Alison Nordstrom is Curator of Photography at George Eastman House, the oldest and largest museum of photography in the United States. She was the Founding Director and Senior Curator of the Southeast Museum of Photography in Daytona Beach from 1991 to 2001, and previously held positions involving photography at the Brattleboro (Vermont) Museum & Art Center and the Peabody Museum of Ethnography, Harvard.

She has curated over 100 exhibitions of photography including the popular biennial series Fresh Work and major surveys of contemporary installation, landscape, portraiture and journalism. She is the author of numerous catalogue essays, and chapters, articles and reviews in academic publications. She holds a BA in English Literature, an MLS with museum emphasis, and a PhD in Cultural and Visual Studies.

Dr. Alka Pande is consultant arts advisor and curator at the Visual Arts Gallery, India Habitat Centre. She has been responsible for curating some of Delhi´s most unusal and perceptive shows in recent times.

Dr. Pande has also been a visiting scholar at the Faculty for Aesthetics at the College of Art as well as reader, Department of Fine Arts, Punjab University, Chandigarh, with a range of academic papers and lectures on diverse aspects of the arts to her credit. She has a special interest in ancient Indian erotic literature and art as well as gender and sexuality.

Andréa Holzherr, geboren 1964 in Tübingen, ist seit 15 Jahren beruflich im Bereich der Fotografie tätig. Sie studierte Kunstgeschichte und Kulturmanagement an der Ecole du Louvre und der Sorbonne in Paris. Ab 1993 leitete sie die auf Fotografie spezialisierte Galerie Zabriskie in Paris, managte das Ausstellungsprogramm, den Verkauf und die Betreuung der Sammler sowie der Künstler. Zwischen 1996 und 2001 war Andréa Holzherr Kuratorin an der Maison Européenne de la Photographie.

Seit 2003 ist Andréa Holzherr Ausstellungsmanagerin bei der berühmten Fotoagentur Magnum Photos in der Pariser Niederlassung. Sie ist verantwortlich für die Promotion des Magnum Archivs durch aktive Ausstellungstätigkeiten in Zusammenarbeit mit internationalen Museen und Institutionen. Außerdem kümmert sie sich zusätzlich um den Verkauf von vintage und modern prints der Magnum Fotografen an private und öffentliche Sammlungen.

Seit mehreren Jahren arbeitet Andréa Holzherr parallel auch als freie Kuratorin, 2002 kuratierte sie mehrere Ausstellungen Finnischer Künstler im Rahmen eines Foto- grafie Festivals mit dem Titel « Mina Sina Me », 2003 war ihre Ausstellung «60°- 43°» in der Usine Corot in Marseille zu sehen und 2006 wurde sie von der Fotografie Messe Paris Photo als Kuratorin eingeladen. Ihre letzte Ausstellung „Mythos Kindheit“ war im 2009 im Haus für Kunst Uri (CH) und im CCA auf Palma de Mallorca zu sehen.

Andréa Holzherr veröffentlicht regelmäßig Texte und Artikel zur Fotografie in Fachzeitschriften und Büchern.

Dr. Bernd Fechner runs photomarketing.de, an agency for art and photography in Berlin. He has worked in the programme planing and marketing of various book publishers. Until 2000 he was director of press with Taschen in Cologne. Since 2004 he is a board member of the German Society of Photography (DGPh). There he has been elected as the chair of DGPh´s section “Art Market”.  Since 2003 he directs “FOTOBILD BERLIN – Germany´s Photographers Fair” and has been a member of the jury of artcologne, the so-called ‘’Mother’’ of all art fairs.

Bernd Fechner is an expert, a lecturer and a juror at many international photography festivals and photography awards. In 2010 he publishes “PHOTO-INDEX”, a handbook for photography and the art market with Kehrer Books, Heidelberg.

