Authors Biography:
(in alpahebtical order by countries)

Zef Paci (b. 1963) is a professor of History of Art and Photography in the University of Fine Arts in Tirana. He graduated in Monumental Painting from High Institute of Arts in Tirana and has obtained MA from Center of Albanological Studies, Tirana at the Institute of Studies of Anthropology and Art. He has experience as curator of different solo exhibitions of some known Albanian artists and some international and national artistic events. In 2016 he was the curator of the permanent exhibition of Marubi National Museum of Photography. Author of catalogues and publications on art, image and most on photography: Monography: Marubi, photography as ritual, (2012); MARUBI: The moving lens of an archive, Publication of National Galery of Kosovo (2014). He is a professor of History of Art and Photography in the University of Fine Arts in Tirana.

Walter Moser (b. 1979) is an art historian specialized in photography. He studied in Vienna and Rome. His doctoral thesis was on Film-Stills by Warren Lynch for Erich von Stroheim's Greed. Before 2008, he worked for the Wien Museum. From 2008 to 2011, he was academic assistant in the photography collection of the Austrian Film Museum. Since 2011 he is head of the photographic collection of the Albertina in Vienna. He is curator of exhibitions and author of publications dealing with the history of photography. His exhibition projects include "The Body as Protest" (2012), "Lewis Baltz" (2013), Blow-Up – Antonioni's film classic and photography" (2014), "Lee Miller" (2015), "Provoke" (2016, in cooperation with Fotomuseum Winterthur, Le Bal, Paris and the Art Institute of Chicago), and currently "Film-Stills - Photography between Art, Advertising, and Cinema" (2016).

Inn Reut (b. 1960) is an art historian, critic, curator, journalist, norn in Minsk, living in Warsaw (Poland). She did the PhD Programme in Theory and History of Art (2005) at the Belarusian Academy of Arts (Minsk), University of Manchester (UK); Master of Arts in Cultural Management at the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences; Graduate School for Social Research of Polish Academy of Sciences (Warsaw) - PhD Programme in Sociology. She has worked in Minsk, among other things, as Deputy Head of Exhibitions Department at the State Museum for Modern Art, Art Director for A.B. Contemporary Art Gallery at the Theatre Volnaya scena (Freedom Stage), Zhilbel Art Center, Gallery Vilnius. Between 2007 and 2011, she was teacher at the University of Warsaw. Author of a number scientific publications and texts in art catalogs. Publications, among other, in the European Photographer Guide. Among recent publications, Creative Photography in Belarus, Minsk, Artiya-Grupp, 2014; The Minsk School of Photography, St. Petersburg, ROSPHOTO, 2014; "The Minsk School" or "New Wave"? Belarusian Photography of the 1980s and 90s, Minsk, pARTisan Collection, 2013; My Pick 2003-13, Tenth Anniversary of CEI Venice Forum for Contemporary Art Curators, Trieste Contemporanea, 2013.

Georges Vercheval (b.1934) is the founder and past-director of the Musée de la Photographie at Charleroi. He has been teaching photography and History of Photography since 1962 in different schools, including ENSAAV La Cambre, Brussels. As a photographer, exhibited creative work, mainly from the '60s until the '80s.

Tsvetan Tomchev (b. 1960) is a photojournalist with a 35-year-long active carreer. He teaches Photojournalism at New Bulgarian Univeristy and at Art College in Sofia. The book series "The Big Reportage Photographers of Bulgaria" (2010, 2012) is the result of Tsvetan's researches on the history of photojournalism in Bulgaria of many years. Documentary filmmaking also falls in his field of interest, being co-author of 6 films. His foundation "BG Press Photo" organizes the annual homonymous pressphoto contest and exhibition of Bulgarian photojournalism since 2002. Tsvetan Tomchev is the photo editor at Trud national newspaper and director of Sofia Photo Fest.

Iva Prosoli (b. 1980) is the Senior Curator, Head of Collection of Zagreb photojournalists, Zagreb City Museum. Since 2010/11 she is a Lecturer at the Academy of Dramatic Arts, Zagreb (Course: Photography and art practices since 1960). In 2014 she started her PhD on Department of Art History, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Zagreb, Croatia. Prosoli curated many exhibitons of mainly Croatian photography at home and abroad. She publishes texts on photography.

Vladimír Birgus (b.1954) is the of the Institut of Creative Photography of Silesian University in Opava since 1990. During the year os 1978 – 2005 he was teaching at the Department
of photography at FAMU in Prague. He is a photographer and the curator and co-curator of many large exposures on Czech photography world-wide. He is also author and co-writer of many books on Czech photography.

Jan Mlčoch (b.1953) has been the artistic head of photography gallery of Josef Sudek since 1995. As an active artist he cooperated with the group of Czech conceptual artists: Karel
Miler, Petr Štembera and Jiří Kovanda during 1974 – 1980. He was involved in the process of collection funds preservation. He organized many photography exhibitions in the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague, where he works, as well as in museums and galleries in Czech Republic and abroad.

Jens Friis (b. 1960) holds an MA in Art History with focus on photographic art. From 2003-2016, he was curator of the photographic collection at Museet for Fotokunst in Odense as well as the artistic co-director of the Danish photo festival FotoTriennale.dk initiated by the same museum. During this period he also served as editor-in-chief of the magazine KATALOG – Journal of Photography & Video supported and published by the museum. Now in its 27th successful year, KATALOG is independent with Jens Friis as publisher. Furthermore, since 2016, Friis works as a freelance curator, reviewer, lecturer and author. He has written numerous articles for the magazine KATALOG and has contributed to the encyclopaedia Dansk Fotografi Historie (Danish Photographic History) published in 2004. Previously, he has been an active member of the committee of Gallery Image in Aarhus and for a number of years he worked for a commercial gallery, Hamiltons, in London selling photographic art. Jens Friis is a member of AICA International, ICOM and Oracle and serves on several international award committees as well as the advisory board of the Spanish magazine EXIT.

Karin Bareman (b. 1982) is exhibitions and projects organiser at Autograph ABP as well as an independent writer, moderator and curator in photography based in London. Her articles have appeared in Camera Austria Magazine, Foam Magazine, Unseen Magazine, Of the Afternoon Magazine, EXTRA Magazine and have been published on American Suburb X, Photoworks, and Potaatoo. She previously worked as assistant curator at Foam, the photography museum in Amsterdam. In 2016 she was awarded the Transfer North Fellowship for a residency at the Photographic Centre, Oulu Finland, and in 2015 the Milton Rogovin Research Fellowship from the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, Arizona for her forthcoming research into the photographic representation of Appalachia. She obtained an MA in Cultural Anthropology from the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam and a subsequent MA in Visual Anthropology from the University of Manchester.

