Arianna Rinaldo is a Barcelona, Spain based freelance professional working with photography at a wide range. From 2012 to 2021 she was the artistic director of Cortona On The Move, international festival of visual narrative. Since 2016 she is the photography curator at PhEST, a festival of contemporary photography and arts in Puglia. Rinaldo was archive director at Magnum Photos, NY; then picture editor for Colors Magazine in Italy and worked as photo consultant for various publications. For 7 years she was the director of OjodePez, the documentary photo magazine published in Spain. She is a regular participant in portfolio reviews and jury panels worldwide, as well as speaker, educator and mentor, often working with photographers as editor for book projects. She is on the nominating committee for the Leica Oskar Barnack Award and BJP’s Ones To Watch.
Ashfika Rahman is based in Dhaka, BD. She is a visual artist, teacher and art initiator. Her practice straddles art and documentary. In each of her works, she tries to challenge the mainstream perspective on complex systemic social issues in the periphery of her home country and raise awareness globally about these alarming threats to humanity. Rahman has exhibited in festivals and museums internationally including Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR; Triennial of Photography Hamburg; Dhaka Art Summit, BD; Lumix Festival, DE; Chobi Mela X, BD; Jimei x Arles photo festival, CN; FORMAT Festival, UK; Alserkal Avenue, UAE; Photo 2022, AUS. She had a solo show at the Vitrine Gallery, CH and the Drik Gallery, BD. Ashfika holds lectures and conferences, e.g. at the Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst; FHNW - University of Applied Sciences Northwestern, Switzerland; Institut Kunst Gender Natur (IAGN), Switzerland and the Hochschule Hannover - University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Germany. She participated in several portfolio review sessions, including the Tbilisi Photo Festival and the Triennial of Photography Hamburg. In 2018 she received the Joop Swart Master Class by World Press Photo Foundation. She joined as a teacher at Pathshala South Asian Media Institute, BD and is a member of the MAPS images agency. She is the artistic partner of The European Union National Institutes for Culture (EUNIC), Bangladesh.
Barbara Stauss is based in Berlin and was a founding member of the magazine Mare, whose picture editorial department she has headed until this year. Stauss is the project manager of the German edition of Reporters without Borders‘ annual photo book. She curates exhibitions, edits books and other publications. She is involved in the Joop Swart Master Class of the World Press Photo Foundation and is a jury member of various photography competitions.
Carla Rosorius, is based in Hamburg and is head of the GEO photo department. Born and raised in the South of Germany, Carla studied Social Science and Art History in Berlin. Afterwards she attended Ostkreuzschule für Fotografie to get to know the field of Photo Editing. She gained her first working experiences as an intern at Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazine. Followed by prestigious magazines and newspapers like DER SPIEGEL and DIE ZEIT. Since 2015 she is working for GEO, mainly GEO kompakt and GEO WISSEN in a responsible position until 2019. Since 2019 she is a jury board member of PUNKT – a journalistic award for science and technical photography. She was one of the reviewers at plattform9: perspective?! at Deichtorhallen in Hamburg in 2019.
Claudia Hinterseer is senior video producer at the award-winning South China Morning Post in Hong Kong. Before she worked as managing multimedia producer at China Daily Asia. Prior to pivoting from photography to video, she was photo editor at Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad. In 2007, she founded NOOR photo agency and served as its MD for seven years. Earlier in her career she set up photojournalistic educational programs around the globe for World Press Photo. She obtained an MA in Visual Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam.
Daniel Tchetchik is a staff photographer and the founder/chief editor of the photography blog at Haaretz Newspaper He has displayed his personal works in prominent museums and galleries in Israel as well as on international stages in several destinations across the world. His recent large scale project Dark Waters was displayed last year at the Museum for Sepulkralkultur and published by Kehrer Verlag. Tchetchik’s works are part of the collections of The Museum of Tel Aviv, The Museum of Ramat Gan, The Peter Blum Gallery, The Umm El Fahem Gallery, Museum for Sepulkralkultur, The Marc Rich Foundation, The French Institute as well as several private collections. Tchetchik divides his time between local and international personal projects and documentary assignments, many times each approach provides inspiration for the other. His work has been featured on platforms of the The Financial Times, The Süddeutsche Zeitung, The New Yorker, Frankfurter Allgemeine, Haaretz Newspaper and more.