Dr. Claude W. Sui has been the head and chief curator of the Forum International Photography (FIP) at the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen in Mannheim (Germany) since its inception in 2002. He is among other things responsible for the historical collection of the family Reiss, the estate and contemporary collection of Helmut Gernsheim and the archive of Robert Haeusser. Sui was the chairman in the prize committee 2010 for the Hasselblad Award.

Art director for the Lianzhou International Year of Photography. Duan concentratetes on Chinese contemporary photographic exhibition and promotion. She has been a journalist and editor for Popular Photography and photo editor for Xinkuai Bao. Named in 2005 as one of the “Top Ten Focal Peopel in Chinese Photography” and chosen as a judge for the FOTOBILD festival in Berlin in 2006.

The Finnish Museum of Photography is the national special museum for photography, its job being to promote and foster Finnish photographic art and culture. The Museum, founded on the initiative of a number of photography organizations, began its work in 1969. The Museum is maintained by the Foundation for the Finnish Museum of Photography.

The Museum’s main support comes from the Finnish Ministry of Education and from the City of Helsinki, which provides premises in the Cable Factory in Ruoholahti, Helsinki. The Museum’s Director is Elina Heikka, and it has a permanent staff of fourteen.

The Museum puts on exhibitions of Finnish and foreign contemporary photography, and presents the diverse history of photography. The exhibition spaces cover a floor area of about 800 m2. Museum education work underpins the exhibitions, producing photography and media-education projects for various audiences.

The Museum’s collections include about 3.7 million pictures spanning the various user cultures in photography. The emphasis in collection acquisitions is on Finnish contemporary photographic art. In a national context the Finnish Museum of Photography has considerable specialist expertise in the preservation and conservation of photographs.

The Museum carries out basic research on its collections and produces research publications. It also promotes Finnish photography research through collaborative projects with other research bodies, by maintaining a nationwide network of photographic researchers, and by awarding grants from the Börje and Dagmar Söderholm fund. This research and the nationwide work on photo archives are further assisted by the database of Finnish photographers maintained by the Museum, and by the Museum’s other databases and details of Finnish photo archives. The Museum also has a photography library for researchers.

Esther Woerdehoff is Swiss and has studied literature at the university of Zurich, before leaving for Paris twenty years ago in order to get specialised in history of photography. As a director of the very famous gallery which bears her name, she has curated, since 1990, more than 150 shows of photography all over the world. As author, she publishes interviews with photographers such as Inge Morath and her husband, the famous writer Arthur Miller as well as the americans Elliott Erwitt, Arthur Tress and Leonard Freed.

Esther Woerdehoff est suisse et a étudié la littérature allemande à l’université de Zurich. Il y a vingt ans, elle part pour Paris afin de se spécialiser dans l’histoire de la photographie. Elle est directrice de la galerie très renommée qui porte son nom. Dès 1990, elle fut commissaire pour plus de 150 expositions de photographies à travers le monde entier. Comme auteur, elle publie des interview avec des photographes tels qu’Inge Morath et son mari, le fameux écrivain Arthur Miller ainsi que les américains Elliott Erwitt, Arthur Tress et Leonard Freed.

Together with his wife Nadia and his partner Martin Kudlek, Franz van der Grinten operates the Kudlek van der Grinten Galerie in Cologne. The gallery has established itself with its international range of artists and its participation in art fairs in Germany and abroad.

While still studying at the Berlin University of the Arts, Franz van der Grinten started organising exhibitions and amateur film festivals, as well as setting up an archive of anonymous Super 8 films and photographs.

It was during these first experimental years of the gallery – then named Büro für Fotos – that the cooperation with now internationally renowned artists such as Izima Kaoru and Pierre Faure came about. Although the gallery’s programme now covers all sorts of artistic media, the photographic discourse is still given high priority.

In recent years, Franz van der Grinten has increasingly focused on writing and publishing. He has produced texts about Pierre Faure, Reinhard Doubrawa, Karl Hugo Schmölz and Simon Schubert, amongst others. He is currently working on Schmölz’s  biography (“Die Stadt als Bühne”) in cooperation with Archiv Wim Cox/Karl Hugo Schmölz.

