Jurors
2024 Critical Mass Prescreening Panel:
Arianna Rinaldo, Independent Curator + Photo Editor + Photo Consultant — Barcelona, Spain
Arianna is a freelance professional working with photographers on various projects. From 2012 to 2021, she was the artistic director of Cortona On The Move, an international festival of visual narrative. Since 2016, she has been the photography curator at PhEST, a festival on contemporary photography and arts in Puglia.
Since 2012, Arianna has been based in Barcelona. She is active as a consultant, teacher, curator, and editor. She also speaks at and reviews portfolios at photo events and festivals around the world, and she is regularly invited to jury panels and selection committees for international institutions and organizations.
Brittani Taylor, Exhibitions Director, The Light Factory — Charlotte, NC
Brittani is currently the Director of Exhibitions at The Light Factory in Charlotte, NC, and a freelance photographer specializing in portraits, events, and products. She continues to be inspired by the world and the people she meets along her artistic journey. She is a visual artist, creative director, and photographer who loves art and the creative process.
brittanitaylor | thelightfactory.org | @brittani.taylorr
C. Meier, Exhibitions Director, Blue Sky, Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts – Portland, OR
C. (they/them) is a non-binary artist and curator based in Portland, OR. Their art practice explores materiality, reveling in the hybridization of processes, including drawing and photographic methods. They earned their MFA in Photography from Columbia College Chicago (2017) and BFA in Studio Art from Pacific Lutheran University (2004).
Meier has exhibited at Hyde Park Art Center, Mana Contemporary (Chicago), Filter Space, Blue Sky, The Neon Heater, among others, and their work is part of the Permanent Collection of Pacific Lutheran University (Tacoma, WA). Meier co-curated the 2017 exhibition re:collection at the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago (MoCP), and curated the 2023 exhibition Size Matters for Medium Photo, San Diego. Professional roles include Collections Manager/Registrar (2018-2020) at the MoCP, Studio Assistant to Barbara Kasten (2019-2020), and Exhibitions Director (2021 – current), at Blue Sky, Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts.
Camilla Marrese, Visual Editor, PhMuseum — Bologna, Italy
Camilla is a photographer and designer based in Italy. Her practice intersects documentary photography, design for publishing and writing, aiming for the expression and visual articulation of complex issues. She is currently working as a Visual Editor at PhMuseum.
Her work is a finalist for the Luigi Ghirri Award 2024 and the recipient of the PhMuseum Criticae Prize 2022. It has also been exhibited in collective exhibitions at Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven, Fotografia Europea, Reggio Emilia, Espaço Alto, San Paolo, PhMuseum Lab, Bologna, Spazio MAD Magadino, Locarno, and Kranj Foto Fest, Slovenia. She graduated from MA Information Design at Design Academy Eindhoven after a BA in Graphic Design and Visual Communication from ISIA Urbino.
www.camillamarrese.it | PhMuseum | @camillamarrese
Conor Moynihan, Associate Curator, RISD Museum — Providence, RI
Conor is the Acting Department Head and Associate Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs at the RISD Museum. He focuses on the modern and contemporary collection, with a particular research interest in identity-based practices. Moynihan also serves as the chair of the Accessibility SEI Task Force and a co-founding member of the LGBTQIA2S+ Working Group. Moynihan’s recent exhibitions at the RISD Museum include Perception and Presence in Contemporary Drawing (2022), Variance: Making, Unmaking, and Remaking Disability (2022), and The Performative Self-Portrait (2023. He is currently working with Christina Alderman to help the young artists and art enthusiasts of RISD Art Circle to curate a permanent collection exhibition from a teen perspective in Spring 2024.
Danny Sanchez, Associate Director, Themes+Projects Gallery – San Francisco, CA
Danny is the associate director at Themes+Projects gallery (formally Modernbook). Since 2006, he has helped to cultivate the fine art careers of the gallery’s emerging talent in topics such as editing and sequencing, strategic analysis of a body of work for the current marketplace, pricing and editioning, etc. Outside the gallery, he had the pleasure of being a reviewer for Review Santa Fe, Medium Photo, and PhotoAlliance; he was invited to guest curate for the San Francisco Art Dealer’s Association and participated as a panelist for the San Francisco Artist Network. Sanchez is a Bay Area native and earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography from San Jose State University.
themes+projects.com | @themesandprojects
Donna Garcia, Director, Education & Programs, Griffin Museum — Boston, MA
Donna is a lens-based artist, curator, educator, podcaster, and arts advocate. Best known for her conceptual self-portraiture and uncanny noir style, her work explores the performative potential of the medium of photography as well as the idea of how we exist within liminal space. She is a contributing editor for LENSCRATCH, co-host/co-founder of the Modern Art and Culture Podcast, she has taught workshops and been a portfolio reviewer nationally, and has been an editorial/assignment photographer, creating work for international fashion brands to legacy environmental conservation publications.
