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Alfredo Cramerotti, UK FULLY BOOKED
Art Gallery Director, Writer, Curator and Editor
Language: English, Italian, German and Spanish
Alfredo Cramerotti is Director of MOSTYN, the largest publicly funded contemporary art gallery in Wales, co-Director of AGM Culture, roaming curatorial agency, and former Senior Curator of QUAD, the art, media and film centre in Derby, UK.
As writer, curator and editor he has played key roles in major international initiatives including recently co-curating Manifesta 8, the European Biennial of Contemporary Art in Spain, the Furla Award for Contemporary Art in Italy, organising FORMAT International Photography Festival and Conference in the UK and, among others, the exhibitions by Bill Drummond/The17, Jane & Louise Wilson, Daphne Wright, Dinu Li and a major retrospective of Ian Breakwell.
He has authored and published several volumes including All That Fits: The Aesthetics of Journalism and is Editor of the book series Critical Photography for Intellect. He is regular Visiting Lecturer at NTU Nottingham Trent University, University of Westminster London and DAI Dutch Arts Institute.
Alfredo Cramerotti wishes to review conceptual, landscape or nature, narrative, architecture, social, political, fiction, moving image, relation still-moving image, scientific, research, useful and vintage or found photography. He is not interested by empty derelict buildings, travel, straight reportage, commercial Photography. He accepts to review fashion photography only in case of conceptual approach.
Anne Bourgeois-Vignon, USA FULLY BOOKED
Director Agency, Picture Director
Languages: English and French
Anne Bourgeois-Vignon is the Cultural and Commercial Director of INSTITUTE, an international agency that represents world-class photographers (such as Simon Norfolk, Nadav Kander, Jodi Bieber, Guillaume Herbaut, Zed Nelson and Lauren Greenfield, amongst others) and also functions as a production company. Previously, Anne was a Picture Director at Forward Publishing for over 5 years, where she headed up the Picture Desk and commissioned, directed and produced still and moving image work for a range of editorial and advertising clients. She also runs a picture direction agency, Beanshoot Pictures, whose clients include Time magazine. She writes about photography, regularly guest lectures at universities, and is developing a curatorial practice.
Anne is interested in seeing a range of work, but has a specific interest in photography that blurs the boundaries between fine art and documentary. Specifically, she is looking for thought-provoking, sensitively conceived, and engaging series (both complete and in-progress) by emerging photographers, as well as established names. She is not interested in seeing portfolios of single images
http://blog.instituteartistmanagement.com
Bill Kouwenhoven, UK FULLY BOOKED
International Editor, Curator and Writer
Languages : English, German and Spanish
Bill Kouwenhoven is an 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.
From 1996 to 2001 he was an editor of the San Francisco based Photo Metro magazine, and in 1998 he curated the San Francisco Camerawork’s 25th Anniversary Exhibition, Rattling the Frame: 25 Years of Departures of Straight Photography. He is also a frequent reviewer and consultant to various photography festivals including Houston Fotofest, Photo Lucida, Rencontres d’Arles, and Rhubarb-Rhubarb.
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.
Bjarne Bare & Behzad Farazollahi, Norway
Gallery Directors, Curators and Photographers
Languages: English, Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, Polish and Persian
Behzad Farazollahi holds his degree from FAMU (Faculty of Arts and Music, Prague) and has since the beginning of the 2000s worked with fine art, photography and music. He has been awarded several times for his photographic work and held solo and group shows in England and Norway. He founded MELK with Bjarne Bare and has been responsible for curating 19 exhibitions with emerging Scandinavian photographers since 2009.
Bjarne Bare is currently part of the BA programme at the Academy of Fine Art Oslo. He has been active in the field of fine art photography in Norway since 2007 and has exhibited his work in cities like San Fransisco, Buenos Aires, Amsterdam, London and Oslo. Bjarne published his first publication Hose Variations in 2010, which can be found in bookstores worldwide. In 2009, Bjarne founded MELK with Behzad Farazollahi and has been responsible for curating 19 exhibitions with emerging Scandinavian photographers.
