PhotoNOLA 2024 Reviewers

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Katherine Lauricella Ainsley, Sibyl Gallery
William Boling, Fall Line Press
Nicolas Boulier, Boulier Gallery
Katie Dance, National Geographic Books
Alexa Dilworth, Independent Curator
Joe Dilworth, Bildband Berlin
Michelle Dunn Marsh, Minor Matters
Melanie Flood, Melanie Flood Projects
Shana M. griffin, PUNCTUATE, SEEING BLACK, independent curation
Garlyn Gryder, GRYDER Gallery
Greg Harris, High Museum of Art
Eddie “Ralph” Hebert, GRYDER Gallery, Frank Relle Gallery
Benjamin Hickey, Center for Exploratory and Perceptual Arts
Erin Hoyt, Filter Photo
Sara Ickow, International Center of Photography
Frances Jakubek, Independent Curator
Samantha Johnston, Colorado Photographic Arts Center
Maria L. Kelly, High Museum of Art
Geoffrey C. Koslov, Koslov Larsen Gallery
Virginia Lozano, NPR
Richard McCabe, Ogden Museum of Southern Art
Emilia Mickevicius, Center for Creative Photography and Phoenix Art Museum
Dina Mitrani, Dina Mitrani Gallery
Amy Miller, Art Consultant
Brian Piper, New Orleans Museum of Art
Jennifer Pritheeva Samuel, The Washington Post
Matthew Weldon Showman, Ferrera Showman Gallery
Delphine Sims, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
C. Rose Smith, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art
Aline Smithson, Lenscratch
Mary Stanley, Mary Stanley Studio
Gordon Stettinius, Candela Gallery
Jane Yeomans, Bloomberg

Reviewers Bios

Katherine Lauricella Ainsley
Founder
Sibyl Gallery

Katherine Lauricella Ainsley founded Sibyl Gallery in her hometown of New Orleans in 2021 in an effort to foster the careers of artists from the region and around the world. She graduated with honors from Barnard College with a degree in Art History, and went on to work at Venus Over Manhattan and Tina Kim Gallery. She spent multiple years as an artist studio manager where she developed skills around working directly with artists, helping them to contextualize their work and realize visions for their practices. Since founding Sibyl, Ainsley has striven to develop a program that prioritizes the artist and creates space for experimentation across disciplines. She lives in New Orleans with her husband and their two dogs, Merlin and Baby Junior

William Boling
Fall Line Press
William Boling resides and works in Milledgeville, Georgia. Boling’s projects such as 52, Never Gone, Southern Places of Arts and Letters, and You Ain’t Wrong have been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Atlanta, New York, and internationally. He has exhibited in the New Museum in New York, the Window Gallery at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, and for Atlanta Celebrates Photography’s 11th Annual Public Art Project Gifted. Boling’s work is held in many public and private collections. Bill studied photography under Stephen Shore during the early 2000s at Bard College. In addition to his art practice, he runs an independent photobook publishing company called Fall Line Press in Milledgeville.

Nicolas Boulier
Gallery Owner
Boulier Gallery
Diploma from political science institute, former high school history and geography teacher, owner and designer of residential Lofts, owner and designer of historical restaurants, owner and manager of Art gallery for fine Art photography…Nicolas BOULIER gallery is specialized in fine Art photography with bookstore. The photo gallery of diversity. Diversity in the choice of artists (internationally or locally renowned), diversity in themes (poetic or technical, aesthetic or political), diversity in geographical areas (Louisiana or Paris or Colombia. ..), diversity in photographic media (silver or color, vernacular or large format…). The curation is however very strict and respects specific themes.

Katie Dance
Photo Editor
National Geographic Books

Katie Dance is a photo editor at National Geographic Books and works independently as a visual storyteller, publisher, and curator in Washington, D.C. She serves as the Director for the DC Chapter of American Photographic Artists where she develops comprehensive photography programming for the DMV area. Dance holds a Master’s Degree in New Media Photojournalism from George Washington University’s Corcoran School of the Arts & Design.

