PHOTONOLA 2025 REVIEWERS
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Jamie M. Allen, Stephen B. and Janice G. Ashley Curator and Head, Department of Photography, George Eastman Museum
Donny Bajohr, photo editor, Smithsonian Magazine
Liliana Bloch, Owner, Liliana Bloch Gallery
Bill Boling, Fall Line Press
Nicolas Boulier, Gallery Owner, Boulier Gallery
Nelson Chan, TIS Books
Marina Chao, Curator, CPW
Lydia Chebbine, Editorial Director of Visuals, The 19th
Donna Cohen, Director of Photography, Bloomberg Markets Magazine
Coco Conroy, Director of Sales, Sasha Wolf Projects, Sasha Wolf Projects
Alyssa Ortega Coppelman, Art Editor, Oxford American Magazine
Adriana García, Global Fellowship Lead / Chief of Staff, CatchLight
Shana M. griffin, Founder, PUNCTUATE
Avi Gupta, Director of Photography, U.S. News & World Report
Rita Harper, Photo Editor, Independent
Eddie Ralph Hebert, Gallery Sales, Curator, Frank Relle Gallery and McCall Gallery
Jessica Johnson, Exhibitions and Granting Initiative Director, Antenna
Alex Landry, Curatorial Assistant, Photography, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Nick Larsen, Managing Editor, Radius Books
Olivier Laurent, Deputy Director of Photography, The Washington Post
Winnie Lee, Visuals Editor (Independent)
Virginia Lozano, Senior Photo Editor, NPR
Don Marshall, Independent Curator
Anne Massoni, Executive Director & Curator, Houston Center for Photography
Richard McCabe, Curator of Photography, Ogden Museum of Southern Art
Brian Piper, Freeman Family Curator of Photographs, New Orleans Museum of Art
Matthew Showman, Partner + Director / Curator, Ferrara Showman Gallery
C. Rose Smith, Assistant Curator of Photography, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art
Alex Snyder, Senior Photo Editor, The Nature Conservancy
Allison Retina Stewart, Founder & Artistic Director, Free Juice, Inc. & The Anderson Center for the Arts
Sana Ullah, Senior Program Officer, Storytelling, National Geographic Society
Christy Wood, Owner, LeMieux Galleries
Jamie M. Allen
Stephen B. and Janice G. Ashley Curator and Head, Department of Photography
George Eastman Museum
Jamie M. Allen is the Stephen B. and Janice G. Ashley Curator and Head of the Department of Photography at the George Eastman Museum. She has been with the museum for over 18 years. Allen has curated exhibitions such as Zig Jackson: The Journey of Rising Buffalo (2025), Life with Photographs: 75 Years of the Eastman Museum (2024–25), Selections from the Collection (2023–25); Adam Ekberg: Minor Spectacles (2023) Perspectives: Recent Gifts of Contemporary Art (2022), Anastasia Samoylova: FloodZone (2022), Jess Dugan: To Survive on this Shore (2022), Bea Nettles: Harvest of Memory (2019–21), Nathan Lyons: In Pursuit if Magic (2019), #LarsonShindelman #Mobilize (2019); A History of Photography (2018); Photography and America’s National Parks (2016), In the Garden (2015), Astro-Visions (2013), and Between the States: Photographs of the American Civil War (2011). Her books include Bea Nettles: Harvest of Memory (University of Texas Press, 2019), Nathan Lyons: In Pursuit of Magic (University of Texas Press, 2019), The Photographer in the Garden (Aperture, 2018), Picturing America’s National Parks (Aperture, 2016), and the essay “From Vision to Reality: A Transition from Pictorialism to Modernism” in Imogen Cunningham (TF Editores/D.A.P, 2012/2013). Allen grew up in Tempe, Arizona. She holds an M.A. in photographic preservation and collections management from Toronto Metropolitan University in coordination with the George Eastman Museum, as well as a B.A. in art history and a B.F.A. in photography from the University of Arizona, Tucson.