Peeter Linnap (b. 1960) is a theorist and historian of visual culture and photography. Full time professor and photography department leader of Tartu Art College, Estonia. As a researcher his articles have been published by Springer, Intellect ao academic publishers. As an artist his work has been shown in Europe, U.S and Latin America. Linnap is a member of IAVS/AISV, AICA, FIPRESCI, Estonian Semiotic Society ao organizations. As a curator he has produced Saaremaa Biennials (1992, 1995 and 1997) and touring shows of contemporary Baltic photography „Borderlands" 1993 (UK), „Out of the Shadow" 1998 USA.

Elina Heikka (b. 1959) is Museum Director at The Finnish Museum of Photography in Helsinki .She was editor and editor-in-chief in Valokuva – Finnish Photography magazine from 1994 to1998. After that she worked as a researcher at the Finnish Museum of Photography and as a special researcher at the National Gallery / Central Art Archives from 2001 to 2007. She has published widely on contemporary photography, history of Finnish photography and visual culture.

Anna-Kaisa Rastenberger, PhD, (b. 1971) is a Professor of Exhibition Studies and Spatiality at the Academy of Fine Arts of the University of the Arts Helsinki. 2009–2016 she has worked as the Chief Curator at The Finnish Museum of Photography. Rastenberger is an artistic director and co-founder of 'The Festival of Political Photography'. Previously she was engaged as a researcher in the Academy of Finland's project (2005–2009). She worked as an educational curator at The Helsinki Art Museum (2002–2005) and the editor-in-chief of KUVA – the magazine of visual culture (1998–2000). Her special interests are new forms of photography as contemporary art, exhibition as critical practice, art and society, feminism and digital environments.

Pierre-Jean Amar (b. 1947) is a Frrench photographer. He committed his first 15 years of his work to landscapes, still life and interios and later he started making portraits and female nudes, publishing a book in 1990 entitled "Nudes". Parallel to his career as a photographer, for the past 18 years, he has taught the History of Photography at the University of Provence. He has edited numerous books on the subject and also organised training courses, workshops and conferences in the art of photography. At the moment he is working on a book of memories about Les Rencontres d'Arles since 1974 to 1990. Since 1965, he has presented his work at over 150 exhibitions in France and abroad.

T. O. Immisch (b. 1953) has run the collection of photographs at the Kunstmuseum Moritzburg in Halle (Saale) since 1987. He studied psychology and art history in Berlin and Halle. He has written and edited publications on New Vision photography, GDR photography and contemporary international photo art.

Boris von Brauchitsch (b. 1963) is a photographer, art historian and curator. He is the author of biographies (Leonardo, Michelangelo, Caravaggio, Lesser Ury, Gabriele Münter), fiction (Alles wahr, Im tiefen Tal der Todeskralle, documentale) and essays on photography (9, I don't like white, Kleine Geschichte der Fotografie).

Colin Pantall (b. 1963) is a writer, lecturer and photographer based in Bath, England. His photographic work focusses on his immediate domestic environment. He writes for a range of publications and organisations including Photo-Eye, The British Journal of Photography, Foam, and Magnum Photos, and writes for his blog, Colin Pantall's Blog. He is also on the editorial and artistic committees of Photobook Bristol and Gazebook Sicily Festivals. Pantall currently works as a Senior Lecturer on the Documentary Photography Course at the University of South Wales in Cardiff.

Costis Antoniadis (b. 1949) studied Physics and subsequently photography at the Institut Francais de la Photographie in Paris. He is a founding member of the Photography Centre of Athens and in 1985 was appointed Professor at the Department of Photography at TEI Athens. For many years, he has been working as curator and organizer of numerous exhibitions. In 2003 he was appointed as Director of the Museum of Photography at Thessalonica. He also exhibits in Greece and abroad, and many of his works feature in individual and national collections.

Gabriella Csizek after completing her studies in art theory and cultural anthropology, started working for the Hungarian Museum of Photography. Currently she is the curator of the Hungarian House of Photography. Her main field of interest is contemporary photography and the connecting interdisciplinary areas. Csizek participates in the selection and editing of photographic material for exhibitions and books, and her name is closely associated with the "Folyamatos Jelen" ("Continuous Present") exhibition and catalogue series.

Kata Balázs (b. 1981) graduated in Art History and Hungarian Literature and Linguistics at Eötvös Lorand University, Budapest. She studied and conducted various research projects in Poland, the United Kingdom and Italy. Her main interest is Modern and Contemporary Art as well as Photography. Currently she is working on her PhD.

Æsa Sigurjónsdóttir (b. 1959) is an Associate Professor in art theory and visual culture at the University of Iceland and a curator based in Paris and Reykjavik. She has organized and participated in numerous national and international curatorial projects with Icelandic and European institutions. Her most recent publications comprise of a number of solo articles and co-authored books and chapters, including "New Maps for Networks: Reykjavik FLUXUS– A Case of Connections." In Martha Langford (eds.) Narratives Unfolding: National Art Histories in an Unfinished World. Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press (2016); "Outsides and insides of the exhibition Trout Fishing in America and Other stories." In Snæbjörnsdóttir/Wilson, You Must Carry Me Now- The Cultural Lives of Endangered Species. Phoenix: Arizona State University Art Museum (2015).

Justin Carville (b. 1970) is Lecturer in Historical & Theoretical Studies in Photography and is Chair of the Photography Programme at the Institute of Art, Design & Technology, Dun Laoghaire. He is a former Government of Ireland Research Fellow in the Humanities and Social Sciences and is the author of Photography & Ireland (Reaktion: 2011) and Visualizing Dublin: Visual Culture, Modernity and the Representation of Urban Space (Peter Lang, 2013).

