Portfolio Review ポートフォリオレビュー

Reviewers

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  Photo credit: Isabel Praxedes

  Thyago Nogueira

  Head of the Contemporary Art Department at Instituto Moreira Salles
  Chief editor of ZUM photography magazine
  *Curator for Daido Moriyama's exhibition "A Retrospective" at KYOTOGRAPHIE

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  Photo credit: Isabel Praxedes

  Thyago Nogueira

  Head of the Contemporary Art Department at Instituto Moreira Salles
  Chief editor of ZUM photography magazine
  *Curator for Daido Moriyama's exhibition "A Retrospective" at KYOTOGRAPHIE

  (English/French)

  Thyago Nogueira (São Paulo, Brazil, 1976) is a curator and editor. He is the head of the Contemporary Art Department at Instituto Moreira Salles (IMS), Brazil, and founding editor of ZUM photography magazine, published by IMS. He has curated numerous exhibitions such as Zanele Muholi: Corageous Beauty (2024), Daido Moriyama: A retrospective (2022-2026), Miguel Rio Branco: Dreamt Words... (2022), Claudia Andujar: The Yanomami Struggle (2018-2024), Claudia Andujar: In the place of the other (2014), and William Eggleston: The American Color (2015). He has contributed to numerous publications and prizes worldwide.

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  Yumi Goto

  Independent curator

  (Japanese/English)

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  Yumi Goto

  Independent curator

  (Japanese/English)

  Yumi Goto, an independent curator based in Japan, specializes in comprehensive production, curation, photo editing, publishing, research, consulting, education, and talent development related to photography. Her main interests lie in conflict, contemporary social issues, human rights violations, and women's issues. Yumi has been involved in photography campaigns and publications for humanitarian and human rights organizations, as well as judging, nominations, curation, and production for international photography awards, photo festivals, and events. She also serves as a co-founder and curator for ""Reminders Photography Stronghold"" (RPS), facilitating versatile activities related to photography. Additionally, she established the “RPS KYOTO PAPEROLES"" in 2020 and has been actively involved since then.

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  Mutsuko Ota

  IMA Editorial Director


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  Mutsuko Ota

  IMA Editorial Director


  (Japanese)

  Mutsuko Ota is Editorial Director of IMA magazine. born in Tokyo, 1968. She started her career as an editor at Marie Claire and worked at several men’s magazines such as Esquire, GQ and others as feature editor on travel, gastronomy, culture, art and photography among other areas. Along with collaborating with several magazines as a freelance editor, she also became involved in various fields including art projects, book and catalogue editing, and film promotion throughout her career. She published IMA magazine in 2012. While she participates in magazines As an editorial director, photo books and exhibitions, she runs IMA gallery in Tennousu, Tokyo. Since 2025, she has also been serving as the Director of T3 PHOTO NEW TALENT.

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  Michael Famighetti

  Editor in chief of Aperture magazine

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  Michael Famighetti

  Editor in chief of Aperture magazine

  (English)

  Editor in chief of Aperture magazine, Books division, and Digital publishing. He also curates internationally touring exhibitions for the organization, and has organized special projects with Wolfgang Tillmans, Tilda Swinton, Alec Soth, and others.
  In 2013, he organized a relaunch and reconceptualization of the magazine, which won a 2018 National Magazine Award for General Excellence. Together with guest editor Sarah Lewis, Michael is recipient of an International Center of Photography Infinity Award for Critical Writing and Research for “Vision & Justice,” the Summer 2016 issue of Aperture. He is currently also visiting critic at Columbia University, the University of Hartford’s MFA program, and a participant in the School of Visual Arts’s Mentors program. His writing has appeared in Frieze, Bookforum, and 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.