Demet Yıldız Dinçer is based in Istanbul, Turkey and the Curator and Head of Photography Department at the Istanbul Museum of Modern Art. She taught several courses on art at the Sabancı University and continued her career in contemporary art at the Istanbul Biennial before taking up her current position at Istanbul Modern in 2015. In addition to curating photography exhibitions, Yıldız Dinçer contributes to various publications and holds jury membership and nominator positions at various international photography festivals and events.
Fiona Shields is based in London, UK and head of photography for the Guardian News and Media Group. She has over twenty years‘ picture editing experience across a range of newspaper titles. Including ten years as a picture editor of the Guardian. Shields has been involved in the coverage of some of the most historic news stories of our time including the events surrounding 9/11, global conflicts, natural disasters, the humanitarian crises resulting from the growing refugee numbers across the world and now the global pandemic. She has joined the jury for World Press Photo, the Sony World Photography Awards, The Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize and is a regular nominator for the prestigious Prix Pictet Prize.
Gabrielle Fonseca Johnson is the editor of The Wider Image, Reuters’ award-winning multimedia storytelling imprint. She leads a team commissioning stories from photographers around the world that are published by major media organisations internationally. Gabrielle leads the Reuters photojournalism grant program with a focus on improving diversity as well as curating exhibitions and teaching workshops. Previously Gabrielle was an editor in Reuters UK bureau and at the Times of London.
Gilles Steinmann is the Director of Photography for the daily newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ) in Switzerland. He has been a photo editor for over 16 years, worked for various major Swiss publications and has been involved in the coverage of some of the most historic global news stories. One of his other main tasks at the newspaper is in developing new ways of storytelling both in print and online to bring indepth visual reporting to his readership. From 2017 until 2020 he published over 150 photo-essays in print and online as a "Foto Tableau" giving photographers a platform to tell their stories. Gilles has been a jury member for national and international photo contests such as the Lumix Festival for Photojournalism in Hanover, Germany.
Giulietta Palumbo is the Editorial director at Magnum Photos. In 2013 she joined Magnum Photos in Paris, working in the production department on archive management and image distribution. She is now coordinating Editorial productions of Magnum Photos, assisting Photographers in producing new stories and representing their work, liaising with major clients, publishers and organisations.
Guido Schmidtke is a Hamburg based picture editor. After studying communication design at the Folkwang University in Essen, he worked for many years as a freelance photographer, mainly for magazines. He began his work as a picture editor at ADAC Reisemagazin (travel magazine). Since 2004 he has been picture editor at STERN Magazine. For the past four years he has been responsible for the foreign desk. In 2021 he has also been working as Deputy Managing Designer at STERN.
Prof. Heike Ollertz is a Hamburg, Germany based photographer. She worked for a wide variety of magazines, e.g. Mare, GEO, National Geographic, Stern, der Spiegel and more. In 2019 Ollertz became an appointed member of the German Photographic Society DGPH. In 2020 she became a founding member of Agentur Focus – Die Fotograf*innen. Until January 2023 she was dean of the faculty Art & Design at the University of Europe for Applied Sciences. Heike Ollertz is one of the founders of the Hamburg Portfolio Review and since February 2023 the new COO of the photographers’ association FREELENS e.V.
Henner Flohr is based in Frankfurt, Germany, where he works as Head of Photography for nationwide newspapers Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (F.A.Z.) and Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung (F.A.S.). After working for Financial Times Deutschland and news agency dapd, he joined F.A.Z. as photo editor in 2011. Since 2019, he is the head of the photo department and oversees photo assignments for the newspaper’s online and print publications as well as monthly „F.A.Z. Magazin“.
Hideko Kataoka is based in Tokyo, Japan. She has been director of photography at Newsweek Japan since 2001. In 2004, She launched the Picture Power section in the magazine, a weekly photo essay that captures underreported topics around the world. Published for the last 18 years, Picture Power continues to provide a printed showcase for contemporary photographers’ work. Hideko is a lecturer at Tokyo Polytechnic University, serves as a member of the external review committee at Tokyo Photographic Art Museum and as a juror at international photography festivals and competitions, e.g. World Press Photo.
James Estrin is a senior staff photographer for the New York Times. He is the founder of the Lens section, the Times’s photography column and its co-editor. He had been a freelance photographer contributing to several magazines. Estrin was part of a team that won a 2001 Pulitzer Prize. He is also the co-executive producer of the documentary film „Underfire: The Untold Story of Pfc. Tony Vaccaro“.