Alexa Dilworth
Editor, Writer, Curator
Independent
Alexa Dilworth, an independent editor, writer, and curator based in Durham, North Carolina, was the publishing and awards director at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University for more than twenty years. Currently a senior editor for Aperture’s Vision and Justice series and text editor of their Photography Workshop Series, she has edited the text and/or photos for over seventy books, including Larry Fink: Hands On/A Passionate Life of Looking (powerhouse Books, 2024), Pictures for Charis by Kelli Connell (Aperture, 2024), Graciela Iturbide on Dreams, Symbols, and Imagination (Aperture, 2022), The Pretend Villages: Inside the U.S. Military Training Grounds by Christopher Sims (Kehrer Verlag, 2021), Road Through Midnight: A Civil Rights Memorial by Jessica Ingram (CDS/UNC Press, a New York Times Best Art Book of 2020).

Dilworth has a BA and an MA, both in English, from the University of Florida, and an MFA in creative writing (poetry) from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa. Her writing has appeared in Lenscratch, Aperture’s Photobook Review, the Oxford American, and exhibition catalogs and photography monographs, including Lisa McCord’s Rotan Switch (Kehrer Verlag, 2024), Benjamin Dimmitt’s An Unflinching Look: Elegy for Wetlands (UGA Press, 2023), Memory Is a Verb: Exploring Time and Transience: A Photographic Exhibition (2023), Will Warasila’s Quicker Than Coal Ash (Gnomic, 2022), Austin Irving’s Show Caves (forthcoming), and Beth Lilly’s The Seventh Bardo (forthcoming).

Dilworth has been Curator in Residence (2020) and Publisher in Residence (2023) at the Griffin Museum of Photography and curated the museum’s 26th Juried Exhibition. She has curated three Slow Exposures’ exhibitions with Aline Smithson (2014, 2018, 2023), Forgotten at the Southeast Center for Photography (2022), and Currents at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art (2015), as well as featured artists as a guest editor for the “Eyes on the South” column in the Oxford American. Dilworth has participated as a nominator, juror, and portfolio reviewer for such organizations and festivals as the Aaron Siskind Foundation, Filter Photo, Lenscratch, Los Angeles Center of Photography, Magnum Foundation, New England Portfolio Review, New York Portfolio Review, PhotoNOLA, Photoville/Fence, Photolucida/Critical Mass, Review Santa Fe, and The 30: New and Emerging Photographers to Watch.

Joe Dilworth
Photographer & Photo Bookstore Owner
Bildband Berlin
Born London, 1961
Studied Fine Art at St Martins and Goldsmith’s College Since 1987 a Freelance Photographer, working mainly in music, as well as personal projects Founded Bildband Berlin in 2015, a book store, gallery and darkroom, specialising in photo books New book called Everything, All At Once Forever being published by Kominek Books in November, about the music scene in the UK in the late 80s, early 90s

Michelle Dunn Marsh
Publisher
Minor Matters Books
Michelle Dunn Marsh is a publishing veteran with nearly thirty years in the field, and a first generation American of Indo-Burmese and Irish descent. She has served in design and editorial roles on both coasts, and lectured internationally on photoliteracy and visual books. She holds a BA from Bard College, and a Masters in Publishing from Pace University.

Minor Matters is a collaborative publishing platform, creating books with our authors and the participation of our audience. We develop titles that explore the surface of life today, bringing insight and cadence to the worlds we occupy. We believe the book remains a meaningful vessel of knowledge that holds our present for the future, and we seek exceptional vision, perspective and a commitment to craft in our artist authors.

Melanie Flood
Artist
Melanie Flood Projects
Melanie Flood (b. New York) is an artist living in Queens, NY and Portland, OR. She holds a BFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts in New York and an MFA in Contemporary Art Practice from Portland State University. Recent solo presentations of her work include Ruschwoman, Chicago, IL; Fourteen30 Contemporary, Portland, OR; Ditch Projects, Springfield, OR. Flood’s work is the subject of two solo exhibitions in 2024 at The Schneider Museum of Art in Ashland, OR as well as at ILY2, Portland, OR.

