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EMMA LEWIS (CURATOR, TATE MODERN, LONDON)
MARTA WEISS (SENIOR CURATOR, V&A, LONDON)
JUDGES 2023
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ISOLDE BRIELMAIER
Deputy Director (New Museum, Manhattan, USA), Guest Curator (International Center of Photography, New York, USA)
Isolde Brielmaier is Deputy Director of the New Museum as well as Guest Curator at the International Center for Photography (ICP) in NYC. Previously, Isolde served for six years as Executive Director and Curator of Arts, Culture & Community at Westfield World Trade Center.
https://www.newmuseum.org/ https://www.icp.org/
YASUFUMI NAKAMORI
Senior Curator of International Art, Photography (TATE Modern, London, U.K.)
Yasufumi Nakamori is the Senior Curator of International Art (Photography) at TATE. He leads the acquisitions, collection displays, and exhibitions of photography at Tate Modern. In 2021, he co-curated the Tate Modern traveling exhibition Zanele Muholi, and is currently developing an exhibition of British photography from the expanded 1980s’ from global perspectives. Nakamori previously headed the department of photography and new media at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, and served as curator of photography at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. A noted scholar of modern Japanese art, Nakamori has authored five books, including Eikoh Hosoe (2021), For a New World to Come: Experiments in Japanese Art and Photography, 1968 – 1979 (2015), and Katsura: Picturing Modernism in Japanese Architecture, Photographs by Ishimoto Yasuhiro (2010) that won a 2011 Alfred H. Barr Jr. award from the College Art Association.
https://www.tate.org.uk/
DAMARICE AMAO
Curator of Photography (Centre Pompidou, Paris, France)
Damarice Amao is a photo historian and holds a PhD in art history. She is working as associate curator at the photography department of the Musée National d’Art Moderne/Centre Pompidou. She co-curated numerous exhibitions with accompanying catalogues, including Photographie, arme de classe (Centre Pompidou/Textuel, 2018), Eli Lotar (Jeu de Paume, 2017), Jacques-André Boiffard. La parenthèse surréaliste (Centre Pompidou, Xavier Barral, 2014) and recently Dora Maar (Centre Pompidou, 2019) and Charlotte Perriand. Comment voulons nous vivre ? Politics of photomontage (Rencontres Arles/Actes sud, 2021).
https://www.centrepompidou.fr/en/
HANA KALUZNICK
Assistant Curator, Department of Photography (V&A, London, England)
Hana Kaluznick is Assistant Curator in the Department of Photography at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A). She is currently working on the development and inaugural displays for Phase 2 of the V&A’s Photography Centre, opening early 2023. She has contributed to displays including a selection of contemporary new acquisitions from the V&A's collection (forthcoming autumn 2021), Valérie Belin / Reflection (V&A, 2019), and Kodak Canada: The Early Years 1899-1939 (Ryerson Image Centre, 2018), among others.
https://www.vam.ac.uk/
MIKKO TAKKUNEN
Photo Editor (The New York Times, New York, U.S.A)
Mikko is a photo editor on The New York Times’s International desk in New York. Before returning to the United States in 2021, he spent five years as the paper’s Asia photo editor in Hong Kong. Before joining the Times in 2015, he was the International Photo Editor at Time.com in New York. Originally from Finland, Mikko lived in the UK for over 10 years, where he did two university degrees and later worked as a freelance photographer in London.
https://www.nytimes.com/
MICHAEL FAMIGHETTI
Editor (Aperture Magazine, New York, U.S.A)
In addition to editing Aperture magazine, Famighetti commissions and edits books for Aperture Foundation. He is a visiting critic at Yale University School of Art and works as a mentor. His writing has appeared in Frieze, Bookforum, Aperture, among other publications. He is a member of the American Society of Magazine Editors and has been a guest reviewer and speaker at many international festivals and institutions, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Vogue Italia among others.
https://aperture.org/
GWEN LEE
Artistic Director (Singapore International Photography Festival, Singapore, Asia)
Gwen Lee is the Director and co-founder of the Singapore International Photography Festival (SIPF) inaugurated in 2008, and DECK, launched in 2014, an independent creative container art space for photographers. She was also the co-founder and managing director of 2902 Gallery in Singapore between 2008 – 2013, which was instrumental in showcasing contemporary Southeast Asian photography in Singapore and at international art fairs. Lee has curated various photography showcases in Asia. In 2016, Lee curated the first solo exhibition of Daido Moriyama in Singapore, and a special photobook exhibition with Steidl Publishing at DECK. In 2022, she received medal award Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from Ministry of Culture, France.
https://sipf.sg/
CHANTAL WEBBER
Founder (Webber, London, UK)
Chantal Webber is the founder of WEBBER, a multidisciplinary creative agency with offices in London, New York, Los Angeles & Paris. Alongside the agency, Chantal has established WEBBER Gallery, a dedicated space that champions original and unconventional approaches to the medium of photography. WEBBER has built a reputation of fostering artists in both their contemporary art and commercial careers. In her 25+ years in the industry, her passion is to nurture artists, create community, and create sustainable careers for visionaries. Originally hailing from Wales, Chantal is now based in Los Angeles where WEBBER be launching its second gallery in 2023.
https://www.webberrepresents.com/
CLARE GORMLEY
Director of Programmes & Curator (Belfast Photo Festival, Belfast, UK)
Clare Gormley is Director of Programmes / Curator at Belfast Photo Festival. Prior to this, Clare held curatorial and research positions at institutions including The MAC Belfast; TATE Britain; Pangolin London; Catalyst Arts; and Islington Exhibits, and has worked as an independent curator for organisations such as PS2 and Outburst Queer Arts Festival, Belfast. Clare is the current Writer in Residence at PS2 Belfast and is the founder and co-convener of the Northern Irish Art Research Network, which is supported by TATE, the Paul Mellon Foundation and British Council.
https://www.belfastphotofestival.com/
INTERNATIONAL PRESS EXPOSURE
Each year our Open Submission award-winners receive vast international press coverage from publications and media outlets around the world. Winners, finalists and entrants have been featured in major publications such as, The Guardian, TIME Lightbox, Foam, The Financial Times, British Journal of Photography, The Telegraph, among many other national and international outlets. This kind of press exposure can lead to viral, global recognition of your work.
