Amanda Bock, The Lynne and Harold Honickman Associate Curator of Photographs, Philadelphia Museum of Art
Bill Boling, Director, Fall Line Press
Jessi Bowman, Founder & Curator, FLATS
Alyssa Ortega Coppelman, Photography & Photobook Editor, Oxford American
Crista Dix, Executive Director + Curator, Griffin Museum of Photography
Gail Fletcher, Lead Photo Editor, The Guardian
Stephen Frailey, Founder and editor, DEAR DAVE, magazine
Jennifer M. Friess, Associate Curator of Photography and Associate Director of Curatorial Affairs, University of Michigan Art Museum
Nicole Frugé, Director of Visuals, San Francisco Chronicle
Adriana Garcia, Chief of Staff, CatchLight
Daniel George, Content Editor, LENSCRATCH
Shana M Griffin, PUNCTUATE
Gia M. Hamilton, Executive Director & Chief Curator, New Orleans African American Museum
Rita Harper, Independent Editor/Photojournalist
Emma Harper, Jackson Fine Art Atlanta
Ben Hickey, Executive Director, Center for Exploratory and Perceptual Arts
Michelle Dunn Marsh, Publisher, Minor Matters Books
Emilia Mickevicius, Norton Family Assistant Curator of Photography, Center for Creative Photography and Phoenix Art Museum
Naomy Pedroza, Photo Editor, TIME Magazine
Cameron Peters, Photo Editor, National Geographic
Brian Piper, Freeman Family Curator of Photographs, New Orleans Museum of Art
Allison Retina Stewart, Art Director + Founder, Free Juice
Michael Wichita, Director, Photo AARP Photo
Imani Wilford, Curatorial Assistant, Photography, Fashion and Material Culture, Brooklyn Museum
Lisa Woodward, Co-curator, Pictura Gallery
Cengiz Yar, Visuals Editor, ProPublica
Amanda Bock
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Amanda Bock is the Lynne and Harold Honickman Associate Curator of Photographs at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA), At the PMA she has organized and co-organized numerous exhibitions including the retrospective Keith Smith at Home (2018), In the Right Place: Photographs by Barbara Crane, Melissa Shook, and Carol Taback (2024) and Boom: Art and Design in the 1940s (2025). She has also written and lectured about the photographer Paul Strand and served as co-curator of a large internationally-travelling retrospective of his work in 2015. Recent publications include the monograph Barbara Blondeau: Fifty Years Later (2025) that explores the experimental practices of this American photographer, along with essays on Gordon Parks (2026), Margaret Bourke-White (2025), and Weegee (2025). Forthcoming projects include a retrospective exhibition of the photojournalist Margaret Bourke-White (2030).
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.
Jessi Bowman
FLATS
Jessi Bowman is a Houston-based photographer and curator with over 15 years of experience. Jessi has curated shows, including “Sight Lines” at Houston Center for Photography, and has worked with notable organizations like FotoFest International and Project Row Houses. She is the Founder and Curator of FLATS, a community darkroom and photo lab that began as a nomadic exhibition series showcasing local artists. Jessi’s passion lies in collaborating with organizations to bring art into non-traditional spaces, fostering vibrant photo communities. Additionally, she has started FLAT Files, the only photo publication dedicated to highlighting Southern Central photographers and curators.
Alyssa Ortega Coppelman
Oxford American
Alyssa Ortega Coppelman is a photobook consultant and photo editor based in Austin, Texas. Working with photographers, she edits their archives and current projects into impactful sequences for publication in photobooks, porfolios, and magazine features.
Working in publishing and production for over twenty years, Alyssa has served as Art Editor at Oxford American magazine; Deputy Art Director at Harper’s Magazine; Senior Photo Editor at National Geographic; and Archival Researcher on the Emmy-nominated PBS NewsHour series Brief But Spectacular, which also produced several episodes featuring artists she pitched to be guests on the show.
Alyssa interviews artists about their work; has been a guest lecturer to photography students about working in the photo world; and enjoys teaching intensive photo editing workshops.
Crista Dix
Griffin Museum of Photography
Crista Dix is the Executive Director and Curator of the Griffin Museum of Photography, a position she has held since January 2022. Prior to joining the Griffin, Dix operated wall space creative, an internationally recognized photography gallery, for fifteen years — presenting exhibitions, events, and art fair programming focused on emerging and mid-career artists across the country. She is a juror, essayist, and frequent participant in major portfolio review programs nationally. The Griffin Museum of Photography is located in Winchester, Massachusetts.