Gigliola Foschi (b. 1951) lives and works in Milan (Italy). She is an art critic and historian of photography. For 15 years she has written for the cultural pages of the daily "L'Unità" and she has collaborated with various magazines such as "Camera Austria","Photo Italia", "Zoom", "Abitare", "Gente di Fotografia". She is teacher of History of Photography at the Istituto Italiano di Fotografia in Milan and member of the MIA (Milan Image Art Fair) advisory committee. As an indipendent curator she has organized several exhibitions and she has collaborated for the Modern Art Gallery Collection Lercaro (Bologna); the Gallery San Fedele (Milano); the European Photographic Festival (Reggio Emilia). She has also written texts for several catalogue and books. Her latest book is: Fotografie del silenzio. Forme inquiete del vedere (Pictures of Silence. Restless ways of seeing), Mimesis, Milano, 2015.

Alise Tifentale (b. ) is art and photography historian and PhD candidate in art history at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Tifentale is the author of Photography as Art in Latvia, 1960-1969 (2011) and co-curator of the Pavilion of Latvia at the 55th Venice Art Biennale (2013). She is the founder and editor-in-chief of photography magazine Foto Kvartals (2006-2010). Her articles have appeared in journals such as Networking Knowledge, CAA.Reviews, Art Margins, Russian Art & Culture, and others. Tifentale is a co-author of research projects about photography in social media such as Selfiecity (2014) and The Exceptional and the Everyday: 144 hours in Kyiv (2014).

Agnė Narušytė (b.1970), is an art critic and historian of photography, Head of the Art History and Theory Department at the Vilnius Academy of Arts, curator and researcher of contemporary photography.

Margarita Matulytė (b.1961) is a historian of photography and expert, Curator and Researcher of the Historical Photography Collection at the Lithuanian Art Museum, Lecturer of Visual Journalism at The Institute of Journalism of Vilnius University.

Paul di Felice (b. 1953) lives and works in Luxembourg. Doctor of Visual Arts, Paul di Felice is Senior Lecturer in Art History and Art Pedagogy and Deputy Head of the Institute of Romance Studies, Media and Arts at the University of Luxembourg. His field of research is re-presentation and de-construction in contemporary photography. He also works as an art critic and as an independent curator of international contemporary photography exhibitions. He is an active member of AICA and co-organizes the European Month of Photography in Luxembourg. Since 1984, he is co-editor and co-publisher of Café-Crème edition, an international art and photography magazine and edition. He has been frequently invited as a curator to international photography meetings and as a jury member for exhibitions and contemporary art biennials. Since 2016, he is Vice-President of the Administration Board of Mudam (Museum of Modern Art Luxembourg).

Françoise Poos (b. 1964) holds a Ph.D. in Visual Culture from De Montfort University, Leicester (UK). Her particular focus is on photography, archives and museums, memory and identity. She is a reseacrh associate at the University of Luxembourg and currently investigates the role of photography in promoting the image of the steel industry in Luxembourg and in shaping the country's identity in the framework of the research project Fabricating Modern Societies: Industries of Reform as Educational Responses to Societal Changes.

Tudor Stavila is the Director of the Study Center of Arts of Institute of Cultural Heritage of Academy of Sciences of Moldova. He presented the art from Moldova in Kiev (1998), Bucharest (2002, 2005.2009, 2010, 2011), Cluj (2002, 2003), Alba Iulia (2002) Strasbourg (2001), Osnabrück (2005). he is the author of published about 120 scientific publications in Chisinau, Moscow, Bucharest and Cluj, Strasbourg, Osnabruk and Sofia covered issues of history and theory of medieval and modern arts in Moldova and its interference with European arts. Coordinates activities within the PhD ASM 7 doctoral thesis arguing in arts specialty - Visual Arts. The author of 12 monographs on national arts and interference with regional and European art.

Christine Hansen (b. 1969) is a Norwegian photographer and art historian (PhD). She is the author of numerous articles on photography's role in contemporary art, realism and documentary. In addition to an active career as artist she has recently curated the exhibitions Crystals of Dust. An Exhibition about dementia and Alzheimer at Gallery F15 (2015) and Slow Pictures. Photography in Contemporary art at Lillehammer Art Museum (2016). Hansen is artistic research leader and associate professor in photography at Bergen Academy of Art and Design.

Sigrid Lien (b. 1958) is professor in art history and photography studies at the University of Bergen, Norway. Project leader for the Norwegian team in the HERA-project PhotoClec (Museums, Colonial past and Photography) 2010-2012, head of "Negotiating History: Photography in Sámi Culture», funded by the Norwegian Research Council (2014-2017). Has published extensively on nineteenth century as well as modern and contemporary photography in a Norwegian context.

Adam Mazur Phd (b.1977) assistant professor at the Artistic University in Poznan. In years 2002-2013 worked at the Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw and curated several exhibitions such as "New Documentary" (2006), "Red-Eye Effect" (2008), "Missing Documents. Photographs of Polish Transformation After 1989" (2012) to list only major group shows. Published books "Histories of Photography in Poland 1839-2009" (2010), "New Phenomena in Polish Photography after 2000" (2012), "Depth of Field. Essays on Polish Photography After 1945" (2014).

Emilia Tavares (b.1964) is a senior curator (photography and new media) at the National Museum of Contemporary Art- Museu do Chiado, Lisbon, as well as a researcher and art critic. MA in Art History (Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities at the University Nova of Lisbon. She was published several studies about Portuguese photography and visual culture, and as curator have produced several exhibitions, including the Portuguese representation at Photo España Festival (2009 and 2010) She publishes regularly in specialized newspapers, magazines and catalogues, and frequently gives lectures in cultural and educational institutions.

Ruxandra Balaci (b.1965) is an art critic and curator. From 2002 to 2014 she is the founder Artistic Director of the Museum of Contemporay Art/MNAC in Bucharest. Former founder and Head Department Contemporary Art at the National Museum of Art in Bucharest (1995-2000), co-director of Artelier magazine Bucharest(1998-2004) and co-founder and Director of GAD photogallery (1992-2002). She contributes to international catalogues, curated more than 50 exhibitions and publication on visual culture. She was the curator for "Bucharest nach 89" – Ludwig Forum Aachen, 1996; commissioner of the Romanian pavilion at the 49 Biennale di Venezia, 2001 and co-curator in In Den Schluchten des Balkans – 2003, Fridericianum, Kassel; Transit Project-NOW Here Europe - Fondazione Olivetti/51 Biennale di Venezia, 2005. Currently writing books: "My subjective memories over arts and facts." and "Romanian contemporary Photography and the Visual Arts".