Garlyn Gryder
Gallery Owner, Curator
GRYDER Gallery

Gryder Gallery is an artistic platform established for artists to express diverse perspectives, new ideas, and experimental discourses to help propel humanity forward by presenting thought-provoking divergent exhibitions that highlight the intellectual and illuminating role of art. Dedicated to contemporary art, GRYDER works with artists from all over the world. We represent well-established, outsider, and emerging artists who show great potential for future development. We showcase artists working in new dimensions that approach artistic expression most purely and who break out of the mold. Our unique programming generates meaningful content that correlates with the higher art historical nexus and broader contemporary art practices from a global and philosophical perspective. We aim to create an inclusive milieu that uplifts the artist’s voice, unafraid to fulfill one of the essential roles of art – asking difficult questions about our culture and society.

Greg Harris
Curator of Photography, High Museum of Art
High Museum of Art
Gregory J. Harris is the Donald and Marilyn Keough Family Curator of Photography at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta. He is a specialist in contemporary photography with a particular interest in documentary practice. Since joining the Museum in 2016, Harris has curated over a dozen exhibitions that consider an array of topics including social justice, the intersections of photography and self-taught art, and distinct history of photography in the South. He has grown the collection by more than 2,000 photographs, including major acquisitions by Deana Lawson, Paul Graham, and Zanele Muholi, and commissions by Jim Goldberg, and An-My Lê. Harris was previously the Assistant Curator at the DePaul Art Museum in Chicago and also held curatorial positions at the Art Institute of Chicago. He earned a BFA in photography from Columbia College Chicago and an MA in art history from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

He is interested in seeing all kinds of fine art and documentary projects in any stage of development, but he’d particularly like to see projects that are still in progress. He is currently working on exhibitions about recent approaches to documentary photography and the history of photography in American South. He is less interested in fashion, commercial, and editorial work.

Benjamin Hickey
Center for Exploratory and Perceptual Arts

Erin Hoyt
Executive Director
Filter Photo
Erin Hoyt is an arts administrator specializing in contemporary photography. She is currently the Executive Director of Filter Photo, a non-profit arts organization based in Chicago that focuses on professional development practices for fine art and documentary photographers. The organization hosts the annual Filter Photo Festival and runs Filter Space, a gallery and project space for exhibitions, workshops, artist talks, and other diverse programming centered around contemporary photography. At Filter, Erin manages an ongoing series of exhibitions, artist lectures, professional development workshops, and portfolio reviews. Erin is also an avid collector of contemporary photography and participates in national and international conferences including Paris Photo, AIPAD, Art Basel and has served as a reviewer for Chico Reviews and Atlanta Photography Group.

Filter Photo was created by working artists for working artists. What started as a one-day portfolio review event in 2009 has grown into an established non-profit photography organization that hosts an annual multi-day festival, Filter Photo Festival, and maintains a year-round exhibition and programming space, Filter Space, in Chicago’s West Town neighborhood. Our mission is to provide opportunities and resources for lens-based artists to build their practices and professional communities, and to orchestrate public programming that offers an entry point for students, photography patrons, and emerging creatives to participate in the arts.

Sara Ickow
Associate Director of Exhibitions
International Center of Photography

Sara Ickow, Associate Director of Exhibitions, has been part of the exhibitions and collections team at ICP since Fall of 2019. Previously, she worked as a Curatorial Assistant and Collections Manager with the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery in their Department of Photographs. She holds an MA in art history from NYU’s Institute of Fine Arts, where she studied photography and time-based media art. For ICP she has been a curator of Diana Markosian: Santa Barbara, Gillian Laub: Family Matters, Between Friends: From the ICP Collection, and ICP at 50: From the Collection, 1845–2019. She is also the Managing Director for Women Photograph and editor of the book What We See: Women and Nonbinary Perspectives Through the Lens.

Frances Jakubek
Independent Curator
Frances Jakubek Images & Consulting
Frances Jakubek is an image-maker, independent curator, and consultant for artists. She is the co-founder of A Yellow Rose Project, past Director of the Bruce Silverstein Gallery in New York City, and past Associate Curator of the Griffin Museum of Photography in Massachusetts. Recent curatorial appointments include Critical Mass, Potential Space: A Serious Look at Child’s Play featuring works by Nancy Richards Farese, Filter Photo, The Griffin Museum of Photography, British Journal of Photography, Les Rencontres d’Arles, Save Art Space, and Photo District News. Jakubek’s photographs explore the boundaries of private and personal space and the emotions that bind them. Private Publicity looks at images paired with text that investigate the demanding language of our social outlets. The Sensual Subway embraces the New York City transit system and all it has to offer in its intimacy and delusion. Archive of the Ego is an ongoing series of self-portraits that have evolved and changed over the past 20 years.

