Nominations by referrers 2025

Anne Morin (Rouen, France, 1973) is an art historian and the director of diChroma photography, a company specializing in international traveling photography exhibitions and the development and production of cultural projects. A graduate of the École Nationale de Photographie d’Arles and the École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Montpellier, she has collaborated with prestigious museums and institutions such as Fundación Canal (Madrid), Martin-Gropius-Bau (Berlin), the Musée du Luxembourg, Jeu de Paume (Paris), and Palazzo Ducale (Genoa). diChroma photography also engages in publishing, producing catalogs, essays, and art books, including Antonio Lopez: Visionary Writing, Paul Alexandre: Slowness, Margaret Watkins: Black Light, and Vivian Maier, co-published with the Réunion des Musées Nationaux (RMN). Passionate and dedicated, Morin works to enhance the visibility of artists and photographers. She has curated exhibitions for renowned figures such as Berenice Abbott, Isabel Muñoz, Vivian Maier, Robert Doisneau, Jessica Lange, Jacques Henri Lartigue, Sandro Miller, Pentti Sammallahti, Margaret Watkins, and Saul Leiter. In 2022, she was awarded “Curator of the Year” at the Lucie Awards at Carnegie Hall in New York for her work on Vivian Maier, Unseen at the Musée du Luxembourg.

Chiara Bardelli Nonino is an independent curator and Features Director of Harper’s Bazaar Italia. With an MA in Aesthetics, her research and writings focus on contemporary visual art and its intersection with identity and post-internet culture. She was a curator for the Photo Vogue Festival, where fashion is explored from a socio-political point of view, and has been the Senior Visual Editor of Vogue Italia, L’Uomo Vogue and Vogue.it photography section for over a decade. She collaborates with Italian and international magazines.

Francesca Malgara graduated in Photography and Multimedia from the University of Westminster in London, where she lived until the late 1990s.
 She worked for the Michael Hoppen Gallery (London), curating exhibitions and managing relationships with the gallery’s collectors. Since 1999, she has collaborated with various galleries (Photology Gallery, Robilant + Voena), organizing exhibitions such as 100 for 2000, The Century of Photoart (Bologna), and Julian Schnabel (2005, Rome – Palazzo Venezia; 2007, Milan – Rotonda della Besana; 2011, Venice – Museo Correr). She has also been active in fundraising and communication.
 Since 2006, she has been involved in organizing art fairs, including Mint and MIA PHOTO Fair, which has allowed her to build an extensive network of connections among galleries and collectors worldwide.
 She has been the Artistic Director of MIA Photo Fair since 2023 and is a member of the selection committee for the prestigious photography award Prix Pictet.

After studies at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, which led him to defend a doctoral thesis directed by Roland Barthes, he was editor of Zoom magazine from 1980 to 1984. Then editor-in-chief of Camera International and member of the editorial board of Photographies Magazine until 1993. Today, as an independent curator, he organizes exhibitions in France and abroad. He is also the author of several books on photography and has prefaced numerous monographs (in France, for Editions du Chêne, La Martinière, Assouline, Gallimard, Actes Sud, Textuel, Filigranes, Loco, etc.). Artistic delegate for the Mois de la Photo in Paris in 2006, he regularly organizes exhibitions as part of this event (in 2014 on the theme of the Memory of the Great War). Collaborates on the Jean-Luc Lagardère Foundation Photography Prize. General Curator in 2015, 2017 and 2019 of the Biennale of Photographers from the Arab World for the MEP and IMA in Paris. Curator since 2018 of a cycle of exhibitions in Normandy devoted to contemporary Nordic photography, Lumières Nordiques. Curator of two exhibitions devoted to Robert Doisneau and Robert Capa for Silvana Editoriale, touring Italy since 2021.