Most interested in seeing the following types of photography: Abstract Photography, Alternative Processes, Conceptual Photography, Fine Art Photography
Donny Bajohr
Photo Editor
Smithsonian magazine
I am a photo editor with Smithsonian magazine, where I commission photographers in many genres, including fine art, documentary, and reportage. Many of our collaborations have been recognized by American Photography, NPPA Best of Photojournalism, Communication Arts, The Society of Publication Designers, and the Graphis Institute. I am a visual artist and photographer with a BFA in photojournalism from the Rochester Institute of Technology.
Most interested in seeing the following types of photography: Alternative Processes, Documentary, Editorial Photography, Fine Art Photography, Nature Photography, Photojournalism, Portraiture, Travel Photography, Wildlife Photography
Liliana Bloch
Gallery Owner
Liliana Bloch Gallery
Liliana Bloch Gallery is a contemporary art space established in 2013 by Liliana Bloch, known for its multicultural and diverse roster of both national and international artists. With a commitment to addressing global issues, the gallery supports artists who challenge aesthetic and conceptual boundaries, fostering an environment for critical thought and artistic development.
LBG has been instrumental in the Texas art community, boasting a roaster that has collaborated and exhibited with renowned institutions such as Documenta in Kassel, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, both in Germany, the Dom Museum in Vienna, Austria, and Centre Pompidou in Paris, France. The gallery’s artists have been featured in major biennials, including the Bangkok Biennale in Thailand, and the Bienal de Arte Paiz in Guatemala. Their works are included in the collections of some of the most esteemed museums worldwide, such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art and MoMA in New York City, New York, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Dallas Museum of Art in Texas, the Museo de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid in Spain, and Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA), in Brisbane, Australia, to name a few.
In addition, LBG launched URBANO in 2014, a public art initiative aimed at bringing contemporary art into public spaces. Through this initiative, the gallery seeks to educate and promote the understanding of contemporary art featuring artworks and experimental interdisciplinary projects outside the confines of the traditional gallery physical space. The gallery believes in the power of education and uses contemporary art as a catalyst for critical thought.
Most interested in seeing the following types of photography: Alternative Processes, Artist-Made Books, Conceptual Photography, Fine Art Photography, Portraiture, Wildlife Photography
— Climate change, politics, unseen and communities at risk, animal welfare, AI, alternative processes and most of all challenging approaches and processes.
Bill 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.
Most interested in seeing the following types of photography: Alternative Processes, Artist-Made Books, Conceptual Photography, Documentary, Fine Art Photography, Photo Books and Photo Book Dummies, Portraiture, Street Photography
— We have a keen interest in work that examines people and place in original ways – of course being from the south we welcome work of that region and/ or sensibility. That said we’ve published work of people and places from around the world.
Nicolas Boulier
Gallery Owner
Boulier Gallery
Nicolas Boulier, owner of the only Art Gallery strictly dedicated to contemporary photography in the entire Deep South. Located in the heart of the Art District of New Orleans, the Gallery welcomes photographers from all over the world, from France to Colombia… Parisian and graduate in political science and history, former local elected official and high school teacher, he then oriented his career in the purchase and reconstruction – design included – of restaurants and historic buildings in Paris and Brussels. He plans to open a second gallery for photography in another American city.
Most interested in seeing the following types of photography: Abstract Photography, Architecture Photography, Documentary, Fine Art Photography, Photojournalism, fashion mode
Nelson Chan
Publisher / Associate Professor
TIS Books/Rhode Island School of Design
Nelson Chan was born in New Jersey to immigrant parents from Hong Kong and Taiwan and has spent most of his life between the US and Hong Kong (colonial and post-Handover eras). Having grown up on two continents with unique and shifting cultures, this immigrant experience has influenced the majority of his work.
Nelson is a graduate of RISD, where he received his BFA in Photography, and a graduate of the University of Hartford, Hartford Art School, where he received his MFA. He has been exhibited nationally and internationally at institutions such as the Museum of Chinese in America, New York, NY; Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA; The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA; Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany; and 798 Space, Beijing, China. His books are collected in the institutional libraries of the MET, the Guggenheim, SFMOMA, the Whitney Museum, the Harry Ransom Center, and MoMA, among others.
Along with his photographic work, book publishing is another focus of his studio practice. Nelson is co-founder of TIS books, an independent publisher that concentrates on limited-edition photobooks. He was production manager at the Aperture Foundation from 2016–19, and prior to his appointment at RISD, was an associate professor of photography at the California College of the Arts.
