Amelie is a curator, cultural programmer, and creative producer who focuses on the crossroads between artistic production, culture, and society. In her role as head of public practice at Foam Amsterdam, she strives to bring new perspectives, knowledge, and experiences to the museum’s programme. Current projects include the in-depth programming 'On Assignment – How to navigate the media industry', the solo show 'The Start of Something" by Gulsah Bayrak at project space MAQAM, and the conceptualisation of the Foam Talent programme 2024. From 2018 until 2020, she was a curator at Unseen Amsterdam. Next to overseeing the yearly talk programming and collaborations with art academies, she curated, among others, the group exhibitions 'Woven Matters' and 'When Records Melt'. Before this, she worked for several years in different commercial galleries in Switzerland, including Christophe Guye Galerie and Hauser & Wirth. Amelie regularly participates in portfolio reviews, offers mentoring to emerging photographers and guest teaches at different art academies.

Johan Trujillo Argüelles (Mexico, 1983). Director of the Centro de la Imagen (Mexico) since 2020. She has participated as a portfolio reviewer in PhotoEspaña, Valparaíso International Photography Festival, among other photographic events in Mexico. She has been dedicated to cultural management for over 15 years during which she has conceptualized and organized conventions, forums, lecture series, and academic programs to discuss visuality and Mexican contemporary photography. As Head of Centro de la Imagen’s Education Department (2011-2017), she was an observer of the creative processes of young photographers to conceptualize and materialize their visual projects. The blind photographer is the center of her reflections on images, the subject of which she has organized exhibitions, published articles, and edited books. She has a master’s degree in Critical Theory.

Director of Magnum Photos from 2000 to 2006, Diane Dufour has curated many exhibitions, including L’Image d’après at the Cinémathèque Française in 2007. In 2010, Diane Dufour created LE BAL with Raymond Depardon, in a former cabaret from the Roaring Twenties behind the Place de Clichy in Paris. Internationally acclaimed for its exhibitions (Anonymous: America With No Name (2010), Topography of War (2011), Images of Conviction – The Construction of Visual Evidence (2015), Reversing The Eye - Arte Povera and beyond 1960-75: photography, film, video (2022), Joanna Piotrowska (2023)), LE BAL reveals and supports emerging talents (Mohamed Bourouissa, Clement Cogitore, Noémie Goudal, Joanna Piotrowska…). Since 2008, Diane Dufour is co-director, with Christine Vidal, of the collection Les Carnets du Bal which considers the implications of today's image society through original contributions from artists, historians and anthropologists.

Steven V-L Lee is a Malaysian freelance photographer based in London. He began his photographic career as a documentary and travel photographer in the late 90s when he began writing travel-related articles for magazines and journals and delved into fashion and lifestyle work in the 2000s. In 2009, Steven initiated the KUALA LUMPUR INTERNATIONAL PHOTOAWARDS, an annual international portrait photography competition centred in Malaysia, focussing on the best in contemporary portrait photography and has attracted the participation of some top international photographers. Steven believes in the importance of photography education and ran workshops through the EXPOSURE+ Photo Mentoring platform with other Malaysian photographers. In 2021 he co-founded EXPOSURE+ PHOTO FESTIVAL in Kuala Lumpur as a platform to discover and exhibit new artists as well as expose international works. Steven has been a regular portfolio reviewer at international festivals and currently serves as a nominator for the Leica Oskar Barnack Award.

Samantha McCoy is the director of the Magnum Gallery in Paris. Sam grew up in New York City and has been at Magnum Photos for more than five years, previously at Magnum, New York, where she worked in artistic direction online. She moved to Paris in August 2019, launching the Square Print Sale’s European distribution before taking over the Paris gallery in March 2020. Before Magnum, Sam was the gallery manager at Jason McCoy Gallery in New York. A member of the ADAA, Jason McCoy Gallery specializes in modern art in both the secondary and primary markets. In New York, she curated exhibitions that were profiled in the New York Times and the Washington Post. A native to the art world, Sam is the daughter of Jason McCoy and the great-niece of artists Jackson Pollock and Charles Pollock.