MELK is a non-profit artist run initiative founded by Bjarne Bare and Behzad Farazollahi for the emerging scene of fine art photography in Scandinavia. The aim for the initiative is to raise the awareness of the young scene of fine- art photographers in the region. Since the project was founded in 2009 the gallery space in central Oslo has hosted 19 solo exhibitions where 12 of these have been the artists first solo- show in Oslo. Along with the exhibitions at the gallery space in central Oslo MELK has been invited to curate two major exhibitions at renowned art institutions in Norway.
Bjarne Bare and Behzad Farazollahi work on promoting emerging Scandinavian photography and would like to review fine-art photographers in their early career.
Bridget Coaker, UK FULLY BOOKED
Picture Editor, Director of Photography, Curator & Visiting Lecturer.
Language: English
Bridget Coaker is a Picture Editor based in London, where she works for the Guardian andObserver newspapers and is also Director of Photography for the online contemporary photography gallery Troika Editions, that she founded in 2009. 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 film maker 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.
As a reviewer, she would like to see prints, not slide shows. She would rather see finish projects. She does not mind which kind of work but she does not want to see single images.
Caroline Hancock, France FULLY BOOKED
Independent Curator and Art critic
Languages: French, English, Spanish and Italian
From 1998 to 2009, Caroline Hancock worked at the Centre Pompidou and at the MAMVP/ARC in Paris, at the Tate Modern and the Hayward Gallery in London and at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) in Dublin. Hancock recently wrote various publications on the work of Lynda Benglis, Charlotte Moth, Jean-Luc Moulène and Zineb Sedira. She belongs to the On The Roof Collective that organises the Synchronicity projects in Paris in autumn 2011.
She is keen on reviewing all kinds of photographic work.
Cristianne Rodrigues, Brazil FULLY BOOKED
Production Manager, Writer and Curator
Languages: French, English and Portuguese
Cristianne Rodrigues is a production manager for FotoRio (International Photography Encounters in Rio de Janeiro) based in Europe. She has a master degree in Intercultural Exchanges Sciences from the Paris 3 University. In Paris, she developed ZoomArt, a website dedicated to art exhibitions in the French capital. Rue89 further published her articles in 2009-10. In 2010 she co-curated the exhibition A Story of Islamic Embroidery in Nomadic and Urban Traditions that took place in Abu-Dhabi, under the supervision of the ethnologist Isabelle Denamur. In 2011, within the FotoRio Festival, she curated the exhibition Ethiopie lointaine by the French photographer Laurent Auxietre; and co-curated the exhibition Le Brésil de Fulvio Roiter with Milton Guran. In 2011, she co-curated the exhibition Fernanda Magalhães, Rogério Reis et Edu Simões – Trois photographes de FotoRio, with Milton Guran, at the Maison européenne de la Photographie.
As a reviewer, she would like to see contemporary and documentary photography.
Grace Pattison, UK FULLY BOOKED
Festival curator
Languages: English
Grace fell in love with the magic of the darkroom as a teenager and has worked in the photography industry for the past 14 years. She holds an MA in Photojournalism and has worked in various roles from advertising to magazines and film festivals as well as a photography tutor with youth groups in the UK and Pakistan.
Grace organised and curated the inaugural London Street Photography Festival this year and is currently planning next year’s event which will expand its remit to incorporate documentary, art and issue-based projects.
She would like to see creative and exciting street photography as well as long-term documentary projects. She is not interested in commercial work.
http://londonstreetphotographyfestival.org
Guy Robertson, UK FULLY BOOKED
Curator and gallery director
Languages: English
Guy Robertson is a curator and gallery director living and working in London. He opened Son Gallery in Peckham, in the south of London, in January 2010 with the photographic artist Tom Saunderson. Son Gallery supports artists from London and further afield in developing their practices through collaborative and solo exhibitions. The gallery programme has a strong focus on lens-based practice. Recent projects have included a gallery exhibition and offsite performances with the European prize-winners in performance JocJonJosch. This summer Robertson also curated a weekend-long Art Book Market in Peckham which included over 20 established and emerging publishers. Current projects include photographer Guy Gormley’s second solo-exhibition at Son Gallery and a role as co-curator on the Brighton Photo Fringe 2011 with Charlotte Cotton.
As a reviewer, he is interested in art photography.