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  Masakazu Murakami

  Director of Sha Shin Magazine

  (Japanese)

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  Masakazu Murakami

  Director of Sha Shin Magazine

  (Japanese)

  Born in 1977, Tokyo. Winner of the Grand Prix of the 16th Photography "Hitotsubo-ten", and the 5th Visual Arts Photo Award. Published photobooks include "Kumogakure Onsen" "Subway Diary"and "Dream Within a Dream". From 2008 to 2021, worked as an editor at "Nippon Camera Magazine", editing portfolios and photobooks. Founded the company
  "Photo & Culture,Tokyo (PCT)" and established a new website in 2021 and in January 2022 launched a new magazine, "'Sha Shin''', as editor-in-chief.

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  Hideko Kataoka

  Photo Editor at Newsweek Japan

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  Hideko Kataoka

  Photo Editor at Newsweek Japan

  (Japanese/English)

  Hideko was appointed Director of Photography at Newsweek Japan in 2001. I In 2004, she created the 'Picture Power' section, a weekly photo essay that captures underreported topics from around the world. The series is currently celebrating its 21st anniversary, and reached its 1000th installment in 2025. Hideko has also served as a lecturer in photojournalism and documentary photography at Tokyo Polytechnic University since 2013, and as a member of the External Review Committee at the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum since 2016. She regularly participates in portfolio reviews and has served as a juror for prestigious international photography festivals and competitions, including the World Press Photo, the W. Eugene Smith Grant, and many others. She is also the founder and director of Miiraii Creative.

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  Taka Kawachi

  Benrido, Overseas Division Director

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  Taka Kawachi

  Benrido, Overseas Division Director

  (Japanese/English)

  Taka Kawachi has extensive international experience, having graduated from the Academy of Art University of San Francisco, to then working in New York City as a book editor and curator for 15 years, including Richard Prince, Nan Goldin and Patti Smith exhibition and book. Returning to Japan in 2011, he started to write essays on art and photography. In 2016, Kawachi published his first book “Art no Iriguchi (Entrance to the Arts, on American Art) followed by his second publication on European Art in the same year. In 2019 and 2020, he published his third and fourth book “The Artists 1 & 2” These publications illustrate his experiences of art, photography, design and architecture, and offers readers an opportunity to engage with the history and subjects of both regions from his unique point of view. He is currently the Director of the Overseas Division of Kyoto’s Benrido, working to disseminate the classic and rare photographic process of Collotype, and produced portfolios of Saul Leiter, Yamamoto Masao, Robert Doisneau and J. H. Lartigue.

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  Tomoka Aya

  Director of The Third Gallery Aya
  Director of Fine-Art Photography
  Association
 Director of Osaka International Media Library

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  Tomoka Aya

  Director of The Third Gallery Aya
  Director of Fine-Art Photography
  Association
 Director of Osaka International Media Library

  (Japanese)

  Aya Tomoka was born and based in Osaka, Japan. She founded the Third Gallery Aya in 1996, which celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2021. She has organised exhibitions by Ishiuchi Miyako, Yamazawa Eiko, Okanoue Yoshiko, Imai Hisae, Kodama Fusako, Jo Spence, Heshiki Kenshichi, Gocho Shigeo, Abe Jun, Narahashi Asako, Watanabe Koichi, Kakimoto Hiromi, Higashionna Yuichi, Inagaki Tomoko, Tanaka Ayumi and others. Aya works with photography and contemporary art ― she introduces artists’ works in and out of Japan by participating in Paris Photo, the world’s largest photography art fair, and Art Basel, the world’s largest contemporary art fair.