Evgeny Berezner (b.1951) is the Head of the PhotoVisa International Photo Festival in Krasnodar. Since 2003 he has been Deputy Director in charge of Photographic and Multimedia Projects of Moscow Museum of Modern Art. Since 2008 he has been Deputy Director General in charge of Photographic and Multimedia Projects of ROSIZO State Museum and Exhibition Centre of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation. Since 2011 he has been the Head of Project "In Support for Photography in Russia", IRIS Foundation, Moscow. He has published in Russian and foreign magazines, photography album and books. He has curated over 250 exhibitions of contemporary and classical Russian and foreign photography held in Russia and other countries and is one of the three Russian curators of the main exhibition program of International Biennial of Photography FotoFest 2012 in Houston, Texas, USA.

Irina Сhmyreva (b.1974), PhD., is the head researcher in State Institute for Theory and History of Fine Arts of the Russian Academy of Arts in Moscow. She is also co-founder and art-director of PhotoVisa, the International Festival of Photography in Krasnodar region (www.photovisa.ru). She is very influenced writer on history of Russian photography, since 2007 she has a monthly column in FOTO&video magazine in Russia, she is an author of the book of Essays on Russian photography of 20th century, she is also writer and photo-editor of such books as Assembling Reality. Two Ways of Life by Rejlander, The Photographic History. Photo heritage from Russian State Archive of Literature and Arts and many others. As a curator she shown dozens of exhibitions of Russian photography, old and contemporary, at FotoFest in Houston, Month of Photography in Bratislava, in art institutions of Europe, Asia, Australia and both American continents. She collaborates with Evgeny Berezner since 1999.

Ivan Manojlović (1978) is a curator and art historian. He is working as a curator of technical and cinematography collection at the Museum of Yugoslav history in Belgrade since 2008. He is author, co-author and project manager of numerous projects and exhibitions focusing on the topics of contemporary photography, history, popular culture, culture of remembrance and reinterpretation of cultural heritage of socialist Yugoslavia: Design for a New World (2015), Red kiosk K67 (2015), Dissonant Heritage (2014), Design Center Belgrade (2013), Technology to the People (2012), The Last Young Yugoslavs (2011), Tito photo (2010). Ivan was also organizer and coordinator of all program activities in Museum of Yugoslav History in the period 2008-2013. In 2009 and 2014 he was a member of team for development of Strategic plan of Museum of Yugoslav History.

Václav Macek (b. 1952) is a professor at the Film Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava. He is the Head of FOTOFO Foundation and the Central European House of Photography and the Director of annual photography festival Month of Photography Bratislava. He is the author and co-author of many books on photography and film.

Miha Colner (b. 1978) is an art historian who works as a curator, publicist, editor and lecturer specialised in photography, artists' moving image and other forms of media art. He is a curator and program coordinator at Photon – Centre for Contemporary Photography (based in Ljubljana and Vienna). Furthermore, since 2005 he has been part-time contributor for number of newspapers, magazines, radio programs, and specialist publications as well as a lecturer. He lives and works in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Alejandro Castellote (b. 1959) From 1985 through 1996 he was director of the Photography Department at the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid, where organized the Festival FOCO (1985-1989). He has been artistic director and founder of PHotoEspaña in Madrid (1998-2000). In 2003 he curated MAPAS ABIERTOS. Fotografía Latinoamericana 1991-2002; C on Cities at the Padiglione Italia in the X Venice Biennale of Architecture, 2006; Festival Getxophoto, Bilbao (2007-2009) and guest curator for Latin America at the Biennale Photoquai (Museum Quai de Branly) 2007-2009, Paris; guest curator at Seoul Photo Fair 2010, South Korea andSingapore International Photography Festival (SIPF) 2012; director of the Daegu Photo Biennale 2014 in South Korea. In 2015 he was chief curator -with Wang Qingsong and François Hebel- of the First ChangJiang International Photography & Video Biennale, Chongqing, China. He is currently director of the Latin American Master of Photography and Visual Arts at the Centro de la Imagen of Lima, Peru.

Jan-Erik Lundström (b. 1958) is a curator, critic and historian of contemporary art. He is the former director of Sami Center of Contemporary Art and of Norrbottens Museum. From 1999 to 2010 he was the director of Bildmuseet. He is the former chairman of Centre for Photography, Stockholm and former director of Fotografiska museet. His latest curatorial projects include Top of the World, Fall Back Spring Forward, Surviving the Future, The Map: Critical Cartographies, Politics of Place and Society Must Be Defended (1st Thessaloniki Biennial of Contemporary Art). He was the chief curator of Berlin Photography Festival, 2005 and the artistic director of the 3rd Bucharest Biennale. He is the author and editor of many books, including Thinking Photography – Using Photography, Nordic Landscapes, Tankar om fotografi, Ursula Biemann: Mission Reports, Looking North: Representations of Sami in Visual Arts and Litterature, and Irving Penn: Photographs. Lundström has contributed to major publications such as Horizons: Towards a Global Africa, The Oxford Companion to the Photograph and The History of European Photography of the 20th Century. Lundström has been a guest professor at, among others, Aalto University, Helsinki, Konstfackskolan and the Royal Art Academy, Stockholm, Malmö Art Academy, HISK, Antwerpen/Gent, University of los Andes, Bogotá, and Oslo Art Academy, Oslo.

Urs Stahel (b. 1953) created with Fotomuseum Winterthur one of the most important places for photography in the world. He has been managing the museum from 1993-2013. Since 2013, he has been the curator for the platform Paris Photo (2014), the Mannheim-Ludwigshafen-Heidelberg Photo Festival (2015), and, on a regular base, for the new center for industrial culture MAST in Bologna. He also works as an author and a lecturer (at the Zurich University of the Arts, the University of Zurich). He is a writer and editor of numerous books, for example, books about Paul Graham, Roni Horn, Rineke Dijkstra, Anders Petersen, Amar Kanwar, Ai Weiwei, Shirana Shahbazi, Boris Mikhailov as well as books on themes such as "Industriebild" ('Pictures of Industry'), "Trade", "The Ecstasy of Things" and "Darkside I + II".

Tatiana Pavlova (b.1955) is an art historian and freelance curator. She is currently working at Art History chair in Kharkiv State Academy of Art and Design and has published several books and articles about Ukrainian photography.