She is the former co-owner of the Garcia Wilburn Gallery and the former Executive Director of the Atlanta Photography Group and Gallery. In addition, as Regional Marketing and Creative Director at Ogilvy in NYC, she developed, managed, and executed major art installations/programming around Art Base Miami, Flux Nights Atlanta, Art Nights DC, James Bond’s Skyfall, Coachella, Ultra Miami, World Cup, South Beach Food and Wine Festival, The Latin Grammys, and the Oscars.
donnagarcia.com | Griffin Museum | @donnagarcia23
Draženka Jalšić, Senior Curator, Koprivnica Museum — Croatia
Draženka is a Senior Curator at Koprivnica Museum, where she curates the museum’s art collections. She emphasizes graphic design, photography, and printing processes. She writes articles, critics, essays, and reviews on photography, the anthropology of photography, and visual communication. She writes on photography in professional and specialized magazines, portals, and online editions. Exhibition and portfolio reviews, essays, and selections on photography were in specialized websites and magazines in Europe and America. She is a member of the jury and photo curator in the Culture in Focus Annual Competition, the biennial of fine art photography Vizura, and the biennial of applied and commercial photography ProART.
www.muzej-koprivnica.hr | @djalsic
Elizabeth Avedon, Independent Curator + Photo Consultant — New York
Elizabeth is an independent curator and photo consultant, often contributing to L’Oeil de la Photographie. Former director of Photo-eye Gallery and Creative Director for the Gere Foundation, Elizabeth has received recognition for her curatorial work, exhibition design, and publishing projects, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art; the Amon Carter Museum, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, and Art Institute of Chicago. She’s juried for the Leica Women Foto Project Awards, the Lucie Photo Book Awards and the Prix Carmignac Fondation Photojournalism Award in Paris. In 2017, Elizabeth received a “Lifetime Achievement Award” from the Griffin Museum of Photography.
elizabethavedon.com | @elizabethavedon
Federico Estol, Artistic Director, San José Foto Festival – Uruguay
Federico is a Uruguayan photographer and artist. He works as a visual storyteller producing stories in Latin America; his long-term projects focus on the relationship between cultural identity, inequality, and social justice. In addition, he is the artistic director of the international festival SAN JOSÉ FOTO and editor of photobooks at El Ministerio Ediciones. He is represented by the East Wing Gallery.
Estol holds a bachelor’s degree in photography from UPC-Barcelona Tech University and a degree in popular education from MFAL Franciscan Multiversity. His awards include the Emergentes award at Encontros da Imagem festival (Portugal), IILA-FOTOGRAFIA award (Italy), Critical Mass Top 50 Finalist (USA), FELIFA best International photobook award (Argentina), Jury award at Lenzburg Photofestival (Switzerland), Latin American photobook award from Montevideo Center of Photography (Uruguay) and Expert Award of the Lishui Photography Museum (China).
sanjosefoto.uy | federicoestol.com
Gail Fletcher, Photo Editor, The Guardian – New York
Gail is a Photo Editor at The Guardian, where she develops and produces visual stories. She is on faculty at the International Center of Photography and was previously an Associate Photo Editor at National Geographic. She is originally from South Florida and holds a bachelor’s degree in history and government from Cornell University.
George Nobechi, Creative Director, Karuizawa Foto Fest – Japan
George is the Creative Director of Karuizawa Foto Fest (KFF), a new, primarily outdoor photography festival based in the mountains of Nagano Prefecture, Japan, now in its second year. The festival maintains a strong domestic presence of emerging photographers but also welcomes select, accomplished international artists to speak, exhibit, and teach during the festival.