Jakubek has been a panelist for the Massachusetts Cultural Council’s Photography fellowships, speaker for SPE National and Colorado Photographic Arts Center, and lecturer for the School of Visual Arts, Boston University, University of New Mexico, and Washington and Lee University. She has taught workshops for The Southeast Center for Photography, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Maine Media, and the University of Iowa.

Samantha Johnston
Executive Director & Curator
Colorado Photographic Arts Center
Samantha has been the Executive Director and Curator at the Colorado Photographic Arts Center since 2015. She holds a certificate in Arts Development and Program Management from the University of Denver, an MFA from Lesley University College of Art & Design, and a BFA from Alfred University. Prior to joining CPAC, she taught photography and visual arts for 12 years at high schools in Boston and Denver.

She has curated exhibitions with contemporary artists such as Jess T. Dugan, Daniel Coburn, Barbara Ciurej & Lindsay Lochman, and Zora Murff. Samantha has served as a reviewer at Houston FotoFest, Review Santa Fe, PhotoPlus New York, Medium, Month of Photography Denver (MOP), Filter, and PhotoLucida. She has juried several exhibitions including Critical Mass and The Fence.

CPAC is a not-for-profit organization that is dedicated to fostering the understanding and appreciation of photography in all forms and concepts through exhibitions, education, and community outreach. CPAC also organizes the Month of Photography Denver (MOP) a biennial festival that celebrates the photographic medium through public exhibitions, events, and programs at more than 75 museums, galleries, and other participating spaces across the Denver Metro region.

Maria L. Kelly
Assistant Curator of Photography
High Museum of Art
Maria L. Kelly is the Assistant Curator of Photography at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta. She served as the curatorial assistant in the photography department from 2011 to 2016 and returned to the Museum in 2019. During her time at the High, Maria has helped organize more than twenty-five photography installations. Her exhibitions include “Tyler Mitchell: Idyllic Space” (2024), “Underexposed: Women Photographers from the Collection” (2021), “What Is Near: Reflections on Home” (2016), and “Helen Levitt: In the Street” (2015). She was the venue curator for the traveling exhibitions “Deana Lawson” (2022) and “André Kertész: Postcards from Paris” (2022). Maria has also independently curated exhibitions at the Swan Coach House Gallery and Columbus State University.

Maria earned an M.A. from Columbia University and a B.A. from the University of Georgia, both in art history. She has held positions at The Sir Elton John Photography Collection and the Brooklyn Museum and internships at The Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum, and the Georgia Museum of Art.

Maria is most interested in reviewing work by artists looking for dialogue for in-progress or recently completed bodies of work with a strong conceptual element. She has particular interest in work employing alternative processes, considering identity, concerning the environment, or engaging with archives. She is not interested in reviewing portraiture that is of the studio/commercial variety or without a thesis behind it and is also not interested in AI photography.

Geoffrey C. Koslov
Co-Owner
Koslov Larsen Gallery
Geoffrey Koslov co-founded Koslov Larsen, an AiPAD member fine art gallery located in the museum district of Houston, Texas, for contemporary photography-based art. He had served for many years on the Photography Acquisitions Subcommittee for the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), and the Board of Directors for the Houston Center for Photography (HCP). He was formerly a member of HCP’s Exhibitions Committee, a former co-chair of its Print Auction and previously served as co-chair of the Art Circle at Holocaust Museum Houston. Geoffrey has been involved across the US in reviewing the work of artists in various venues and in consultations with collectors. He has participated with Fotofest, the Center for Fine Art Photography (CFAP), The Rencontres d’Arles (France), the Colorado Photographic Arts Center (CPAC), The Medium Festival of Photography, PhotoLucida, Critical Mass, PhotoVisa (Russia), ASmith Gallery, and others.

