Benjamin Füglister is an artist and cultural entrepreneur born in Switzerland in 1978. Since his studies at the Kunsthochschule Basel in Switzerland and the Kunsthochschule Utrecht in the Netherlands, he lived in Berlin, Germany until 2023. In his artistic practice, he questions social conventions and explores their visual transformations. He is particularly interested in photography as a medium for visualising changes in the human image. Füglister is co-director of the IAF Basel - Festival of Contemporary Art. Benjamin Füglister has been a member of the editorial board of the magazine European Photography since 2006. He is the founding director of the CAP Prize, the prize for contemporary African photography, which was awarded for the first time in 2012. Füglister is a nominator for the prestigious Prix Pictet, the Joop Swarts Master Class, Plat(t)from, and sits on the artistic advisory board of Photo Basel. He regularly acts as a reviewer at international photo festivals.

Barbara Hofmann-Johnson studied art history, German studies, theatre, film and television studies and has been Director of the Museum für Photographie Braunschweig since 2016. She previously worked as a curator for projects on contemporary art and photography for museums and other cultural institutions in Germany and abroad and from 2003-2016 as a freelancer for Die Photographisch Sammlung/August Sander Archive in Cologne. She has taught at various universities, specialising in curatorial practice, and has published various publications and texts on contemporary art and photography.

Bernd Rodrian, born in 1966, is a trained photographer and studied photographic engineering in Cologne, specialising in the conservation and restoration of photography. He works as a freelance photographer, artist and exhibition organiser and was a board member of the Image Section of the German Society for Photography DGPh until 2016. He has been working on the work of Heinrich Heidersberger since 2000 and co-founded the Heidersberger Institute in 2002, which he has been in charge of since then.