He is also the Director of Nobechi Creative, which produces workshops, events, and exhibitions throughout Japan and online, among them Evenings with the Masters®, a pandemic-era online talk series featuring international photographic masters. Nobechi is also a two-time Critical Mass Top 50 recipient (2017 and 2021) and has 15 solo exhibitions to his name. In 2024, the Embassy of Canada invited him to Japan to exhibit at the Prince Takamado Gallery in commemoration of 95 years of Canadian-Japanese foreign relations. He will also be exhibiting as part of a group show, “Wonder Mt. Fuji,” at the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum in the summer of 2024.
karuizawafotofest.jp | georgenobechi.com
Lia J. Latty, Founder, Black Is Magazine — Baltimore, MD
Lia is a photographer who strives to connect with others to share their voices as a collective and initiate dialogue about social issues. Her work has been exhibited in Baltimore, New York, and at MICA, where she recently received her BFA. Lia is also the founder of Black Is, a publication that publishes the stories and work of Black photographers worldwide. Black Is is dedicated to creating a platform to showcase Black photographers whose work speaks to the diversity of Black communities and Black people. The magazine acts as a place of discussion and an archival platform, keeping a database of all the Black photographers they interview/share their work.
Zsolt Batori, Director, PH21 Gallery — Budapest, Hungary
After earning his PhD in Philosophy from Rutgers University, Zsolt has taught and conducted research at universities in Hungary, the USA, Argentina, and Spain. As a photographer, he has exhibited his work internationally. Zsolt’s primary area of research is the philosophy of art and aesthetics, particularly focusing on the philosophy and theory of photography. He is a member of Phrónesis, an Analytic Philosophy Group, and ARESMUR, an Aesthetics and Theory of Art Group at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Murcia. Currently, Zsolt is also a senior visitor at Logos, Research Group in Analytic Philosophy, University of Barcelona.
Zsolt is the founder, director, and curator of PH21 Gallery. For over a decade, PH21 Gallery has been organizing group and solo exhibitions for photographers internationally in Budapest and collaborating with galleries in Barcelona, Jersey City, and Rome.
ph21gallery.com | zsoltbatori.com
*Photolucida’s Program Director, Polly Gaillard, will also be on the prescreening team.
2024 Critical Mass Jurors – More Coming Soon!
Alessandra Capodacqua, Creative Consultant + Lecturer + Mentor + Curator
Alex Harris, Photographer + Writer + Founder, Duke Center for Documentary Studies
Alexa Becker, Photography Coach + Publishing Consultant
Alexa Dilworth, Independent Editor + Writer (former Publishing Director and Senior Editor, Duke Center for Documentary Studies)
Alexis Marceaux, Director of Community Programming, Friends of the Lafitte Greenway
Alice Shaw, Artist + Educator
Aline Smithson, Founder + Editor, LENSCRATCH
Alison Nordström, Independent Scholar + Curator of Photographs
Allie Haeusslein, Director, Pier 24 Photography
Allison Retina Stewart, Art Director + Photo Editor + Free Juice Founder
Ally Cirelli, Curatorial Assistant, Modern & Contemporary Art, Harvard Art Museums
Amanda Smith, A Smith Gallery, Gallery Director
Andrea Wise, Visual Strategy Editor, ProPublica
Andrew Fedynak, Publisher + Designer, Zatara Press
Anette Skuggedal, Founder, Lumina Gallery
Ángel Luis González Fernández, Director, PhotoIreland
Angela Bryant, Director, Rose Gallery
Ângela Ferreira, Artistic Director, PhotoFestival Encontros, Portugal
Ann Jastrab, Executive Director, Center for Photographic Art
Anna Alexander, Director of Photography, WIRED
Anne Kelly, Gallery Manager, El Zaguan
Anne Massoni, Executive Director, Houston Center for Photography
*Arianna Rinaldo, Independent Curator + Photo Editor + Photo Consultant
Arthur Ollman, Independent Curator, Founding Director, Museum of Photographic Arts
Aurélie Jouan, Independent Visual Curator
Barbara Stauss, Photo Editor + Curator, Berlin
Barbara Tannenbaum, Curator of Photography, Cleveland Museum of Art
Blue Mitchell, Publisher, One Twelve Publishing
Bree Lamb, Managing Editor, Fraction Magazine
Brian Holcombe, Curator, Moss Arts Center at Virginia Tech
*Brittani Taylor, Exhibitions Director, The Light Factory
Brooks Jensen, Editor, LensWork
*C. Meier, Exhibition Director, Blue Sky, Blue Sky, the Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts
Caitlin Clay, Curator of Exhibitions, Art Museum of Southeast Texas
Caleb Cain Marcus, Design Director, Luminosity Lab, New York
* Camilla Marrese, Visual Editor, PhMuseum, Bologna, Italy
