Ilaria Campioli is the curator of the photographic collections of the Musei Civici in Reggio Emilia. She was part of the curatorial team that worked on the rearrangement of the collections of Palazzo dei Musei in Reggio Emilia under the guidance of the architect Italo Rota, in which photography took on a major role. She worked for the Louvre Museum, for the Collezione Maramotti and for the Fotografia Europea festival for which she curated several projects, some of them devoted to photobooks. She collaborated with Joan Fontcuberta, Erik Kessels and Sarah Moon following in particular their publishing productions. Since 2018 she has been curating Giovane Fotografia Italiana (from 2022 Luigi Ghirri Award), a project promoting the discovery and showcase of emerging Italian photography talents. She curated various thematic exhibitions dedicated to the work of Luigi Ghirri.
Emmanuelle Halkin is a graduate of the École du Louvre and the Sorbonne University in Paris. She is an independent curator and editor. In 2014, she joined the artistic direction of the Fetart collective, which supports emerging photography mainly through the Circulation(s) festival held every year at the CENTQUATRE in Paris. From 2017 to 2021, she co-created and developed the slide archive The Anonymous Project and created several exhibitions and editorial projects based on this collection. In 2021 and 2023, she was artistic director of Rencontres Photographiques du 10e in Paris for the Fetart collective. Since 2022, she has also been associate curator in residency at Diaphane, a photography center in the Hauts-de-France.
Fernanda Prado Verčič is a co-founder and the director of Kranj Foto Fest, and a journalist with over two decades of experience in the world of photography. Originating from São Paulo, where she graduated from journalism, she gained an MA in photography and worked as a deputy photo editor at Valor Econômico, one of the most prestigious financial media outlets in Brazil. Having been based in Kranj since 2011, she has been a notable player in connecting photographers to important venues in Slovenia and abroad. With a passion for discovering new works, Fernanda is constantly on the lookout for photographers who are pushing the boundaries of the medium and exploring new ways to tell their visual stories. What makes her move is to create opportunities for photographers to showcase their work. As a photo curator, producer, and festival director, Fernanda is deeply committed to fostering a community where artists, critics and audiences can come together and engage around photography.
Franek Ammer - graduate in photography at the Lodz Film School. Artist, curator and organizer. He co-founded TIFF International Photography Festival in Wroclaw. He devoted a large part of his work to bringing up aspects related to the photobooks and popularizing them in Poland. This interest resulted in several exhibitions, workshops and lectures. In the Fotofestiwal collective he is responsible for the festival program, coordination of exhibitions, events and publications. He is also a co-founder of 19 Rivers - publishing collective and space dedicated to photobook and music events and workshops. Co-CEO of Eternal Shipping Ltd., a multidisciplinary artistic company.
Krzysztof Candrowicz - curator, artistic director, researcher. Co-founder and member of the Foundation of Visual Education and Lodz Fotofestiwal in Poland. In 2013 Krzysztof became artistic director of the Triennial of Photography in Hamburg in Germany and since 2018 works as a curator for CICLO Biennial in Porto, Portugal. Krzysztof works internationally as a guest curator and visiting lecturer in numerous organizations, museums, schools, festivals and as a jury member of various projects and art prizes, including the Rencontres d'Arles Discovery Award, Deutsche Börse Photography Prize, Hasselblad Award, Robert Capa Award and many others.