Most interested in seeing the following types of photography: Abstract Photography, Alternative Processes, Artist-Made Books, Conceptual Photography, Documentary, Editorial Photography, Fine Art Photography, Photo Books and Photo Book Dummies, Street Photography
Marina Chao
Curator
CPW
Marina Chao is a curator at CPW in Kingston, New York. She has previously held curatorial positions at the International Center of Photography and the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. As assistant curator at ICP she organized the exhibition “Multiply, Identify, Her” (2018) and contributed to the publication “Public, Private, Secret: On Photography and the Configuration of Self” (Aperture and ICP, 2018). She was awarded a 2019 Curatorial Research Fellowship from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts for “Seeing Meaning: From Pictographs to AI,” an interdisciplinary project exploring the intersections of image, language, and technology.
Most interested in seeing the following types of photography: Alternative Processes, Artist-Made Books, Conceptual Photography, Documentary, Photo Books and Photo Book Dummies
Lydia Chebbine
Editorial Director of Visuals
The 19th
Lydia Chebbine (she/they) is a photo editor and artist based in Washington, D.C. She was born in Algiers, Algeria and grew up in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. She is obsessed with meaning-making, tracking cultural shifts, and digging into how images shape (and, hopefully, challenge) the status quo.
Most interested in seeing the following types of photography: Alternative Processes, Documentary, Editorial Photography, Fine Art Photography, Photojournalism, Portraiture, Travel Photography
— LGBTQ+ folks, Women, underserved communities, rural communities
Donna Cohen
Director of Photography
Bloomberg Markets Magazine
Donna Cohen is the Director of Photography at Bloomberg Markets Magazine as well as a senior photo editor at Bloomberg Businessweek Magazine. Her work at Businessweek and Markets has been recognized by the Overseas Press Club, American Photography, and the Society of Publication Designers. Prior to Businessweek, she was a photo editor at Conde Nast Portfolio, People Magazine, Life Magazine and the Associated Press.
Most interested in seeing the following types of photography: Architecture Photography, Artist-Made Books, Conceptual Photography, Documentary, Editorial Photography, Fine Art Photography, Photo Books and Photo Book Dummies, Photojournalism, Portraiture, Street Photography, Travel Photography
— Although I assign for editorial, I am open to seeing all kinds of work.
Coco Conroy
Director of Sales, Sasha Wolf Projects
Sasha Wolf Projects
Coco Conroy is a curator and arts professional with nearly two decades of experience specializing in 20th-century and contemporary photography. She has played a vital role in shaping both private and institutional collections, advising on acquisitions, and curating exhibitions that bring historical and emerging voices into dialogue. As former Gallery Director at Jackson Fine Art, she worked closely with collectors, artists, and museums to champion photography’s evolving place within the broader contemporary art landscape.
She currently serves as Director of Sales at Sasha Wolf Projects, representing a focused roster of contemporary photographers, and as Curatorial Director for Dash Studio, where she leads public art and placemaking initiatives.
Before transitioning to the visual arts, Conroy earned an MA in literary studies and worked as a journalist, digital editor, and producer of literary and arts programming—experience that informs her distinctly multidisciplinary curatorial approach. She has served on the advisory committee of Atlanta Celebrates Photography since 2016 and joined the Executive Board of Art Papers in 2023. A frequent juror and portfolio reviewer, she has contributed to PDN’s Curator Awards, FilterPhoto, PhotoNOLA, Photolucida’s Critical Mass, and numerous other national and international competitions.
Most interested in seeing the following types of photography: Alternative Processes, Documentary, Fine Art Photography, Photo Books and Photo Book Dummies, Portraiture, Street Photography
— I’m most interested in photography that builds on or reinterprets the American post-documentary tradition, work rooted in observation and place, but with a distinct personal or conceptual edge. I’m especially drawn to artists who bring process-based or experimental approaches to that lineage, expanding what documentary can look or feel like today. I respond to projects that balance intimacy and rigor, whether through landscape, portraiture, or a sustained exploration of memory and time, and to artists developing a cohesive, long-term practice with a clear point of view.
