Jury
Deloitte’s Photo Grant
2025

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.

Davide Monteleone is a visual artist, researcher, and National Geographic Fellow specializing in photography, visual journalism, and interdisciplinary projects. His work delves into complex themes such as geopolitics, identity, geography, data, and science. Originally from Italy, he spent over a decade in Russia (2000–2021), publishing four acclaimed monographs: Dusha (2007), Red Thistle (2012), Spasibo (2013), and The April Theses (2017).
His work has been featured in National Geographic, Time, and The New Yorker and exhibited in renowned institutions such as the Saatchi Gallery, the Nobel Peace Center, and the Maison Européenne de la Photographie. Recent projects include Sinomocene (2022), an investigation into China’s economic expansion, and Critical Minerals—Geography of Energy (2024), a study on the geopolitics of the energy transition.
Monteleone has received numerous awards, including the Leica Oskar Barnack Award (2024), the Deloitte Photo Grant (2024), and the Carmignac Photojournalism Award (2013). He holds a Master’s in Art and Politics from Goldsmiths, University of London, and is also active as a curator and educator. His approach blends documentary tradition with investigative research, encouraging critical reflection on contemporary society.

Erik Kessels is a Dutch artist, curator and communication designer, with great interest in art and photography. Erik Kessels is since 1996 Creative Partner of communications agency KesselsKramer in Amsterdam/London and has created campaigns for national and international clients such as Nike, Heineken, Diesel, Oxfam, Vitra, Citizen M, I amsterdam and The Hans Brinker Budget Hotel.
As an artist and curator Kessels has published over 90 books of his ‘re-appropriated’ images and has written the international bestseller Failed It! He has taught at several Art Academies (Amsterdam, Milan, Toronto, Lausanne, Düsseldorf).
Kessels made and curated exhibitions such as Loving Your Pictures, Mother Nature, 24HRS in Photos, Album Beauty and Unfinished Father. Currently he’s working on a long-term European art project called Europe Archive.
In 2010 Kessels was awarded with the Amsterdam Prize of the Arts, in 2016 nominated for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize. In 2022 his mid-career retrospective was shown in Turin, Düsseldorf, Budapest, Rotterdam and he exhibited recently in the SFMOMA. He was called “a visual sorcerer” by Time Magazine and a “Modern Anthropologist” by Voque (Italia).

Diane Dufour is the founding director of LE BAL in Paris, a contemporary photography, video, cinema and new media space created with Raymond Depardon in 2010. Internationally famous for the quality of its exhibitions (Anonymous-America with no name; Topography of War; Antoine d’Agata-Anticorps; Paul Graham; Lewis Baltz- Common Objects, etc.), LE BAL aims to combine the most striking visual arts with reflections on our society. Ms Dufour has conceived many books on contemporary or forgotten photographers, including Mark Cohen -Dark Knees; Lewis Baltz -Common Objects; Dirk Braeckman-Sisyphe; Mark Lewis- Above and Below or Yasuhiro Ishimoto – Lines and Bodies. Ten years ago, she started the Curators’day, a projects exchange platform gathering every year 30 European museums. She was Director Europe of Magnum Photos from 2000 to 2007.

Felix Hoffmann is an art historian and cultural theorist, and artistic director of Foto Arsenal Wien, an institute for photography and lens based media, which was founded by the city of Vienna and will be opened in 2025. Between 2005 and 2022 he was program director of the C/O Berlin Foundation and responsible for exhibitions, programs and strategy. As he did for C/O Berlin he tries to invent with passion and curiosity new areas and places for photography and lens based media following the idea that still and moving images are today the dominating medium in our world.
He was the co-initiator C/O Berlin’s Talents program for young photographers and art critics, and has acted as curator for numerous international exhibitions including Nan Goldin (2009), Robert Mapplethorpe, Peter Lindbergh (2011), Gordon Parks (2014), Araki (2018), and group shows like The Uncanny Familiar – Images of Terror (2011), The Last Image. Photography and Death (2019) or Send me an Image – from Postcards to Social Media (2021)
He has also published numerous books and texts.

