Jury
Deloitte’s Photo Grant
2026

Director and founder of STILL, photo gallery based in Milan. Artistic director of Le Stanze della Fotografia in Venice, of the Capri Photography Festival and until 2021 of SI FEST – Savignano sul Rubicone. He is a consultant to the Fondazione Venezia for the management of the photographic heritage. In the 90s he was director of the Photography section of the European Institute of Design in Turin and of the Italian Foundation for Photography. In the years 2002-2003 he was curator of the first photographic auctions of Sotheby’s in Milan. For over 15 years he was a journalist and photographic critic for the pages of Vivimilano and Corriere della Sera. From 2005 to 2014 he was director of Contrasto – Milan and vice president of the Forma Foundation in Milan. Expert in the collecting market, in 2014 he founded STILL Fotografia. He was director of the monthly “Il Fotografo” from 2015 to 2019. Author of several publications on photography, he has curated numerous exhibitions of international authors.

Guido Borsani is the Chairman of the Italian Deloitte Foundation, appointed in July 2021. Prior to this role, he was a member of the Board of the Italian Deloitte Foundation and has been Government and Public Services Industry Leader for Italy, Greece and Malta since 2013. Throughout his career, Guido has supported clients in the healthcare, public sector and publicly regulated sectors in major development and transformation programmes. He strongly believes in Deloitte’s Purpose: make an impact that matters – for our people, society and clients. Guido holds a degree in economics from Bocconi University. He joined Deloitte in 2009, after an initial experience in management consulting and then in financial advisory within a public sector company.

Alec Soth (b. 1969) is a photographer born and based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He has published over thirty books including Sleeping by the Mississippi (2004), NIAGARA (2006), Broken Manual (2010), Songbook (2015), I Know How Furiously Your Heart is Beating (2019), A Pound of Pictures (2022), and Advice for Young Artists (2024). Soth has had over fifty solo exhibitions including survey shows organized by Jeu de Paume in Paris (2008), the Walker Art Center in Minnesota (2010), Media Space in London (2015), and the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum (2024). Soth has been the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards, including the Guggenheim Fellowship (2013). In 2008, Soth created Little Brown Mushroom, a multi-media enterprise focused on visual storytelling. Soth is represented by Sean Kelly in New York, Weinstein Hammons Gallery in Minneapolis, Fraenkel Gallery in San Francisco, Loock Galerie in Berlin, and is a member of Magnum Photos.

Barbara Čeferin, owner of Galerija Fotografija gallery, lives in Ljubljana, Slovenia.After studying Spanish language and literature and Ethnology at University of Ljubljana, she worked, from 1989 till 1993, as a freelance photojournalist, then as a photographic editor for Slovenian magazine and as a photographer for various Slovenian theatres. Her photographs were published in most Slovenian as well as in some Yugoslav newspapers and magazines.In 2003, she decided to quit her job as a photographic editor and opened her own gallery for photography Galerija Fotografija gallery which was the first private gallery specialized in photography and photo-based art in Slovenia. The motivation behind the founding of Galerija Fotografija gallery was to make fine art photography better known to the Slovenian public at large and to act as something of a forum for those active in the photographic arts circles as well. In addition, she has sought to create a market for fine art photography which until then, had been largely non-existent. The gallery is dedicated to photography and photo-based art, representing artists from both Slovenia and around the world. In the last 22 years Barbara Čeferin curated more than 100 exhibitions of Slovenian and foreign artists in Galerija Fotografija gallery as well as in other venues in Slovenia and abroad. In 2014 she opened also a bookshop specialized on photographic arts. In 2018 under her guidance special sector for photobooks called Fotocona startet at Slovene Book Fair.

Bernardino Guedes de Castro holds a degree in Historical Sciences from Universidade Portucalense. He also completed postgraduate studies in Documentary Sciences, specialising in Archives and in Library and Information Science, at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto (FLUP), as well as a postgraduate qualification in Public Management from the University of Aveiro. He worked as a teacher in basic and adult education and was a guest lecturer at Universidade Portucalense, where he taught the curricular units of Documentary Information and Information Storage and Retrieval in the Specialisation Course in Documentary Sciences. He has extensive experience in supervising professional internships, notably at Porto City Council, Universidade Portucalense, the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto and the Portuguese Centre of Photography. He has also worked as a trainer in professional development courses in the field of Archives. He served as a senior archive technician at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto and at the Porto City Council General Archives. Since 2008, he has been Director of the Portuguese Centre of Photography (CPF). He is the author of and contributor to numerous papers and publications in the fields of archival science and photography. He has participated as a speaker, member of scientific boards and organising committees of national and international meetings in the field of archival science. He has also coordinated programming and curated photography exhibitions at the CPF and serves on the juries of several national and international photography competitions.