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  Reiko Tsubaki

  Curator, Mori Art Museum; Concurrently serving at TOKYO NODE

  (Japanese/English/French)

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  Reiko Tsubaki

  Curator, Mori Art Museum; Concurrently serving at TOKYO NODE

  (Japanese/English/French)

  Tsubaki has been affiliated with the Mori Art Museum since 2002 and, as of August 2025, concurrently serves at TOKYO NODE.
  At the Mori Art Museum, she has curated Medicine and Art (2010); Universe and Art (2016), which toured to the ArtScience Museum, Singapore, in 2017; Leandro Erlich (2017); Roppongi Crossing 2019 (2019); STARS (2020); Our Ecology (2023); and Louise Bourgeois (2024–2025).
  She has also organized focused presentations featuring artists such as Ho Tzu Nyen, Tala Madani, Camille Henrot, Fuyuhiko Takata, Cyprien Gaillard, Cao Fei, and Shota Yamauchi. In addition, she curated MAM Research 006: Chronicle Kyoto 1990s and MAM Research 011: Tokyo Underground.
  She is currently preparing Tony Oursler: Between Technology and Spirituality—Magic, Media, and Art, scheduled to open in July at TOKYO NODE.
  Outside the museum, she is also active in independent curatorial projects, writing, lectures, and serving as a juror.

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  Osamu Ouchi

  Art Director, Graphic Designer / nano nano graphics

  (Japanese)

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  Osamu Ouchi

  Art Director, Graphic Designer / nano nano graphics

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  Born in 1971, Ouchi graduated from the Department of Graphic Design at Tama Art University’s Faculty of Art and Design. Apprenticed under the late Ikko Tanaka, he established nano nano graphics Ltd. on July 7, 2003. Setting the synergy between the two-dimensional world and space as the axis of his creation, he employs a consistent direction from graphic to spatial design, and expands his activities across a wide range of fields. He has worked on exhibition design both in Japan and abroad. In August 2021, he served as the art director and scenographer for the first art festival in Chiba City, " Chiba City Festival of Arts CHIBAFOTO." In January 2022, he founded the "MATSUMOTO Architecture + Art Festival" in Matsumoto City, Nagano Prefecture, and serves as the general director. The Fourth event is scheduled to be held in February 2026. He is a part-time lecturer at Tokyo University of Arts.
  

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  RongRong&inri

  Photographers
  Founders of Three Shadows Photography Art Centre (Beijing & Xiamen)
  Initiators of the Jimei × Arles International Photo Festival

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  RongRong&inri

  Photographers
  Founders of Three Shadows Photography Art Centre (Beijing & Xiamen)
  Initiators of the Jimei × Arles International Photo Festival

  (Japanese/Chinese)

  RongRong (b. 1968), a pioneer of contemporary photography in China, and the Japanese photographer inri (b. 1973) began working together in Beijing in 2000 as RongRong&inri. In 2007, they founded the Three Shadows Photography Art Centre in Caochangdi, Beijing—the first institution in China dedicated to contemporary photography. Since then, it has developed into a platform supporting the discovery and development of contemporary photography in China through exhibitions and a wide range of programs.
  Since 2015, they have established Kyoto, the thousand-year-old capital of Japan, as a base for their artistic practice. Inspired by the cycle of water that underlies Kyoto’s cultural landscape—formed through layers of history, culture, and environment—they created the series Jifei Kyoto. This exploration has further developed into the concept of “Jifei Photography,” through which they continue to question what photography is and what it means to see.

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  Photo: Eiki Mori

  Takahiro Ito

  Curator of Photography at the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum

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  Photo: Eiki Mori

  Takahiro Ito

  Curator of Photography at the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum

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  Curator of Photography at the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum. Born in Tokyo in 1986 and began his curatorial career at TOP in 2013. He has organized numerous exhibitions for TOP, including “TOP 30th Anniversary—State of the Artist: So Far and From Now On” (co-curation), “Alec Soth: A Room of Rooms”, “Revolution 9: Homma Takashi”, “MATSUE TAIJI: makietaCC”, “Photography in the Ryukyu Islands”, “Photography and Fashion Since the 1990s”, “Things So Faint But Real: Contemporary Japanese Photography vol. 15”, “Nagashima Yurie: And a Pinch of Irony with a Hint of Love” and “In the Here and Now - TOP Collection: Scrolling Through Heisei Part 1”. Part-time lecturer at Joshibi University of Art and Design.

