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Ana Casas Broda

Ana Casas Broda is a photographer and co-founder from Hydra, a platform to generate projects related to the medium of photography, including a publishing house, a bookstore, exhibitions and an educational program with many activities. In her artistic work she focuses on the exploration of identity, memory and its link with the photographic medium. She published two photobooks in Spain: Álbum, and Kinderwunsch, which received the Award for the best edited art book of 2014 of the Ministry of Education and Culture, Spain. She has presented her work in solo shows internationally. Kinderwunsch was nominated for the Deutsche Börse Prize 2015. Her work is included in collections such as the Reina Sofía, Madrid, Museo del Chopo, Mexico City, and The Birth Rites Collection, United Kingdom.

Since 1990 she organises photography educational programs, seminars, workshops, festivals, lectures and exhibitions, with many institutions such as Centro del la Imagen and others. She has given workshops, portfolio reviews, lectures at international venues and she has been Jury of many international awards.

Since 2016 at Hydra she organises INCUBADORA DE FOTOLIBROS, a long-term photobook educational program, from which started the publishing project Hydra with more than 30 published photobooks which have been widely presented internationally.

Portrait image by Maya Goded.

Dan Rule and Justine Ellis

Justine Ellis (b. 1979) is a publisher and photographer from Melbourne, Australia. She is the co-director and editor-in- chief of Perimeter, a specialised bookstore, publishing imprint, and distribution house specialising in photography and other experimental forms of art publishing. She has published, edited and art-directed more than one hundred books on Australian and international photographers, artists, and writers, and has worked as a photographer in creative, editorial, commercial and architectural contexts. She is a co-organiser Same Page Art Book Fair, presented by Perimeter and Gertrude Contemporary; was a co-curator of Volume: Another Art Book Fair, presented by Artspace Sydney, Perimeter Books and Printed Matter Inc. in 2015 and 2017; and was a co-founder and juror for the Perimeter Small Book Prize and the PHOTO x Perimeter International Photobook Prize. She has delivered programs, lectures, and workshops for various universities and festivals worldwide, including PHOTO 2024 (Melbourne), Photo Ireland (Dublin), Singapore International Photography Festival, RMIT (Melbourne), Hartford Art School (Connecticut), and many others.

Dan Rule (b. 1979) is a publisher, writer, and editor from Melbourne, Australia. He is the co-director and editor-in-chief of Perimeter, a specialised bookstore, publishing imprint, and distribution house, for which he has published, edited, and written for upward of one hundred books on contemporary photographers and artists from around the world. Dan was a longstanding visual art critic for Melbourne newspaper The Saturday Age, a design and architecture columnist for The Age, the former editor and editor-at-large of Vault magazine, and the former co-editor of Composite Journal. In a career spanning more than twenty years, he has published more than three thousand articles, reviews, and interviews on art, photography, design, and culture more widely for publications internationally, including major critical writing commissions for institutions including the National Gallery of Victoria, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Camera Austria, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Australian Centre for Photography and others. He was a co-founder and juror for the Perimeter Small Book Prize and the PHOTO x Perimeter International Photobook Prize, and regularly lectures on the intersection of writing, photography, and publishing for various institutions, festivals, and universities.

Perimeter is a specialised bookstore, award-winning publisher, distribution house and platform for various art publishing endeavours in Melbourne, Australia. Founded in 2011, Perimeter stocks and distributes a selective range of independently published books, editions and zines spanning photography, art, theory, text and the more lateral ends of design and architecture. Perimeter’s in-house publishing imprint Perimeter Editions, has published more than one hundred titles, collaborating with some of contemporary photography, art, and design’s leading protagonists. The publishing house has been awarded or shortlisted for several international prizes and awards, including the prestigious Paris Photo/Aperture Photobook of the Year Award, and exhibits at key art book fairs globally, including Printed Matter’s New York and Los Angeles Art Book Fairs, Tokyo Art Book Fair (MCA Tokyo), Offprint London (Tate Modern), Offprint Paris, San Francisco Art Book Fair, Singapore Art Book Fair, Unlimited Edition Seoul, abC Shanghai, abC Beijing, Unfold Shanghai, Unfold Shenzhen, Missread Berlin, Melbourne Art Book Fair (NGV), and our own Same Page Art Book Fair, co-organised with Gertrude Contemporary.

Danaé Panchaud

Danaé Panchaud is a Swiss exhibition curator, museologist and lecturer specialising in photography. She has been the director of the Centre de la photographie Genève since 2022, after serving from 2018 to 2021 as director of Photoforum Pasquart in Biel, Switzerland. She trained in photography at the Vevey School of Photography before completing a bachelor’s degree in visual arts with a specialisation in curatorial practices at Geneva University of Art and Design. She later studied museology at Birkbeck, University of London, earning a master’s degree in 2017. She has held positions in Swiss institutions in the fields of contemporary art, design and science since 2007, including at Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève, Gallery SAKS, Fondation Verdan and mudac. As a free-lance curator, she has curated exhibitions for several Swiss and international museums, independent spaces and galleries since 2012. She often writes texts for monographs of contemporary artists, exhibition catalogues, and thematic publications such as Flora Photographica, co-authored with William Ewing and published by Thames & Hudson in 2022. She regularly lectures at art and photography schools in Switzerland since 2014, and joined the teaching faculty of the CAS in Theory and History of Photography at University of Zurich in 2023.

Portrait by Anne Morgenstern.

