editor

Languages : English, French, German

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Born in Munich in 1960; Degree in Mass Communications at Munich University; Working as a film critic and Editor at several film magazines till 1991; photo editor at German fotoMAGAZIN; Editor in Chief of Photo Technik International 2004-2006; Since 2006 Managing Editor at fotoMAGAZIN; Author of the book „Out of Focus statt Autofocus“ on photography trends in the 90s. Currently living and working in Hamburg.

www.fotomagazin.de