 

 

 

Authors Biography:

(in alpahebtical order by countries)

 

Zef Paci (b. 1963) is a professor of History of Art and Photography in the University of Fine Arts in Tirana. He graduated in Monumental Painting from High Institute of Arts in Tirana and has obtained MA from Center of Albanological Studies, Tirana at the Institute of Studies of Anthropology and Art. He has experience as curator of different solo exhibitions of some known Albanian artists and some international and national artistic events. In 2016 he was the curator of the permanent exhibition of Marubi National Museum of Photography. Author of catalogues and publications on art, image and most on photography: Monography: Marubi, photography as ritual, (2012); MARUBI: The moving lens of an archive, Publication of National Galery of Kosovo (2014). He is a professor of History of Art and Photography in the University of Fine Arts in Tirana.

 

Walter Moser (b. 1979) is an art historian specialized in photography. He studied in Vienna and Rome. His doctoral thesis was on Film-Stills by Warren Lynch for Erich von Stroheim’s Greed. Before 2008, he worked for the Wien Museum. From 2008 to 2011, he was academic assistant in the photography collection of the Austrian Film Museum. Since 2011 he is head of the photographic collection of the Albertina in Vienna. He is curator of exhibitions and author of publications dealing with the history of photography. His exhibition projects include “The Body as Protest” (2012), “Lewis Baltz” (2013), Blow-Up – Antonioni’s film classic and photography” (2014), "Lee Miller" (2015), “Provoke” (2016, in cooperation with Fotomuseum Winterthur, Le Bal, Paris and the Art Institute of Chicago), and currently “Film-Stills - Photography between Art, Advertising, and Cinema” (2016).

 

Inn Reut (b. 1960) is an art historian, critic, curator, journalist, norn in Minsk, living in Warsaw (Poland). She did the PhD Programme in Theory and History of Art (2005) at the Belarusian Academy of Arts (Minsk), University of Manchester (UK); Master of Arts in Cultural Management at the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences; Graduate School for Social Research of Polish Academy of Sciences (Warsaw) - PhD Programme in Sociology. She has worked in Minsk, among other things, as Deputy Head of Exhibitions Department at the State Museum for Modern Art, Art Director for A.B. Contemporary Art Gallery at the Theatre Volnaya scena (Freedom Stage), Zhilbel Art Center, Gallery Vilnius. Between 2007 and 2011, she was teacher at the University of Warsaw. Author of a number scientific publications and texts in art catalogs. Publications, among other, in the European Photographer Guide. Among recent publications, Creative Photography in Belarus, Minsk, Artiya-Grupp, 2014; The Minsk School of Photography, St. Petersburg, ROSPHOTO, 2014; “The Minsk School” or “New Wave”? Belarusian Photography of the 1980s and 90s, Minsk, pARTisan Collection, 2013; My Pick 2003-13, Tenth Anniversary of CEI Venice Forum for Contemporary Art Curators, Trieste Contemporanea, 2013.

 

Georges Vercheval (b.1934) is the founder and past-director of the Musée de la Photographie at Charleroi. He has been teaching photography and History of Photography since 1962 in different schools, including ENSAAV La Cambre, Brussels. As a photographer, exhibited creative work, mainly from the '60s until the '80s.

 

Tsvetan Tomchev (b. 1960) is a photojournalist with a 35-year-long active carreer. He teaches Photojournalism at New Bulgarian Univeristy and at Art College in Sofia. The book series "The Big Reportage Photographers of Bulgaria" (2010, 2012) is the result of Tsvetan's researches on the history of photojournalism in Bulgaria of many years. Documentary filmmaking also falls in his field of interest, being co-author of 6 films. His foundation "BG Press Photo" organizes the annual homonymous pressphoto contest and exhibition of Bulgarian photojournalism since 2002. Tsvetan Tomchev is the photo editor at Trud national newspaper and director of Sofia Photo Fest.

 

Iva Prosoli (b. 1980) is the Senior Curator, Head of Collection of Zagreb photojournalists, Zagreb City Museum. Since 2010/11 she is a Lecturer at the Academy of Dramatic Arts, Zagreb (Course: Photography and art practices since 1960). In 2014 she started her PhD on Department of Art History, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Zagreb, Croatia. Prosoli curated many exhibitons of mainly Croatian photography at home and abroad. She publishes texts on photography.

 

Vladimír Birgus (b.1954) is the of the Institut of Creative Photography of Silesian University in Opava since 1990. During the year os 1978 – 2005 he was teaching at the Department

of photography at FAMU in Prague. He is a photographer and the curator and co-curator of many large exposures on Czech photography world-wide. He is also author and co-writer of

many books on Czech photography.

 

Jan Mlčoch (b.1953) has been the artistic head of photography gallery of Josef Sudek since 1995. As an active artist he cooperated with the group of Czech conceptual artists: Karel

Miler, Petr Štembera and Jiří Kovanda during 1974 – 1980. He was involved in the process of collection funds preservation. He organized many photography exhibitions in the Museum

of Decorative Arts in Prague, where he works, as well as in museums and galleries in Czech Republic and abroad.

 

Jens Friis (b. 1960) holds an MA in Art History with focus on photographic art. From 2003-2016, he was curator of the photographic collection at Museet for Fotokunst in Odense as well as the artistic co-director of the Danish photo festival FotoTriennale.dk initiated by the same museum. During this period he also served as editor-in-chief of the magazine KATALOG – Journal of Photography & Video supported and published by the museum. Now in its 27th successful year, KATALOG is independent with Jens Friis as publisher. Furthermore, since 2016, Friis works as a freelance curator, reviewer, lecturer and author. He has written numerous articles for the magazine KATALOG and has contributed to the encyclopaedia Dansk Fotografi Historie (Danish Photographic History) published in 2004. Previously, he has been an active member of the committee of Gallery Image in Aarhus and for a number of years he worked for a commercial gallery, Hamiltons, in London selling photographic art. Jens Friis is a member of AICA International, ICOM and Oracle and serves on several international award committees as well as the advisory board of the Spanish magazine EXIT.

 

Karin Bareman (b. 1982) is exhibitions and projects organiser at Autograph ABP as well as an independent writer, moderator and curator in photography based in London. Her articles have appeared in Camera Austria Magazine, Foam Magazine, Unseen Magazine, Of the Afternoon Magazine, EXTRA Magazine and have been published on American Suburb X, Photoworks, and Potaatoo. She previously worked as assistant curator at Foam, the photography museum in Amsterdam. In 2016 she was awarded the Transfer North Fellowship for a residency at the Photographic Centre, Oulu Finland, and in 2015 the Milton Rogovin Research Fellowship from the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, Arizona for her forthcoming research into the photographic representation of Appalachia. She obtained an MA in Cultural Anthropology from the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam and a subsequent MA in Visual Anthropology from the University of Manchester.

