Nominators

Curator, and Founder, Art Bridge Project, Lagos, Nigeria

Professor, Department of Historical Studies, University of the Western Cape (UWC), Cape Town, South Africa

Artist, Writer, Curator, Lagos, Nigeria

Architect, Shahira Fahmy Architects, Cairo, Egypt

Director/ Co-Head of Photography, Photo: & Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, Johannesburg, South Africa

Director, kó, Lagos, Nigeria

Co-founder, Director, TINTERA Gallery, Cairo, Egypt

Director, Wunika Mukan Gallery, Lagos, Nigeria

Founder, Africa Foto Fair and Addis Foto Fest, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire

Founder/ Director, AAF African Artists’ Foundation/ LagosPhoto Festival, Lagos, Nigeria

Author, Critic, Journalist and Curator, Cape Town, South Africa

Curator & Editor, Cityscapes magazine, Cape Town, South Africa

Professor, Art Critic and Curator, Tunis, Tunisia

Visual Arts Research & Practice Fellow, Stellenbosch University, Visual Arts, Cape Town, South Africa

Photographer, Managing Director, Drik India Media Agency, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Curator, Alkazi Foundation for the Arts, New Delhi, India

Co-founder, Doors Culture & Art agency, Beijing, China

Program Coordinator, Paris, France

Director, Museum of Contemporary Art and Design (MCAD) Manila, Taguig City, Philippines

Lecturer and art critic, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand

Director, PhotoInk, New Delhi, India

Assistant Director of Exhibitions Programming and Content Development,  STPI, Singapore, Singapore

Chief Director, G/P Gallery, Shizuoka, Japan

Curator, REMINDERS PHOTOGRAPHY STRONGHOLD / RPS KYOTO PAPEROLES, Tokyo, Japan

Professor Emerita , Beaconhouse National University, Lahore, Pakistan

Director, Goethe-Institut Thailand, Bangkok, Thailand

Co-founder and Director , DECK Photography Art Centre, Singapore , Singapore, Singapore

Advisor and Curator, C1 Art Advisory, Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Founder and Publisher, IMAGELESS, Shanghai, China

Director, UP Gallery, Hsinchu, Taiwan

Founder & Director, Studio Sakse, Laiza

Director, WYNG Foundation, Hong Kong, China

Festival Director, Indian Photo Festival, Hyderabad, India

Curator, Writer, Photo Editor, New Delhi, India

Co-Founder, Co-Executive Dir., KYOTOGRAPHIE, Kyoto, Japan

Curator, Chief of permanent collection, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Curator of Photography, Yokohama, Japan

Curator/Founder & Chief curator , KLEE INC./NPO TOKYO-GA, Tokyo, Japan

Co-founder and co-Director, KYOTOGRAPHIE, Kyoto, Japan

Founders, Directors, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing, China

Editor, Sanctuary Asia, Mumbai, India

Architect, SANAA, Tokyo, Japan

Chief Curator, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan

Director of Academic Initiatives, De Ying Foundation, Shanghai, China

Publisher and Director, Serindia Publications, Bangkok, Thailand

Professor, Graduate School, Kyoto University of the Arts, Kyoto, Japan

Chief Executive Officer, The National Art Gallery Singapore, Singapore  , Singapore

Senior Curator, International Art (Photography), Tate, Singapore, Singapore

Collector, New Taipei City, Taiwan

Editor in Chief, Galli Magazine, Hyderabad , India

Photography Publisher and Editor, Goliga, Inc, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan

Curator, Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Yamanashi, Japan

Director, Wuguan Image (the Founder of Lianzhou Foto), Guangzhou, China

Curator, , Beijing, China

Writer/Curator, A Black History of Art, London, United Kingdom

Senior Advisor, London, United Kingdom

Photographer, London, United Kingdom

Curator, consultant and educator, London, United Kingdom

Artistic Director, East Wing, Berlin, Germany

Director, Galerie Thomas Zander, Colombes, France

Director, Anzenberger Agency, Vienna, Austria

Rector, Cambridge School of Visual and Performing Arts, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Founder & Director, PHLSPH - Philosophy & Photography Lab, Thessaloniki, Greece

