Jessica Jarl had an early interest in theater, art, and photography. After high school graduation in theater, she had various part-time jobs while working in theater as an actor, director´s assistant, and project manager. Jarl then continued studying at the University, Digital Photography and Image Processing as well as Theater and Art studies. She has a bachelor's degree in Art History. Since 2013, she has been working at Fotografiska in Stockholm. She was first employed by Fotografiska Stockholm as an appreciated exhibition guide, guide administrator, and booker. She then continued her career at Fotografiska as Exhibition Coordinator. With Fotografiska’s global expansion, Jarl started working for Fotografiska International in 2018 as Director of Global Exhibitions.

Suzie Katz is a photographer, producer, speaker, educator, juror, and nonprofit organization innovator. She has photographed in over 70 countries and her work has been published, exhibited, and sold worldwide. Early in her photographic career she was honored as one of 50 leading contemporary photographers in an exhibition entitled “Women Photographers Now”. Suzie gives back to the world, by sharing her way of thinking, through PhotoWings (http://www.photowings.org/) which is her educational nonprofit organization whose mission is to highlight and help facilitate the power of photography to influence the world. It helps photography to be better understood, created, utilized, seen, and saved in a number of ways across generations, cultures, and disciplines. PhotoWings documents and shares the knowledge of leaders in and around the photographic world through 100’s of hours of original and partner interviews, presentations, and through community building. Along with its innovative partners, PhotoWings has created opportunities for photographers, educators, and the general public by providing free educational content through our website, international workshops, exhibitions, lesson plans, and curricula that can be freely utilized for replication, adaptation, or inspiration. This educational content is created to be useful in work and in life, incorporating valuable social/emotional learning and executive function skills.

Elena Paraskeva was chosen by Saatchi Art as one of the "Artists To Watch". She was named Photographer Of The Year in 2024, 2023, 2021 and 2018 by four different, distinguished international photography competitions. Her skills have been recognized by ADOBE who commissioned her several times to teach professionals from all over the world on her creative and editing processes. She has exhibited her work in Paris, NYC, London, Barcelona, Tokyo, Munich, Budapest, Kuala Lumpur among other cities and has been published on the pages and covers of a multitude of publications including The Guardian UK, The Guardian Australia and The Times (twice). Amongst her many exhibitions over the years some notable ones were the exhibition of her series on Autism in the European Parliament in Brussels in March of 2023, the exhibition of her series "Vacant Children" at the XIV Florence Biennale in Oct. 2023 at the invitation of the organizers, and the exhibition of her series "A Perfect Life" during Paris Photo Week in Nov. 2023.

Niyatee Shinde is an independent scholar, curator, historian and writer on art and photography with over three decades of experience in the field of art and photography. She was a former Research Fellow at the Smithsonian Institute’s National Museum of American History, where her research focused on Interdisciplinary access to photographic collections within the Smithsonian. She also served as Director & Curator of the Birla Academy of Art and Culture in Mumbai. As writer on art and photography, critic and reviewer, Shinde has contributed to the Times of India and the Indian Express. She continues to contribute essays and reviews on photography for national and international publications. Widely travelled, she has participated in several international discourses and seminars on photography. She has curated several photography and art exhibitions internationally and has received international awards recognizing her work as a curator, writer and photo-historian. She was awarded the Northbrook Fellowship by the British Council, Paul Getty Grant in 2004 and the 1994 Goethe-Institut Scholarship for photography research amongst others. In recognition of her curatorial work in photography she was awarded the 2023 Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain Award for Photography Curatorship. Dr Shinde is the author of many publications and has been invited as nominator for international awards including the Leopold Godowsky Jr Photography Award 1997 and the Hasselblad Photographer Award for 2000, 2001, 2014. 2017 and 2022. In 2023 she was awarded the RPS Photographic Curator Award.

Marieke van der Krabben is the executive director and co-founder of the Saint Petersburg Month of Photography. With a background in Art History and Film & Photographic Studies from Leiden University in the Netherlands, she has spent over a decade curating photography exhibitions for museums and festivals. She’s co-authored several books on photography and written for various art publications. Before starting her own non-profit, Marieke worked as a curator at the Florida Museum of Photographic Arts and the Museum of Photography in The Hague. Passionate about supporting artists, she’s involved in portfolio reviews, judges photography competitions, and founded the Saint Petersburg Photo Laureate Program.

