Textile Transformations 2024
Textile Transformations 2024
Textile Transformations 2024
For the third year running, Textile Exchange and Magnum Photos are launching a competition for emerging photographers to submit a story under the theme Textile Transformations. We’re looking for emerging photographers interested in telling the visual stories that take place when fibers and materials are cultivated, created, spun, woven, sewn, loved and cherished – gaining cultural and emotional significance through the journey.
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Claire Bergkamp
Claire Bergkamp
CEO, Textile Exchange

Claire Bergkamp is the CEO of Textile Exchange. A global non-profit driving positive impact on climate change across the fashion and textile industry, Textile Exchange is guiding a growing community of over 800 brands, manufacturers, and farmers to holistically understand, measure, and reduce the impacts of the raw materials they use. Since joining in 2020, Claire has helped the organization to drive forward a collective climate strategy for the industry, grounded in holistic systems thinking on the interconnected impacts of climate, soil health, water, and biodiversity. Prior to Textile Exchange, Claire was the Worldwide Sustainability and Innovation Director at Stella McCartney, leading the global environmental, human rights, and innovation strategy for the brand. Beyond placing Stella McCartney at the forefront of sustainable luxury, she shaped sustainability policies and practices for its former owner–the luxury group Kering–where she helped to define core tools such as its Environmental Profit and Loss. Claire also serves on the steering committee for the British Fashion Council’s Institute of Positive Fashion and has also been an instrumental part of the United Nations Fashion Industry Charter for Climate Action since its inception. Her influence and expertise on environmental strategy within fashion have cemented her as a core voice in the sustainability conversation over the last ten years, as well as a leader in the call for collective, connected action.

Sonia Jeunet
Sonia Jeunet
Education Director, Magnum Photos

She develops photography workshops and masterclasses and has worked with leading industry professionals and institutions such as the London College of Communication, Fujifilm, FUTURES, Photo Australia, among others. Prior to Magnum, she worked at Panos Pictures in London and NOOR in Amsterdam, as commissioning editor, photo editor and project manager. She teaches regularly about professional practice and has given lectures at Westminster University, Photofusion, Minority Rights, Anadolu Kültür and the Photography Foundation, among others.

Joi Lee
Joi Lee
Head of Editorial & Executive Producer, Earthrise

Joi Lee is an Emmy-nominated producer and journalist who explores the intersections between environment, climate, and social equality. As the Head of Editorial at Earthrise Studio, Joi is committed to expanding the climate narrative and championing diverse perspectives and tools in storytelling. Throughout her career, she has helped build immersive media teams at Huff Post, RYOT, and Al Jazeera English, working across virtual reality, 360 video, film, photography, audio and text. She's tackled complex issues from the Syrian refugee crisis to air pollution in North Macedonia and food insecurity in Northeast Nigeria. She has led workshops worldwide on 360 video storytelling and built award winning citizen journalism networks at RYOT and Al Jazeera. Her work has received over 25 awards, including an Emmy nomination, 2 Online Journalism Awards, 2 Webby Awards, and more.

Jérôme Sessini
Jérôme Sessini
Magnum Photographer

Jérôme Sessini is one the world’s most prolific and respected names working in the sensitive field of conflict zones, and has been dispatched to war-torn countries like Palestine, Iraq, Ukraine, Syria and Libya for international publications. As well as reporting on the frontlines, he has covered social issues such as the drug-related violence on the streets of Mexico, the anti-government protests in Ukraine and indigenous minorities in Cambodia facing forced eviction. Through his work he is constantly learning, adapting and evolving. Sessini’s photographic career began in 1998 in Paris, when Gamma photo agency gave him the opportunity to cover the ongoing conflict in Kosovo. He has since then covered many major, momentous international events: working in Palestine, Iraq (from 2003 to 2008), covering Aristide’s fall in Haiti (2004), the conquest of Mogadishu by the Islamic militias and the war in Lebanon (2006). In 2008, Jerome Sessini started the Mexican project, So far from God, too close from the US, a dive into the drug cartels’ war in Mexico. The project was published as a monograph, The Wrong Side (2013). Since 2018, Sessini has been documenting the opioid crisis in the United States, where he has travelled to Ohio and Philadelphia to create intimate portraits of the people and places ravages by drug misuse. In 2017, Sessini traveled to remote villages in Cambodia with Samrith Vaing, documenting the life of indigenous minorities facing forced eviction. In 2016, Sessini documented the Kurdish Peshmerga offensive against Islamic State (IS) in the city of Bashiq before crossing the region to cover Iraqi forces pushing towards Mosul. His work has been published by prestigious newspapers and magazines, including Newsweek, Stern, Paris-Match as well as Le Monde and the Wall Street Journal. It has been shown in multiple solo exhibitions around the world including the Visa Photo Festival in Perpignan, at the Rencontres d’Arles, the Bibliothèque Nationale François-Mitterrand, as well as with the French Ministry of Culture. In 2021 he published Inner Disorder, an account in images and texts of the conflict in Ukraine. Sessini become Magnum Photos nominee in 2012 and a full member in 2016

Zied Ben Romdhane
Zied Ben Romdhane
Magnum Photographer

Zied Ben Romdhane, born in 1981 in Tunisia, shifted his focus to documentary photography in 2011. Romdhane published his first book West of Life in 2018 with Red Hook Editions.   Zied's work is centered around his native Tunisia. He delves into the socio-political contrasts between inland regions and coastal areas, shedding light on how geography shapes these dynamics.   His accomplishments include notable recognitions such as being chosen for the Prize 6X6 Global Talent Program 2018 by the World Press Photo Foundation, participating in the Joop Swart Masterclass with World Press Photo, and receiving the POPCAP award (Africa Image, Basel, 2015).   Zied also contributed as the Director of Photography for "Fallega" (2011), a documentary film documenting the Arab Spring in Tunisia. Furthermore, he actively participated in World Press Photo’s 2013 Reporting Change initiative and was a member of the collectives “Rawiya” and “Native.” Zied Ben Romdhane joined Magnum as a nominee in 2019.

William Simeone
William Simeone
Partnerships Manager, Magnum Photos

Born in Italy in 1995, William graduated in Publishing and Journalism at London College of Communication in 2017. He started his career in photography at Webber Represents before moving to fashion agency Katy Barker. He joined Magnum Photos in 2022 where he is now working as partnerships manager for commercial assignments.

SOPHIA LI
SOPHIA LI
Award-winning journalist, climate advocate, public speaker, and UN Human Rights Champion.

She is the global correspondent for Prince William’s Earthshot Prize and host of Meta’s podcast, Climate Talks. She is the Impact Editor at the quarterly print magazine, Family Style. Sophia's journalistic reporting has appeared in CNN and the United Nations with bylines in Vogue, New York Magazine, Washington Post, and Atmos. She is the co-founder of STEWARD, serving as the co-chair of the World Economic Forum’s Web3 Sustainability Coalition. Sophia is also the sustainability advisor to skincare brand Cocokind and an official United Nations Human Rights Champion. Harvard named her one of the top climate communicators of 2022, she was awarded Refinery29’s Sustainable Innovator Award, Meta’s Creator of Tomorrow Award and Harper’s Bazaar named her one of 36 Voices Shaping Culture in 2023. Porter Magazine named her 12 Incredible Women of 2024. Sophia was previously the Entertainment Media Editor at American Vogue, part of the founding team of Vogue.com helping to create Vogue’s digital and social voice.

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