Bruce Gilden’s own inimitable style of photography, flash in hand and Robert Capa’s quote in mind- if the photo was not good enough you were not close enough- has brought the Magnum photographer worldwide fame.
Master of street photography, Gilden who started photographing in 1967 in New York where he grew up, has made significant bodies of work in Haiti, Japan, England, France, Ireland, India, and the USA. Along with his acclaimed personal projects, Gilden has worked on numerous commissions for clients including Louis Vuitton, RATP Parisian transportation system, Dolce & Gabbana, Gucci, Balenciaga, and on assignments for Vanity Fair, GQ, and New York Times Magazine.
Gilden’s images in Black and White and his recent portraits in digital color have been exhibited widely around the world, most recently in New York, Munich, and Vienna. His work is part of numerous permanent collections such as the Getty Museum, MOMA, New York, V & A Museum, London and the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography. He has received nine grants and in 2013 he became a recipient of a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship. Bruce Gilden has published 32 monographs, among them “Facing New York”, ‘Coney Island”,“Go” and “Lost & Found”. His two most recent books, “8 Days in Napoli” (Leica USA) and “The Empire on Which The Sun Never Sets” (Setanta Books) were released in 2025.

Carlos Idun-Tawiah, is a Ghanaian photographer and filmmaker based in Accra, Ghana. Drawing deeply from African archives—both personal and collective—his work reimagines the evolving landscapes of the continent, blurring the lines between fiction and non-fiction, past and present, memory and imagination. His photographs centre on the quiet power of everyday life—relationships between generations, the rhythms of youth, the bonds of friendship and faith. With a careful, intuitive eye, Carlos makes images that are intimate yet expansive, rooted in emotion and attuned to the subtleties of the human experience. Through each story, he seeks to honour the beauty and complexity of contemporary African life—not as an outsider looking in, but from within—with sincerity, grace, and an enduring belief in joy and hope as resistance. He’s the winner of the Nomination section of the Deloitte Photo Grant 2025

Katarzyna Sagatowska, curator, experienced culture manager, author and producer artistic events and films, author of texts, artist representative, art advisor, books publisher. In her professional practice, she derives from experience and education in two areas – culture and art as well as management and marketing. Lecturer at the Film School in Łódź, PL. Graduated from the Institute of Creative Photography, Silesian University in Opava, Czech Republic (PhD) and management and marketing, Warsaw Technical University, PL. Founder of the JEDNOSTKA gallery and publishing house. Co-author of the series WE ARE ALL PHOTOGRAPHERS and co-curator of the Paweł Pierściński archive (www.pawelpierscinski.pl). Scholarship holder of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage and the City of Warsaw.

Sunyoung Kim is a senior curator at Museum Hanmi, the first museum in South Korea dedicated to photography. She has worked with photo artists from various nationalities and generations on exhibition projects since 2011. Her current research interests focus on medium specificity and its latent influence on contemporary photographic practices in post-medium conditions. She is a doctoral researcher in photography at the Centre for Research and Education in Arts and Media (CREAM) at the University of Westminster in London. She also serves as an adjunct professor in the Department of Photography, School of Fine Arts, at Chung-Ang University (Graduate School).

Suzanne Cotter is a leading curator and scholar of international contemporary art with over 30 years’ experience. Her distinguished career continues in her current role, Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia. She has held director and senior curatorial positions in museums around the world, including Director of the Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean (MUDAM), Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Serralves Foundation in Porto (Portugal), Curator for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation New York, Deputy Director and Senior Curator of Modern Art Oxford (UK) and Exhibitions Curator at the Hayward Gallery, London. Widely published, she has participated in numerous international contemporary art panels and juries. A board member of CIMAM (International Committee for Modern and Contemporary Art Museums) since 2017, she is currently Chair of CIMAM’s 2023 – 2025 Outstanding Museum Practices Award
steering committee and Chair of the 2023 – 2025 Sustainability and Ecology in Museum Practice working group. She is also on the Board of Mophradat, an independent cultural agency that supports artists from the Arab world. Through her work with contemporary artists her contributions to culture have been recognised. In 2005 Suzanne Cotter was awarded the Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from the French Government. In 2021 she was awarded the Chevalier de l’Order de la Couronne la Chêne of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the Cavaliere Osi (Ordine Della Stella D’Italia awarded by the Republic of Italy.