 

 

Peeter Linnap (b. 1960) is a theorist and historian of visual culture and photography. Full time professor and photography department leader of Tartu Art College, Estonia. As a researcher his articles have been published by Springer, Intellect ao academic publishers. As an artist his work has been shown in Europe, U.S and Latin America. Linnap is a member of IAVS/AISV, AICA, FIPRESCI, Estonian Semiotic Society ao organizations. As a curator he has produced Saaremaa Biennials (1992, 1995 and 1997) and touring shows of contemporary Baltic photography „Borderlands" 1993 (UK), „Out of the Shadow" 1998 USA.

 

Elina Heikka (b. 1959) is Museum Director at The Finnish Museum of Photography in Helsinki .She was editor and editor-in-chief in Valokuva – Finnish Photography magazine from 1994 to1998. After that she worked as a researcher at the Finnish Museum of Photography and as a special researcher at the National Gallery / Central Art Archives from 2001 to 2007. She has published widely on contemporary photography, history of Finnish photography and visual culture.

 

Anna-Kaisa Rastenberger, PhD, (b. 1971) is a Professor of Exhibition Studies and Spatiality at the Academy of Fine Arts of the University of the Arts Helsinki. 2009–2016 she has worked as the Chief Curator at The Finnish Museum of Photography. Rastenberger is an artistic director and co-founder of ‘The Festival of Political Photography’. Previously she was engaged as a researcher in the Academy of Finland's project (2005–2009). She worked as an educational curator at The Helsinki Art Museum (2002–2005) and the editor-in-chief of KUVA – the magazine of visual culture (1998–2000). Her special interests are new forms of photography as contemporary art, exhibition as critical practice, art and society, feminism and digital environments.

 

Pierre-Jean Amar (b. 1947) is a Frrench photographer. He committed his first 15 years of his work to landscapes, still life and interios and later he started making portraits and female nudes, publishing a book in 1990 entitled “Nudes”. Parallel to his career as a photographer, for the past 18 years, he has taught the History of Photography at the University of Provence. He has edited numerous books on the subject and also organised training courses, workshops and conferences in the art of photography. At the moment he is working on a book of memories about Les Rencontres d’Arles since 1974 to 1990. Since 1965, he has presented his work at over 150 exhibitions in France and abroad.

 

T. O. Immisch (b. 1953) has run the collection of photographs at the Kunstmuseum Moritzburg in Halle (Saale) since 1987. He studied psychology and art history in Berlin and Halle. He has written and edited publications on New Vision photography, GDR photography and contemporary international photo art.

 

Boris von Brauchitsch (b. 1963) is a photographer, art historian and curator. He is the author of biographies (Leonardo, Michelangelo, Caravaggio, Lesser Ury, Gabriele Münter), fiction (Alles wahr, Im tiefen Tal der Todeskralle, documentale) and essays on photography (9, I don’t like white, Kleine Geschichte der Fotografie).

 

Colin Pantall (b. 1963) is a writer, lecturer and photographer based in Bath, England. His photographic work focusses on his immediate domestic environment. He writes for a range of publications and organisations including Photo-Eye, The British Journal of Photography, Foam, and Magnum Photos, and writes for his blog, Colin Pantall’s Blog. He is also on the editorial and artistic committees of Photobook Bristol and Gazebook Sicily Festivals. Pantall currently works as a Senior Lecturer on the Documentary Photography Course at the University of South Wales in Cardiff.

 

Costis Antoniadis (b. 1949) studied Physics and subsequently photography at the Institut Francais de la Photographie in Paris. He is a founding member of the Photography Centre of Athens and in 1985 was appointed Professor at the Department of Photography at TEI Athens. For many years, he has been working as curator and organizer of numerous exhibitions. In 2003 he was appointed as Director of the Museum of Photography at Thessalonica. He also exhibits in Greece and abroad, and many of his works feature in individual and national collections.

 

Gabriella Csizek after completing her studies in art theory and cultural anthropology, started working for the Hungarian Museum of Photography. Currently she is the curator of the Hungarian House of Photography. Her main field of interest is contemporary photography and the connecting interdisciplinary areas. Csizek participates in the selection and editing of photographic material for exhibitions and books, and her name is closely associated with the “Folyamatos Jelen” (“Continuous Present”) exhibition and catalogue series.

 

Kata Balázs (b. 1981) graduated in Art History and Hungarian Literature and Linguistics at Eötvös Lorand University, Budapest. She studied and conducted various research projects in Poland, the United Kingdom and Italy. Her main interest is Modern and Contemporary Art as well as Photography. Currently she is working on her PhD.

 

Æsa Sigurjónsdóttir (b. 1959) is an Associate Professor in art theory and visual culture at the University of Iceland and a curator based in Paris and Reykjavik. She has organized and participated in numerous national and international curatorial projects with Icelandic and European institutions. Her most recent publications comprise of a number of solo articles and co-authored books and chapters, including “New Maps for Networks: Reykjavik FLUXUS– A Case of Connections.” In Martha Langford (eds.) Narratives Unfolding: National Art Histories in an Unfinished World. Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press (2016); “Outsides and insides of the exhibition Trout Fishing in America and Other stories.” In Snæbjörnsdóttir/Wilson, You Must Carry Me Now- The Cultural Lives of Endangered Species. Phoenix: Arizona State University Art Museum (2015).

 

Justin Carville (b. 1970) is Lecturer in Historical & Theoretical Studies in Photography and is Chair of the Photography Programme at the Institute of Art, Design & Technology, Dun Laoghaire. He is a former Government of Ireland Research Fellow in the Humanities and Social Sciences and is the author of Photography & Ireland (Reaktion: 2011) and Visualizing Dublin: Visual Culture, Modernity and the Representation of Urban Space (Peter Lang, 2013).

