Dragana Vujanovic is a curator at the Hasselblad Foundation in Gothenburg. Some of the exhibitions she has curated are William Eggleston ”Paris”, Tova Mozard ”Thunder & Oblivion”, Tuija Lindström ”A Dream if Ever There Was One”, Paul Graham ”Hasselblad Award 2012” and most recently Taryn Simon ”An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar”. Dragana is specialized in photography and contemporary art and is often invited to portfolio reviews in Sweden as well as internationally. She can offer professional advice within the field of contemporary art and documentary photography and would like to meet both younger and established photographers and artists. Besides reviewing finished projects, she is also open to giving constructive and concrete advice on ongoing projects.

Alla Räisänen has been working as a director of Northern Photographic Centre since 1999. She got a PhD from the University of Oulu 1995 in history of ideas and science. As a director of NPC she has curated several photographic exhibitions that have been presented both in Finland and abroad.   Her main interests are contemporary photography, theory of photography and  especially Northern  photography.

Ingrid Fischer Jonge holds a master’s degree in Art History with emphasis on contemporary photography. Ingrid Fischer Jonge established The National Museum of Photography at The Royal Library in Copenhagen, Denmark where she was Head of the museum, Head Cultural Activities and in charge of the Department of Maps, Prints and Photographs from 1994-2007. Since 2007 Ingrid Fischer Jonge is the director of Museet for Fotokunst (The Museum of Photographic Arts) at Brandts in Odense, Denmark. She has curated many exhibitions and has written numerous books and studies.

Julie Saul has owned and directed Julie Saul Gallery since 1986. The gallery specializes in contemporary photographic based art and works on paper. She received a Masters Degree from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University in 1982 and has worked as an independent curator, taught and lectured at a variety of museums and schools including The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York University, Christies, Sotheby’s, and the School of Visual Arts. Her thesis project on Moholy Nagy’s Fotoplastics was published and exhibited at the Bronx Museum of the Arts in 1983. She has participated in numerous portfolio reviews internationally including Santa Fe, Atlanta and Arles. Saul has served on the board of AIPAD (association international photographic art dealers) Art Table (women in leadership positions in the visual arts) and In Motion which provides legal services for need women. Saul was honored by the Aperture Foundation in 2010. The gallery is a member of AIPAD and the ADAA (art dealer’s association of America.) The gallery has been located in Chelsea for a decade following fifteen years in Soho.

María Karen Sigurðardóttir has been Director of the Reykjavík Museum of Photography since 2000. She graduated from the School of Conservation, part of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, in 1995 and earned an MPA (Master of Public Administration) degree from the University of Iceland in 2008. She is a member of the board of the Reykjavik Photo-Festival –Photographers’ Days.

Viveca Ohlsson is a photographer and exhibition curator. She was educated in the documentary tradition at the Nordic Photo School in Stockholm and has been working as a professional since 1987. She has studied art history, visual communication and project management. After a short period as press photographer she has been working as photographer on different museum in the south of Sweden. During 2011 she worked as director and teacher at the photography school for advertising photography in Gamleby. Since 2001 she works at the open air museum Kulturen I Lund. At this museum she mainly works with images for advertising, marketing, books and exhibitions. She also works with historical images collection. Viveca Ohlsson is one of the exhibition curators at the museum, specialized in photography. She has curated exhibition with Andres Serrano, Elisabeth Ohlson Wallin, Lars Tunbjörk, Johns S Webb, Anders Kristensson, Hans Hammarskjöld and right now with Martin Bogren. Viveca Ohlsson has shown her own photographic works in several exhibition and books and has received a number ofscholarships. She can offer professional advice within the field of documentary and reportage photography, book and exhibition projects.

Lena Wilhelmsson is a curator and a photographer at Dunkers kulturhus in Helsingborg. She is educated  in both art history and photography. She expanded photography at Malmö Museer during 1983-1998 and created the photographic department as a central service unit at the museum from studio and documentary photography to digitalization and caring for the collections as well as participation in and curating of exhibitions. Since 1998 she is working at Dunkers and has curated both exhibitions in the field of photography, art, design and cultural history. Among several photographic exhibitions: Sally Mann, Nick Brandt, Cooper & Gorfer, Gunnar Smoliansky, Lennart Nilsson, Zed Nelson, Martin Bogren, Ewa-Mari Johansson, John S Webb, Lars Bygdemark, Zed Nelson, Björn Abelin, Anna Clarén and Linda Forsell. She is also producing multimedia applications and working as a freelance photographer, consultant and educator in the field of digitalization and image databases since 1996. Lena Wilhelmsson has shown photography of her own in several exhibitions and books. She is very interested in how to tell a story always with photography as the central medium.

Martijn van den Broek (1968) is an art historian and has been working at the Nederlands Fotomuseum and its predecessor the Netherlands Photo Archives since 1998. He is now head of the collections department and member of the management team. The Nederlands Fotomuseum is the national museum for photography in the Netherlands and is funded by the Ministry of Culture and by the city of Rotterdam. The museum shows ten exhibitions a year, has a restoration department and library. It has a collection of more than four million photographic objects: negatives, prints and documents. The museum keeps the complete archives of 150 Dutch photographers like Ed van der Elsken, Cas Oorthuys and Chas Gerretsen. In contrast to most museums the Fotomuseum also administers the copyright of these photographers. It has an extensive database with scans, which are available for (commercial) use. Income generated is divided between the photographers or their families and the museum.

Nina Gomiashvili is the founder and main curator of the Moscow photography gallery POBEDA, she graduated from Parsons school of design with MFA in Photography and published a few books as practicing photographer. Nina has curated several museum shows, including Michael Kenna retrospective at the Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art and Mikhail Baryshnikov photographic study of Merce Cunningham work at State Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg.  POBEDA gallery’s exhibition program for the past six years has been focused on showing established international and Russian artists as well as young and emerging photographers. The gallery was one of the first in Moscow to introduce public to contemporary photography and bring awareness about it through lecture programs, workshops and other printed educational materials. POBEDA has participated in various international art fairs including Paris Photo, Volta NY and Volta Basel. Gallery has been actively working with international photographic institutions including Fotomuseum Winterthur to promote its young artists programs and initiatives. Nina is particularly interested to see the works of the North European photography school, with both fine art, conceptual and documentary approaches.