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  ©Paolo Pellegrin

  Andréa Holzherr

  Global Cultural Director/Curator for Magnum Photos
  *Curator for Ernest Cole's exhibition "House of Bondage" at KYOTOGRAPHIE

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  ©Paolo Pellegrin

  Andréa Holzherr

  Global Cultural Director/Curator for Magnum Photos
  *Curator for Ernest Cole's exhibition "House of Bondage" at KYOTOGRAPHIE

  (English/French)

  Based in Paris, Andréa has been working since 2003 as the Global Cultural Director and curator for Magnum Photos and is responsible for promoting MAGNUM PHOTOS through active exhibition work in collaboration with international museums and cultural institutions. Before, she worked at the Maison Européene de la Photographie in Paris as assistant curator to the director.
  Andréa Holzherr (born in 1964 in Tübingen, Germany) lives and works in Paris as a cultural director, publicist and curator. She studied at the Ecole du Louvre Paris as well as at the Sorbonne.
  She has been working since 2003 as the global cultural director and curator for Magnum Photos, Paris and is responsible for promoting the Magnum Archive through active exhibition work in collaboration with international museums, cultural institutions and photo festivals. Before, she worked at the Maison Européene de la Photographie in Paris as assistant curator to the director.
  Andréa Holzherr has curated numerous exhibitions, among others Bang Bang, Tatort Kunst 2012 at Haus der Kunst Uri and the CCA, Palma de Mallorca; Mythos Kindheit 2010 at the Kunstverein Ludwigshafen, the Haus für Kunst Uri and the CCA, Palma de Mallorca; Elina Brotherus: The New Painting 2006 at the Finnish Museum of Photography, and Stella Polaris 2006 at Paris Photo.
  In September 2013 she was the responsible curator for the 5. Fotofestival Mannheim_Ludwigshafen_Heidelberg in Germany and in 2023 Ernest Cole House of Bondage in collaboration with Anne-Marie Beckmann.
  Her publications include such titles as Close Enough (2024), Eve Arnold Homage (2012), Helsinki School (2005-2011), George Rodger Unterwegs (2009), Elina Brotherus (2005), as well as numerous publications in specialized contemporary photography magazines.
  Andréa Holzherr is on the board of directors of the Fond de Dotation Magnum Paris as well as a member of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Photographie.

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  Chieko Kinoshita

  Associate Professor at Kaitokudo Studies for the 21st Century, Osaka University

  (Japanese)

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  Chieko Kinoshita

  Associate Professor at Kaitokudo Studies for the 21st Century, Osaka University

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  Chieko Kinoshita was born in 1971 and lives in Osaka. She began Associate Professor of Kaitokudo Studies for the 21st Century, Osaka University, position after working as an art producer at the Kobe Art Village Center and at the Osaka University Center for the Study of Communication Design (CSCD). Her specialities include modern art, cultural policy, and cultural project design. She has been involved in “Art Area B1″, a project developed and managed through the joint collaboration of companies and NPOs, as well as the art and culture network project”Creative Island Lab Nakanoshima”. In addition, she has served as a member of the executive committee for NAMURA ART MEETING, curator for MEGA ART STORAGE KITAKAGAYA, offsite curator for Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions, and public program director for OKAYAMA ART SUMMIT, among others.

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  Ikuko Ashitaka

  Curator of Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama

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  Ikuko Ashitaka

  Curator of Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama

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  Ashitaka organizes and writes about photography and design-related exhibitions mainly in the Kansai region. They specializes in the history of modern Japanese photography.
  
  Planned Exhibitions: "Japanese Art Theatre Guild Movie Posters" (Kyoto Institute of Technology Museum and Archives, 2022), "IMAMORI Mitsuhiko Satoyama, where the water smells" (Shiga Museum of Arts, 2023), "BUTSUDORI The Photographic Expression of “Objects”" (Shiga Museum of Arts, 2025).

