Jessica Jarl is the Global Director of Exhibitions at Fotografiska. She joined the museum in 2013 and, together with her colleagues, leads the curatorial development, design, and production of exhibitions across Fotografiska’s locations in Stockholm, Berlin, Tallinn, and Shanghai. Working closely with artists, gallerists, and cultural partners worldwide, she curates exhibitions that explore photography as a space for dialogue, diversity, and shared experience. Jessica has produced and curated numerous exhibitions with international artists, including Andres Serrano, Anja Niemi, Scarlett Hooft Graafland, Cho Gi-Seok, Josèfa Ntjam, Alex Prager, Rinko Kawauchi, and Andy Warhol, among others.

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

Elena Paraskeva was named Photographer of the Year in 2024, 2023, 2021 and 2018 by 4 different, distinguished international photographic societies. She is a Hasselblad Masters, Lensculture, Aesthetica, Der Greif and Prix De La Photographie Paris Alumni, amongst others. She exhibited in prestigious galleries and during Biennales in NYC, Paris, Tokyo, London, DUBAI, Vienna, Barcelona, Munich, Sao Paolo (Brazil), Florence, Frankfurt, Malaga (Spain), Linz(Austria), Gratz(Austria), Sienna(Italy), Kuala Lumpur among others. Amongst her many exhibitions over the years, her work was exhibited in the European Parliament in Brussels. She has been featured on the cover and pages of a multitude of international print publications.

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.

Kristen is a photographic artist and educator who recently relocated to Albuquerque, NM, after serving as Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of South Florida in 2024-2025. Kristen has previously taught at the University of Tampa, the University of South Carolina, and the University of New Mexico, where they earned an MFA 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 a prism for another's legacy and memory, they make pictures and objects from the distances within communication. Through renegotiative gestures wherein materiality is a scrim between protection and access, Kristen grapples 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, in print, and in exhibitions across the US

Luçjan Bedeni (b. 1987, Shkodër, Albania) is an artist, art historian, and curator whose practice unfolds at the intersection of photographic archives, critical historiography, and contemporary exhibition-making. Since 2012, he has served as director of the National Museum of Photography “Marubi” in Shkodër, where he has led the transformation of the former phototheque into a dynamic institution dedicated to the critical reinterpretation of photographic heritage. Bedeni studied at the Artistic Lyceum “Prenkë Jakova” in Shkodër and later at the Academy of Arts in Tirana, where he received his MA in Painting in 2009. That same year, he was awarded the Ardhje ’09 Prize for young visual artists, followed by a residency at the International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) in New York. His early training in painting continues to inform his sensitivity to the materiality and poetics of the image, shaping a practice that navigates between artistic production and historical inquiry. Bedeni has curated and commissioned over 40 exhibitions that explore the relationship between image, power, and historical narrative. In 2021, Bedeni obtained a PhD in the History of Albanian Art.

Chris Leventis is an interdisciplinary artist based in Tampa, Florida. His exploration of the creative has spanned over 25 years and encompassed a multitude of media. As a photographer, Leventis leverages the benefits of both digital and analog technology in pursuit of images that reimagine the spaces he investigates. Through his process, the work often reflects a deep engagement with nature and the abstract representation of time. Using historical processes, Leventis adds the last layer of expression through the platinum-palladium and photopolymer gravure processes, where he has discovered a type of magic. Also an experimental sound artist and musician, Leventis uses experimental sound synthesis to realize the rich and complex sonic world of the spaces he photographs. Leventis finds teaching others the perfect companion to self-expression. “There is a symbiotic relationship that I find in teaching, which I treasure.” Leventis, holds a BFA in Digital Art Technology and an MFA from Maine Media College. He intends to push the boundaries of his art through teaching students to explore the intersection of technology and traditional forms. He is a Professor at the University of Tampa and also teaches private workshops.

Zoraida Díaz is a Colombian-born documentary photographer and former Reuters photojournalist whose work has graced the front pages of globally recognized newspapers such as the New York Times, The Washington Post, Newsweek, the International Herald Tribune, Libération, O Globo, The Guardian, The Independent, the Herald Sun, Dagens Nyheter and Clarín. Her work has also appeared in seminal texts like Thames & Hudson’s A World History of Women Photographers. She photographed top news stories throughout Latin America for the Reuters News Pictures Service, including the US Invasion of Panama in 1989; Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chávez coup in 1992, the MRTA (Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement) hostage crisis in Lima in 1997, and Pope John Paul II’s historic visit to Cuba in 1998. Díaz holds a BA in English & Communications from the City College of New York, and an MFA in Creative Writing and Publishing Arts from the University of Baltimore.

Jodie Katzeff is an arts professional and art historian with over a decade of experience across museums and galleries, specializing in modern and contemporary art and architectural history. She currently serves as Exhibition Manager at the Florida Museum of Photographic Arts, where she oversees exhibitions and contributes to institutional programming. Previously, she worked at Gladstone Gallery in New York, the Museum of Jewish Heritage–A Living Memorial the Holocaust and the Jasper Johns Catalogue Raisonné at The Menil Collection. She studied for her Ph.D in Art History at the City University of New York Graduate Center, where her academic work focused on 20th-century art, architecture, and design. She has a B.A in Art History from the University of Florida, where she also studied photojournalism and fine art photography. Her career reflects a deep commitment to advancing scholarship and operational excellence within the art world.

Oleksandra Osadcha, PhD, is a curator and photography researcher from Kharkiv, Ukraine. Since 2018, she has served as curator at the Museum of the Kharkiv School of Photography (MOKSOP), where she contributes to the exhibition and publication programming. Her curatorial work has been presented in Kharkiv, Kyiv, Odesa, Berlin, Brno, and Rome. From 2017 to 2025, she taught history and theory of photography and contemporary art at the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts and the Kharkiv State Academy of Culture. Between 2022 and 2024, she was a research fellow at the Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History in Rome. She is currently a Fulbright Fellow at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.