Urs Stahel is a freelance writer, curator, lecturer and consultant. Curator of MAST – Manifattura di Arti, Sperimentazione e Tecnologia – in Bologna, consultant of the MAST collection of industrial photography, Advisor to Foto Colectania, Barcelona, and to the Collection of Art Vontobel, Zürich. He is the co-founder of Fotomuseum Winterthur and was its director and curator from 1993 to 2013. He lives and works in Zurich. He is curator of many exhibitions and author/editor of numerous books, for example by Paul Graham, Rineke Dijkstra, Joachim Brohm, Luigi Ghirri, Zoe Leonard, Roni Horn, Anders Petersen, Shirana Shahbazi, Astrid Klein, Ai Weiwei, Stefan Burger, Amar Kanwar, David Goldblatt, Hans Danuser, Claudio Moser, Boris Mikhailov, Sharon Ya'ari, Lewis Baltz, Thomas Ruff, Dayanita Singh, Jitka Hanzlova, Valérie Jouve, E.O. Hoppé, W. Eugene Smith, Thomas Struth, Richard Mosse or on topics such as "Hybrid", "Uncanny" "Trade", Im Rausch der Dinge", "Darkside I + II", "7P - 7 Places, 7 Precarious Fields", "The Power of Images", "Pendulum - Moving Things, Moving People", "Face Control" and "Uniform", about the role of working clothes in industry and society. www.ursstahel.ch
Since 2015 – founder and director of the international festival Odesa Photo Days. 2023 – World Press Photo Contest jury member (Chair of Europe region) Curated exhibitions in Ukraine, South Korea, Sweden, Georgia, France, Canada, Latvia, Poland, The Netherlands, Germany and UK. As an author, she has published articles in several international magazines and online platforms, such as Fotograf, Magenta, EIKON, British Journal of Photography, FOAM Magazines, Over. In collaboration with the Finnish Museum of Photography wrote the book Images Tells Stories. In 2022 together with Christopher Nunn and Donald Weber published two volumes of The Information Front. She has participated as a Portfolio Reviewer in many different photo festivals such as: Riga Photo Month, Lodz Photo Festival, Suwon Photo Festival, Photo Wien, Landskrona Photo Festival, Kranj Photo Festival. www.thephotodays.org
Ben Harman is the Director of Stills, a centre for photography in Edinburgh, Scotland that presents exhibitions and provides education programmes and photography production facilities. Ben's curated exhibitions for Stills have included a variety of solo and group presentations of new photography from Scotland and work from archives and collections as well as showcases by international artists and photographers such as: Lewis Baltz, Markéta Luskačová, Ishiuchi Miyako, Andres Serrano, Cindy Sherman and Jo Spence. Since 2020, Ben has hosted the Stills podcast, 'Photography Down The Line'. From 2003-13, Ben was Curator of Contemporary Art for Glasgow Museums where he curated numerous exhibitions and collection displays for the Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow (GoMA) and was Lead Curator on Glasgow’s Art Fund International collecting project. www.stills.org
Giuseppe Oliverio (Bologna, 1985) is the Founder and Artistic Director of PhMuseum and PhMuseum Days International Photography Festival. Since 2012, he has led the organization to develop their renewed Grants and Education Programs. He has further conducted workshops in Argentina, Brazil, Italy, and in the Middle East. He has been a juror of awards such as Lucie Photo Book Prize, Magenta Foundation's Flash Forward, Blow Up Press Book Award, LensCulture Critics' Choice, United Photo Industry The Fence, and Cortona Happiness OnTheMove. He has worked as a portfolio reviewer for Futures Photography, Unseen, Photo Vogue Festival, Fotografia Europea, and Visa Pour L'Image. He has written for TIME magazine and L'Uomo Vogue. phmuseum.com
Born in Switzerland, Julie Bonzon, Ph.D. is an art historian, photography curator, and writer. Following a Masters in History of Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London (2015), she completed an AHRC-funded Ph.D. in the History of Art at University College London (2020), specialising in South African photography. A book based on her research, titled The Market Photo Workshop in South Africa and the 'Born Free' Generation: Remaking Histories was published by Routledge Photography in 2023. Bonzon has led curatorial and education projects at Magnum Photos, The Photographer’s Gallery, The Ian Parry Scholarship, The Olympic Foundation for Culture and Heritage, and The Sharjah Architecture Triennial. She worked at the London gallery Messums as Director of Photography, setting up a new photography department representing international artists, and has since 2019 collaborated with private collectors alongside her curatorial activities. In 2020, she founded The Photographic Collective, an online platform featuring lens-based artists living and working in Africa. http://www.thephotographiccollective.com
Alfio Tommasini is a photographer, curator and the art director of Verzasca Foto Festival which he co-founded in 2013. He has collaborated with different cultural realities primarily from Latin America and is currently guest curator of RAK Arts festival (UAE). The relationship we weave with the territory in which we live is the focus of his photographic projects. He has exhibited and published his personal work internationally. His latest book is Via Lactea published by Edition Patrick Frey. www.alfiotommasini.com