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Esther Woerdehoff founded her gallery in Paris in 1996, and opened a second gallery in Geneva in June 2021.
All of the artistic programs of Galerie Esther Woerdehoff focus on established and mid-career photographers and those whose work ‘explodes’ the dimensions of the medium of photography, with the integration of video, drawings and other fine art mediums. The Geneva space also looks to present the new generation of talent that deserves to be recognized. With six exhibitions a year in Geneva, six exhibitions in Paris, and a regular presence at international fairs, the two galleries are turning points in the world of photographic creation.
Ihiro Hayami is the founder and director of the T3 Photo Festival (Tokyo International Photography Festival), which is celebrating its latest edition in October 2021. He is the former chief editor of the Japanese photography magazine PHaT PHOTO, and was the gallery director of RINGCUBE in Ginza. Ihiro’s curatorial exhibitions include Alejandro Chaskielberg’s Otsuchi Future Memories, Alex Prager’s WEEK-END, and more. Over the past few years he has served as juror, lecturer, and reviewer at various international photo festivals and photography universities.
Rose Shoshana founded ROSEGALLERY in 1992, establishing a renowned space focused on works which enrich the canon of modern and contemporary photography. ROSEGALLERY has centered its programming both on pictures which instill the history of photography (such as Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Dorothea Lange) and works that ever expand the potential of photo-based art (such as John Chiara and Lebohang Kganye).
Rose Shoshana’s work with ROSEGALLERY extends beyond exhibiting photographs: often collaborating and collecting support for artists to create projects that perhaps the artists could not have realized on their own. Shoshana has worked intimately with renowned artists and institutions, including William Eggleston, Bruce Davidson, Graciela Iturbide, Evelyn Hofer and Mark Cohen. Several of these projects became a part of the Tate Modern’s rotating program, Artist Rooms.
She is one of the founding members of the Getty Museum’s Photographs Council and has worked with The J. Paul Getty Museum on several of their major exhibitions. She has published and edited several books, and she worked with Jo Ann Callis on realizing her first monograph Early Color, published by Aperture.
Jacob Aue Sobol is an award-winning photographer and member of Magnum Photos. He has published several monographs of his unique, expressive style of black-and-white photography and exhibited his work widely. His images focus on the universality of human emotion and the search for love within oftentimes harsh surroundings.
Born in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1976, he has lived in Canada, Greenland and Tokyo, before returning to Denmark in 2008. He has traveled extensively in the years since, photographing in Siberia, Thailand, Mongolia, America, and China while staying based in Copenhagen.
His book "I, Tokyo” was awarded the Leica European Publishers Award in 2008. In 2012 he began photographing along the Trans-Siberian Railroad and spent the next five winters photographing in the remote Russian province of Yakutia for his project "Road of Bones." He has ongoing projects in Denmark ("Home") and the United States ("America").
Sandra M. Stevenson recently joined CNN as Associate Director of Photography, after working for 15 years as an award-winning Writer/Visual Editor/Curator at The New York Times. Formerly, she was the program coordinator for the Black Filmmaker Foundation. Sandra was a contributing writer for the book "Unseen: Unpublished Black History from The New York Times Photo Archives."
Bruno Ceschel is the founder and director of Self Publish, Be Happy — an organization dedicated to shaping contemporary photography and visual culture through publishing, online and offline events, and education programs since 2010.
Through SPBH Editions, his organization challenges the traditional boundaries of bookmaking to realize exceptional artist projects in the form of limited edition publications, multiples, artefacts, prints and posters.
His book “Self Publish, Be Happy: A DIY Photobook Manual and Manifesto” was published by Aperture in 2015.
Grace Deveney is associate curator of photography and media at the Art Institute of Chicago. Located in downtown Chicago, the Art Institute is one of the world’s great art museums, housing a collection that spans centuries and the globe. Deveney is also the associate curator of the Prospect.5 triennial in New Orleans, where she is creating photography exhibitions in public spaces throughout the city. She is the former assistant curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, where she curated several exhibitions. She has also served as a curatorial researcher at the Milwaukee Art Museum, and the Art Institute of Chicago.
Jim Casper is the editor-in-chief of LensCulture, one of the leading online destinations to discover contemporary photography from around the world. As an active member in the contemporary photography world, Casper organizes annual international photography events, travels around the world to meet with photographers and review their portfolios, curates art exhibitions, writes about photography and culture, lectures, conducts workshops, serves as an international juror and nominator for key awards, and is an advisor to arts and education organizations.
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2nd Place: $2,000
3rd Place: $1,000
2nd Place: $1,000
3rd Place: $500
All Who Enter
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Featured in International Photo Festival Projections | ⬤ | ⬤ | ⬤ | |||
International Press Exposure | ⬤ | ⬤ | ⬤ | |||
Massive Exposure to our Global Audience of 3.5 Million | ⬤ | ⬤ | ⬤ | ⬤ | ||
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Opportunity to be in LensCulture Discoveries online directory of top-rated photographers(4) | ⬤ | ⬤ | ⬤ | ⬤ | ⬤ | |
Share your Work with the Global Photography Community | ⬤ | ⬤ | ⬤ | ⬤ | ⬤ | |
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