Canada

Jean-François Bouchard

Jean-François Bouchard has worked in contemporary visual art since 2003, traveling the world seeking out people whose interests and lifestyles are out of the ordinary. His visual focus is generally on marginalized, misunderstood, and often ostracized groups in our Western society. He sees his role as not only that of an activist but also of a witness who communicates the humanity he sees in his subjects. His work has been exhibited in galleries, museums, and festivals in Canada, the United States, and France.

In Guns We Trust is Bouchard’s latest body of work which was exhibited at Arsenal Contemporary Art in New York, Montreal and Toronto (Contact Festival – Online Exhibition) in 2020. The works are featured in a book published by The Magenta Foundation. Artnet selected the exhibition as one of the ‘Must see shows in NYC’.

Bouchard lives and works in Montreal.

United Kingdom

Anne Nwakalor

Anne Nwakalor is the Founding Editor of No! Wahala Magazine, one of Africa's first-ever contemporary photography magazine dedicated to showcasing authentic visual stories told by African creatives.

She is also a Photo Editor and presently works as a Communication Expert within the art space in the UK.

United Kingdom

Clare Grafik

Clare Grafik is Head of Exhibitions at The Photographers’ Gallery in London. She has worked in a number of public institutions in London including the Institute of Contemporary Arts, Whitechapel Gallery, Hayward Gallery and National Portrait Gallery.

Since working at The Photographers Gallery she has worked on exhibitions and projects with artists and photographers including Lise Sarfati, Isa Genzken, Larry Sultan/Mike Mandel, Taryn Simon, Katy Grannan, Antoine D’Agata, Cuny Janssen, Zineb Sedira and Keith Arnatt. Group exhibitions include ‘The Photographic Object’, 'Photography & Collage’ and 'Double Take: Photography & Drawing' with the Drawing Room. She has curated a solo exhibition of Bettina Von Zwehl's work at the Freud Museum in London, and contributed essays to books and catalogues, including Alex Prager's 'Silver Lake Drive'. She has been a Sessional Lecturer at Birkbeck College, London, teaching course on hidden and unknown London photographic archives, and has lectured at institutions including University of the Arts, University of South Wales, Sotheby’s Institute of Art. She has taken a foundation course in Psychoanalysis at the Institute of Psychoanalysis in London.

United States

Aldeide Delgado

Aldeide Delgado, a Cuban-born, Miami-based independent Latinx art historian and curator, is the founder & director of Women Photographers International Archive (WOPHA). Delgado studies, publishes on, and curates from feminist and decolonial perspectives on crucial topics of the history of photography and abstraction within Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx contexts. Notably, she has lectured on the significance and subversive nature of international women photography collectives and marginalized identities in the arts at the Tate Modern, Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), DePaul Art Museum, King's College London, California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), and The New School.

Delgado is a recipient of a 2019 Knight Arts Challenge Award by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the 2018 School of Art Criticism Fellowship by SAPS - La Tallera, and a 2017 Research and Production of Critic Essay Fellowship by TEOR/éTica. Prior to founding WOPHA, Delgado created the online feminist archive Catalog of Cuban Women Photographers, the first comprehensive survey of Cuban photography history highlighting women’s contributions from the nineteenth century to the present. She is an active member of PAMM’s International Women’s Committee and PAMM’s Latin American and Latinx Art Fund, US Latinx Art Forum, and the steering committee of the Feminist Art Coalition and Fast Forward: Women in Photography.

Canada

Jalani Morgan

Jalani Morgan is an established Toronto based photographer, visual historian and current photo editor of West End Phoenix. Morgan who is known for his editorial, documentary and gallery collected work both nationally and internationally. Jalani’s creative work explores visual representation within a Black Canadian context and focuses on documenting and portraying images of Black life both in Canada and internationally. As a commissioned photographer, Jalani covers the spectrum of portraiture and current events documenting the architectural, racial, musical and cultural landscapes of Toronto.

Over the past fifteen years, Jalani has built an impressive portfolio creating pieces for: BBC News, Maclean's Magazine, VICE News, Black Lives Matter Toronto, National Film Board of Canada, The Fader, Nike, Sportsnet Magazine, TVO, National Screen Institute, Converse, Manifesto, ArtReach, TEDxToronto, Daniel Spectrum, Nia Centre for the Arts and has contributed to exhibits for Photoville New York, Wedge Gallery, Art Gallery of Ontario, Art Gallery of Windsor and CONTACT Photography Festival. Originally from Scarborough, Ontario, Jalani has been dedicated to giving back to his community through mentorship and community empowerment programs that have included The Remix Project, LAMP and We Are Lawrence project created in partnership with City of Toronto and Manifesto.

United Kingdom

Sebah Chaudhry

Sebah is a Freelance Creative Producer and Curator. She is experienced in working at international world class festivals, projects and events. She is Co-Founder and Co-Director of ReFramed, a photographic based visual arts network based in the Midlands, supporting the community and artists who are Black, Asian, or from other ethnic minorities. She is also a Director at BCVA, where her focus is to work with the South Asian Community. She is currently Project Coordinator of Picturing England’s High Streets, a Historic England funded project managed by Photoworks. She is also Creative Producer on Peer To Peer UK/HK, a digital exchange programme managed by Open Eye Gallery and the University of Salford.

Sebah reviews portfolios internationally and mentors artists. With TRACE, she has launched a mentorship programme for women over the age of 35. She was on the selection panel for the RPS IPE 163 Open Call and the BJP Portrait of Britain 2021. She is also the Curator for AIS Open 2022, an online exhibition and an exhibition in Feb 2022 part of Beta X in Leicester. Currently UK editor for thephotoexhibitionarchive.com, Berlin, Steering Group member for FORMAT Festival, Derby and Board Member, Redeye Photography Network, Manchester. She has also newly joined RPS as a Trustee.

Australia

Fiona Sweet

A prominent and highly respected arts director, Fiona Sweet held the position of Artistic Director and CEO of the Ballarat International Foto Biennale, Australia’s leading contemporary photographic event and the National Centre for Photography for over 6 years.

Fiona’s directorship of the 2019 Biennale was responsible for more than 37,000 visitors with an injection of $7.8 million into the city’s economy. It was her fourth year working with incredible artists and curators to provide a festival that prompted the audience to question, explore and be changed by art. She successfully invited Chinese artist Liu Bolin as headline artist showing his Camouflage exhibition, which highlighted critical works from the past 15 years of Bolin’s creative output.

Fiona is an influential and in-demand public speaker, industry judge, photographic portfolio reviewer and assessor in Australia and internationally. As a curator, her interest lies in the interdisciplinary and experimental approaches to the photographic medium. Fiona’s practise often investigates the intersections between the human body and the human psyche and its response to shifting societal perspectives, power dynamics and challenges. She is responsible for the first major Australian exhibition of prominent US artist David LaChapelle, held concurrently as the legalisation of same-sex marriage in Australia.