Alyssa Ortega Coppelman
Art Editor
Oxford American magazine
I am a photo editor, picture researcher, writer, and photobook consultant based in Austin, Texas. I work with photographers to craft powerful, cohesive edits of their photobooks, websites, and portfolios for exhibition, contest entry, magazine and book publication.
Currently, I am Art Editor at Oxford American magazine and have worked as Deputy Art Director at Harper’s Magazine; Senior Photo Editor at National Geographic; and Archival Producer on PBS NewsHour’s Emmy-nominated series, Brief But Spectacular. Several artists I pitched as guests on the show were featured in episodes.
I also interview artists about their practice for web or print publication; speak to undergraduate and graduate photography students about my career in the arts; and enjoy the intensity of teaching day-long photo editing workshops.
As I am in both the documentary and art worlds, I am happy to see reportage, fine art, collage, artful portraits, and work that has a truly unique approach to its subject matter. Traditional landscapes and nudes in general, except in rare instances, do not fit into my area of expertise.
Most interested in seeing the following types of photography: Alternative Processes, Artist-Made Books, Conceptual Photography, Documentary, Fine Art Photography, Photo Books and Photo Book Dummies, Photojournalism
— No use for nudes in any traditional presentation.
Adriana García
Global Fellowship Lead / Chief of Staff
CatchLight
Adriana García is a visual artist and strategist in the journalism space. As a 2017 JSK Fellow at Stanford University, she focused on hyperlocal community visual communications. Later, at Spaceship Media, García moderated thousands of women in conversations across political divides and spearheaded the use of visuals to deliver fact-based, shareable information to a small border community in Arizona. As Visual Design Director, she was part of the Pulitzer Prize winning team at The Times-Picayune in New Orleans for coverage of Hurricane Katrina. García is a graduate of Arizona State with a BS in Design and a BFA in Art.
Most interested in seeing the following types of photography: Documentary, Editorial Photography, Photo Books and Photo Book Dummies, Photojournalism, Portraiture
— Decades long journalist and print media specialist makes me uniquely suited to editorial and documentary edits. I have designed and curated several photo books as well so dummies and photo book curation are solidly in my wheelhouse.
Shana M. griffin
Founder
PUNCTUATE
Shana M. griffin is an activist, independent researcher, sociologist, and artist with an interdisciplinary feminist spatial practice. Her work spans the fields of sociology, geography, Black feminist thought, curation, and land-use planning and within movements challenging displacement, carcerality, reproductive control, climate impacts, and gender-based violence.
Shana’s leadership includes cofounding Jane Place Neighborhood Sustainability Initiative, New Orleans’ first community land trust, establishing the New Orleans Women’s Health Clinic after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, and creating PUNCTUATE, a feminist initiative integrating critical research with activism and contemporary art across contested urban landscapes.
Through projects like DISPLACED, SOIL, and Theirs Was a Movement Without Marches, she traces geographies of Black displacement and discriminatory housing policies, interrogates the carceral legacies of plantation landscapes, and documents the hidden activist strategies of low-income Black women organizing in public housing.
Most interested in seeing the following types of photography: Abstract Photography, Architecture Photography, Artist-Made Books, Documentary, Fine Art Photography, Nature Photography, Photo Books and Photo Book Dummies, Photojournalism, Portraiture, Street Photography
Avi Gupta
Director of Photography
U.S. News & World Report
Avi Gupta is a photographer, visual editor, and educator. His photographic works have been exhibited widely and acquired by the Sainsbury Center for Visual Art, the Library of Congress, and the Smithsonian’s Asia Pacific Center. As a photo editor, he has over 10 years of experience working with visual journalists to cover current events around the globe. At universities across the DC area, he lectures on creative approaches to documentary and editorial photography.
Rita Harper
Photo Editor, Independent
Rita Harper is a visual journalist from Atlanta, Georgia. Her work highlights and celebrates the narratives of the everyday individual making their way through life. Through her photographs, she visually illustrates stories of black history, love, resilience, and entrepreneurship.
She desires to show the beauty of the everyday person, and that we all hold value regardless of social status, occupation, and other shallow markers of importance within society. She has captured images of unsung pillars of tight-knit communities, to environmental activists fighting against powerful, faceless corporations.