For five decades of prolific dedication to photography, Joan Fontcuberta (Barcelona, 1955) has developed a both artistic and theoretical activity, which focuses on issues of representation, knowledge, memory, science, truthfulness, ambiguity and trompe-l’œil, exploring documentary and narrative dimension of photography and related media. He has received solo shows at MoMA (NY, 1988), the Art Institute (Chicago, 1990), IVAM (Valencia, 1992), MNAC (Barcelona,1999), Maison Européenne de la Photographie (París, 2014), Science Museum (London, 2014), Museum Angewandte Kunst (Frankfurt, 2015), Museo de Arte del Banco de la República (Bogotá, 2016), and Museu Can Framis (Barcelona) among others. Besides those institutions, his artwork has been collected by the Metropolitan Museum of Art (NY), San Francisco MoMA, Museum of Fine Arts (Houston), LACMA (L.A.), Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Center for Creative Photography (Tucson), International Museum of Photography at the George Eastman House (Rochester), National Gallery of Art (Ottawa), Folkwang Museum (Essen), Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris), Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam), MACBA (Barcelona), MNCARS (Madrid) and others. He has authored a dozen of books about aspects of history, aesthetics and epistemology of photography and has curated international exhibitions, both historical and contemporary. Joan Fontcuberta was the 2013 recipient of the Hasselblad Foundation International Award and in 2021 has been appointed Doctor Honoris Causa by the Sorbonne Université Paris VIII.

Lekgetho Makola is a curator, artist, and advocate for African visual storytelling. Currently the COO of the Market Theatre Foundation, former head of the Market Photo Workshop, he was the first CEO of the Javett Art Centre and is a Ford Foundation Fellow on Social Justice. For over 20 years, Lekgetho has championed African talent, serving on global curatorial platforms and supporting compelling narratives that address inequality. His work uses photography to foster dialogue and understanding. As a 2024 Yale Directors Forum Fellow, Lekgetho continues to lead initiatives that amplify underrepresented voices and preserve cultural heritage through impactful storytelling.

Steven Lee is the founder director of Kuala Lumpur International Photoawards Portrait Prize, and co-founder of Exposure+ Photo Festival in Malaysia. He has been an active supporter of photography education and personal development especially in South East Asia and has participated in portfolio reviews and workshops at several international photo festivals. He sits regularly in juries at international awards, recently in the Romano Cagnoni Award, POY Asia, Earth Photo and Dodho.com. He actively participates in international photography events as jury, portfolio reviewer, mentor and workshop leads. He acted as nominator for the World Press Photo 6X6 Global Talent Program and Leica Oskar Barnack Award (LOBA). Steven is keen to see work that has strong connections about local and personal issues from all over the world and believes in the inclusive and informative power of photography. Based in the United Kingdom, Steven is also a photographer who began his career in fashion and portraiture, as well as travel documentary work in the early 2000s, and has self-published several books. His next photo book Symbolik is scheduled for launch in late 2025.

Timothy Keating is a photographer and educator who is a Professor of Photography at the Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, GA. He has worked extensively in the photography industry both in galleries, in curatorial positions and in academia. His work has been seen in national and international photography exhibitions. He is a recipient of multiple awards, grants and fellowships. His work has been widely published in the variety of contexts, and he has lectured extensively about contemporary photographic practice.

After 10 years as a photojournalist, Cristina De Middel shifted her practice to a more conceptual approach in order to question the documentary value of photography. In 2012 she produced the acclaimed series The Afronauts, triggering a decade of work around the role of photography in creating stereotypes. Besides her prolific career as an author, and as an active member of the photography community, Cristina has been invited to curate festivals like Lagos Photo, PhotoEspaña, and San José Photo in Uruguay. She has published more than 14 photobooks and her work is constantly on show in different institutions and venues. Cristina is also on the board of Vist Projects, a platform to support Latin American visual story-telling and she is a member of Magnum Photos agency and its president since 2022.

Johan Vikner is the Global Director of Exhibitions at Fotografiska – The Contemporary Museum of Photography, Art, and Culture. With a background in art history and linguistics, Johan has worked with photographers and artists for more than a decade, curating exhibitions and bringing their stories to audiences worldwide. He is passionate about visual storytelling and fostering dialogue through photography, ensuring that artists’ perspectives resonate across cultural and geographic boundaries.
Based in Stockholm, Johan is part of Fotografiska’s global exhibition strategy, collaborating with artists, institutions, and collectors across the globe. His work spans multiple markets across Europe, the U.S., and Asia, supporting Fotografiska’s museums in Stockholm, New York, Berlin, Shanghai, and Tallinn, with an upcoming location in Oslo. Dedicated to values of diversity and equality, and innovation in curatorial practice, Johan continuously explores new ways to engage audiences, making photography an accessible and thought-provoking medium for people from all walks of life.