Writer and curator, London, United Kingdom

Director, Jeu de Paume, Paris, France

Director, Maison Europeenne de la Photographie, Paris, France

Editor in Chief, FK Magazine, Riga, Latvia

Partner, Attorney-at-law, Professor, Art Law Foundation Director, Borel & Barbey, Geneva, Switzerland

Director, Next Level Projects, London, United Kingdom

Senior Curator, Photography, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom

Head of the Photographic Collections, Musee du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac , Paris, France

Managing Director & Curator, Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation, Frankfurt/Main, Germany

Founder & Director, Bendana | Pinel Art Contemporain, Paris, France

Global Vice President of Exhibitions, Fotografiska , Stockholm, Sweden

Director, Huis Marseille, Museum for Photography, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Head of Exhibitions, La Fabrica, Madrid, Spain

Director, MASILugano | Museo d'arte della Svizzera italiana, Lugano, Switzerland

Artistic Director, NRW-Forum Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

Curator, Publicist and Consultant in Photography, Zurich, Switzerland

Founder and Director, Daria Bonera Photo Agency, Milano, Italy

Staff Photographer, Politiken, Copenhagen, Denmark

Artistic Director, Sammlung Philara, Düsseldorf, Germany

Project Head, Galerrie delle prigioni, Padova, Italy

Artist, Paris, France

Director of Photography, FT Weekend Magazine, London, United Kingdom

Artistic director, TRIENNIAL OF PHOTOGRAPHY HAMBURG, Hamburg, Germany

Founder, curator, book designer and educator, Leporello photobook et al., Rome, Italy

Creative Director, NOOR Images & Foundation, Turin, Italy

Co-founder, editor-in-chief, LensCulture, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Art director, Galerie le Château d’Eau, Paris, France

Artistic Director, Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany

Curator, Zelda Cheatle, London, United Kingdom

Director, Wurttembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany

Editor & Curator, 1000 words, London, United Kingdom

Principal Multimedia Expert, European Commission, Berlin, Germany

Senior Lecturer, Narrative Ethics,  UAL / Jess Crombie Consultancy , London, United Kingdom

Writer, curator, Cully, Switzerland

President, Palazzo Esposizioni Roma, Rome, Italy

Chief Special Projects , Prince Claus Fund, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Senior Curator, FOAM Photography Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Chief Executive Officer, The Association of Photographers, London, United Kingdom

Editor, Source Photographic Review, Belfast , United Kingdom

Chief Curator of Photography, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

Collector, London, United Kingdom

Director , Chaussee 36 / Veritas Centre for Photography , London, United Kingdom

Author, lecturer, curator, , Chardonne, Switzerland

Chantal Fabres Fine Art Advisory, Latin American Photography and mixed media. Curator, , London, United Kingdom

Director/Producer/Co-Founder, Photoworks/Forestry England/FORMAT, International Photography Festival, Derby, United Kingdom

Curator, Hungarian National Museum, Budapest, Hungary

Professor Emeritus, University of Fine Arts in Poznań, Poznań, Poland

Collector, Paris, France

Curator, Modern & Contemporary Art, Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford, United Kingdom

Founding director, CAP Prize – The Contemporary African Photography Prize, Basel, Switzerland

Art Historian, Curator, Professor, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Artistic Director, Vienna Contemporary, Vienna, Austria

Fashion stylist and design consultant, Milan, Italy

Director of the PhotoVogue Festival, Vogue Italia and L'Uomo Vogue, Milan, Italy

Gallerist / Curator, Galerie Gomis, Brussels, Belgium

Editor-in-Chief, PHOTONEWS, Hamburg , Germany

Senior Curator, House of Photography, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany

Director, Photo Elysee, Museum for Photography, Lausanne, Switzerland

Professor in the Culture of Photography, , Brighton, United Kingdom

Photo Editor-in-Chief, Danish Daily Politiken, Copenhagen, Denmark

Artistic Director, Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris, France

Professor, London Business School, London, United Kingdom

Partner, Lehmann Maupin, London, UK

Editor, Cabris, France

Head of the International Council, Fondation Maeght, Vence, France

Founding Director, Kaunas Photo festival , Kaunas, Lithuania

Director, Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany

Director , EPFL ARTLAB, St-Sulpice, Switzerland

Senior Curator, Photo Museum Ireland, Dublin, Ireland

Founder, Director, Simone Klein Photography & Art Advisory, Cologne, Germany

Collector, London, United Kingdom

Curator , WestLicht. Schauplatz für Fotografie, Vienna, Austria

Artistic Director, Les Rencontres de Bamako, Paris, France

Professional photography and media consultant, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Chief Curator of Photography and Time-based Media, Bavarian State Painting Collecctions | Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany

Chairman, Kulturforum Süd-Nord e.V., Hamburg, Germany

Director, Photo Museum Ireland, Dublin, Ireland

Art advisor, Nathalie Lambert Ltd, London, United Kingdom

Curator, London, United Kingdom

Collection Director and Curator, CHAUSSEE 36 Photography, Berlin, Germany

Co-Founder, DSL Collection, Paris, France

Artistic Director & Photo Curator, Biennale Della Fotografia Femminile, Milan, Italy

Collector, Curator, Photographer, Incite Project, Shalford, United Kingdom

Artist, London, United Kingdom

Curator and photography specialist, London, United Kingdom

Chief Curator / Artistic Director, Fotografie Forum Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Founder, MACK, London, United Kingdom

Artistic Director, MIA Photo Fair, Milan, Italy

Deputy Director, Jeu de Paume, Paris, France

Founder, ALMADÁS, Madrid, Spain

Director, Photographers Gallery, Brighton, United Kingdom

Executive Producer & Art Buyer, Bruton, United Kingdom

Senior Lecturer - History of Art/Photography, University of East London, London, United Kingdom

Co-Founder and curator, Afrique in visu, Marseille, France

Founder, REZO Agency, Stockholm, Sweden

Founder and Chairman, Jan Michalski Foundation, Paris, France

Curator and Artistic Director, Spain Now!, London, UK

Director, Hellenic Centre for Photography, Athens, Greece

Director, diChroma photography, Madrid, Spain

Media Artist and Publisher, Equivalence: European Photography, Berlin, Germany

Senior Curator of International Art (Photography), Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom

Senior Project Leader, Project 21, Hyères, France

Founder, The Curator Ship, Barcelona, Spain

Director, L A Noble Gallery, London, United Kingdom

Art Historian, Paris, France

Director, Proconecta, London, United Kingdom

Founder and Director, Photographic Social Vision Foundation, Barcelona, Spain

Curator, MOMus – Thessaloniki Museum of Photography,  Thessaloniki, Greece

Director, Arts Council Collection, London, United Kingdom

Curator, CAMERA Italian Centre for Photography, Turin, Italy

Head of UCL Art Collections, UCL Art Museum, London, United Kingdom

Curator, writer and Director, Helsinki School, Berlin, Germany

Research Associate, Kunstbibliothek, Sammlung Fotografie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin , Berlin, Germany

Curator, Book Designer, Educator, Rome University of Fine Arts, Rome, Italy

Consultant, The Royal Photographic Society, Bristol, United Kingdom

Director, Leica Gallery London, London, United Kingdom

Photography Consultant and Curator, Hoofddorp, Netherlands

Directors, TOBE Gallery, Budapest, Hungary

Photographer, La Spezia, Italy

Chief Curator, The Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, Finland

Director of Photography, Le Nouvel Obs, Paris, France

Curator, writer and researcher, Forest, Brussels, Belgium

Editor, Panos Pictures, London, United Kingdom

Art Director, Chief Representative, Leica Galleries International, Salzburg, Austria