Joni Karanka, UK FULLY BOOKED
Gallerist and Photographer
Languages: English, Spanish, Finnish and French
Joni Karanka is a Gallerist and a Photographer. He is one of the founding Trustees of Third Floor Gallery in Cardiff, Wales, where he is currently a Trustee and Co-Director. His interest in cheap, DIY exhibition practices led him to start the Dr Karanka’s Print Stravaganza in 2009, which allowed hundreds of photographers to exhibit around the world.
He is interested in direct, realist photography with a degree of emotional involvement from the photographer. He often likes documentary photography, and those photographers who are avid collectors of daily life. He also likes experimental photography that is still realistic.
He is not interested in manipulated photography or photography that needs large amounts of text to be understood. He gets quickly bored of series of photographs that repeat one single idea over and over again.
Laura Noble, UK
Art Gallery Director, Writer and Lecturer
Languages: English
Laura Noble is the Co-Director & Co Founder of Diemar/Noble Photography gallery in London. She is also the author of The Art of Collecting Photography & lectures extensively on the subject, as the principle essayist for several monographs including, Where I have never travelled, glady beyond by Jennie Gunhammar, Crazy God by Yvonne De Rosa, Circus by Anderson & Low andUndisclosed by Bertil Nilsson to mention but a few. With a passion for championing emerging talent, curating & writing about contemporary photographers & photo history has led her to lecture worldwide on all aspects of the medium. Some of the journals featuring her writing include,Eyemazing, Snoeks, Foam, Next Level, Photoicon, Image, LIP, GUP & Hotshoe magazine.
She would like to see fine art photography, and she is not interested in seeing photojournalism or nudes.
Louise Clements, UK FULLY BOOKED
Artistic Director, Curator & Writer
Language: English
Artistic Director of QUAD, centre for contemporary art & film since 2002. As a curator, since 1998 Louise has initiated and curated many commissions and exhibitions of international and emerging contemporary art – many of which toured internationally-, artists residencies, conferences, debates, and produced many publications and film works. She is the Co-founder and Artistic Director/Curator of FORMAT International Photography Festival (Derby, UK) since 2004.
Louise was a juror at New York Photo Festival Awards 2009, Photographers’ Gallery Fresh Faced and Wild Eyed 2011, Exposure Award 2006-2011, Vauxhall Prize 2009, The Guardian Camera Club 2011, Contact Toronto review award 2011 and BJP Shoot the Street 2010. She has been an international portfolio reviewer in Bratislava, New York, UK, Lithuania, Arles, Houston, Stockholm, China and India. She is Director on the Board of Open Hand Films and non-executive Director for 1000 Words Photography Magazine.
She writes about photography for catalogues and magazines print/online including Kwartalnik Fotografia, Creative Review, Next Level, The Telegraph, AN magazine, South Korean Photography, Troika Editions, Arts Professional, contributor and 1000 Words Magazine. Louise is currently collaborating on a major publication at Big City Press, Hijacked3 contemporary photography from Aus/UK with Mark McPherson.
She also coaches a number of photographers internationally.
She is keen on seing photographers who are interested in discussing ideas and is open to see work at any stage of project development. Interested in anything from documentary, photojournalism, archive, photo/cross artform installation and contemporary/narrative photography, including film and performance. She is less interested to see travel, nude, commercial, advertising or stock unless they fit into the above.
www.derbyquad.co.uk
Marc Feustel, France
Independent Curator, Writer and Blogger
Languages: French and English
Marc Feustel is an independent Curator, Writer and Blogger based in Paris. A specialist in Japanese photography, he is the author of Japan: a self-portrait, photographs 1945–1964 and a founding director of Studio Equis, an organization devoted to broadening access to the visual arts between Japan and the West. He has curated several exhibitions including Japan A Self-Portrait, 1945-1964(Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo), Tokyo Stories (Kulturhuset, Stockholm) and Eikoh Hosoe: Theatre of Memory (Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney) and is a regular contributor to photography magazines including European Photography, Foam, Fantom, Some/things, VU MAGandLensculture. He blogs about photography and photo-books at www.eyecurious.com.
As a reviewer, he is interested in photo documentary in the broad sense. He has no interest in photojournalism, commercial or fashion photography.
