Anne Ackermann is a photographer based in Germany working worldwide. Her work focuses on women’s issues ranging from migration and aftermath to skin bleaching and plastic surgery, from environmental disasters to child marriages. She is a grantee of VG Bildkunst Germany and Photoreporter Festival France. She was awarded 1st prize with her piece on intersexuality by “profamilia journalism award’ and shortlisted for the prestigious Hansel Mieth Preis in Germany. She occasionally lectures and gives talks.

Key Words: Photojournalism, Documentary Photography, Post-Conflict, Gender Issues, Women’s Rights

Jide Adeniyi-Jones comes from Nigeria and has been working as an independent photographer since 1973, specialising in documentary and editorial photography. He has worked for The African Guardian magazine, the BBC, the Nigerian Federal Ministry of Information and many others. His work has been exhibited worldwide, including exhibitions in Lagos, Bamako, Milan, and Washington DC. Adeniyi is also a recipient of the prestigious 2003 Kaiser Family Foundation mini-fellowship.

Key Words: Photojournalism, Documentary Photography, Editorial Photography

Mariama Attah is a photography curator, writer and lecturer with a particular interest in overlooked visual histories and understanding how photography and visual culture can be used to amplify underrepresented voices. Mariama is curator of Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool. She was previously Assistant Editor of Foam Magazine. Prior to this, she was Curator of Photoworks, where she was responsible for developing and curating programs and events including Brighton Photo Biennial and was also Commissioning and Managing Editor of the yearly magazine Photoworks Annual.

Key Words: Curation, Visual Culture, Documentary Photography

Paul Botes is the picture editor of the Mail & Guardian in South Africa and has won numerous awards for his work. His work focuses primarily on issues of social justice and inequality. Paul has taught photography at The Market Photo Workshop and runs an intern programme that works regularly with students from a variety of schools from all over the world. He has been working on a long term “slow journalism” project with journalist Niren Tolsi which follows the aftermath of the 2012 Marikana massacre in South Africa.

Key Words: Editorial, Photojournalism, Documentary Photography, Newsroom

Khona Dlamini is currently the Market Photo Workshop’s manager for Programmes and Projects. She was previously the manager of the Photojournalism and Documentary Photography Programme for the same institution. Khona’s interest has been in youth development through nurturing creative talent. In her work, starting in 1999, her focus has been on using the arts as a medium to speak to issues pertaining to women, marginalised youth and as a skill that young people can use towards a sustainable career trajectory. She is currently one of the mentors for Women Photograph 2020.

Key Words: Documentary Photography, Education, Women's Issues

Benjamin Füglister is an artist and cultural entrepreneur. In his artistic practice he questions social conventions and explores their visual transformations. His particular interest is photography as a medium for visualizing the shifts in the human image. Füglister is the founder of the annual CAP Prize, the prize for contemporary African photography. He is a nominator for the renowned Prix Pictet and sits on the Photo Basel artistic advisory board. He is the founder of the IAF Basel – Festival for Contemporary Art and regularly engages as a reviewer at international photography festivals.

Key Words: Contemporary and Conceptual Photography, Editorial, Photography Education, Awards & Festivals

Thorsten Gerke grew up in northern Germany on the Baltic Sea. Before joining DER SPIEGEL as a Picture Editor in 2005, he was a freelance picture editor for various magazines. He creates and conceptualizes in the field of portrait, reportage and still-life for digital and print projects with a narrative and humanistic focus.

Key Words: Newsroom, Picture Editing, Editorial, Visual Storytelling

Sarah Gilbert is features picture editor for the Guardian with over 20 years experience as an editor. Previously she was a picture editor at Conde Nast and the Guardian US Photo Editor. She has been a juror on a number of leading photography competitions, conducts portfolio reviews at international photo festivals and is a mentor on the Women Photograph programme. Her specific areas of interest include documentary and long-form photography, and she commissions portraits around the world and loves to encourage new talent.