Photographer & Founder, MRO Foundation, Zurich, Switzerland

Co-Chair and Company Director, Impressions Gallery, Bradford, United Kingdom

Director, Walter Leblanc Foundation, Brussels, Belgium

Former Director, The Photographers' Gallery, London, United Kingdom

President, Fundacion Foto Colectania, Barcelona, Spain

Photographer, Idataube, Moscow, Russia

Director, Foundation CAB, Brussels, Belgium

Director, PARALLEL Platform / Procurarte, Lisbon, Portugal

Co-Founder and Co-Director, Todi Circle , Baschi, Italy

Lecturer and Curator, University of Hildesheim, Hildesheim, Germany

Artistic Director, Klima Biennale Wien, Vienna, Austria

Curator, Exhibitions Manager, Fotografiska, Berlin, Germany

Head of the photography department, Münchner Stadtmuseum, Munich, Germany

Founder, Seen, London, United Kingdom

Head of Photography, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany

Head of Photography, The Guardian, London, United Kingdom

Curator, Fotomuseum Den Haag, Den Haag, Netherlands

Cultural Programme Curator, Historic England, London, United Kingdom

Director, Ecole Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie, Arles Cedex, France

President, Fondazione Sozzani, Milan, Italy

CEO & Creative Director, Via Arno, London, United Kingdom

International Programmes Curator, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom

President and Artistic Director, PHOTOLUX FESTIVAL, Lucca, Italy

Professor, Department Literature-Art-Media , University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany

Director, FOMU, Antwerp, The Netherlands

Collector, London, United Kingdom

Lecturer, Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Founder, GALLERY FIFTY ONE, Antwerp, Belgium

Director, Festival de Deauville, Deauville, France

Director, Fotografisk Center, Copenhagen, Denmark

Curator of Photography, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden

Photographer, Muonio, Finland

Production Manager, Cercle Cité, Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Curator and fine art photography critic, Director, Admira Photography, Milan, Italy

Lecturer, Goldsmiths, University of London, London, United Kingdom

Professor of Contemporary Art and Photography, University for the Creative Arts, London, United Kingdom

Curator and Writer, London, United Kingdom

Founder KTW London & The Wick / Trustee Royal Academy of Arts, The Wick, London, United Kingdom

Director, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland

Founder, Willas Contemporary, Stockholm, Sweden

Consultant, Qatar Museums, London, United Kingdom

Curator, Fotomuseum Den Haag, Den Haag, Netherlands

Chief Curator, Hasselblad Foundation, Gothenburg, Sweden

Director, Ishara Art Foundation, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Chief Curator, PHOTO IS:RAEL, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Director, Arter, Istanbul, Turkey

 Cultural Manager, Editor, Curator, Geniş Açı Project Office, Istanbul, Turkey

Curator and Head of Photography Department, Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, Istanbul, Turkey

Director, Silk Road Gallery, Tehran, Iran

Founding Director Emeritus, Arter, Istanbul, Turkey

Artist, Tehran, Iran

Director, Doron Sebbag Art Collection, Tel Aviv, Israel

Curator of Photographs, Qatar Museums, Doha, Qatar

Director, Martch Art Project, Istanbul, Turkey

Director, PHOTO IS:RAEL, Ramat Gan, Israel

Chief Curator, Eretz Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel

Director, Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City, Mexico

Co-Director, Art Links Inc. ,Mexico City, Mexico

Curator of Photographs, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, United States

Founder and curator, Foto Féminas, New York, USA

Curator, New York, United States

Senior Curator, Photography, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, United States

Board member, Penumbra Foundation, New York, United States

Director, Centro de las Artes de San Agustín, Oaxaca, Mexico

Chief Curator, MAC Panama, Panama City, Panama

Director of Photography, Gagosian, New York, United States

Founder & Editor, Conscientious, South Deerfield, United States

Director, Contemporary Art Center Wifredo Lam / Bienal de La Habana, Havana, Cuba