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  Junya Utsumi

  Curator of Artizon Museum, Ishibashi Foundation, Tokyo

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  Junya Utsumi

  Curator of Artizon Museum, Ishibashi Foundation, Tokyo

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  Born in Tokyo, 1990. Acquired the master’s degree from Department of Arts Studies and Curatorial Practices of the Graduate School of Global Arts at Tokyo University of the Arts, with the Larus prize. After working at Koganecho Area Management Center, he is currently an in-house curator of Artizon Museum, Ishibashi Foundation, Tokyo. Interested in gender, he mainly curates, researches and writes about contemporary art in Japan and Southeast Asia. Major curated exhibitions include Jam Session: Ishibashi Foundation Collection×YAMASHIRO Chikako×SHIGA Lieko In the midst of (2025–26), Jam Session Ishibashi Foundation Collection×MOHRI Yuko On Physis (2024–25), and Japan Pavilion Exhibition in Tokyo—From the 59th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia Dumb Type, 2022: remap (2023), all at the Artizon Museum. He also oversaw the planning and production of the outdoor sculpture installed in July 2025 at the Artizon Museum, Rachel Whiteread’s Artizon Conversations.

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  Clémentine de la Féronnière

  Founder and publisher of the gallery Clémentine de la Féronnière

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  Clémentine de la Féronnière

  Founder and publisher of the gallery Clémentine de la Féronnière

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  Born in 1982, Clémentine de la Féronnière holds a master’s degree in management sciences from Paris Dauphine University and a post-graduate diploma in publishing from Paris 13. After freelancing for publishing houses Taschen in Cologne and Berlin, and Phaidon in Paris, she specialized in publishing art books, particularly for museums, before founding her own photography-focused structure in 2011. From 2011 to 2015, she produced her first exhibitions and books under her own name, eventually settling permanently in her current gallery at the Chenizot Hotel on the Île Saint-Louis. Since then, she has supported around fifteen photographers, exhibiting their work both in France and internationally, in collaboration with major institutions such as the Serpentine in London, the LUMA Foundation in Arles, and the Detroit Institute of Arts. She played a key role in the rediscovery of Ghanaian photographer James Barnor, born in 1929, orchestrating the unveiling of his archive and the spread of his work. Alongside photographers like Martin Parr and Paul Graham, she champions several prominent French artists, including Juliette Agnel, Carolle Benitah, and FLORE. Her publishing house now boasts a catalog of about fifty titles.

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  Kimi Himeno

  Founder and Director of AKAAKA Art Publishing, Inc.

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  Kimi Himeno

  Founder and Director of AKAAKA Art Publishing, Inc.

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  Establishing Akaaka-sha in 2006, Kimi Himeno has overseen the publication of more than 250 books, with a primary focus on photo albums and art books. Notable publications under Akaaka-sha include award-winning works such as Rieko Shiga's CANARY (33rd Kimura Ihei Photography Award), Atsushi Okada's I am, Masashi Asada's Asada Family (34th Kimura Ihei Photography Award), Kozue Takagi's MID and GROUND (35th Kimura Ihei Photography Award), Arata Dodo's Taigan (opposite shore) (38th Kimura Ihei Photography Award), Ryuichi Ishikawa's A Grand Polyphony and Okinawan Portraits 2010-2012 (40th Kimura Ihei Photography Award), Aya Fujioka's Here Goes River (43rd Kimura Ihei Photography Award), and Shinichiro Nagasawa's Mary Had a Little Lamb (49th Kimura Ihei Photography Award).
  She currently serves as a Visiting Professor at the Graduate School of Kyoto University of the Arts.

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  Karin Andreasson

  News picture editor of Guardian

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  Karin Andreasson

  News picture editor of Guardian

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  Karin Andreasson is a news picture editor at the Guardian with responsibility for the daily print edition. She has 20 years’ experience working in news photography and has worked on some of the biggest stories of recent times including politics, conflict and humanitarian crises.

