Dr Charmaine Toh is Acting Head of Curatorial at Tate Modern, where she also oversees its photography collection. Her research has focused on alternative histories of photography. At Tate, she worked on the collection displays of Josef Koudelka, Hiroshi Sugimoto and Ishiuchi Miyako and curated Light & Magic: The Birth of Art Photography, an exhibition on global pictorialism.

In her former role as Senior Curator at National Gallery Singapore, she curated Living Pictures: Photography in Southeast Asia (2022), which was the first major survey of photography in the region. She was co-curator of the Singapore Biennale (2013) and the author of Imagining Singapore: Pictorial Photography from the 1950s to the 1970s (Brill, 2023). She is currently researching the impact of new technology on expanded photographic practices.

Roxana Marcoci is the Acting Chief Curator and The David Dechman Senior Curator of Photography at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. She has a Ph.D. in Art History, Theory, and Criticism from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. Major recent exhibitions she curated include LaToya Ruby Frazier: Monuments of Solidarity (2024); An-My Lê: Between Two Rivers (2023); Wolfgang Tillmans: To look without fear (2022); and Louise Lawler: WHY PICTURES NOW (2017).

She has co-authored the three-volume Photography at MoMA (2015/17). Marcoci is the recipient of the Center for Curatorial Leadership, co-founder of MoMA’s Forums on Contemporary Photography, and co-chair of the Contemporary and Modern Art Perspectives (C-MAP) and Southeast and East Asia research program.

Alessia Glaviano is the Head of Global PhotoVogue and Director of the PhotoVogue Festival. After joining Vogue Italia in 2001 and shaping its visual identity as Visual Director, she transitioned in 2022 to focus solely on leading PhotoVogue.

In this role, she collaborates with all Vogue editions worldwide, championing both emerging and established photographers. Under her leadership, PhotoVogue has become an industry-leading platform. Glaviano also oversees the PhotoVogue Festival, the first conscious fashion photography festival. She regularly lectures at top institutions and serves on juries for major international photography awards.

Florian Ebner is Head of the Photography Department at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Previously, he directed the Photography Collection at Museum Folkwang in Essen and curated the German Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale (2015). His curatorial work examines the social and political dimensions of photography, highlighting the medium’s role within contemporary visual culture.

Recent exhibitions include Hito Steyerl: I Will Survive. Physical and Virtual Spaces, Centre Pompidou, 2021 (with Marcella Lista); Germany / 1920s / New Objectivity / August Sander, Centre Pompidou, 2022 (with Angela Lampe); and Wolfgang Tillmans: Nothing Could Have Prepared Us – Everything Could Have Prepared Us, Centre Pompidou, 2025. Born in Regensburg, he lives and works in Paris and Essen.

Michael founded Belfast Photo Festival in 2009 and has since initiated as well as curated numerous commissions on exhibitions of contemporary art with a particular focus on photography.

He curates a varied programme of artist talks, conferences, workshops, films and exhibitions, which has previously included artists such as Ai Weiwei, Alec Soth, Roger Ballen and Robert Mapplethorpe. He nominates and judges for a number of international awards, including the Prix Pictet (London), ICP Infinity Awards (New York) and SIFEST (Bologna), as well as reviews internationally.