Dominik Gigler studied photography at the Staatliche Fachakademie für Fotodesign in Munich and earned his M.A. at the LCP in London in 1998. Having spent 14 years in London and establishing himself as a freelance photographer, he and his family relocated to Munich in 2009. The same year he was one of the exhibiting artists at the Fotodoks Festival in Bad Aibling, showing his personal project 'Along the River Lea'. He is co-curator and co-organizer of the Fotodoks festival since 2018.
Francesco Giordano (*1992) is a photographer and curator living in Munich. His focus is on LGBTQIA+ topics and migration. In 2017, he completed his photography studies at the University of Applied Sciences Munich. With his collaborative projects such as ‘Rainbow Refugees (Stories)’, ‘377. Inside India's Queer Community’,‘queer:raum’ and ‘Mit Euren Spuren’ he wants to create more visibility for marginalised groups and queer issues.
Frank Bauer studied photography at the Staatliche Fachakademie für Fotodesign in Munich and worked as a photographer in Berlin and London for a number of years before returning to Munich. In his work as a portrait and documentary photographer, people's lives and working environments play a central role. Sharing knowledge is important to Frank: he holds workshops and has been teaching documentary photography and photojournalism at the Faculty of Design at Munich University of Applied Sciences on a semester basis since 2018. He joined Fotodoks as co-curator and co-organizer in 2019.
Katrin Bauer (b. 1992, DE) is a curator and writer, based in Munich. Her research is driven by an interest in photography’s representational politics as well as decolonial strategies in contemporary art production. Most recently, she has been working as research associate for Photography and Time-based Media at the Bavarian State Painting Collections. Prior to this, she worked as assistant curator at Fotomuseum Winterthur. In 2024, she received the C/O Berlin Talent Award in the category “Theorist”. She holds a Master’s degree in Art Education, Curatorial Studies from the Zurich University of the Arts. Her writings have been featured in Camera Austria, Christoph Merian Verlag, DISTANZ, Rundbrief Fotografie, Spector Books, transcript Verlag, among others.
Nadine Loës is a freelance Photographer and Graphic designer. After her apprenticeship as a Mediadesigner in Stuttgart she studied first Photography at the University of Applied Science in Munich and then finished her Photography Postgraduate Study at the Ostkreuzschule in Berlin with Ute Mahler and Robert Lyons. She was founder and editor of ‘salopp – an independent magazine for young photography’. She has been working with FOTODOKS since 2019.
Sandra Singh (*1990) is a visual artist who works at the intersection of photography, printmaking and media art. She explores border politics, female autonomy and migrant identity through a playful examination of the relationship between documentation and fiction. Her process is informed by personal encounters, emotional and journalistic approaches and a fusion of aesthetics from surveillance technology, fine art photography and photojournalism. She holds a B.A. in Photography from the University of Applied Science Munich.