Moshe is the founder, creative director & lead curator of Head On Photo Festival, Australia's premier photography event. Moshe’s career spans over 40 years as a photojournalist, commercial photographer, educator and an award-winning television producer/director at SBS Television. Moshe’s work has been screened, published and exhibited in Australia and overseas.Moshe received a Master's in Journalism from the University of Technology (UTS) and had a long teaching career at UTS, the Australian Film, Television and Radio School (AFTRS) and others. In 2018, Moshe was awarded an Order of Australia Medal (OAM) for contributing to the visual arts, particularly photography.

Keir Magoulas is the Creative Director at Visit Tampa Bay, where he assists in campaign strategies that highlight the culture, attractions, and experiences that make the destination unique. Combining his skills in web design, photography, and graphic design, Keir creates engaging content that appeals to both visitors and locals, helping to tell Tampa Bay's story and encourage visitors to explore the region. Beyond his work at Visit Tampa Bay, Keir collaborates with a diverse range of clients throughout the community. His expertise in web design and branding allows businesses to establish strong digital identities, while his photography captures the essence of Tampa Bay. Keir’s dedication to his craft and deep connection to the city make him an instrumental part in shaping Tampa Bay’s visual narrative, both as a destination and a thriving community.

Kristen is currently the Visiting Assistant Professor in photography at the University of South Florida and has been an adjunct instructor at the University of Tampa and University of South Carolina since completing her MFA from the University of New Mexico in 2018. Their artistic practice centers the subjectivities of stewardship, as they translate and amplify the archive of late photographic artist Jaroslaw Studencki. Hoping to become the prism for another's legacy and memory, she makes pictures and objects of the distances within communication. Through re-negotiative gestures wherein materiality is a scrim between protection and access, they grapple with questions of legibility and tenderness in making from loss. Kristen has been in residence with the CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF SUBSTRUCTURED LOSS for applied grief and bereavement research (London) and the School of Making Thinking (NY) to explore texts somatically and collaboratively. Their work has been shared online and in print. Upcoming and recent exhibitions include You Again and Me for the First Time with Tatiana Mesa Pajan and Becca Wahl, When Do We Decide to Give It All Away? with Patrick Carew in 2024 and Desiring Production, curated by Jocelyn Chase, in 2023, all in Tampa. In 2021, Kristen co-curated an exhibition, Bodies for Scale (This Has Happened Many Times Before), at Goodyear Arts in Charlotte, NC, wherein the bridges between us did, in fact, hold.

Bärbel Reinhard is a photographer, curator, and educator based in Tuscany, Italy. With a background in Art History, Sociology, and Literature from Humboldt University in Berlin, she later pursued a professional degree in photography at the Fondazione Studio Marangoni in Florence. Her photographic work, often exploring collage and mixed media, has been exhibited across Italy and internationally, including at the European Month of Photography in Luxembourg, Metronom Gallery in Modena, and New York University Florence. Alongside her personal research, Bärbel works as a freelance photographer, curator, and portfolio reviewer, and has taught at institutions such as Sarah Lawrence College, Kent State University, NYU, the University of Minnesota, and Stanford in Florence. She is also a long-standing faculty member at Fondazione Studio Marangoni, where she curates special projects and exhibitions. Her curatorial work includes exhibitions and publications from the archive of Mario Carnicelli, as well as numerous shows featuring emerging artists. In 2023, she was selected for the Futures Photography program, and in 2024 joined the Oracle photography curators network.

Hiromi Nakamura is a curator at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, and has been curating exhibitions for over 30 years. She guest curated A Private History at Fotografisk Center in Copenhagen in 2007, Fashion Magazine by Martin Parr in the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, TOKYO by Magnum Photographers from 1945 to 2005, in 2007. Apart from her curatorial work, she contributes articles to numerous magazines and gives lectures at several universities and museums such as Seika University Kyoto, the National Art Gallery of Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur, the Hammer Museum, and UCLA in California in the USA. Nakamura has been a nominator for the Infinity Awards 2006 at the International Center of Photography in New York, and a nominator for the Kassel Photo Book Biennale in Kassel, Germany. Her research interests include Contemporary Art and Photography, Film, Fashion, Sociology, and Cultural Studies.