Gail Fletcher
The Guardian
Gail Fletcher is a Photo Editor at The Guardian, where she develops and produces visual stories. She is also on faculty at the International Center of Photography and was previously an Associate Photo Editor at National Geographic. Several of the projects she produced alongside editors and photographers received recognition from organizations including Pictures of the Year, ASME, NPPA BOP, and World Press Photo.
She has served as a juror for the Alexia Grant, POYi, Review Santa Fe, American Photography, World Report Award, and others, and she regularly reviews portfolios to help photographers and artists refine their best work. Originally from South Florida, she is now based in Brooklyn, New York
Stephen Frailey
DEAR DAVE, magazine
Stephen Frailey is the Founder and Editor of Dear Dave, magazine. He is the author of “Looking at Photography,” a collection of 100 essays published by Damiani Editore in 2020, and writes criticism regularly for Artforum, Frieze, Aperture, and The Brooklyn Rail and Photograph magazine. He is Chair Emeritus at SVA School of Visual Arts in New York, and was Chair of the BFA Photography and Video Department from 1998 to 2018. Frailey has also been the Director of the Photography program at the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College. A book of his photographs will be published by
Silent Face Projects in October 2026.
Jennifer M. Friess
University of Michigan Art Museum
Jennifer M. Friess (she/her) is the Associate Director of Curatorial Affairs at the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where she also serves as the Associate Curator of Photography. She joined UMMA in 2016 as the museum’s inaugural curator of photography and has since curated numerous exhibitions on themes of memory, place, and identity. Prior to her time at UMMA, Jennifer worked at the George Eastman Museum, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Cleveland Clinic Foundation’s Art Program, and the Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas. Jennifer earned her BFA in Photography from Rochester Institute of Technology, and her MA in Art History from Case Western Reserve University. Jennifer’s recent exhibitions include Strange You Never Knew, the first solo exhibition of Metro Detroit-born Chinese American artist Jarod Lew and Future Cache, which featured a large-scale commission by Ojibwe artist Andrea Carlson. Her next project features the work of artist Terry Braunstein, whose art and archive was recently acquired by UMMA.
Nicole Frugé
San Francisco Chronicle
Nicole Frugé is the Director of Visuals for the San Francisco Chronicle, where she leads one of the most diverse metro photo staffs in the nation. Her team won the Scripps Howard Award for Excellence in Human-Interest Storytelling in 2023. She has led and edited photo stories on the fentanyl epidemic that were named finalists for the Pulitzer Prize in Feature Photography (2023, 2022 and 2026). The National Press Photographers Association named Fruge the Jim Gordon Photo Editor of the Year (2019), Photo Editor of the Year (2018 and 2024), and the Chronicle’s photo editors Picture Editing Team of the Year (2014 and 2017). Before photo editing, she was a staff photojournalist, focused on homelessness, environmental issues and conflict photography for newspapers in Texas and Florida.
I value work that demonstrates the photographer’s connection to the people and communities they document. I’m most drawn to projects that combine distinctive personal vision and storytelling with compassion and intimacy.
Adriana Garcia
CatchLight
Adriana García is a visual artist and strategist in the journalism space. At CatchLight, she oversees many things, including as the co-leader CatchLight Global Fellowship. As a 2017 JSK Fellow at Stanford University, she focused on hyperlocal community 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. 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.
Daniel George
LENSCRATCH
Daniel George is an artist, educator, and photo editor based out of Utah. In his personal creative practice, he explores the ways in which cultural forces affect the identity of place, community, and individuals. Since 2018, Daniel has served as the Submissions and Content Editor for Lenscratch, an online platform dedicated to supporting and celebrating the photographic arts and photographic artists through exposure, discussion, community collaboration, and education.
Daniel is most interested in reviewing well-developed projects of all photographic genres that fall under the fine-art umbrella—particularly those that illustrate compelling themes and demonstrate innovative uses of the medium (no commercial or stock photography). He is happy to provide feedback on projects at any stage of development. Ultimately, he will be looking for artists to work with and feature on Lenscratch.
Gia M. Hamilton
New Orleans African American Museum
Gia M. Hamilton is an esteemed applied anthropologist renowned for her pioneering work in investigating the intersections of land, labor, and cultural production. With a unique approach known as Social Magic™ methodology, she delves into the intricate dynamics of institutions and communities, exploring the depths of social connectivity.
Hamilton’s remarkable journey as a model builder began in 2006 when she co-founded Little Maroons, an independent African-centered school. Recognizing the need for creative spaces, she went on to establish Gris Gris Lab in 2009, a dynamic incubator that nurtured and empowered emerging talents.