 

Gigliola Foschi (b. 1951) lives and works in Milan (Italy). She is an art critic and historian of photography. For 15 years she has written for the cultural pages of the daily “L’Unità” and she has collaborated with various magazines such as “Camera Austria”,“Photo Italia”, “Zoom”, “Abitare”, “Gente di Fotografia”. She is teacher of History of Photography at the Istituto Italiano di Fotografia in Milan and member of the MIA (Milan Image Art Fair) advisory committee. As an indipendent curator she has organized several exhibitions and she has collaborated for the Modern Art Gallery Collection Lercaro (Bologna); the Gallery San Fedele (Milano); the European Photographic Festival (Reggio Emilia). She has also written texts for several catalogue and books. Her latest book is: Fotografie del silenzio. Forme inquiete del vedere (Pictures of Silence. Restless ways of seeing), Mimesis, Milano, 2015.

 

Alise Tifentale (b. ) is art and photography historian and PhD candidate in art history at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Tifentale is the author of Photography as Art in Latvia, 1960-1969 (2011) and co-curator of the Pavilion of Latvia at the 55th Venice Art Biennale (2013). She is the founder and editor-in-chief of photography magazine Foto Kvartals (2006-2010). Her articles have appeared in journals such as Networking Knowledge, CAA.Reviews, Art Margins, Russian Art & Culture, and others. Tifentale is a co-author of research projects about photography in social media such as Selfiecity (2014) and The Exceptional and the Everyday: 144 hours in Kyiv (2014).

 

Agnė Narušytė (b.1970), is an art critic and historian of photography, Head of the Art History and Theory Department at the Vilnius Academy of Arts, curator and researcher of contemporary photography.

 

Margarita Matulytė (b.1961) is a historian of photography and expert, Curator and Researcher of the Historical Photography Collection at the Lithuanian Art Museum, Lecturer of Visual Journalism at The Institute of Journalism of Vilnius University.

 

Paul di Felice (b. 1953) lives and works in Luxembourg. Doctor of Visual Arts, Paul di Felice is Senior Lecturer in Art History and Art Pedagogy and Deputy Head of the Institute of Romance Studies, Media and Arts at the University of Luxembourg. His field of research is re-presentation and de-construction in contemporary photography. He also works as an art critic and as an independent curator of international contemporary photography exhibitions. He is an active member of AICA and co-organizes the European Month of Photography in Luxembourg. Since 1984, he is co-editor and co-publisher of Café-Crème edition, an international art and photography magazine and edition. He has been frequently invited as a curator to international photography meetings and as a jury member for exhibitions and contemporary art biennials. Since 2016, he is Vice-President of the Administration Board of Mudam (Museum of Modern Art Luxembourg).

 

Françoise Poos (b. 1964) holds a Ph.D. in Visual Culture from De Montfort University, Leicester (UK). Her particular focus is on photography, archives and museums, memory and identity. She is a reseacrh associate at the University of Luxembourg and currently investigates the role of photography in promoting the image of the steel industry in Luxembourg and in shaping the country's identity in the framework of the research project Fabricating Modern Societies: Industries of Reform as Educational Responses to Societal Changes.

 

Tudor Stavila is the Director of the Study Center of Arts of Institute of Cultural Heritage of Academy of Sciences of Moldova. He presented the art from Moldova in Kiev (1998), Bucharest (2002, 2005.2009, 2010, 2011), Cluj (2002, 2003), Alba Iulia (2002) Strasbourg (2001), Osnabrück (2005). he is the author of published about 120 scientific publications in Chisinau, Moscow, Bucharest and Cluj, Strasbourg, Osnabruk and Sofia covered issues of history and theory of medieval and modern arts in Moldova and its interference with European arts. Coordinates activities within the PhD ASM 7 doctoral thesis arguing in arts specialty - Visual Arts. The author of 12 monographs on national arts and interference with regional and European art.

 

Christine Hansen (b. 1969) is a Norwegian photographer and art historian (PhD). She is the author of numerous articles on photography's role in contemporary art, realism and documentary. In addition to an active career as artist she has recently curated the exhibitions Crystals of Dust. An Exhibition about dementia and Alzheimer at Gallery F15 (2015) and Slow Pictures. Photography in Contemporary art at Lillehammer Art Museum (2016). Hansen is artistic research leader and associate professor in photography at Bergen Academy of Art and Design.

 

Sigrid Lien (b. 1958) is professor in art history and photography studies at the University of Bergen, Norway. Project leader for the Norwegian team in the HERA-project PhotoClec (Museums, Colonial past and Photography) 2010-2012, head of “Negotiating History: Photography in Sámi Culture», funded by the Norwegian Research Council (2014-2017). Has published extensively on nineteenth century as well as modern and contemporary photography in a Norwegian context.

 

Adam Mazur Phd (b.1977) assistant professor at the Artistic University in Poznan. In years 2002-2013 worked at the Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw and curated several exhibitions such as "New Documentary" (2006), "Red-Eye Effect" (2008), "Missing Documents. Photographs of Polish Transformation After 1989" (2012) to list only major group shows. Published books "Histories of Photography in Poland 1839-2009" (2010), "New Phenomena in Polish Photography after 2000" (2012), "Depth of Field. Essays on Polish Photography After 1945" (2014).

 

Emilia Tavares (b.1964) is a senior curator (photography and new media) at the National Museum of Contemporary Art- Museu do Chiado, Lisbon, as well as a researcher and art critic. MA in Art History (Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities at the University Nova of Lisbon. She was published several studies about Portuguese photography and visual culture, and as curator have produced several exhibitions, including the Portuguese representation at Photo España Festival (2009 and 2010) She publishes regularly in specialized newspapers, magazines and catalogues, and frequently gives lectures in cultural and educational institutions.

 

Ruxandra Balaci (b.1965) is an art critic and curator. From 2002 to 2014 she is the founder Artistic Director of the Museum of Contemporay Art/MNAC in Bucharest. Former founder and Head Department Contemporary Art at the National Museum of Art in Bucharest (1995-2000), co-director of Artelier magazine Bucharest(1998-2004) and co-founder and Director of GAD photogallery (1992-2002). She contributes to international catalogues, curated more than 50 exhibitions and publication on visual culture. She was the curator for “Bucharest nach 89” – Ludwig Forum Aachen, 1996; commissioner of the Romanian pavilion at the 49 Biennale di Venezia, 2001 and co-curator in In Den Schluchten des Balkans – 2003, Fridericianum, Kassel; Transit Project-NOW Here Europe - Fondazione Olivetti/51 Biennale di Venezia, 2005. Currently writing books: “My subjective memories over arts and facts.” and “Romanian contemporary Photography and the Visual Arts”.