Julie Hau is a photo editor at National Geographic, where she commissions and curates the departments pages of the magazine and works with photographers and creatives to create visual content for print, the website and social platforms.
Katrin Trautner was born and raised in northern Germany. She studied Photography at the University of Applied Siences Bielefeld, where she graduated in 2008. Katrin gained first working experiences an intern at the GEO photo department in 2009. After working as a freelance photographer and photo editor, she became a GEO staff member in 2012, with changing focuses over the years.
Lara Huck is studied photography at the Fachakademie für Fotodesign, Munich Germany. With the focus on portraiture and documentary photography. Afterwards she worked as a freelance photographer for various magazines and newspapers. In 2016 she has been in the Picture Department of the German weekly newspaper DIE ZEIT, in Hamburg. Since 2021 Lara Huck is the Deputy Director of Photography at DIE ZEIT.
Lars Lindemann is a Hamburg based curator, exhibition maker and creative director. At the moment he's working on a number of exhibition projects inside and outside of his native Germany. Lars is one of the founders of the Hamburg Portfolio Review and International Projects Curator of the Italian photo festival Cortona On The Move. He has served as the Director of Photography and Deputy Visual Director at GEO and PM magazines. With a background in geography, history, and education, Lindemann transitioned into the visual arts as a self-taught photo editor, photographer, and curator. His career includes freelancing for various magazines before his tenure at GEO, where he was appointed Director of Photography and Deputy Creative Director in 2015. From 2020-2023, he managed the photographic departments of both GEO and PM magazine families. In addition to his professional roles, Lindemann has contributed to academia as a photo editing instructor at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Dortmund, Germany. He has also served as a jury member for several national and international photography contests, including the prestigious World Press Photo Contest.
Laurence Tan is a visual editor at The New York Times based in New York, USA. He was previously a senior assignment editor at Getty Images in Hong Kong, where he oversaw news coverage in Asia, and worked as a photo editor at the International Herald Tribune and Reuters Wider Image Desk. He participated as a jury member for national and international photo awards, including the World Press Photo contest in 2018, and was a contributing photographer for the “Eyes on China” project, which was formed by a group of China-based photographers.
Lois Lammerhuber is a reportage photographer based in Baden, Austria. Together with Silvia Lammerhuber he manages the publishing house Edition Lammerhuber, which has been voted the best photo book publisher in Europe several times. He founded the Alfred Fried Photography Award in cooperation with World Press Photo, UNESCO, The International Press Institute and the Austrian Parliament. Lammerhu-ber founded La Gacilly-Baden Photo Festival and is a member of the Art Directors Club New York.
Martina Bacigalupo is a photographer and picture editor of the French magazine 6 Mois. She worked for ten years as a freelance photographer in Burundi, East Africa, collaborating with magazines, foundations and international organisations. Her work, which investigates the visual dynamics between Africa and the West, is part of several collections, including the Artur Walther Collection in Germany and the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, USA. In 2013, she published the project "Gulu Real Art Studio" with Steidl. Interested in the migration crisis, she developed with Canadian researcher Sharon Sliwinski, "The Reverie project", an ongoing project that questions the representation of migrants. Bacigalupo is part of VU agency in Paris and holds professional workshops on documentary photo writing in France and abroad. Besides that she has been a jury member of international photography competitions, including the latest edition of World Press Photo Award.
Nicole Neumann was born in southern Germany in 1978. She holds a diploma in communication design, with main focus on photography, studying in Augsburg, Barcelona and Hamburg and was a portrait photographer for several years. She worked for DIE ZEIT as a freelance photo editor for nearly 13 years before joining DER SPIEGEL as permanent photo editor in 2020. Since May 2022 Nicole has been working at the foreign department’s International Photo Desk.
Prof. Dr. Nina Röder is a Berlin, Germany based Professor of photography at University of Europe for Applied Sciences, where she teaches artistic strategies & exhibition methods. Next to her artistic activities she holds aPh.D. in the field of artistic research. Her research focus lies on performative strategies in contemporary photography in the context of contingency. Exposing hidden and unconscious structures of mechanisms of biographical narratives characterises the approach of her work. Nina‘s series have been shown in international festivals and exhibitions.