Caterina Mestrovich, Independent Curator
Catherine Couturier, Founder + Director, Catherine Couturier Gallery
Catlin Langford, Curator, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
Chloe Coleman, Foreign Photo Editor, The Washington Post
Claire Sykes, Partner + Curator, Circuit Gallery, Toronto
Colin Pantall, Artist + Writer + Educator, UK
*Conor Moynihan, Assistant Curator, RISD Museum
Crista Dix, Executive Director, Griffin Museum of Photography
Daniel George, Submissions Editor, Lenscratch
Daniel Milnor, Artist + Educator + Blurb Evangelist
*Danny Sanchez, Associate Director, Themes+Projects Gallery
Darren Ching, Co-Founder, Klompching Gallery
David Clifton-Strawn, Executive Director, Atlanta Photography Group
Debra Klomp Ching, Co-Founder, Klompching Gallery
Denise Froehlich, Director + Curator, Maine Museum of Photographic Art
Dennis Keeley, Artist + Educator
Dina Mitrani, Founding Director, Dina Mitrani Gallery – Miami
Donna Cosentino, Director, The Photographer’s Eye
* Donna Garcia , Director, Education & Programs, Griffin Museum
Douglas McCulloh, Senior Curator + Interim Executive Director, UCR ARTS: California Museum of Photography
*Drazenka Jalsic, Senior Curator, Koprivnica Museum – Croatia
Dustin Drankoski, Independent Creative Director
Eirini Alexandrou, Independent Curator, Amsterdam
Eli Yung, Assistant Curator, Fitchburg Art Museum
Elin Spring, Founding Editor, What Will You Remember
*Elizabeth Avedon, Independent Curator + Photo Consultant
Elizabeth Greenberg, Arnold & Augusta Newman Provost, Maine Media
Emi Kawashima, Editor, Shashin Hihyou Magazine
Emma Cecilia García Krinsky, Independent Curator + Author + Historian
Erin Barnett, Art Historian + Curator + Writer, School of Visual Arts
Erin Hoyt Harris, Executive Director, Filter Photo
*Federico Estol, Artistic Director, San José Foto Festival – Uruguay
Frances Jakubek, Independent Consultant
Frank Meo, Director, Projections
*Gail Fletcher, Photo Editor, The Guardian
*George Nobechi, Creative Director, Karuizawa Foto Fest
Gerald Slota, Artist + Educator
Gordon Stettinius, Director, Candela Books + Gallery
Gregory Eddi Jones, Director, Eddi Jones Projects
Guo Jing, Chief Art Director, Shangtuf Image and Art
Harri Pälviranta, Artist + Curator + Educator, Finland
Harris Fogel, Curator + Artist + Writer + The Photo Review
Heidi Erdmann Rasch, Independent Curator + Art Historian + Founder of the Photographers Gallery ZA in Cape Town, South Africa
Holly Lynton, Artist + Educator
J. Sybylla Smith, Independent Curator, Educator + Consultant
Jackson Siegal, Associate Director, ClampArt
James Barker, Director, PhotoPlace Gallery
Jeff Moorfoot, Editor and publisher of BETA developments in photography
Jen Schmitz, Artist Representative, RedEye Represents
Jennifer DeCarlo, jdc Fine Art
Jennifer Murray, Curator + Museum Manager, 21c Museum Hotel, Chicago
Jens Friis, Photo Art Historian + Publisher, KATALOG – Journal of Photography & Video
Jessica Burko, Creative Director, Photographic Resource Center
Joanne Junga Yang, Director, Korea International Photo Festival
Jon Feinstein, Co-Founder and Co-Curatorial Director, Humble Arts Foundation
Jonathan Blaustein, Founder + Director, Antidote Photo Retreat
Jonathan Hobin, Creative Director, SPAO Photographic Arts Centre
John Jenkins, Publisher, Decode Books
Judy Walgren, Founder + Editorial Director, JujuPhoto
Karen Haas, Lane Curator of Photographs, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Kari Wehrs, Photography Program Chair, Maine Media
Kristin Taylor, Curator of Academic Programs + Collections. Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College
Kyohei Abe, Director + Chief Curator, Detroit Center for Contemporary Photography
Leslie K. Brown, PhD., Independent Curator + Scholar + Educator
*Lia J. Latty, Founder, Black Is Magazine
Lisa Cates, Director, New Orleans Photo Alliance
Lisa Woodward, Curator, Pictura Gallery
Louie Palu, Photographer + Founder,, Archive 192
Luca Desienna, Editor, Gomma Books/Gomma Grant
Maarten Schilt, Founder, Schilt Publishing
Madeline Yale Preston, Photography Specialist + Arts Advisor
Mana Mehrabian and Krista Brand, Founders + Curators, Side x Side Contemporary
Manolis Moresopoulos, Artistic Director, Athens Photo Festival
Manual Sigrist, Head of Programming, Photo Elysée
Margherita Guerra, Director, Fotofestival Lenzburg
Maria Kelly, Assistant Curator of Photography, High Museum of Art
Marieke van der Krabben, Executive Director, Saint Petersburg Month of Photography (SPMOP) + Lumen Photo Fest
Mark Alice Durant, Founding Editor, Saint Lucy Books
Mark Sink, Founding Director, Month of Photography, Denver
Mary Anne Redding, Curator, Turchin Center for Visual Arts
Mary Bisbee-Beek, Owner + Director, READ/SEE!
