Caroline von Courten is a curator, editor, and researcher specializing in photography and visual culture. She is the Artistic Director of Der Greif, where she develops exhibitions, publications, and research-driven programs. She also lectures in the Camera Arts BA program at the Lucerne School of Design, Film and Art. Previously, she held curatorial roles at Foam Magazine, the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, and the Nederlands Fotomuseum. Her writing appears internationally, and she completed her PhD at Leiden University on the materiality of photography.

Francesca Hummler is an educator and curator based in San Diego. At Der Greif, she works across curation, publications, partnerships, and artist development initiatives, founding Der Greif’s Face-to-Face educational program. She holds an MA in Photography from the Royal College of Art and has previously worked in educational and curatorial roles at Photofusion in London, and currently as a researcher for the German Embassy in Washington, D.C. Francesca has served as a portfolio reviewer for FORMAT25, Fotofestiwal Łódź, Review Santa Fe, UWE Bristol, and Offspring Photo Meet, and regularly teaches internationally, including at the ICA in San Diego.

Ilaria Sponda is an independent art curator, editor and writer. She works at the intersection of art, visual culture and systems of distribution. She is currently co-curator at Fodoks and was recently curatorial assistant at Lothringer 13 Halle and Goethe Institut Athens, and Haus der Kunst München. She was active as an independent curator in Milan, focusing on practices rooted in post-disciplinary realities that reflect a world where installations behaves like images, images behave like objects and online life leaks into material life. She holds a MA in Culture Studies from Universidade Católica Portuguesa and her writing has been published in hus Magazine, The British Journal of Photography, NERO, Lampoon, Umbigo, Lynx Contemporary, as well as in catalogues and artist books. She has actively participated as a portfolio reviewer for Sarajevo Photography Festival and Leipzig Photobook Festival.

Carolina Semprucci is a writer and graphic designer based in London, working internationally across photography, publishing, and visual identity. Her writing on photography and digital culture has appeared in PhMuseum’s Annual, Photography+, Gabble, and publications by Kult Books. As a designer, she has collaborated with cultural and research-driven organizations including ArtULTRA and The Justice Gap. She has taught publishing at London College of Communication and is currently Writer in Residence at Photoworks.