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.