Michael Itkoff, USA FULLY BOOKED
Photographer, Writer, Educator and Founding Editor
Languages: English
Michael Itkoff, Photographer, Writer, Educator and a Founding Editor of Daylight Magazine, received his BA from Sarah Lawrence College and an M.F.A. in Advanced Photographic Studies from ICP/Bard. Michael’s photographs have appeared on the covers of Orion, Katalog, Next American City and Philadelphia Weekly and he has written for the NYTimes Lens blog, Art Asia Pacific, Nueva Luz, Conscientious blog and the Forward. In addition to his work at Daylight, Michael has worked at Aperture, Rizzoli, Polaris Images and the Annie Leibovitz Studio. Michael was the recipient of the Howard Chapnick Grant for the Advancement of Photojournalism (2006), a Creative Artists Fellowship from the Pennsylvania Arts Council (2007), and a Puffin Foundation Grant (2008). Michael’s monograph Street Portraits was published by Charta Editions in 2009.
As a reviewer, he is interested in narrative-based documentary work.
Michele Vitucci, Germany
Gallery Director and Curator
Languages: English, Italian and German
In 1988, Michele founded a press photo library in Munich, Germany, that he sold to Tony Stone Images, GB, two years later. Between 1990 and 1995, he worked as a managing director for Tony Stone Images in charge of German-speaking countries. He took on the same position at Getty Images from 1995 to 1998.
Between 1998 and 2004, he was a freelance consultant for photo libraries and archives. He then co-founded and managed beyond fotomedia, a photo production and management company. In 2010 he launched the Micheko Galerie, an art gallery specialised in Asian contemporary photography that he still runs today.
As a reviewer, Michele is relatively flexible in terms of photographic works. Although his work as a gallerist is focused on Asian contemporary photography, he is of course open to European or American photography.
Moritz Neumüller, Spain FULLY BOOKED
Curator
Languages: English, German and Spanish
Moritz Neumüller (Linz, Austria, 1972) has graduated from the University of Vienna in Art History and from the Vienna University of Economics in Commerce. He has worked for the Department of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and supervised several international book and exhibition projects on photography and video art. He has directed various activities of PHotoEspaña, the Spanish Festival of Photography and Visual Arts, in the editions of 2004-2007, and the International Video Festival&Fair LOOP Barcelona, in its edition of 2008. At the moment, he is working as Festival Curator at PhotoIreland, and directing a study program called European Master of Fine Art Photography for the Instituto di Design in Madrid.
As a reviewer, Moritz is interested in seeing contemporary work made by photographers and media artists from around the world, especially documentary, social and conceptual work. He is less interested in traditional nudes or still-lives, commercial work, life-style and fashion. In the case that he himself cannot include you in one of the shows he curates for festivals and institutions, Moritz is known to try his best to give useful advice, casual mentoring and even contact information of other people who might well be interested in your work.
http://iedmadrid.com/masters/european-master-of-fine-art-photography/
Nathalie Herschdorfer, Switzerland FULLY BOOKED
Curator and Art Historian
Languages: French, English
Nathalie Herschdorfer is a Curator and Art Historian, specializing 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 l’Elysée, 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). She is the author of the book Afterwards: Contemporary Photography Confronting the Past, published by Thames & Hudson (London/Paris/New York) in Fall 2011. 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).
As a curator, she is keen on seeing every type of photographic work
Oscar Poulsen, Sweden
Photographer, Teacher, Critic/Reviewer, Curator and Project Manager
Languages: English and Swedish
Oscar Poulsen has a Bachelor in business economy and in media- and communication studies from the University of Stockholm. He is the Founder of Vidvinkel Foto and publisher of Vidvinkel Magazine and Vidvinkel Digital. Vidvinkel Foto was a platform for young photographers in Sweden. Vidvinkel Foto does no longer exist, but Vidvinkel Magazine is still active and totally new Vidvinkel Digital will be released in the beginning of October.
He is currently working as a photographer, teacher, critic/reviewer, curator and project manager. As a photographer he had a solo show and two group exhibitions with one at the Modern Museum of Art in Stockholm. His curatorial activity took place mainly in Stockholm where he organised Generation:Y at Sturehof in 2008 ; Looking for Love – part I at the Modern Museum of Art, Finnish Photography at The Headquarter, Ruvan Wijesooriya at Berns Salonger, Looking for Love – part II at the Centre of Photography in 2009. The same year, he curated a secret program of still and motion pictures that was projected on the wall of the House of Culture in Stockholm during the Stockholm Culture Festival. In 2010 he exported the exhibition of Inka Lindergård & Niclas Holmström, Erika Svensson to Berlin, at the Swedish embassy. In 2010 he joints the curator group at The House Under The Bridge in Stockholm. He curated the KIDS exhibition at Väsby Art Hall in 2011.