Key Words: Newsroom, Picture Editing, Editorial, Commissions, Education

Ala Kheir was born in Nyala, Sudan in 1985. Since secondary school photography has been an obsession for him, but 2005 was the real start when he started reading in depth about photography and purchased his first SLR. After returning to Sudan in 2009 Ala Kheir and his colleagues started Sudanese Photographers group with the aim to develop and promote photography in Sudan. Ala is also active in photography education and development in Africa, he runs TOV (The Other Vision, photography platform) which is a member of CLPA (Centers of Learning Photography in Africa). He is currently Based in Khartoum.

Key Words: Documentary Photography, Photography Education, Archive

Steven Lee is the founder director of Kuala Lumpur International Photoawards Portrait Prize, and co-founder of KL20x20 and 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. 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. Currently, Steven serves as a nominator for the 6x6 Global Talent Program at World Press Photo and Leica Oskar Barnack Awards.

Key Words: Documentary Photography, Visual Storytelling, Festivals & Exhibitions

Michelle Loukidis received her photographic training at TUT in Tshwane. She worked as a highly successful wedding photographer for over 10 years. However, her keen interests in photographic development led her to the Market Photo Workshop, in Newtown, where she has trained and mentored young photographers for over 15 years. Many students have then gone on to receive important grants and mentorships through her guidance. Through this process she has also helped train photographers throughout the continent. In 2018, she co-founded Through The Lens Collective, which is a collaborative educational and developmental photographic space created by South African visual artists and educators who share a commitment to, and appreciation of, the photographic medium on the African continent.

Key Words: Photography Education, Visual Storytelling

Louise & Niamh will be doing their reviews together.

Key Words: Curation, Photography Education, Photography Festivals, Visual Storytelling, Documentary

Uche Okpa-Iroha is the Executive Director of the Nlele Institute in Lagos, Nigeria, a Pan African nonprofit art photography organization. His own photography draws attention to the African continent where he uses cinematic narratives to investigate the stereotypical representation of deviant or marginal cultures. Uche is a founding member of Blackbox, a Nigeria photography collective. He is a contributor to several publications including “Lagos – the City at work”, “Nigerians Behind the Lens” and “Unifying Africa”. Uche is an alumnus and ex-resident of the Rijksakademie Van Beeldende Kunsten Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2011/2012) and was among the World Press Photo Joop Swart Masterclass selection committee in 2016.

Key Words: Curating, Ethical Photography, Documentary, Photography Education

Carla Rosorius is based in Hamburg and works as a photo editor for the GEO and P.M. Magazine families. She studied Social Science and Art History in Berlin. Afterwards she attended Ostkreuzschule für Fotografie to get to know the field of Photo Editing. She gained her first working experiences as an intern at Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazine. Followed by prestigious magazines and newspapers like DER SPIEGEL and DIE ZEIT. Since 2015 she is working for GEO, mainly GEO kompakt and GEO WISSEN in a responsible position until 2019. She is now part of the Visual Board of GEO and P.M. Magazines.

Key Words: Photo Editing, Newsroom, Photojournalism, Magazine

Sarah Waiswa is a Ugandan-born, Kenya-based documentary and portrait photographer with an interest in exploring the New African Identity on the continent. Sarah’s work explores social issues in Africa in a contemporary and non-traditional way. After winning prizes across multiple categories at the UPPA 2015, she has since won the Discovery Award in Arles, France, and the Gerald Kraak Award in Johannesburg, South Africa. In 2018, she was named a Canon Brand Ambassador and was selected for the World Press Photo 6x6 Africa Program. Waiswa's photographs have been published in the Washington Post, and Bloomberg, among other publications.

Key Words: Portrait Photography, Identity, Women, Documentary Photography, Conceptual Photography & Gender Issues

Anna Kućma is the director of FOTEA Foundation and the Uganda Press Photo Awards, a photography platform and annual competitions for East African photojournalists and photographers. With a background in Cultural Policy and Film and Photographic Studies, she has collaborated with prominent galleries and has curated and assisted many exhibitions as well as working as a consultant on innovative visual storytelling initiatives. She is passionate about photography and developing alternative educational models for photographers and visual storytellers, and about developing new networks between visual professionals on the African continent and beyond. She is based in Kampala.
Key Words: Festivals, Curation, Education, Photography, Documentary Photography, Photojournalism