In 2007 and 2008 Franz van der Grinten was guest lecturer and master’s thesis supervisor at the Center for International Art Management in Cologne. He is also among the curators for the Spiegelberger Stiftung, a foundation for young art, in Hamburg.

Studied Art History and German Literature. Since over 13 years different work experience in the field of photography: Assistant of the Photography Collection of the Staatliche Galerie Moritzburg, Halle.

Fellow of the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Foundation in Dresden at the Kupferstich-Kabinett of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, in Munich at the Fotomuseum of the Münchner Stadtmuseum, in Essen at the Folkwang Museum.

Director of the Gallery Berinson, Berlin

Director of the Museum of Photography, Braunschweig

Joined Villa Grisebach in 2007 as head of the Photography Department.

Several activities among other as photo historian, curator, publisher, critics, writer.

Publisher, editor and writer. Runs Journal, a publishing house specialized on photo books, app. 60 titles published since 1991. Author of ”Andreas Feininger – Stockholm 1933 – 39” (1991), ”Foto i bok” – a survey of photo books published in Sweden (2004), ”In memory of himself, Christer Strömholm in the eyes of his beholder” (2006) and ”Centennium, photography in Sweden, part 1: 1895 – 1974” (2007). Since 1987 also editor in chief for f/Fotografisk tidskrift, a magazine published by the association for Swedish professional photographers.

Director at Photo Edition in Berlin Gallery and Publishing House for contemporary photography. Born 1967 in South Germany, he studied Philosophy and Visual Arts / Photography in the Art Academies in Hamburg (Prof. Katherina Sieverding) and Berlin (Prof. Dieter Appelt).

In 1998 he founded the Gallery Transition in Berlin, which was specialized in Video Art, Performance and Installation. Since 2007 he is director of PHOTO EDITION BERLIN – an international art gallery for contemporary photography. Within this short period of time it acclaimed an international reputation for its programm and the artists. In 2009 he founded additionally a publishing house for photography books.

1994 Eröffnung der aktions galerie, Berlin Gründung des gemeinnützigen Vereins aktions galerie e.V.

1994 – 2007 Organisation von über 100 Einzel- und Gruppenausstellungen

1997 – 2000 UNDABDIEPOST – Jährliches Festival junger experimenteller Kunst

1999 BERLIN BUNKER, Kunstbunker Akademie der Künste, Nürnberg

2000 FESTIVAL OF VISION, Hongkong. Offizieller Künstleraustausch zwischen Hongkong und Berlin

2001 Gründung der DNA, Berlin

2002 INSIDEOUT – Fünftes Festival der Neuen Kunst, Berlin – Prag – New York

2005 LISTENINGOUT, Mediafestival Transmediale mit Tereza de Arruda

Iatã Cannabrava is photographer, curator and cultural activist. He is currently producing documentary work of the urban landscape of cities through of his essay, Uma Outra Cidade (“Another City”), specifically in areas surrounding major cities. He has participated in more than 40 exhibitions, winning the P/B prizes in the 1985 São Paulo Photography Quadrennial, the 1987 FUNARTE Marc Ferrez competition, in addition to two prizes from the São Paulo Secretary of State of Culture, awarded in 1996 and 2006. His photography has been published in 8 books and in the MASP-Pirelli, Fotoptica Gallery, Joaquim Paiva and MAM/São Paulo collections, respectively.

As a cultural activist, he served as president of the São Paulo Photographers Federation from 1989 to 1994. He founded and heads the company Estúdio Madalena, where he has organized more than 30 exhibitions, conducted more than 80 workshops, plus special projects, which include following: Showing the Tietê As You See It, in 1991; Foto São Paulo, in 2001, the Peoples of São Paulo – One Hundred Glances at the Anthropophagic City, in 2004 and the Eye on the Springs Civic, Ecological and Photographic Exploration, in 2008. Currently, he is program coordinator of the Paraty International Photography Festival – Paraty in Focus, and he coordinates the São Paulo Latin American Photography Forum organized by Itaú Cultural Foundation.