As a reviewer, Oscar is interested in seeing fine art, lifestyle/fashion photography and portraits.
Philippe Jarrigeon et Sylvain Menétrey, Suisse
Artistic Directors and Editors
Languages: English and French
Photographer Philippe Jarrigeon, apart of being known for his humour and his elegant pertinence, alternates between publishing projects (WallPaper*, Libération, Das Magazin…), collaborations with fashion and luxury houses and exhibitions projects. He is the co-founder of the art review Dorade.
He was selected by the Festival de Hyères (2008) and exhibited his work at the Fotomuseum Winterthur in 2008 and the Centre Georges Pompidou in 2009. He also teaches photography at the Ecole Cantonale d’Art de Lausanne and the Institut Français de la Mode.
With a Degree in Journalism and a cunning way of writing, Sylvain Menétrey worked for Mixte and then as an editor in chief for the monthly lifestyle magazine Baboo Time (CH). This architecture and design expert is also a regular contributor to other French and Swiss publications, such as Le Temps, ATS, Largeur.com, Double and Citizen K. He takes part in numerous curatorial projects as the recent book called Le Vieux Père, by Laurent Kropf for Boabooks Editions. With Philippe Jarrigeon, he is the co-founder of the art review Dorade.
Philippe and Sylvain are keen in reviewing all kinds of photographic work but they have a special interest for conceptual or staged photography.
Ramón Reverté, Spain and Mexico FULLY BOOKED
Published and creative director
Languages: English and Spanish
Ramón Reverté dedicated his life to the publishing world with a specialisation in contents selection and creative direction. He studied in Barcelona with a strong focus on printing processes and publishing design. He lived in Argentina, Chile, Mexico and United States. In 1999, in collaboration with his brother Javier he founded EDITORIAL RM, a Mexican publishing house dedicated to visual culture and specially in photo books. Barcelona RM Verlag is created in 2004 to monitor RM’s international distribution. It is within this framework that more than 150 books have been published and distributed worldwide.
Rui PRATA, Portugal
Curator and Artistic director
Languages : English, French, Portuguese, Spanish
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.
Sebastian Muñoa, Argentina
Art Gallery Director, Curator & Photographer
Languages: English and Spanish
Sebastian Muñoa studied photography at the Andy Goldstein Creative Photography School (2001/2003) in Buenos Aires, and attended various specific courses and workshops as well as History of Arts between 2004 and 2005. After working as a rock music photographer between 2003 and 2008, he started working for fashion advertising campaigns before finally focusing on fine art photography. He had various shows in Argentina.
He created REA One Day Gallery in 2010, a meeting space for artists, clients, galleries, aficionados and the fashion industry to support and stimulate creation and divulgation processes. By the research of artists and unconventional places, REA proposes to artists to start a joint-production process so as creating new works and meeting the conditions for a one-day gallery exhibition.
As a reviewer, Sebastian would like to review fine art and fashion photography. He is not interested in commercial and advertising works.
Shauba Chang, Taiwan FULLY BOOKED
Editor in Chief
Languages: English and Chinese
Shauba Chang currently lives and works between Taipei and London. She graduated in MFA Fine Art Media at The Slade School at the Fine Art in London. She is the Founder and Editor in Chief of Waterfall Magazine. Waterfall Magazine is an independent art and photography magazine, which makes connections between art, daily life, and common experiences. The magazine has been participated in art/photo book fairs internationally, including Magazine Library (Tokyo 2010), Off Print (Paris, 2010) and London Art Book Fair (London, 2011). The Magazine expands its activity to exhibitions and events such as WATERFALL # 3 POCKET LONDON LAUNCH (The Other Space, 2010, London) and Seitai Denki (URS21 Chung Shan Creative Hub / N2, 2011, Taipei).
Shauba Chang would like to review works from young emerging artists.
Sheyi Antony Bankale, UK FULLY BOOKED
Curator and Editor
Languages: English
Sheyi Antony Bankale is the Curator and Editor of Next Level. Next Level magazine is one of Europe’s leading art photography magazines with a dynamic mix of art photography and ideas. It features a diverse range of some of the world’s most influential photo artists. It aims to bring awareness and debate to contemporary culture, showcasing and celebrating emerging and established artists, across various disciplines and alongside inspiring, provocative and critical writing.