 

Evgeny Berezner (b.1951) is the Head of the PhotoVisa International Photo Festival in Krasnodar. Since 2003 he has been Deputy Director in charge of Photographic and Multimedia Projects of Moscow Museum of Modern Art. Since 2008 he has been Deputy Director General in charge of Photographic and Multimedia Projects of ROSIZO State Museum and Exhibition Centre of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation. Since 2011 he has been the Head of Project “In Support for Photography in Russia”, IRIS Foundation, Moscow. He has published in Russian and foreign magazines, photography album and books. He has curated over 250 exhibitions of contemporary and classical Russian and foreign photography held in Russia and other countries and is one of the three Russian curators of the main exhibition program of International Biennial of Photography FotoFest 2012 in Houston, Texas, USA.

 

Irina Сhmyreva (b.1974), PhD., is the head researcher in State Institute for Theory and History of Fine Arts of the Russian Academy of Arts in Moscow. She is also co-founder and art-director of PhotoVisa, the International Festival of Photography in Krasnodar region (www.photovisa.ru). She is very influenced writer on history of Russian photography, since 2007 she has a monthly column in FOTO&video magazine in Russia, she is an author of the book of Essays on Russian photography of 20th century, she is also writer and photo-editor of such books as Assembling Reality. Two Ways of Life by Rejlander, The Photographic History. Photo heritage from Russian State Archive of Literature and Arts and many others. As a curator she shown dozens of exhibitions of Russian photography, old and contemporary, at FotoFest in Houston, Month of Photography in Bratislava, in art institutions of Europe, Asia, Australia and both American continents. She collaborates with Evgeny Berezner since 1999.

 

Ivan Manojlov (1978) is a curator and art historian. He is working as a curator of technical and cinematography collection at the Museum of Yugoslav history in Belgrade since 2008. He is author, co-author and project manager of numerous projects and exhibitions focusing on the topics of contemporary photography, history, popular culture, culture of remembrance and reinterpretation of cultural heritage of socialist Yugoslavia: Design for a New World (2015), Red kiosk K67 (2015), Dissonant Heritage (2014), Design Center Belgrade (2013), Technology to the People (2012), The Last Young Yugoslavs (2011), Tito photo (2010). Ivan was also organizer and coordinator of all program activities in Museum of Yugoslav History in the period 2008-2013. In 2009 and 2014 he was a member of team for development of Strategic plan of Museum of Yugoslav History.

 

Václav Macek (b. 1952) is a professor at the Film Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava. He is the Head of FOTOFO Foundation and the Central European House of Photography and the Director of annual photography festival Month of Photography Bratislava. He is the author and co-author of many books on photography and film.

 

Miha Colner (b. 1978) is an art historian who works as a curator, publicist, editor and lecturer specialised in photography, artists’ moving image and other forms of media art. He is a curator and program coordinator at Photon – Centre for Contemporary Photography (based in Ljubljana and Vienna). Furthermore, since 2005 he has been part-time contributor for number of newspapers, magazines, radio programs, and specialist publications as well as a lecturer. He lives and works in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

 

Alejandro Castellote (b. 1959) From 1985 through 1996 he was director of the Photography Department at the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid, where organized the Festival FOCO (1985-1989). He has been artistic director and founder of PHotoEspaña in Madrid (1998-2000). In 2003 he curated MAPAS ABIERTOS. Fotografía Latinoamericana 1991-2002; C on Cities at the Padiglione Italia in the X Venice Biennale of Architecture, 2006; Festival Getxophoto, Bilbao (2007-2009) and guest curator for Latin America at the Biennale Photoquai (Museum Quai de Branly) 2007-2009, Paris; guest curator at Seoul Photo Fair 2010, South Korea andSingapore International Photography Festival (SIPF) 2012; director of the Daegu Photo Biennale 2014 in South Korea. In 2015 he was chief curator -with Wang Qingsong and François Hebel- of the First ChangJiang International Photography & Video Biennale, Chongqing, China. He is currently director of the Latin American Master of Photography and Visual Arts at the Centro de la Imagen of Lima, Peru.

 

Jan-Erik Lundström (b. 1958) is a curator, critic and historian of contemporary art. He is the former director of Sami Center of Contemporary Art and of Norrbottens Museum. From 1999 to 2010 he was the director of Bildmuseet. He is the former chairman of Centre for Photography, Stockholm and former director of Fotografiska museet. His latest curatorial projects include Top of the World, Fall Back Spring Forward, Surviving the Future, The Map: Critical Cartographies, Politics of Place and Society Must Be Defended (1st Thessaloniki Biennial of Contemporary Art). He was the chief curator of Berlin Photography Festival, 2005 and the artistic director of the 3rd Bucharest Biennale. He is the author and editor of many books, including Thinking Photography – Using Photography, Nordic Landscapes, Tankar om fotografi, Ursula Biemann: Mission Reports, Looking North: Representations of Sami in Visual Arts and Litterature, and Irving Penn: Photographs. Lundström has contributed to major publications such as Horizons: Towards a Global Africa, The Oxford Companion to the Photograph and The History of European Photography of the 20th Century. Lundström has been a guest professor at, among others, Aalto University, Helsinki, Konstfackskolan and the Royal Art Academy, Stockholm, Malmö Art Academy, HISK, Antwerpen/Gent, University of los Andes, Bogotá, and Oslo Art Academy, Oslo.

 

Urs Stahel (b. 1953) created with Fotomuseum Winterthur one of the most important places for photography in the world. He has been managing the museum from 1993-2013. Since 2013, he has been the curator for the platform Paris Photo (2014), the Mannheim-Ludwigshafen-Heidelberg Photo Festival (2015), and, on a regular base, for the new center for industrial culture MAST in Bologna. He also works as an author and a lecturer (at the Zurich University of the Arts, the University of Zurich). He is a writer and editor of numerous books, for example, books about Paul Graham, Roni Horn, Rineke Dijkstra, Anders Petersen, Amar Kanwar, Ai Weiwei, Shirana Shahbazi, Boris Mikhailov as well as books on themes such as “Industriebild” (‘Pictures of Industry’), “Trade”, “The Ecstasy of Things” and “Darkside I + II”.

 

Tatiana Pavlova (b.1955) is an art historian and freelance curator. She is currently working at Art History chair in Kharkiv State Academy of Art and Design and has published several books and articles about Ukrainian photography.