Geoffrey has more than 46 years of business experience which he brings to the arts. With this experience, he helps photographers with project development, talking and writing about their work, as well as consulting and advising artists on strategy and approaches to the art market. He works with collectors, art advisors as well as educators speaking and searching for the best of contemporary photography-based art.

Virginia Lozano
Visual Editor
NPR
Virginia Lozano is a Visual Editor at NPR covering international news and U.S.immigration. She also produces personal essays for NPR’s Picture Show with a focus on race and identity. Previously she edited politics and investigations for The New York Times. Virginia has also photographed and edited for The Intercept and The Detroit News. She is an alumna of the University of Michigan.

Richard McCabe
Curator of Photography
Ogden Museum of Southern Art
Richard McCabe is a curator, photographer and writer based in New Orleans. He was born in England and grew up in the American South. In 1998, he received an MFA in Studio Art from Florida State University. He has taught Photography as an adjunct professor at: Pratt Institute, New York City, Montclair State University, Montclair, New Jersey, Fairfield University, Fairfield, Connecticut and Xavier University, New Orleans, Louisiana. Since 2011, he has been the Curator of Photography at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art.

He has organized and curated over thirty-five exhibitions including: Seeing Beyond the Ordinary, The Mythology of Florida, The Rising, Eudora Welty: Photographs from the 1930s – 40s, The Colourful South, Self-Processing: Instant Photography, New Southern Photography, Memory is a Strange Bell: The Art of William Christenberry and Spell, Time, Practice, American, Body: The Work of RaMell Ross. McCabe’s thoughts and writings on photography have been published in the New York Times, Time, National Public Radio(NPR), Louisiana Cultural Vistas, Spot, The Bitter Southerner, HOTSHOE and LENSCRATCH magazine. In 2018, he contributed the introduction essay – The Reality on the Ground for the University of New Orleans press publication: New Southern Photography: Images of the Twenty-first Century South. In 2019 he wrote the introduction essay for the Cattywampus press publication: Devin Lunsford: All the Place You’ve Got, and the essay – The North Star for the Ogden Museum publication – Memory is a Strange Bell: The Art of William Christenberry.

Emilia Mickevicius
Norton Family Assistant Curator of Photography
Center for Creative Photography and Phoenix Art Museum
Emilia Mickevicius is the Norton Family Assistant Curator of Photography, a position shared between the Center for Creative Photography and Phoenix Art Museum. After receiving her PhD in art history from Brown University, from 2019 to 2023 she worked in the Photography department at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), where she contributed to numerous exhibitions featuring work by historical and living artists. Her recent exhibition projects in Arizona have included “Laura Aguilar: Nudes in Nature” and “Richard Avedon: Among Creatives.” Emmy enjoys responding to work in progress, and is particularly interested in seeing work with a conceptual and/or personal orientation. Previously she has served as a portfolio reviewer for FotoFest in Houston and PhotoAlliance in San Francisco.

The Center for Creative Photography is the premier research collection of American photographic fine art and archives, promoting creative inquiry, dialogue, and appreciation of photography’s enduring cultural influence.

Dina Mitrani
Owner/Director
Dina Mitrani Gallery
Dina Mitrani has been working in the art world for 30 years. She is the owner/director of her eponymous photography gallery in Miami which opened in 2008. After receiving a Bachelor’s in Art History at the University of Michigan and a Master’s from Hunter College, she worked at Christie’s, and several galleries in New York City. In 2000, Dina returned to her native Miami inspired by a hunch that the garment district where her family had a clothing factory was transforming into an art district.

Together with her sister Rhonda, a filmmaker and video artist, they were pioneers in the creation of the Wynwood Art District by organically converting their family’s warehouse into art galleries and studios for artists, designers, and architects. They are currently designing and building Mitrani Art, a lens-based center for photography, film and video art in the Little River neighborhood of Miami, which will open in early 2025.

Dina is a gallery curator, a private art advisor and an art consultant for interior designers and architects. She has served as a board member of the Miami Art Dealers Association, and the Photography Center of the History Miami Museum. She has juried numerous photo competitions, leads art talks to students on the university and high school level and reviews artist portfolios at national photography festivals such as PhotoNola, Photolucida, FotoFest, Palm Springs Photo Festival, Atlanta Celebrates Photography and the Miami Street Photography Festival.