Rita has received several grants and awards, including the Hambidge Distinguished Fellowship and Residency (2023), the National Black Arts Foundation Grant (2022), Southern Documentary Grant Award (2020), and the National Geographic Emergency Fund for Journalists Grant (2020)
Her work has been featured in exhibitions nationally and internationally, including a recent group exhibition in Paris, and a solo exhibition in Atlanta. She has been commissioned by Vanity Fair, Vogue, The New York Times, Bloomberg Businessweek, Rolling Stone, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, National Geographic, ProPublica, The Guardian, and many more to document stories of social injustice, political unrest,climate change, and preserved history in her own unique way.
While working as a freelance photojournalist she has also worked full time as the associate photo editor at AFAR media, a U.S based travel publication overseeing visuals and conducting research for print and digital online stories.
Most interested in seeing the following types of photography: Documentary, Photojournalism, Portraiture, Street Photography, Travel Photography
— I’d love to review photo essays that dive into the topics of family, archiving, community, etc.
Eddie Ralph Hebert
Gallery Sales, Curator, Consulter
Frank Relle Gallery and McCall Gallery
A native of New Orleans, Edward Hebert has been active in the New Orleans’ art community for over thirty-three years. Hebert’s educational background is in photography, painting, and sociology. After attending The New Orleans Center for Creative Arts from 1977 to 1980, he earned a B.A. in Fine Arts from the University of New Orleans in 1986, and continues to study the history of photography, art history, painting, and drawing.
Hebert served as director of A Gallery for Fine Photography in New Orleans from 1993 to 2020 where he curated exhibitions and sold photography in New Orleans, as well as in art fairs in New York, Basel, Switzerland, and Paris, France. In addition, he oversaw inventory acquisition, conservation, framing to museum standards, and website maintenance.
Currently, he works at Frank Relle Gallery and McCall Gallery in Art Gallery sales and Art consulting for photography and painting.
Most interested in seeing the following types of photography: Alternative Processes, Architecture Photography, Documentary, Editorial Photography, Fine Art Photography, Nature Photography, Street Photography, Travel Photography, Wildlife Photography
Jessica Johnson
Exhibitions and Granting Initiative Director
Antenna
Jessica Johnson, also known as JESSC.X (she/they) is a Boston-born and New Orleans-based arts administrator and practicing artist. She currently serves as the Exhibitions and Granting Initiatives Director at Antenna, a non-profit multidisciplinary cultural institution presenting exhibitions, public programs, publishing, and regranting located in New Orleans. Prior to her role at Antenna, Johnson served as the New Orleans Museum of Art’s Creative Aging and Access Coordinator, launching the Art Thrives Initiative that focuses on arts programming for adults 55 and older.
Johnson’s personal artistic practices explore self-identity and Blackness through collage, fiber art, mixed media work, and music. In 2019 her voice was spotlighted on the debut album of Warner Music Group signed rapper IDK, titled “Is He Real?” also featuring Tyler the Creator, Burna Boy, and Pusha T. In February 2020 she curated the Black History Matters 365: Now and Forever exhibition at the Lunder Arts Center’s Raizes Gallery, and in the the fall of 2022 she presented her solo exhibition, “Perfect Memory” an investigation of the unbroken ancestral memory held by Black people in the Americas by means of waves and water, inspired by Toni Morrison’s quote “All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.”
Alex Landry
Curatorial Assistant, Photography
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Alex Landry is an artist, researcher, and emerging curator currently working as a curatorial assistant in Photography at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. She earned her Master’s degree in Art History from the Newcomb Art Department at Tulane University, where her thesis focused on Ray Johnson and the influence of Black Mountain College on his practice. She has held previous curatorial roles at both the Newcomb Art Museum and the Asheville Art Museum.