From 2011 to 2018, Hamilton’s expertise and vision found expression as she served as a consultant and later director of the Joan Mitchell Center artist residency program in New Orleans. During her tenure, she led the development of a transformative two-acre campus through the innovative workforce development project, HyperLocal. Embracing a place-based and community-centered approach, Hamilton designed the program as a vibrant laboratory for visual artists, curators, and the creative community at large which includes acting as Co-Artistic Director of the Atlanta Biennial in 2016. Her guiding principle remained steadfast: that imagination and creativity are paramount in shaping a more equitable and socially just world.
Gia serves as a board member for the Katrina National Memorial Foundation Museum and The Louisiana Doula Registry Board. With an unwavering commitment to challenging the status quo, Gia M. Hamilton continues to inspire and influence those around her, leaving an indelible mark on the fields of anthropology, education, and the arts as the CEO and Chief Curator of the New Orleans African American Museum in Treme, the oldest black neighborhood in the United States.
Rita Harper
Independent Editor/Photojournalist
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 Sprite X Wish ATL: The Give Back Artist Grant (2020), Southern Documentary Grant Award (2020), and the National Geographic Emergency Fund for Journalists Grant (2020), and the National Black Arts Foundation Grant (2022).
Her work has been featured in exhibitions nationally and internationally with a most recent group exhibiton in Paris, France. 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.
Ben Hickey
Center for Exploratory and Perceptual Arts
Ben Hickey is the Executive Director for the Center for Exploratory and Perceptual Arts in Buffalo, New York. Previously he was curator of exhibitions and Emily Cyr Bridges Endowed Professor of Art at the Hilliard Art Museum on the campus of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. With over one hundred exhibition credits, artists he has exhibited include Brian Kelly of the Marais Press, Letitia Huckaby, L. Kasimu Harris, Robert C. Tannen, Richard Landry, Pat Phillips, Sonya Clark, Hasan Elahi, Dawoud Bey, and James Surls.
Hickey’s most recent writing can be found in Beili Liu: Mend, a monograph published by the Art League Houston in celebration of Liu’s 2024 Texas Artist of the Year Award. Other essayists include, Bridget Bray, Annette DiMeo Carlozzi, Eddie Chambers, Katie Pfohl, and Kay Whitney.
In 2023 Hickey received a Samuel H. Kress Foundation Travel Grant to co-present research related to Marais Press on-campus collaborations at the 51st Annual Art Libraries Society of North America in Mexico City. Earlier in his career, he presented Reshaping Our Programming: The Artist in Residence Program at the New York Historical Society in conjunction with an Association of Art Museum Curators annual conference. He has also served as a panelist or consultant for the New York State Council on the Arts, Villa Albertine, the Joan Mitchell Center, Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, PhotoNOLA, and the San Antonio Art League.
In the past, Hickey held positions at the Masur Museum of Art, California Museum of Photography, Buffalo AKG Art Museum, and the Arts Council of Buffalo & Erie County. He is an active member of the Association of Art Museum Curators, having served as a trustee from 2015 to 2020. He earned his master’s in art history from the University of California Riverside and his bachelor’s in history from Canisius University. Headshot courtesy of David Moog.
Michelle Dunn Marsh
Minor Matters Books
Michelle Dunn Marsh began her vocation as a designer with Aperture Foundation, and served as senior editor of art and design with Chronicle Books before co-founding Minor Matters in 2013. She holds a BA in literature and art history, an MS in Publishing, and has led tandem careers as an educator and arts administrator. She has refined her aesthetic and business acumen through thirty years of professional engagement in the formation and dissemination of books.
Emilia Mickevicius
Center for Creative Photography | Phoenix Art Museum
Emilia Mickevicius is the Norton Family Assistant Curator of Photography, a joint appointment between the Center for Creative Photography and Phoenix Art Museum. In her role, she primarily draws from the CCP’s collection to craft exhibitions for audiences in Phoenix. Her recent projects include Ecstatic Time: the Alchemy of Photography, Muscle Memory: Lens on the Body, and Funny Business: Photography and Humor, as well as exhibitions on photographers Richard Avedon and Laura Aguilar. From 2019 to 2023 Emmy worked in the Photography department at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. She received her PhD from Brown University in 2019.
Cameron Peters
National Geographic
Cameron Peters (she/her) is a photo editor and curator based in Washington, D.C. She is currently a Photo Editor at National Geographic, where she commissions and shapes visual stories across print, digital, and interactive platforms. Her work spans stories about science, history, culture, travel, and the environment.