As a native of this growing city, Dina’s interest and passion for the evolving arts and culture community is evident in her dedication to lens-based work, her Wynwood history, and her collaborative work with other local, national and international institutions. Dina lives in Miami with her two teenage daughters and her mini golden doodle.

Amy Miller
Art Consultant
Independent
Amy Miller is an arts administrator with over 25 years of experience. She received a BFA from University of Georgia and a MFA in photography from Pratt Institute in New York. While in New York, she worked at Alan Klotz Gallery. Upon moving to Atlanta, Ms. Miller worked as Gallery Director for Fay Gold Gallery, a position she held for seven years. During that time, she worked on over 200 exhibitions for regional and nationally known artists and coordinated participation national and international art fairs. In 2007, Amy became Executive Director of Atlanta Celebrates Photography, a nonprofit that produced the largest annual photography festival in the United States, a position she held for 14 years.

Ms. Miller has since been working as a consultant for artists, nonprofits, and small businesses as an art consultant, photo editor, exhibition curator, and portfolio reviewer. She has served as juror of photography and art competitions around the world, and has served on several boards, including as a founding member of Flux Projects in Atlanta.

Brian Piper
Freeman Family Curator of Photographs
New Orleans Museum of Art
Dr. Brian Piper is the Freeman Family Curator of Photographs, Prints, and Drawings at the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA), where he previously served as a Mellon Foundation Curatorial Fellow. He earned a BA in African American Studies from the University of Virginia and holds a PhD in American Studies from the College of William and Mary, completed with research support from the Smithsonian Institution and Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. He has previously served in curatorial and education roles at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and the Valentine Richmond History Center.

At NOMA, his exhibition credits include Called to the Camera: Black American Studio Photographers, You Are Here: A Brief History of Photography and Place, Lee Friedlander in Louisiana, and Picture Man: Portraits by Polo Silk. Current research projects include the relationship between photography and written text, and the photography of Black American Picture Magazines between 1920 and 1970.

Jennifer Pritheeva Samuel
Photo Assignment Editor, International
The Washington Post
Jennifer Pritheeva Samuel is an award-winning visual editor with an interdisciplinary background in photography, multimedia, fine art and documentary film. Prior to being a photo assignment editor on the international desk of The Washington Post, she was a photo editor at National Geographic magazine where she commissioned and produced stories about contemporary culture, identity, race and gender.

Matthew Weldon Showman
Partner and Gallery Director
Ferrera Showman Gallery
Matthew Weldon Showman received his BA in the History of Art and Architecture and Historic Preservation from the University of Pittsburgh in 2011 and is currently working towards his MA in Art History. He spent half of his undergraduate career researching in Europe where he lived in Paris and London, studying in the famous institutions housing the old Masters as well as working on exhibitions with various institutions in each city.

Showman has extensive experience in museums. Prior to his appointment as Director at Jonathan Ferrara Gallery he held positions in Pittsburgh at the Andy Warhol Museum, the Carnegie Museum of Art, Frick Fine Arts Library, University of Pittsburgh Art Gallery, Society for Contemporary Craft and Westmoreland Museum of American Art, as well as abroad at Dulwich Picture Gallery and Tate Modern in London, and Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris.

Showman is an active member of the New Orleans’ arts community. He is the Marketing Director of Arts District New Orleans, member of the Kohlmeyer Circle at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art and Pelican Bomb’s Members Club, and continues to curate exhibitions at the gallery as well as independently. Most recently he became partner in Jonathan Ferrara Gallery.

Delphine Sims
Assistant Curator of Photography
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Delphine Sims is an Assistant Curator in the Department of Photography at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. She completed her PhD in History of Art at the University of California, Berkeley. Recently, she was the Andrew Wyeth predoctoral fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts within the National Gallery of Art, and from 2021-2022 she was the Andrew Mellon predoctoral fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She has worked on numerous museum exhibitions and contributed writings to several catalogues. Her writing can also be found in Matte magazine, The Believer, and Aperture.