Most interested in seeing the following types of photography: Abstract Photography, Alternative Processes, Artist-Made Books, Conceptual Photography, Documentary, Fine Art Photography, Photo Books and Photo Book Dummies, Portraiture, Street Photography
Nick Larsen
Managing Editor
Radius Books
Nick Larsen is an artist and book editor living in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He studied at the University of Nevada, Reno and the Ohio State University, where he received his MFA in Sculpture. Larsen has had over a dozen solo and collaborative exhibitions, including, most recently, Old Haunts, Lower Reaches (Nevada Museum of Art, 2024), and been a part of a number of notable group exhibitions, including several editions of New American Paintings. Since 2022, he has been the managing editor at Radius Books, a nonprofit art book publisher in Santa Fe, where he has overseen the publication of over fifty photography, fine art, architecture, and poetry books
Most interested in seeing the following types of photography: Abstract Photography, Alternative Processes, Architecture Photography, Artist-Made Books, Conceptual Photography, Documentary, Fine Art Photography, Photo Books and Photo Book Dummies, Portraiture, Street Photography, Travel Photography, Wildlife Photography
— Open to looking at anything, but I feel like I would have the most to offer photographers working in the realms I checked.
Olivier Laurent
Deputy Director of Photography
The Washington Post
Olivier Laurent is the Deputy Director of Photography at The Washington Post, managing photo editors and staff photographers across the newsroom, with a specific emphasis on the international, climate, science and technology desks, as well as our live and breaking news operations.
Previously, he was a senior photo assignment editor overseeing photo coverage across the international, climate and health & science desks, while also working with the organization’s network of worldwide correspondents and writers to offer a comprehensive international report, with a special focus on Africa, the Middle-East and Europe. Over the years, he has received multiple photo editing awards in the Best of Photojournalism and Pictures of the Year International contests, including Visual Editor of the Year in 2023.
In 2019, he was part of the climate team that won the Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting for the 2ºC: Beyond the Limit series, which “”showed with scientific clarity the dire effects of extreme temperatures on the planet.”” In 2018, he coordinated the newspaper’s visual coverage of the humanitarian crisis in Yemen, working with Lorenzo Tugnoli, a contract photographer with the Post. The photo essay won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Feature Photography as well as a World Press Photo.
He joined the Post from TIME where he was the Editor of LightBox, the magazine’s photography website. LightBox provided a window into the process of how great photographs are made, and drew attention to inspiring projects and groundbreaking work by established masters and new pioneers.
Previously, he was the Associate Editor for British Journal of Photography, the world’s longest running photography magazine established in 1854, and the Editor of FLTR, the first weekly magazine on smartphone photography.
Born in France in 1980, he graduated from the American University of Paris in 2005 and immediately moved to London to pursue a career in journalism, starting as a financial writer for B2B publications such as Dealing With Technology and Post Magazine, before joining British Journal of Photography in 2008. He is based in Washington, D.C.
Most interested in seeing the following types of photography: Documentary, Editorial Photography, Photojournalism, Portraiture, Street Photography
Winnie Lee
Visuals Editor (independent)
Winnie Lee is a native New Yorker with over fifteen years of experience in digital and print publishing, collaborating with photographers and illustrators across the globe. She has contributed to editorial projects that have won awards from the James Beard Foundation and American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME).
Most interested in seeing the following types of photography: Documentary, Editorial Photography, Fine Art Photography, Portraiture
Virginia Lozano
Senior Photo Editor
NPR
Virginia Lozano is a Senior Visual Editor at NPR covering 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.
Most interested in seeing the following types of photography: Alternative Processes, Documentary, Photo Books and Photo Book Dummies, Photojournalism, Portraiture, Street Photography
— Portraits, subcultures, photo projects or books
Don Marshall
Independent Curator
Executive Director New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation 2004-2024, Executive Director Contemporary Arts Center 1977-86
Most interested in seeing the following types of photography: Abstract Photography, Alternative Processes, Architecture Photography, Conceptual Photography, Documentary, Fine Art Photography, Nature Photography, Photojournalism, Street Photography, Wildlife Photography
Anne Massoni
Executive Director & Curator
Houston Center for Photography
Anne Leighton Massoni is Executive Director & Curator of the Houston Center for Photography in Texas. Before joining HCP, she was the Dean and Managing Director of Education at the International Center of Photography in New York City. She has held professor and academic administrative positions including at Cornell University and the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, among others. Massoni graduated with an MFA in photography from Ohio University and BAs in photography and anthropology from Connecticut College. She co-edited The Focal Press Companion to the Constructed Image in Contemporary Photography (Routledge, 2018).