Mr. Bankale is the Curator of Next Level Projects, an exciting platform for innovative and experimental contemporary art photography situation in the heart of Shoreditch, London. The aim is to showcase a variety of international contemporary artists from diverse cultural scenes and celebrate the diversity of contemporary art photography. Curated by Mr. Bankale for the European City of Culture 2011, the Konepaja Hall, Turku, Finland hosts an extensive exhibition on contemporary photography titled ‘Alice in Wonderland’, the production is the largest exhibition of contemporary photographic art displayed in Finland.
Mr. Bankale is only interested in contemporary art photography; he is not interested in photojournalism. He is able to assist photo artists through publishing work in Next Level magazine, monographs, and selection towards major international photograph exhibition scheduled for 2011/12.
Stefano Bianchi, France FULLY BOOKED
Editor
Languages: French, English and Italian
Stefano Bianchi, the passionate mastermind behind Crowdbooks, is an independent graphic designer and communications consultant. He has worked with companies such as Magnumphotos Agency, Louis Vuitton, Relais & Châteaux, Dior, Fabrica (the Benetton group communications research center) and Diesel Jeans. From his current home base in Paris, France, Stefano acts as CEO of N2o Studio, a creative consulting agency. His passion for photography, quality design and craftsmanship, and an appreciation for the arts, led to the creation of this exciting new platform.
As a reviewer, Stefano has no favourite style or genre but he would prefer to review quite completed projects with a strong concept or idea that can be shaped into a book.
Tom Saunderson, UK FULLY BOOKED
Curator, gallery director and photographer
Languages: English
Tom Saunderson attended Norwich School of Art and London College of Communication where he studied photojournalism. Whilst at university he set up New Exposure, a close-knit collective of photographers and writers who, between 2007 and 2009, produced a series of documentary projects in countries such as Kosovo and Syria. Shaped by his experiences from these projects in late 2009 he initiated the setting up of Son Gallery with curator Guy Robertson. Son Gallery is a contemporary art gallery in Peckham. Saunderson’s first solo exhibition, Eye Saw: Aesthetics and Ethics, was held at Son Gallery in March 2010. Work from this exhibition was shown in the Saatchi Gallery in June 2010 as part of the Deustche Bank Borders show. In June 2010 he had a solo exhibition and produced a group exhibition in Museum Africa in Johannesburg, South Africa, called Look Here I Am. Most recently work from Study in Archive (i) has been selected for the New York Photo Festival’s Provocation exhibition, opening in March 2011. Tom Saunderson is participating in the Brighton Fringe 2011 and is part of ‘Off Moderns’ late in the Barbican.
He would like to especially see: straight up photography, alongside fine art and conceptual documentary plus new media photography.
Yasmina Reggad, UK FULLY BOOKED
Independent Curator
Languages: French, English, Spanish and Portuguese
After graduating from the Sorbonne in Paris, Yasmina Reggad worked internationally in public institutions and the publishing industry before settling in the UK to establish herself as an independent curator and founding her not-for-profit organisation Photo-Festivals for which she initiated and presently curates artists residencies, events and public progammes.
She is a Co-Founder of Photo Forum Beirut and a Member of the curatorial board of Paraty Em Foco.
Yasmina’s passionate promotion of photo festival culture and in particular the photo collective has resulted in a series of notable curatorial collaborations that include Guest Curator at Paraty em Foco in Brazil, Visiting Curator at Foco Colectania Foundation in Spain, Co-Curator of the World Photography Organisation’s London Photography Festival, Curator of the Collectives Encounter at the 2009 and 2011 Format International Photography Festival in the UK and co-curation of From Here, an interim show for the Brighton Fringe Festival.
In addition to writing for Revista Replicante, Autograph ABP, Times, The International Curators Forum or the Sao Paulo Street Biennial catalogue, Yasmina is regularly called upon to participate in panel discussions and talks for organisations and galleries such as the UK’s National Photography Symposium, Host Gallery, Cornerhouse and Iniva; she also reviewed portfolio in the UK, Brazil, France, Spain and the Middle East.
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.