C. Rose Smith
Assistant Curator of Photography
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art
C. Rose Smith, the Assistant Curator of Photography at the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art in Memphis, TN, is a curator with a profound commitment. Her dedication is not just to the art form but also to the artists themselves. Smith’s mission is to elevate and expand the voices of unexplored artists within the photography canon. Her research spans 19th–early 20th-century portrait studios in the US South, the history of Black and African-American photographers in the Americas and Europe, and women in photography, past and present.

In previous roles, she assisted in rotating permanent collection exhibitions and managing the photography collection at the George Eastman Museum in Rochester, NY. She holds a B.F.A. in Photography from the Savannah College of Art and Design and an MFA in Photography from Rochester Institute of Technology.

Aline Smithson
Founder/Editor-in-Chief of Lenscratch, Educator, Artist
www.alinesmithson.com
Aline Smithson is an interdisciplinary artist, editor, filmmaker, and educator based in Los Angeles, California. She has exhibited widely including over 50 solo shows at a variety of international institutions and her work has been featured in publications including The New York Times, The New Yorker, and PDN. Smithson is the Founder and Editor- in-Chief of Lenscratch, a daily journal on photography.

In 2012, she received the Rising Star Award through the Griffin Museum of Photography for her contributions to the photographic community and she also received the prestigious Excellence in Teaching Award from CENTER. In 2014 and 2019, Smithson’s work was selected for the Critical Mass Top 50. In 2015, the Magenta Foundation published her first significant monograph, Self & Others: Portrait as Autobiography, and in 2016, the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum commissioned Smithson to create a series of portraits for the upcoming Faces of Our Planet Exhibition. In 2018 and 2019, her work was exhibited in the National Portrait Gallery in London as part of the Taylor Wessing Prize. Kris Graves Projects published her book, LOST II: Los Angeles and included her work in SOLACE and On Death. Peanut Press released her monograph, Fugue State, in Fall of 2021. In 2022, she was named a Hasselblad Heroine.

Aline has been a juror for a host of organizations and galleries and reviewer and educator at photo festivals around the globe.

Mary Stanley
Independent Curator & Art Advisor
Mary Stanley Studio
Art has been a personal passion of Mary Stanley’s for many years, and became her second career in 1997. She started her own art business, Mary Stanley Studio in 2004. Young Collectors Club, started in 2006, provides an educational and social networking opportunity for over 200 young professionals interested in learning about and collecting contemporary art. Mary serves on the Board of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Board of Advisors at Lamar Dodd School of Art at University of Georgia, Board for the Atlanta Center for Photography and the Idea Capital Steering Committee.

Recent curatorial projects include Fast Forward Rewind at MOCA GA in 2017, Southern Values at the Hudgens Center for Art & Learning in 2020, Good Trouble at Mint Gallery in 2021. Currently curating Articles in Orbit, a fashion centric exhibition for the Atlanta Contemporary opening June, 2024.

Gordon Stettinius
Senior Director
Candela Gallery
My background is diverse. I have worked as a fine art photographer and editorially, managed a stock photography agency, founded a publishing imprint, worked as an educator, and I’ve represented and consulted on photographers’ estates… Professionally, I hope to see well-developed fine art projects, ready for exhibition and/or to be published but I do feel I can offer insights and career advice in response to a broad variety of working styles. Personally, though, I am not as interested in commercial or fashion work.

Candela Books + Gallery was founded in 2010 and produces 8-9 feature exhibitions a year; one or two book-related exhibitions; and one unbridled, free-for-all, group exhibition each summer, Unbound!, which, through the purchase of works, has amassed a collection of some 135 artworks and artist books to date. We foster a community minded philosophy, often presenting political, environmental, and/or subversive work BUT as a broker of objects, our emphasis still needs to be upon the object and its craft.

Jane Yeomans
Photo & Visuals Editor
Bloomberg
Jane Yeomans currently works at Bloomberg Businessweek magazine, where she commissions and licenses photography. Previously she worked as freelance photo editor and researcher for book projects, design firms and for many publications, including The New Yorker, New York Magazine, Vanity Fair, ESPN and many others. She has been commissioning and licensing photography for many years in New York City, where she currently resides.

She is most interest in reviewing all work including but not limited to still life, narrative, portrait and travel as the work assigned and licensed varies from week to week. She is also interested in seeing any projects which are long term and personal.