Mary Stanley, Independent Curator
Meghan Jordan, Curator, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Melanie McWhorter, Independent Photography Consultant
Melanie Prapopoulos, Founder, The Contemporary Art Modern Project Gallery, Miami
Michael Itkoff, Co-founder, Daylight Books
Michael Kirchoff, Editor, Analog Forever Magazine
Michael Pannier, Executive Director, The Southeast Center for Photography
Michelle Dunn Marsh, Founder, Minor Matters Books
Molly Roberts, Independent Visuals Editor + Curator
Nancy Farese, Founder, Catchlight
Osaze Efe, Founder + Director, Abuja Photo Festival (Nigeria)
Paloma Shutes, Photo Editor
Paris Chong, Manager + Curator, Leica Gallery
Pascale Georgiev, Publisher + Editorial Director, Atelier Editions
Paul Kopeikin, Founder, Kopeikin Gallery
Paula Tognarelli, Independent Curator + Collector
Peggy Sue Amison, Artistic Director, East Wing, Dubai UAE
Peter M. Krask, Creative Director + Photolucida Board
Phillip Prodger, Executive Director, Curatorial Exhibitions at Curatorial, Inc.
*Polly Gaillard, Program Director, Photolucida
Rachael NusBaum, Photo Editor + Photolucida Board
Regina Anzenberger, Founder, AnzenbergerGallery, Austria
Richard Renaldi, Artist + Educator
Rodrigo Orrantia Gomez, Photography Historian + Curator
Rotem Rozental, Executive Director, Los Angeles Center for Photography
Sage Paisner, Executive Director, Foto Forum Santa Fe
Samantha Johnston, Executive Director + Curator, Colorado Photographic Arts Center
Sandee McGee, Assistant Manager, Simi Valley Cultural Arts Center
Sarah Kobos, Senior Photo Research Coordinator, The Tonight Show
Sarah Leen, Founder + Editor, Visual Thinking Collective
Shana Lopes, PhD, Assistant Curator of Photography, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Sharon Lavier O’Keefe, Director, Camerawork Gallery
Sherri Littlefield, Independent Curator + Director, Treat Gallery
Sophie Barner, Assistant Curator + Gallery Manager, Center for Exploratory & Perceptual Arts
Stephanie Heimann, Photo Director, The New Republic
Stephen Perloff, Founder + Editor, The Photo Review
Steven Benson, Photographer + Educator + Independent Curator
Stu Levy, Portland Art Museum Photo Council, Photolucida Board
Susan Burnstine, Columnist + Contributor, Black and White Photography Magazine, UK
Susie Morrill, Chairperson, Photography at Oregon Gallery Committee
Thomas Werner, Author + Creative Consultant + Educator
Tiffany Jones, Founder, Overlapse Books
Tina Schelhorn, Independent Curator
Tomasz Trzebiatowski, Editor + Founder, Frames Magazine
Tracey Woods, Director of Photography + Creative Consultant + Producer, The Luupe
Ute Noll, Owner + Curator + Editor, Uno Art Space + Ute Noll Visual Projects
Veronica Nicolardi, Director, Cortona On The Move + Co-Director, Yeast Photo Festival + Co-founder, OTM Gallery
Whitney Wernick, Programs Manager, Center Santa Fe
Willie Osterman, Artist + Educator
Yoav Friedlander + Dana Sterling, Founding Editors, Float Magazine
Yuko Yamaji, Curator, Kiyosato Museum of Photography
Zan Zeller, Assistant Director, Koslov Larsen Gallery
* Zsolt Batori, Director, PH21 Gallery – Budapest
*Pre-screening jurors