Most interested in seeing the following types of photography: Abstract Photography, Alternative Processes, Conceptual Photography, Documentary, Fine Art Photography
— The Houston Center for Photography is an organization dedicated to the art of photography. Starting in 1981 as a small visual artists’ organization, its mission has always been to promote the art and practice of photography in all its forms through various programs. HCP is comprised of three galleries and over 200 feet of linear exhibiting space. HCP is actively looking to build three – six person exhibitions for the 2028 exhibition year. Massoni is particularly interested in work that addresses identity, the environment, and/or challenges the practice of photography through new or re-envisioned technologies.
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 40 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.”
Most interested in seeing the following types of photography: Abstract Photography, Alternative Processes, Conceptual Photography, Documentary, Fine Art Photography, Photo Books and Photo Book Dummies, Photojournalism, Southern Photography – focus on American South
— Southern Photography – focus on American South
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.
Most interested in seeing the following types of photography: Alternative Processes, Conceptual Photography, Documentary, Fine Art Photography, Portraiture, Street Photography, Historic and culturally based projects
Matthew Showman
Partner + Director / Curator
Ferrara Showman Gallery
Gallery director Matthew Weldon Showman has been an integral part of the gallery’s success and growth since joining the gallery in 2011. His extensive knowledge of contemporary art has helped position the gallery as one of the premier galleries in the American South. His steadfast and boundless dedication to artist development, curatorial programming, community engagement, and education culminates into the gallery’s position today. His leadership in the Arts District New Orleans has illuminated the city as an international destination for Contemporary Art and exporting it through the expansion of the gallery’s art fair participation and international presence. With a keen eye for great talent and exceptional skills in cultivating and advising clients/collections, Showman has become an invaluable asset to the gallery, and thus his ascension to full partner is a natural evolution in his role at the gallery.
Most interested in seeing the following types of photography: Abstract Photography, Alternative Processes, Conceptual Photography, Fine Art Photography
— Fine Art Photographers collaborating with other types of media (e.g. painting, textile, performance, film, etc.)
C. Rose Smith
Assistant Curator of Photography
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art
C. Rose Smith, Assistant Curator of Photography at the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art in Memphis, Tennessee, is a curator dedicated to the practice and preservation of photographs. Her commitment is not just to the art form but also to the artists themselves. Smith’s mission is to elevate and expand the voices of underrepresented artists in photography history. Her research spans 19th–early 20th-century portraiture 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 M.F.A. in Photography from Rochester Institute of Technology.
Most interested in seeing the following types of photography: Conceptual Photography, Documentary, Fine Art Photography, Portraiture, Street Photography, Experimental – working between multiple alternative processes or camerless photography
— Projects addressing climate change, identity politics, migration, family archives
Alex Snyder
Senior Photo Editor / Comms Director
The Nature Conservancy / The Photo Society
“Alex Snyder is an award-winning photo editor and photojournalist. As Senior Photo Editor for Nature Conservancy he has produced over 30 feature stories for their flagship publication Nature Conservancy Magazine. In this role he has also produced award-winning short film documentaries.
Alex also serves as Communications Director for The Photo Society — a collective of over 200 National Geographic photographers who are dedicated to supporting member’s work and upholding the high ethical standards of documentary photography and photojournalism. Alex manages the groups online community of over 5 million and hosts the monthly talk “The Photo Society Presents — which is free and open to the public.
Prior to his current roles, Alex was the photographer at Peace Corps where he traveled to 15 countries documenting the volunteer experience. His images were also lead in First Lady Michelle Obama’s ‘Let Girls Learn’ initiative.
Alex’s work has been recognized by The Society of Publication Designers (SPD), Folio Awards (Eddie & Ozzies), Pictures of the Year International (POYi), Best of Photojournalism (BOP), and the Lucie Awards to name a few. In 2022 he was nominated for Photo Editor of the Year by the Lucie Awards. In 2025 he was named Photo Editor of the Year National, and Second Place International by the National Press Photographer’s Association’s BOP awards.”