Olfa Feki is an architect, curator and artistic director/founder of #Kerkennah visual art festival. She has contributed into the establishment of the new generation of photojournalists of the North African shores following the Arab spring. After founding the first visual art center in Tunisia, she decided to move out to extend her experience. From project manager of ‘Something Else Cairo biennale’, to regional representative of NOOR Images agency in Amsterdam. She also curated the second edition of the Biennale of Photographers of the Contemporary Arab World in Paris. She has been a curator for several biennales such as Dak’art 2014 and Bamako Encounters 2017. But also, jury/nominator for various contests: La chambre Claire Morocco 2016/2018, Joop Swart Masterclass for the World Press Photo 2017-2020, Paul Huf Price for the Foam Museum 2017-2019, Cap Prize 2017-2018, Magnum foundation Grant 2017. In 2019 she was named ‘Chevalier des arts et des Lettres’ by the French Minister, as a reward for having contributed in the artistic field and her contribution to the dissemination of arts in France and in the world.
Peter Lindhorst discovered his passion for photography while working for one of the first photo bookstores in the world. He later studied cultural studies at the University of Lüneburg, where he graduated with a thesis on Nan Goldin and Larry Clark. He has worked for various publishing houses, including Steidl and Scalo. After a long stay in Brussels, he has been curating the photo exhibitions at Freelens Gallery in Hamburg for 10 years now. He is extremely interested in any kind of political issues and especially environmental issues and activism. For many years he has been the picture editor of the German Greenpeace Magazin.
Rahel Zander | stern Magazine Rahel Zander is a Hamburg based photo editor. Since her graduation in photo design at the Munich University of Applied Sciences in 2007 Rahel Zander has been working for various magazines such as nido, NEON, Die Zeit and Manager Magazine. In 2021 she joined stern Picture Desk and became the responsible photo editor for the line extension Stern Crime.
Rowin Ubink works as a photo editor for the daily newspaper de Volkskrant in the Netherlands. He is based in Amsterdam and works full-time for the printed news sections, while also serving as an editor for online story-telling productions. Rowin completed his bachelor's degree in Journalism at HU University of Applied Sciences in Utrecht, and began his career as a freelance photographer and photo editor for the Dutch newspaper Het Parool.
Solana Cain is a news photo editor at The Globe and Mail, Canada's national newspaper. She is passionate about ensuring diversity and inclusion behind the lens in news coverage. Solana has worked as a photo editor for Getty Images, Maclean's magazine and HELLO! Canada. Solana is a mentor in the newly launched BIPOC photojournalism mentorship program, Room Up Front. Solana currently lives and works in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Teona Gogichaishvili, born in 1977, is a native Georgian and has lived in Germany for over 25 years. After studying German philology, history and philosophy in Georgia and Germany, she studied photography and design in Cologne and Bielefeld, graduating with a Master of Arts in Photography and Design. Since 2006, Ms. Gogichaishvili has been a freelance curator, photographer and lecturer at home and abroad. From 2017 until today, she is the head of the art department at the Music and Art School of the City of Remscheid. Since 2011, Ms. Gogichaishvili has been the co-organizer and curator of the international photography festival KOLGA TBILISI PHOTO in Georgia. Within this framework, she has curated numerous renowned exhibitions, including Dakar Fashion by Finbarr O‘Reilly, THE LAST TESTAMENT by Jonas Bendiksen, Then There was Silence by Jan Grarup, Le Petit Chaperon Noir by Sarah Moon. In 2018, Ms. Gogichaishvili, together with Antonia Loick/V8 and Inga Schneider/ Photoszene Köln, founded PURPUR COLLECTIVE. The collective has declared as its goal to highlight women in photography. In this context, the film „How to be/see a Woman”, with works by the 12 international female artists, was recently produced. Ms. Gogichaishvili is also a portfolio reviewer, involved in various photo festivals, including Photoszene Cologne, Hamburg Portfolio Review, Arles, Visa pour l‘image/Perpignan, Houston FotoFest. Since 2022, Ms. Gogichaishvili has been a member of the Board of Directors, Section Imagery, of the DGPh - German Society of Photography.