Dawn Williams

Dawn Williams is a curator, project manager and facilitator with over twenty years of exhibition-making experience, working closely with artists at all stages in their careers. She is a curator at Crawford Art Gallery, Cork and recent exhibitions include A Matter of Time (2024); Bodywork (2023); Corban Walker: As Far As I Can See (2022) and Saturation: The Everyday Transformed co-curated with William Laffan (2022). She is a curator of Artists’ Film International programme and of the recent film project The Power of Us (2023). A visiting lecture at Chelsea College, UAL, London and MTU CCAD, Cork, she holds a MA: Visual Art Practices, Curatorial (IADT Dublin) and has written for a number of publications and artists’ catalogues.

Gwen Lee

Gwen Lee is the co-founder of the Singapore International Photography Festival (SIPF) and the founding director of DECK Photography Art Centre. She was recognized in 2010 with an award from the Japan Chamber of Commerce & Trade for her significant contributions to the arts in Singapore. In 2013, Lee conducted curatorial research in Germany, supported by the Goethe Institut Singapore and the National Arts Council.

Under her leadership, SIPF secured grants for public photography education in 2012. In 2014, she and her team built a repurposed container for exhibitions and residency programs, a project that won the prestigious Singapore President’s Design Award in 2015. Lee was also honored in 2022 with the Chevalier of the Order of Arts & Letters by the Ministry of Culture, France, in recognition of her outstanding impact on the arts.

Lee has curated major exhibitions, including solo shows of renowned photographers Daido Moriyama (2016) and Araki Nobuyoshi (2018). She has served as a jury member and portfolio reviewer for a variety of international platforms, such as the FOAM Paul Huf Award, New Cosmos Japan, FORMAT, KL PHOTO Award, KG+, DIPE China, Houston Fotofestival, Daegu Photo Biennale, Rencontres d’Arles, and the Ballarat International Foto Biennale.

Jean-Christophe Godet

Born in Normandy, France, Jean-Christophe Godet is the founder and artistic director of the Guernsey Photography Festival (UK), created in 2010 and Glaz Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie (Rennes) (France). He has worked for many years for organisations such as the London Philharmonic Orchestra and The Barbican Centre and as a professional travel photographer. As a curator, Jean-Christophe has worked with many major names in the world of photography. He is a regular guest reviewer and judge to many international photography events and competitions. He has a special interest is building up and deliver multi-disciplinary projects. In 2021 he created Photo Symphony. A spectacular event presenting the work of international photographers on a giant screen accompanied live by a full Symphonic Orchestra.

Portrait by Florence Chevallier.

Katy Hundertmark

Katy Hundertmark is a Scottish-German artist currently working as managing editor of Foam Magazine and curator at Foam. She has lectured at art schools such as ECAL (Lausanne), The Royal Academy of Arts (The Hague) and others. Her work has been exhibited at venues such as Streetlevel Photoworks Glasgow, Stills Edinburgh, Seenfifteen London, Macro Testaccio Rome and her writing has been featured in magazines like Quottom Magazine, Notes Journal, and Studies in Photography.

Portrait by Tomáš Jiráček

Luis Alberto Rodriguez

Luis Alberto Rodriguez studied dance at the Juilliard School, New York, where he received his BFA. After fifteen years as a professional dancer he made the transition into photography. As a self-taught photographer, Luis has exhibited his work internationally throughout Europe and the United States. His work has been published in various art and fashion publications, and he’s collaborated with leading luxury brands in the fashion industry such as Prada, Loro Piana, Calvin Klein, Armani and Maison Margiela to name a few. In 2017, he was awarded both the Public Prize and the American Vintage prize at the 32nd Festival of Fashion and Photography in Hyères, France. The following year he was one of Red Hook Labs New Artists and later that fall was an artist in residence at Cow House Studios, Wexford, Ireland in correlation with FUTURES and in collaboration with PhotoIreland. An ensuing book “People Of The Mud” was published by Loose Joints in the Spring of 2020. In the fall of 2019, he was invited to an international group project by the International Olympic Committee entitled Olympism Made Visible featuring original work by ten artists working at the intersection of fine art and documentary photography. In the spring of 2023, he published his second title “O”, published by Loose Joints exploring the free-fall of life, the construction of identity, and their connections with spiritual destiny. He was invited to head the Photography jury at the 38th Hyeres Festival for Fashion and Photography where he exhibited Vessel, a collection of photographs concerning the body as a physical and spiritual repository, under the curation of Song Tae Chong. Luis Alberto lives in Paris.

Michael Hill

Michael Hill is Programme Curator at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin, and one half of the curatorial team (with Clíodhna Shaffrey) that represented Ireland at the 59th Venice Biennale 2022, and Irish Tour 2023, with artist Niamh O’Malley.

In his practice-led curatorial work, he collaborates closely with artists to produce site- and contextually-responsive exhibitions, whether they are in a gallery or outside of formal spaces and settings. In 2024 he curated two major off-site solo exhibitions in the active industrial setting of Dublin Port, integrating large-scale immersive installations into a disused pump house building (Yuri Pattison) and open air graving dock (Liliane Puthod).

He has worked with several Irish and International artists on their first solo exhibitions in Ireland (Lisa Freeman, Fanny Gicquel, Tai Shani, Tamsin Snow), and curated solo gallery exhibitions by artists who have represented their countries at major global art events (Sean Edwards, Sean Lynch, Pilvi Takala, Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca).

He has an active artist mentoring and support practice that includes Freelands Artist Programme, Belfast; Jerwood Cultural Accelerator, London; Chronic Connections, Fire Station Artists’ Studios, Dublin. He also maintains an occasional publishing and graphic design project that includes books, postcards and music releases.

Portrait by Timothy O’Connell.

Sohee Kim

Sohee Kim works as a curator and arts administrator for the Daegu Photo Biennale at Daegu Arts Center. After studying photography and coursework her Ph.D. in Curatorial Studies, she worked as a professor, critic, and artistic director (curator).