Maryam Wahid is a British photographer, creative professional and photography consultant, currently serving as Head of Programs and Outreach at Tasweer Photo Biennale by Qatar Museums. Her award-winning practice explores themes of identity, migration, memory, womanhood and belonging. Working across photography, curation and creative programming, she brings a multidisciplinary approach to visual storytelling and cultural engagement.

Her work has been exhibited internationally and recognized by the British Journal of Photography, Photoworks and the Magenta Foundation. She has also been commissioned by The Guardian, Financial Times and Wellcome Collection, and served on the judging panel for the National Portrait Gallery’s Hold Still project (2020) alongside HRH Catherine, The Princess of Wales.

Edda Fahrenhorst is a Curator and Photo Editor. She is the Artistic Director of the Environmental Photo festival »horizonte zingst« - with it’s focus on topics around environment, science and society - and she also curates the year-round exhibition program in Zingst. She is also the Artistic Director of the Yeast Photo Festival in Galatina (Italy), which is entirely dedicated to the theme of food in the social context. Edda is also co-owner of a corporate communications agency in Hamburg: Fotogloria | Office for photographic Collaborations.

Amin Yousefi is an Iranian artist, curator and writer based in London. He is Assistant Curator at Photoworks and Editor of Photography+. Working across photography, archival material, text, moving image, and installation, his practice examines how photographs mediate political events and historical experience. He is particularly interested in the relationships between photographers, photographed subjects and viewers, and in how photographs come to be treated as historical evidence. His work often returns to existing images and documents to examine how their meanings change through reproduction, circulation and archival use. His writing on photography has appeared in Aperture, Foam Magazine and C4 Journal. Yousefi's work has been exhibited internationally, including at Museum Kunstpalast, Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam, Fotografisk Center and Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation. In 2026, he received the C/O Berlin Artist Award. He was selected as a Foam Talent in 2024 and received the Royal Photographic Society's Award for Achievement in the Art of Photography.

Peter Rauch is an artist, theorist and Associate Professor of Photography at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, University of Ljubljana, where he heads the Department of Visual Communication Design. He trained as an architect before taking an MA in photography at Central Saint Martins, London. His work moves between the photographic document and spatial construction, dissecting the materiality of built objects, bodies and the relations between them. His exhibitions work as situations: interventions, public actions and reorganised gallery spaces that test how art is produced, shown and seen. His theoretical research deals with negation in the constitution of the object and with rupture in art, science and politics. Key works include Traffic Kids (2009), Objects (2010–2023), Community (2012–2013), Pavilion (MSUM, 2017), Cross-section (Škuc Gallery, 2018) and Public Matters (Galerija Ravne, 2025). He took part in the 9th and 10th editions of the U3 Triennial of Contemporary Art at the Museum of Modern Art in Ljubljana (2019, 2024). His monograph 2, 3 was published by Perimeter Editions in 2026. He co-founded Kela, a production space in Ljubljana, and co-edited Fotografija magazine.

Fernanda Prado Verčič is the Founding Director of Kranj Foto Fest. Originally from São Paulo, Brazil, she has been based in Kranj, Slovenia, since 2011. She is actively engaged as a jury member, portfolio reviewer, and nominator for major photography festivals and institutions. Fernanda plays a key role in connecting photographers with significant venues in Slovenia and internationally. She is drawn to photographers who question dominant perspectives and create space for narratives that exist outside conventional visual and cultural frameworks. Her work is guided by a clear commitment to creating opportunities for photographers to present their work and to fostering a vibrant photography community that brings together artists, critics and audiences.