Most interested in seeing the following types of photography: Alternative Processes, Documentary, Editorial Photography, Nature Photography, Photojournalism, Wildlife Photography, Conservation Topics
— I prefer to see natural history (wildlife, landscape, flora, etc..), science (as it pertains to nature), and conservation. We also will occasionally use portrait photographers. I am also open to reviewing photojournalists and long-form documentary photographers. Alternative process is welcome if it goes beyond just film.
Allison Retina Stewart
Stewart Founder & Artistic Director Free Juice, Inc.
The Anderson Center for the Arts
Allison Retina Stewart is a multidisciplinary creative, educator, and visionary leader, currently serving as the Artistic Director at the Anderson Center for the Arts. Known for her ability to move fluidly between roles—Art Director, Photographer, Photo Editor, and Curator—Allison has built a career at the intersection of storytelling, social impact, and cultural preservation. Her creative range spans industries and disciplines, with work for major brands including META, Glossier, Exxon, and Live Nation, all while remaining grounded in purpose and representation.
Allison’s career began with a deep curiosity for culture and a passion for elevating untold stories. As an intern at The Source Magazine, she was introduced to the power of media and narrative—a formative moment that shaped her artistic path. That influence led to the creation of The Underground Project, a short film (2015) that challenged stereotypes and explored hypermasculinity in hip hop and society, while spotlighting emerging talent. The project was awarded Juror’s Choice at Parsons School of Design, where Allison graduated among the Top 10 in the Class of 2015.
Following graduation, Allison contributed her distinct creative and photo direction to a variety of editorial, brand, and cultural platforms, including Refinery29, the NBA, Fightball, and the San Francisco–based agency Godfrey Dadich Partners. Across these roles, she consistently brought a visual voice rooted in equity, intention, and a deep understanding of representation’s power to shift narratives.
These experiences culminated in the founding of Free Juice in 2021—a nonprofit dedicated to supporting emerging BIPOC photographers and photo-advacent artists as they navigate the industry with confidence, community, and creative integrity. Through mentorship, exhibitions, and storytelling initiatives, Free Juice has become a vital space for access, visibility, and growth—reshaping the visual media landscape one voice at a time.
At the Anderson Center for the Arts, Allison continues this legacy of advocacy and creative leadership. She looks forward to expanding into all sectors of the arts—visual, performance, design, and digital—while building platforms for new artists whose time to shine has come. Her work is guided by the belief that when we make space for emerging talent, we make room for transformation.
Most interested in seeing the following types of photography: Conceptual Photography, Documentary, Editorial Photography, Photojournalism, Portraiture, Street Photography
— I would love to see ALL Houston artists and artists in the following regions with a focus on documentary or editorial photography: New Orleans, New York, Atlanta, California.
Sana Ullah
Senior Program Officer, Storytelling
National Geographic Society
Sana Ullah (she/her) is a Senior Program Officer at the National Geographic Society (NGS) in Washington, D.C. where she works closely with the Storytelling Grants Program and helps manage projects by NGS Explorers.
Sana is a trained multimedia storyteller with over a decade experience in creating and producing visual content. Prior to NGS, she has worked for Discovery, the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), the Smithsonian Institution, and more. She is mostly known for her ongoing project, Places You’ll Pray: a community engagement photo series of Muslims praying in locations outside of a mosque or designated prayer area(s).
Sana Ullah holds a Master of Arts in new media photojournalism from the George Washington University’s Corcoran School of the Arts and Design in Washington, D.C.
Most interested in seeing the following types of photography: Documentary, Photojournalism, Mapping/StoryMap
— Looking to review long-form storytelling projects with a focus area on ocean, land, wildlife, human histories & cultures, planetary health and/or space.
Christy Wood
Owner
LeMieux Galleries
Christy Wood is the Co-owner and Gallery Director at LeMieux Galleries in New Orleans. She has been with the gallery since 2000 and took over ownership with her partner in 2015. Christy Wood currently serves as Secretary of the New Orleans Arts District Association where she and the other officers work towards the growth of the district and advocacy for the visual arts in New Orleans.
Most interested in seeing the following types of photography: Architecture Photography, Documentary, Editorial Photography, Fine Art Photography, Nature Photography, Portraiture, Street Photography, Travel Photography, Wildlife Photography
— Our gallery’s focus is Southern Artists so I guess if I had to list a preference that’s what it would be. Thanks