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  Jonas Cuénin

  Director of Blind Magazine, Photographer

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  Jonas Cuénin

  Director of Blind Magazine, Photographer

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  Jonas Cuénin is a French journalist and photographer, born in 1984 in Castres and now based in Paris. A graduate of the École publique de journalisme de Tours, he began his career at France-Amérique magazine in New York before turning his focus to photography. A self-taught press photographer, his portrait work has been published in Le Nouvel Observateur, Le Figaro, and Elle.
  After spending a decade in the United States, where he was strongly influenced by American visual culture, he became editor-in-chief of Camera magazine in 2014, followed by L’Œil de la Photographie in 2016. His writing has also appeared in Aperture, IMA, and Polka. Since 2019, he has served as director of Blind Magazine.
  Interested in intimate photography and highly personal narratives, Cuénin approaches both text and image as mediums for memory and encounter.

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  Emily Dinsdale

  Art & Photography Editor of Dazed Digital, Contributing Editor of AnOther Magazine

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  Emily Dinsdale

  Art & Photography Editor of Dazed Digital, Contributing Editor of AnOther Magazine

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  Emily Dinsdale is a published author, writer and editor with a focus on culture. As Art and Photography Editor at Dazed, Emily commissions and publishes visual stories that explore and challenge the ever-evolving definition of youth culture. Championing both emerging image-makers and internationally acclaimed photographers, she has platformed the likes of Carlijn Jacobs, Tyler Mitchell and Kikuji Kawada. Beyond Dazed, she is a Contributing Editor at AnOther, where her writing focuses more broadly on art and culture. Across both titles, Emily has profiled some of the world’s most renowned artists (including Wolfgang Tillmans, Marina Abramović, Miranda July, Catherine Opie, Nan Goldin and many more) while consistently amplifying leading voices in the worlds of art and culture through commissioned features.

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  Audrey Hu

  Editor-in-Chief of Dazed China

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  Audrey Hu

  Editor-in-Chief of Dazed China

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  Apolline Coëffet

  Editor of Fisheye

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  Apolline Coëffet

  Editor of Fisheye

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  Apolline Coëffet studied modern literature and journalism at Sorbonne Nouvelle University and the Institut français de presse before joining Fisheye in 2021. A cultural journalist passionate with a strong interest in the visual arts, literature, design, and fashion, she is particularly drawn to discovering emerging talents and sharing the stories that shape their work.

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  Kshitij Kankaria

  Editor-in-Chief of Dirty Magazine

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  Kshitij Kankaria

  Editor-in-Chief of Dirty Magazine

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  Kshiitij Kankaria is a Mumbai-based creative director and founder of SOAK and Dirty Magazine, two platforms pushing the boundaries of contemporary Indian creativity. Known for his emotionally charged, culturally rooted narratives, Kshitij’s work exists at the intersection of design, identity, and social impact. Raised in a small town in central India in a family of doctors, Kshitij chose a different path—pursuing a degree in design that laid the foundation for his multidimensional approach to visual culture. His early exposure to diverse creative disciplines shaped a sensibility that is both refined and radically personal.

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  Yuri Yamada

  Curator of Tokyo Photographic Art Museum

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  Yuri Yamada

  Curator of Tokyo Photographic Art Museum

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  Following studies in art history, specializes in the history of modern/contemporary photography. Curator of Tokyo Photographic Art Museum from 2018, through curator of Izu Photo Museum (2014-2018). Organized the exhibition Fiona Tan: Ascent (2016), Terri Weifenbach: The May Sun (2017), Memories Penetrate the Ground and Permeate the Wind Contemporary Japanese Photography vol. 18 (2021), Motohashi Seiichi and Robert Doisneau: Narrative Passages (2023), Luigi Ghirri: Infinite Landscapes (2025). Co-curated I know something about love, asian contemporary photography (2018) with KASAHARA Michiko, Reversible Destiny: Australian and Japanese contemporary photography (2021) with Natalie KING.