Tina Ahrens is the Director of Photography at ZEIT ONLINE. Previously, she was the Director of Photography at Philosophie magazine in Germany for nine years, where she oversaw the redesign of the magazine with Design-Duo Meire & Meire. Prior to that she was the photographic editor at GEO magazine in Hamburg, and then became a senior photographic editor at GEO magazine’s New York correspondent’s office, where she oversaw many of award-winning productions for the magazine. She went on to be a Visual Consultant for CNN Digital and was responsible for developing a new visual language for the redesign of GEO magazine with Art Director Anna-Clea Skoluda. Tina has been an affiliate Nieman Fellow at Harvard University and an Impact Producer for the "The Enemy", an acclaimed virtual reality installation developed in collaboration with the M.I.T. Tina has been a jury member and portfolio reviewer at numerous international festivals and awards.
Dudley M. Brooks is based in Washington D.C., US and the deputy director of photography for The Washington Post. He is also the photo editor for The Washington Post Magazine. Proceeding this, Brooks was the director of photography and senior photo editor for the monthly magazine Ebony and its weekly sister periodical Jet - both published by Johnson Publishing Company in Chicago. These iconic publications chronicled the African American experience for over seven decades. In addition to his primary responsibilities at the Post, he is also a award winning photographer and a co-founder of The Obsidian Project – an organization committed to promoting culturally diverse points-of-view within the visual industry.
Lucy Conticello is based in Paris, France and the director of Photography of M, Le Monde‘s weekend magazine. She has worked for various magazines, e.g. Business Week, The New York Times, l‘Espresso, The New York Times magazine, Courrier International, as well as photography agencies such as Sipa Press and Magnum Photos. Conticello regularly takes part in international photography juries and portfolio reviews, e.g. at the World Press Photo Award, the Foam Paul Huf award, the Magenta Foundation Flash Forward, Photo Meet London, Fotografia Europea and more. She has guest curated an issue in Ojodepez magazine and conducted photography workshops at Fotofilmic Creative Immersion workshop in Bowen, the ISFCI Istituto Superiore di Fotografia e Comunicazione Integrata in Rome, the Internazionale Festival in Ferrara and the Canon Student Development Programme in Perpignan. Lucy Conticello has also been on the Advisory Committee for Unseen Amsterdam.
Christian Popkes, born in Esslingen/Neckar in 1965, decided to become a photographer while still at school. After several assistantships inside and outside Germany, he studied photography at the Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences until 1995. Within a few years he was not only accepted into the “Association of Freelance Photo Designers” BFF, but also appointed to the “German Society for Photography” DGPh, the “Association of Photographers” AOP and the “Deutscher Werkbund”. In addition to his photographic work for advertising agencies and publishers in his studio near Hamburg, he has shown in his column Popkes World of Imaging, through numerous calendar and book publications and the many exhibitions and photo installations how extensive the range of his creative work is. Christian Popkes is the artistic director of PHOTOPIA HAMBURG, inventor of the photo trips through the port of Hamburg, as well as curator and initiator of the Oberstdorf photo summit.
I was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, on July 16, 1982. At the age of 15 I began to become interested in photography. In 2005 I joined the newspaper El País in Montevideo as a photojournalist. In 2009 I was appointed photo editor of the supplements, and since 2011 I have been the editor of the main body of the newspaper. Throughout those years I was commissioned with different coverages, among which I highlight the World Cup in Brazil 2014, Russia in 2018 and Qatar 2022. In July 2015 I was named Chief of Photography. Parallel to my connection with El País, I have published in Latin American and European media. My first exhibition, ¨Obligatorio¨ was presented between 2012 and 2014 in several cities in Uruguay. In 2013 I published my first book, ¨Ataraxia, which contains part of the work of ¨Obligatorio¨ and other subsequent materials. In 2016 I edited my second book, ¨Long Distance¨, about a story of unrequited love that takes place in Jordan. In 2017 I exhibited my work “Not everything is for sale”, with Polaroid photographs, this being my sixth individual exhibition, and finally I exhibited “Nothing we talk about matters, in the city of Montevideo. In 2015, together with 3 other people, we founded El Ministerio Ediciones, the first Uruguayan publishing house specialized in photobooks, with sales networks around the world. Since the beginning of 2015, I have been a professor of Photojournalism at the Faculty of Communication of the University of Montevideo. In 2016 I was invited to the portfolio review activity at the international photography festival sanjosefoto.uy. In 2017 I graduated as a University Expert in Applied Professional Photography, Miguel Hernández University, Alicante, Spain. In 2024 I was a regional jury for World Press Photo.
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