Sophie Junge, PhD, has held the substitute professorship specialising in 20th century and contemporary art at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München since 2023. Her research focuses on the history and reception of photographic media and archives in Europe and Southeast Asia. Relevant publications: Fotogeschichte “Fotografie und Kolonialismus” (2021) and the volume Survey Practices: Landscape Photography across the Globe, together with Erin Hyde Nolan (2022).
Kathrin Schönegg, PhD, is head of the photography department at the Münchner Stadtmuseum, responsible for one of the oldest photography collections in Germany. 2019–2023 she was co-head of program at C/O Berlin, where she developed the general exhibition program and led the C/O Berlin Talent Award. As photography historian, awarded writer, and curator she conceptualized more than 30 exhibitions for international institutions including “How the Camera Works” (Biennale für aktuelle Fotografie Mannheim 2017), “Send me an Image. From Postcards to Social Media” (C/O Berlin 2020) and “Songs of the Sky. Photography & the Cloud” (Rencontres d’Arles 2022).
Nadine Isabelle Henrich (*1990) is an art historian specializing in photography, networked images and time-based media and is the Senior Curator of the House of Photography at Deichtorhallen in Hamburg, Germany. Prior Henrich was a Curatorial Fellow at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles (2022-2023) and worked in the curatorial teams of a.o. Fotomuseum Winterthur and Museum Folkwang (2021-2023), within the framework of the international Museum Curators of Photography program. Her recent shows include, among others, “Tactics and Mythologies” at Haus der Photographie (2024/2025), “Poetics of Search” at Fotomuseum Winterthur (2022/2023), “Visions of Ukraine” at Museum Folkwang, Essen (2022).
Andrea Lissoni, PhD, is Artistic Director of Haus der Kunst. His curatorial program is based on transdisciplinary and transgenerational approaches in which all strands of artistic practices are deeply connected and started in April 2022 with the sound and music residency series TUNE and the series of intertwined exhibitions by Fujiko Nakaya, Dumb Type, Carsten Nicolai, Christine Sun Kim, Tony Cokes, Karrabing Film Collective. The series continued with Inside Other Spaces. Environments by Women Artists 1956—1976, alongside shows by WangShui, Martino Gamper and Meredith Monk and developed further, with solo exhibitions by Pan Daijing, Liliane Lijn, Rebecca Horn and Pussy Riot.
Bindi Vora is an artist and Senior Curator at Autograph, London. Since joining she has curated a number of exhibitions: Mónica Alcázar-Duarte: Digital Clouds Don’t Carry Rain (2024); Hélène Amouzou: Voyages (2023); Poulomi Basu: Fireflies (2022) amongst others. Her writing has appeared in Tate Dialogues: The 80s – Photographing Britain (Tate); Another Country: British Documentary Photography Since 1945 (Thames & Hudson); FOAM and British Journal of Photography amongst others. She is part of the working group ‘Climate and Colonialism’ at The Paul Mellon Centre.
After studying museology at the École du Louvre and spending time in Cologne, Christoph Wiesner worked for 15 years at the Esther Schipper Gallery before becoming director of the Yvon Lambert Gallery in Paris. In 2015, he became artistic director of Paris Photo. Since 2020, he has led the Rencontres d’Arles, an international photography festival highlighting themes such as feminism, ecology, and emerging photography through programming that explores new practices and societal reflections. He is involved in numerous juries and acquisition committees.