Candrowicz Krzysztof is a founder and director of Foundation of Visual Education in the city of Lodz in Poland. The foundation has started organization of the International Festival of Photography in 2001 and now is preparing the fifth edition in 2006. Every year during the festival he coordinates 50 exhibitions and a numerous workshops, lectures, slide-shows and movie presentations.

As a director and chief curator of this event, he established an association of 30 European festivals of photography, called PHOTO FESTIVAL UNION. The organization is responsible for common activities of European photo events, such as annual meetings, publications, photographic exchange and common promotion.

From October 2005 he became also a director of Lodz Art Center, which will start its activity in May 2006, as a center of international art exchange in Poland. Mr. Candrowicz is interested in viewing work of international interest, particularly creative photography, documentary projects and new interdisciplinary approaches to the medium. He is not, however, interested in viewing nude, landscapes, flowers or glamour photography.

Nicolas Savary is an artist and a photographer graduated in visual arts of the ECAL (School of Art / Lausanne). He pursues his photographic approach by being interested in the relations between the human figure and the constructed space or the landscape. He privileges multidisciplinary projects and collaborations with the university research (history, sociology, anthropology).

He taught at the Department of Architecture of the EPFL (Federal Polytechnique School of Lausanne) until 2008 and is now responsible for the Superior Training of the School of Photography of Vevey. His work was rewarded by prizes among which the Federal Prize of Design and the Manor’ Cultural Prize. It was exposed in the Museum of Elysee in Lausanne, in the Photoforum Pasquart in Bienne and in the Fri-Art in Fribourg.

Finally, he is a founder member of the Standard / deluxe association in Lausanne which is dedicated to the promotion of the young art and photography in Switzerland and is member of the director committee of the Photoforum Pasquart and the Alt+1000 Festival in Rossinière.

Mrs. Renate Gruber is since 1959 partner and wife of Professor Dr.L. Fritz Gruber (1908-2005), at whose side she had considerably influence on the spectacular photo shows of the „photokina“ in Cologne. Renate Gruber maintains also after the death of her husband friendly connections to the very well-known photographers of the 20th century.

Their jour-fixe every sunday at House Gruber in Cologne still belongs to the staging area of the world elite of photography. If her husband, Fritz Gruber, would be a „Doyen“ of photography in Germany, then Renate Gruber would certainly be a „Doyenne“ for this kind of art – a denotation, which she would reject out of her personal modesty, naturally.

Together with L. Fritz Gruber she established the “Collection Gruber – photography of the 20th century” in the Museum Ludwig in Cologne, with 100 years of photographic history. Today she promotes young artists and is representative in numerous international committees as jury member or mentor. She is logtime advisor to the board of the ‚German Photographic Society’.

Rudolf Scheutle has a Master’s Degree in History of Art from University of Munich. He know works as a curator at the Münchner Stadtmuseum / Sammlung Fotografie, Munich and lectures History of Photography at the University of Applied Sciences, Munich.

He has written numerous publications and has organized exhibitions on photography and contemporary art. He has also for many years participated as a portfolio reviewer in various international art photography festivals.

Rudolf Scheutle is most interested in viewing contemporary art photography.

Willem van Zoetendaal (La Haye 1950) is curator, publisher and gallerist in Amsterdam. Since 1995 curated photo exhibitions in Gemeentemuseum The Hague, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam, L’institut Néerlandais Paris, Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris and others.

Teached (as head of the department 1992-2002) at the photography department at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. Build up a collection of early works of Rineke Dijkstra, Koos Breukel , Paul Kooiker, Hellen van Meene and many others which has been purchased by Gemeentemuseum The Hague in 2006 (more than 1100 photographs) under the name of Van Zoetendaal Collections. Published (as also being originally graphic designer) numerous photobooks since 1995. (vanzoetendaal.com). Since 2000 also a gallery on photography mostly with artists who use the medium photography and video.