Elisa Medde edits, curates and writes about photography and visual culture. With a background in Art History, Iconology and Photographic Studies, her research reflects on the relationship between image, communication and power structures. She has been nominator for a number of prizes and chaired various juries, including the Luma Rencontres Book Award, Prix Elysée, and MAST Foundation for Photography Grant. She is currently a lecturer for the Master Photography at ECAL, Lausanne. Next to curating paper and physical spaces, her writings appeared on „FlashArt”, „PhotoEye”, „Time Magazine”, „Foam Magazine”, „Something We Africans Got”, „Vogue Italia” / „L'Uomo Vogue”, „YET Magazine”, „The Aperture PhotoBook Review” and many artists’ books. She has been Editor-in-Chief of „Foam Magazine” between 2012 and 2023, twice recipient of a Lucie Award for Best Photography Magazine. She is the recipient for the 2023 Royal Photographic Society Award for Photography Publishing.
Born in Poland and raised on rap, Piotr Niepsuj (a.k.a „The Image Guy” a.k.a „Radical P”) is a photographer and image consultant based in Milan, Italy. For over 15 years behind the lens he has tried (and is still trying) to keep it as real as possible and show what usually remains unnoticed. He loves colors and collects photo books, mainly about (counter) cultures. This year marks the official opening of his cultural space dedicated to photography in all its shades. His (current) motto is „Everything is politics!”
Rob Bremner is a professional photographer and has spent most of his career working for newspapers and magazines in England. He is best known for sharing photographs he shot for himself in Liverpool in 80s and 90s whilst caring for his parents. Some of his mesmerizing photos of Liverpudlians are also touring Europe as part of „Facing Britain” a retrospective of British Documentary Photography from the 1960's to the present. Rob was called „The Photographer who captured the True Heart of Liverpool in the 80's and 90's” by „The Liverpool Echo”. He would like to continue his documentary project in Liverpool and take a portrait of each person living in Liverpool. Rob studied photography at Wallasey College of Art, where he worked in Tom Woods darkroom and learned his craft by following both Tom and Martin Parr around Newbrighton whilst they were working. He then attended Newport College of Higher Education where he studied Documentary Photography, a course that was run by David Hurn, a member of the photographic agency Magnum.
Robert Kuśmirowski is a performer, author of installations, objects, photographs and drawings. Born in 1973 in Łódź. Critics and interpreters usually call Robert Kuśmirowski „the genius of fake”, an „ingenious imitator”, and a ”counterfeiter and manipulator of reality”. For the most part, his works are based on the reconstructing or copying of old objects, documents, photographs, or rather on the creation of delusively similar imitations. Often, they do not have a specific prototype, but only evoke the material culture of a certain time. However, their characteristic feature is watch-maker's precision and meticulousness. In the larger installations, the artist's passion of collecting becomes apparent - objects accumulated form hardly apprehensible collections, defined by Joanna Mytkowska as „baroque of excess and entropy of detail.” That is how Kuśmirowski returns to the issues of memory, history, and nostalgia that accompany the visual culture of the far and recent past, slowly disappearing under its new layers. This strategy accounts for the recurring vanitas theme in his oeuvre - the reconstructing of a past material culture becomes a means of picking up on issues of transiency, vanishing, and death. His performances, sometimes accompanied by music composed by the artist, are of a similar character. He studied in the artistic department of the Institute of Fine Arts at the Marie Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin 1998-2003, where he graduated with a diploma in the sculpture studio of prof. Sławomir Andrzej Mieleszka. In the academic year 2002-2003 he was granted a scholarship, and stayed in the Metal and Modelling Studio at the University Rennes 2, Beaux Arts Rennes. Performer, author of installations, objects, photographs, drawings. Nominated for the annual Passport award from Poland's Polityka weekly, and in 2003, won first place in Raster magazine's ranking of artists. He is associated with the Foksal Gallery Foundation in Warsaw. Lives and works in Lublin.
Agnieszka Sadowska is a Polish photographer and press photojournalist who documents socio-cultural events in the Podlasie region, associated with the Białystok „Gazeta Wyborcza”, a photo editor for the weekly „Plus” in the 1990s. In 2002, her photos appeared in the album „Photographs by Gazeta Wyborcza”, and in 2021 they were presented at the collective exhibition „The only. Untold stories of Polish women photographers” at the History Meeting House, and Sadowska herself became one of the heroines of the book of the same title by Monika Szewczyk-Wittek. The author of the photo of refugees on the Polish-Belarusian border was awarded in the „Photojournalist of the Year 2022” competition. Photographs by A. Sadowska, documenting the refugee crisis at the border, were shown in the European Parliament in Brussels entitled: „Pushback is illegal. Helping is legal.”, she is a finalist of the Grand Press Photo competition in 2023. She has staged several photography exhibitions.
Agnieszka Pindera recently joined the Museum of Warsaw. Formerly she was Head of Research Center at the Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź (2016–2023) and co-curator of the artist-in-residence program at the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw (2014–2016). PhD Candidate at the Doctoral School of Humanities, University of Warsaw. Curator and co-curator of individual exhibitions of Nikita Kadan, Jasmina Cibic and Konrad Smoleński, among others; as well as group exhibitions (e.g. Blue for Distinction, Red for Correction; The Avant-Garde Museum, Peer-to-Peer. Collective Practices in New Art).
Daniel Muzyczuk is the chief curator at the Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź. He curated numerous projects, among others: Sounding the Body Electric (with David Crowley), Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź; Calvert 22, London, 2012-2013, The Museum of Rhythm (with Natasha Ginwala), Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź, 2017, Through the Soundproof Curtain. The Polish Radio Experimental Studio (with Michał Mendyk), ZKM, Karlsruhe, 2019, Work, work, work, (work). Celine Condorelli & Wendelien van Oldenborgh (with Joanna Sokołowska), Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź, 2021, Tobias Zielony. Dark Data (with Kathleen Rahn), Marta Herford, 2022, Citizens of the Cosmos. Anton Vidokle with Veronika Hapchenko, Fedir Tetyanych and the Collection of the International Cosmist Institute, Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź 2022. Muzyczuk also served as co-curator of the exhibition of Konrad Smoleński for Polish Pavillion for the 55th Venice Biennale (with Agnieszka Pindera). His upcoming book is entitled „Twilight of the Magicians ” (Spector Books). Member of Grupa Budapeszt.