Brian Piper
New Orleans Museum of Art
Brian Piper is the Freeman Family Curator of Photographs, Prints, and Drawings at the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA). At NOMA, his exhibition credits include Called to the Camera: Black American Studio Photographers, Picture Man: Portraits by Polo Silk, You Are Here: A History of Photography and Place, and Confluence: The Tina Freeman Collection of Photographs. His current research and writing interests include the history of African American picture magazines, self-portraiture, and the everyday lives of photographs. He holds a Ph.D. in American Studies from the College of William & Mary in Virginia.
Allison Retina Stewart
Free Juice
Allison Retina Stewart-Creeks is a photographer, Creative Director, curator, and arts educator whose practice centers image-making, artist development, and visual culture. She is the founder of Free Juice, a nonprofit creative platform supporting emerging photographers and visual artists through mentorship, exhibitions, portfolio development, workshops, and professional education.
A Parsons School of Design graduate, Allison has worked across commercial, cultural, and nonprofit spaces, including as a Photo Art Director at Meta and Director of Artistic Programs at the Anderson Center for the Arts.
She has served as a portfolio reviewer, juror, mentor, and educator for organizations including FotoFest, Photolucida Critical Mass, Parsons, and PhotoNOLA. Returning to PhotoNOLA for a second year, she is especially excited to spend time with emerging image-makers and engage their work through thoughtful, informative, and encouraging critique.
Michael Wichita
AARP Photo
Michael Wichita has been with works with AARP’s print publications, websites, newsletters, and social presence. Wichita previously worked as a professional photographer, his work for AARP has been recognized by SPD, American Photography, and The Webby’s amongst others. Michael is a frequent speaker and portfolio reviewer at industry events. He graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design.
Imani Wilford
Brooklyn Museum
Imani Williford, is a writer, historian and the Curatorial Assistant for Photography, Fashion and Material Culture at the Brooklyn Museum. Since joining BKM in 2022 she has worked on numerous exhibitions, including Thierry Mugler: Couturissime (2022 – 2023), Jamel Shabazz: Faces and Places, 1980–2023 (2023), Copy Machine Manifestos: Artists Who Make Zines (2023 – 2024), Consuelo Kanaga: Catch the Spirit (2025), and Seydou Keita: A Tactile Lens (2025 – 2026). She received her BA in the History of Art from the University of Pittsburgh and her MA from the Courtauld Institute of Art. In 2024 she was selected to join the inaugural cohort for Arts Leadership Praxis at the Studio Museum in Harlem. She has contributed writing to Hyperallergic, the Brooklyn Museum and the University of Pittsburgh.
Lisa Woodward
Pictura Gallery
Lisa Woodward is co-curator for Pictura Gallery, a non-profit contemporary photography space housed in the FAR Center for Contemporary Arts, in Bloomington, IN. With 16 years at Pictura, she has produced a wide range of exhibitions and written works on photography, while advising artists through different phases of their careers. Lisa and her colleague Mia Dalglish jury competitions, conduct studio visits, and serve as portfolio reviewers for international conferences and festivals such as Filter, Fotofest, and Les Rencontres d’Arles.
Lisa would like to see: emotionally and conceptually meaningful work with well-considered ideas, excellent craft and expert use of materials. Large format and medium format film projects are very welcome. Of lesser interest: still lives of personal artifacts from the past, nudes, AI generated imagery, or strictly commercial work.
The gallery is open to projects with the capacity to push past the boundaries of the frame and into broader installations or sculptural forms. Pictura looks for opportunities to pair its photography shows with other creative mediums for some unexpected collaborations with poets, chefs, dancers, musicians, etc.
Lisa can offer critique and feedback to strengthen work aesthetically and conceptually, or sort a new edit for consideration and help talk through ideas for display. Projects do not need to be finished for a productive review. Reviewees are encouraged to bring any specific questions or goals to their session.
Cengiz Yar
ProPublica
Cengiz (b. 1986) is a documentary photographer and editor based in El Paso, Texas.
Cengiz has worked in visual journalism for over a decade, from reporting in the field to building groundbreaking online packages. He is currently a visuals editor at ProPublica, where he edits, photographs, and art-directs stories across the site. His primary focus is visual coverage of projects in the Midwest, Southwest, and Texas. Before joining ProPublica, he edited for publications like Rest of World, Roads & Kingdoms, and the Guardian.
As a photographer his work has primarily focused on human migration and the conflicts in Iraq and Syria. He is the inaugural recipient of the James Foley Award for Conflict Reporting, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and a Dart Center Ochberg Fellow in Journalism and Trauma. His photography clients include Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, WIRED, The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, Instagram, Google, UNHCR, and The New York Times among others. He is HEFAT, RISC, and FAA drone pilot certified.
His first monograph, This Alabaster Grave, was published in 2025.
