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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.
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.
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.
Ilaria Sponda is an independent art curator, editor and writer. She works at the intersection of art, visual culture and systems of distribution. Her focus is on practices rooted in post-disciplinary realities that reflect a world where installations behave 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 she’s Managing Editor at Der Greif. Her writing has been published in The British Journal of Photography, Lampoon, Lynx Contemporary and NERO, as well as in catalogues and artist books.