Graduated in English literature, George Tatge studied photography with Hungarian photographer Michael Simon. After moving to Italy in 1973, he worked as a journalist, writing for Art Forum and Newsday while continuing his photographic research. His first book, Perugia terra vecchia terra nuova, was published in 1981. From 1986 to 2003, he served as a technical-photographic director at Fratelli Alinari in Florence, where he carried out photographic campaigns across Italy, published in numerous volumes. He has participated in numerous exhibitions both in Italy and the United States, and his works are part of various collections, including those of the Metropolitan Museum in New York, the George Eastman House in Rochester, the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, the Bibliothèque Nationale, and the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris.

Giovanna Calvenzi was born in Milan. In 1973, after graduating in Italian literature, she began teaching history of photography and photographic language at the professional courses for photographers of Società Umanitaria. In 1985 she became photo editor of Amica (RCS Periodici). She later worked at Max (1987), 7/Corriere della Sera (1987), and Vanity Fair (1990). In 1991 she became editor in chief of the magazine Lei Glamour (Edizioni Condé Nast). In 1992 she became photo editor of Moda (Nuova ERI) and then of SportWeek/Gazzetta dello Sport (2000), From 2012 to 2015 she was image consultant for Periodici San Paolo and from 2016 to 2019 for Donna Moderna (Arnoldo Mondadori Editore). From 2015 to 2022 she was president of the Museo di Fotografia Contemporanea, Cinisello Balsamo-Milan.
In 1998 she was artistic director of the Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie in Arles, in 2002 guest curator of Photo España in Madrid and in 2014 artistic delegate of the Mois de la Photo in Paris. Since 2013 she has been responsible for the Gabriele Basilico Archive, Milan.

Mario Calabresi (Milan 1970), journalist and writer, is the CEO and one of the founders of the podcast company Chora Media.
He started his career as a political reporter for ANSA (Italian news agency) in the Italian Parliament and in 2009 he became the Editor-in-Chief of La Stampa, at that time being the youngest person ever in that position. Integrating digital and print; setting-up European partnerships with prominent European newspapers; working with Google to create Digital News Initiative and AMP standard (accelerating mobile pages).
In 2016 he became Editor-in-Chief of la Repubblica. In the 3 years of working there he was instrumental in introducing: a new Sunday cultural magazine (Robinson), long form journalism, podcasts, documentaries. He launched the Facebook live in Italy.
He was on the board of the World Editorial Forum (WEF) for 5 years and he worked with the Trust Project since its foundation.
Mario Calabresi is a well-known writer and has written 10 books. His first book, a memoir describing his personal experience as the son of a victim of terrorism, was translated into French, English, German and Spanish reaching the number one bestseller position in Italy.

Karin Rehn-Kaufmann studied German and Philosophy at the University of Freiburg. German studies and philosophy. She also obtained her diploma at the Eurythmische University at Stuttgart, where she subsequently worked as a Lecturer. After the Salzburg-based austrian capital management GmbH joined Leica Camera AG in 2005, her long-standing passion for photography manifested itself in 2008 by the opening of the Leica Gallery Salzburg.Today, Karin Rehn-Kaufmann acts as Art Director and General Representative Leica Galleries International and manages the 26 Leica Galleries worldwide. She has successfully curated numerous important photo exhibitions such as the project “China Flight” project with spectacular aerial photographs from the 1930s, exhibition concepts for the Leica Gallery as part of Photokina 2012, 2014 and 2016, as well as the exhibition “10×10” on the occasion of the anniversary ‘100 years of Leica photography’.
She is responsible for the Ernst Leitz Museum in Wetzlar and curated the exhibitions of photographers like Joseph Koudelka, Steve McCurry, Thomas Hoepker, Bryan Adams, Rankin and many more. Since 2008 Karin Rehn-Kaufmann has been a jury member of the Leica Oskar Barnack Award and has played a key role in shaping and developing the prestigious photography prize. She is editor of the catalog “40 Years of the Leica Oskar Barnack Award” and curator of the exhibition of the same name, and the annual LOBA presentations at the Ernst Leitz Museum.