Director, Patricia Conde Galería, Mexico City, Mexico

Founding Director, TERN Gallery, Nassau, The Bahamas

Photographer, curator, La Clinica art space, Oaxaca, Mexico

Executive Director, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, United States

Executive Director, FotoFest, Houston, United States

Lawrence S. Friedman Curator of Photography, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, United States

Curator and author, New York, United States

 Curator and Arts Consultant, Sperryville, United States

 Curator and Arts Consultant, Sperryville, United States

Curator, Belleville, Canada

President, Moran Griffin, Inc., Arlington, United States

Collectors, New York, United States

Curator, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, United States

International Head, Photographs, Christie's, New York, United States

Head Bear, Dancing Bear, New York, United States

Chief Curator & Deputy Director, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, United States

Curator Photography and New Media, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal, Canada

Director Emeritus, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, United States

Founder, Visura, Stowe, United States

Chief Programs Officer, The Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, USA

Chief Curator, Amant, New York, USA

Managing Editor, The VII Foundation, Cape Coral, United States

Specialist, Latin American Photography, Albuquerque, United States

Executive Director, Printed Matter, New York, United States

Executive Director & Curator, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, United States

Executive Director, Tim Hetherington Trust, Long Island City, United States

Festival Director, FOTOSEPTIEMBRE , San Antonio, United States

Curator and writer, New York, United States

Curator, Wallis Annenberg Photography Department, LACMA | Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, United States

Research Professor, Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Mexico City, Mexico

Paris Photo Ambassador, Paris Photo, Mexico City, Mexico

Scholar and Curator of Photographs, Cambridge, United States

Associate Curator of Photography, SF MoMA, San Francisco, United States

Artistic Director and Chief Curator, Lassonde Art Trail, Toronto, Canada

Photographs Specialist & Advisor, New York, United States

Artist, New York, United States

Curator Emerita of Photography, SF MoMA, San Francisco, United States

Curator and contemporary art advisor, Mexico City, Mexico

CEO, Co-Founder, Sustainable Inc., Artelio Design International Inc., Toronto, Canada

Executive Director, Curatorial Exhibitions , Los Angeles, United States

Sondra Gilman Curator, Whitney Museum, New York, United States

Producer, curator and translator, Los Angeles, United States

Associate Curator of Photography, Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, United States

Founder & Director, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York, United States

Founder, Firestarters Consulting, Cambridge, USA

Founder, The Walther Collection, New York, United States

Senior Photo Editor, Redux Pictures, New York, United States

Executive Director, Fotografiska, New York, USA

Director, Photography Curator and Writer, Mexico, Mexico

Director, Asia-Pacific Photobook Archive & Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Australia

Grants Program Coordinator, Boundless Earth, South Yarra, Australia

Senior Curator, Museum of Australian Photography, Victoria, Australia

Curator, Photography, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

Director, M.33, Naarm, Australia

Head Curator, National Gallery, International Art, Canberra, Australia

Honorary Associate, La Trobe University, Fryerstown, Australia

Museum Director, National Gallery of Australia, Melbourne, Australia

Founder/Artistic Director, PHOTO Australia/PHOTO International Festival of Photography, Melbourne, Australia

Founder, Unless You Will, Maldon, Australia

Director, Head On Photo Festival, Sydney, Australia

Photographer, Auckland, New Zealand

Director, Perth Center for Photography, Park Western, Australia

Artist and Founder, Mas Arte Mas Accion, Bogotá, Colombia

Founder & Director, Rolf Art Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Curator and publisher, Fotô Editorial, São Paulo, Brazil

Chief Editor, Diario El Pais, Universidad de la Republica, Montevideo, Uruguay

Photographer, writer and educator, International Center of Photography, Medellín, Colombia

Journalist, La Nacion, Buenos Aires, Argentina 

Curator and Photographer, Universidad de Ciencias Aplicadas, Lima, Peru

Head Photography Curator, Instituto Moreira Salles, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Curator, Bogotá, Colombia

President, Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Director General, Pinacoteca de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Curator, Bogota, Columbia