Leticia Maciel, director and founder of espace_L art gallery was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1973. She studied journalism and graduated with an MBA in retail. Leticia has worked in different industries such as communications and publishing, before moving to Geneva in 2006. In 2009 she enrolled a CAP Photography course. It allowed her to update with technology and french, and made her find a stage at the Centre de la Photographie Genève. An important experience in the Geneva art scene. The creation of espace_L took place in 2011. Leticia’s goal was to present an original concept, a place « espace » for the exchange of ideas and encounters with an atelier side and a gallery program presenting a bridge between european and Brazilian contemporary art. Espace_L is not only a nod to Leticia's name but also a play on words, "elle" in French, as Leticia is a strong advocate for women artists, regularly showing their works.

President of UN Women France, member of the High Council for Equality, co-author of a book and reports on women in politics, Céline Mas has been a committed citizen for women's rights, equality and mobilization in favor of this cause for fifteen years. She is also a writer and social entrepreneur. She is the co-founder of two impact projects: Love for Books, that share reading emotions and bibliotherapy methods to create positive impact in society, and Return for Society, a social impact consulting network. Her latest book is a novel about the phenomenon of burnout ("The Day Maya Got Up"). @Ohlivres

After her studies in art history, history and philosophy, Isabelle Mallez has shared her professional life between Paris and the international scene (Morocco, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy...). In parallel to an institutional career combining culture and international relations, as director of culture, advisor to the rector of Paris, consul, director of French institutes and cultural advisor, and today in charge of international relations at the Department of Cultural Affairs in Paris, she has regularly taught and provided expertise and cultural consulting.

Atalanti Hadjipateras Moquette received a BA Hons. in Philosophy and Ancient Greek at King’s College London. She continued her postgraduate studies in Art History at the University of Toronto. Atalanti’s passions include education, art, philanthropy and women’s rights. She started her career on the specialist side of Sotheby’s, London and has worked on art education policy in Toronto and Geneva. Her involvement in the field of philanthropy follows a family tradition. In 2009 Atalanti founded Giving Women, a network of diverse but like-minded women who pool their professional skills and experience to provide advice to strengthen projects directed at vulnerable girls and women globally. Atalanti has sat on several boards including: • Vice –President of the board of the International School of Geneva • Vice-President of the board of the International Baccalaureate Organisation • Founding member of the Executive Committee of Human Rights Watch, Geneva • Member of FOTIS, an association which provides bursaries for children in the developing world, allowing them to complete their secondary education. • Member of the Board of Barefoot College International • Member of the Board of ActionAid, Switzerland

Graduated in Art History from the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain, a researcher and professor specializing in the history of photography and image analysis, María Santoyo accumulates almost twenty five years of experience in the cultural sector, and more than fifteen dedicated to directing and management of exhibition projects and specialized teaching and dissemination, activities that she has carried out independently since 2014. She has recently been appointed as the new Director of the international photography and visual arts festival PHotoESPAÑA. In 2021, she founded Curiosa, a consulting company specialized in the application of new narratives in the educational and corporate field. She has combined her position as CEO with independent curating of exhibitions and the direction of the International Master's Degree in Photography at EFTI school (2017-2023). Until 2022, she has been a member of the Fundación Telefónica Digital Culture Council, a think tank in charge of advising and supporting the Foundation in its contents and strategies in the fields of culture, thought and knowledge. She is currently a fellow of the Aspen Institute Spain, a recognition granted to a limited number of representatives of the academic, business, scientific and public sectors aimed at promoting enlightened leadership among young people between the ages of 35 and 45 who are committed to the future of society. As a curator, she is responsible for more than twenty exhibitions seen to date in over sixty venues of eight countries. Her latest project Color: knowledge of the invisible is currently on tour in Latin America (Venezuela, Ecuador, México, Perú) after its first presentation at the Espacio Fundación Telefónica in Madrid. Between 2005 and 2010, she has coordinated projects for international institutions and experts such as the Aperture Foundation, Magnum Photos, Kathy Ryan or Trisha Ziff. As a teacher, she has taught at the Higher Institute of Art, the Polytechnic University of Madrid, the European University, the Complutense University of Madrid, the University of Salamanca, NYU Madrid and EFTI. She is the author of several books specialized in photography and has collaborated with critical texts in various collective publications, in addition to advising international competitions such as Art for Change, Fotopres La Caixa, Descubrimientos PHotoESPAÑA or the Alliance Française International Photography Contest. Since 2016, she has collaborated every year in projects by emerging creators that make hidden realities visible, a non-profit program that has contributed to promoting the careers of visual artists such as the Syrian Carole Alfarah or the Colombian Luis Carlos Tovar. She is also responsible for managing the Ragel Archive, a private collection with nearly 10,000 negatives from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.