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  photo by Rahi Rezvani

  Marina Paulenka

  Independent Curator
  *Curator for Lebohang Kganye's exhibition "Rehearsal of Memory"

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  photo by Rahi Rezvani

  Marina Paulenka

  Independent Curator
  *Curator for Lebohang Kganye's exhibition "Rehearsal of Memory"

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  Marina Paulenka is an independent curator, artistic director, and educator based in Berlin,
  originally from Croatia. Her work focuses on contemporary photography and interdisciplinary artistic practices that explore the social, political, and cultural dimensions of the image. She has curated numerous exhibitions internationally and collaborated with museums, festivals, and cultural institutions across Europe and beyond.
  She is the founder of Organ Vida International Photography Festival, Croatia’s leading
  photography festival, which she developed into an internationally recognised platform for critical dialogue through photography and visual arts. From 2022 to 2025, she served as the founding Director of Exhibitions at Fotografiska Berlin, where she established the museum’s curatorial vision and public programme. Previously, she was Artistic Director of Unseen Amsterdam art fair ,leading the platform’s artistic and institutional strategy and expanding its international scope by introducing galleries and artists from diverse regions.
  Drawing on her post-Yugoslav background and broader Balkan heritage, Paulenka’s curatorial practice engages with questions of feminism, identity, human rights, and the politics of representation. Her work foregrounds artists and perspectives from diverse cultural contexts,building connections between histories, geographies, and imagined futures.
  For Kyotographie International Photography Festival, she curates the exhibition of Lebohang Kganye.

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  Photo by Victoria Gallarreta

  Federico Estol

  Artistic Director of SAN JOSÉ FOTO, Professor at the University of Arts at the UNLP La Plata
  *Artist of the “Shine Heroes” Exhibition at KYOTOGRAPHIE

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  Federico Estol

  Artistic Director of SAN JOSÉ FOTO, Professor at the University of Arts at the UNLP La Plata
  *Artist of the “Shine Heroes” Exhibition at KYOTOGRAPHIE

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  Federico Estol is a Uruguayan photographer and artivist. He currently works as a visual storyteller producing stories in Latin America. His long-term projects focus on the relationships between cultural identity, inequality, and social justice. He is the artistic director of the international festival SAN JOSÉ FOTO and editor of photobooks at El Ministerio Ediciones. Represented by East Wing Gallery Doha-Berlin, his works are in various private and public collections, including the Institute of Latin American Studies at Sorbonne University in Paris, the Latin American Photo Library in Buenos Aires, the Museum of Avant-garde in Switzerland, Lishui Photography Museum China, and the National Photography Museum of Norway.

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  Illustrator: Yuu Yamamoto

  Kiritorimederu

  Art critic

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  Illustrator: Yuu Yamamoto

  Kiritorimederu

  Art critic

  (Japanese)

  Researcher and writer specializing in digital photography theory. Co-editor of the book Instagram and Contemporary Visual Culture (2018). Guest curator for T3 Photo Festival Tokyo 2022.

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  Yumiko Chiba

  Founder and Director of Yumiko Chiba Associates

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  Yumiko Chiba

  Founder and Director of Yumiko Chiba Associates

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  Founded Yumiko Chiba Associates in 1998. She oversees artist estates, including those of Jiro Takamatsu and Yutaka Matsuzawa, and represents and promotes artists such as Ryudai Takano, Motohiro Tomii, and Chikako Yamashiro. In 2010, she opened her gallery.
  
  In addition to organizing exhibitions at museums and art spaces in Japan and abroad, she has published numerous publications featuring critical essays by scholars and critics, fostering historical understanding and critical perspectives on art and artists.
  
  Launched in 2022, Ars Curia is a platform that brings together experts and researchers from various fields to discuss a wide range of issues through the lens of art.

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