Futures Digital Festival: The Conversations

The Conversations is an event in which we invite a group of professionals and our talents for a series of portfolio review and coaching sessions. These meetings will take place once a week during the month of October, in a private and online environment.

From different countries, the list of professionals includes artists, curators, photo-editors, gallerists, publishers, etc. They are:

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Angel Luis Gonzales – Director and Founder of the PhotoIreland Festival

Raphaelle Stopin - Curator at International Festival of Fashion, Photography and Fashion Accessories of Hyères

Giangavino Pazzola - Curator at Camera-Italian Center for Photography in Turin

Lyza Premiak - Editor at The Calvert Journal

Fotofestiwal Lodz

Ingrid Leonard and Rein Desle - FOMU

Sebastian Vaida – Founder of the Photo Romania Festival

Istvan Virágvölgyi - Curator, photo editor and secretary of the Robert Capa Photography Grand Prize Hungary

Ana Berruguete – curator at PHotoESPAÑA

Clara Chalou - Artistic committee of the association Fetart and organizers of festival Circulation(s) in Paris

Elias Redstone - Founder and Artistic Director of PHOTO 2021 International Festival of Photography in Melbourne (AU)

Federica Chiocchetti - Writer, curator, editor and lecturer. Founder of Photocaptionist

Daria Tuminas - Curator at FOTODOK in Utrecht and former Head of Book Market at Unseen Amsterdam

Cale Garrido and Anja Kneller - Curators for Triennial of Photography Hamburg

Isabelle van Hemert - Photo Editor at De Correspondent

Alessia Glaviano - Senior photo editor for Vogue Itália and L’Uomo Vogue

Donald Weber – Photographer, teacher and founder of the Master Photography & Society program at the KABK

Jason Fullford - Photographer and co-founder of J&L Books. He i salso a Guggenheim Fellow

Bruno Ceschel - Director and founder of Self Publish, Be Happy. Lecturer at ECAL and UAL and writer/curator/consultant on contemporary photography

Valerie Cazin - Director of Galerie Binome in Paris

Azu Nwagbogu - Founder and Director of African Artists’ Foundation (AAF); Founder and Director of LagosPhoto Festival, in Nigeria

Bindi Vora - Artist, curator, and curatorial project manager at Autograph in London

Elena Vaninetti - Curator, educator, and editor (YET magazine)

Narda van 't Veer – Founder of the Ravestjin Gallery

Janice McLaren - Head of Education & Projects at The Photographers’ Gallery in London

Maja Dyrehauge Gregersen - Head of the Copenhagen Photo Festival

Claire Gould - Curator of the Copenhagen Photo Festival

Tim Clark - Founder and editor of 1000 Words

Sergio Valenzuela Escobedo - Independent artist and curator, currently completing his PhD at the National Photography School in Arles, France (ENSP)

Kim Boske - Visual artist. She studied at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague, from which she received her BA in 2005

Salvatore Vitale - Visual artist, editor of Yet Magazine and professor at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSLU)

Sarker Protick - Visual artist, teacher and curator

Aaron Schuman - Artist, photographer, writer, editor, curator and teacher at UWE Bristol

Max Pinkers - Artist based in Brussels, Belgium

Nicolas Polli - Artist, graphic designer and founder of Ciao Press Publishing

Valentina Abenavoli - Visual artist and founder of Akina Books

Marcella Manni - Founder of Metronom gallery and publishing house based in Modena (IT)

Claudia Dader - Fashion Editor at O'Neill

Juan Curto - Founder, owner and director of Camara Oscura in Madrid

Tommaso Parrillo - Publisher and founder of Witty books (Witty Kiwi)

Erik Vroons - Editor-at-large for GUP Magazine

Caroline O'Breen - Founder and director of Galerie Caroline O'Breen in Amsterdam

Yvette Mutumba - ‘Curator-at-large’ at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and editor-in-chief of the art magazine Contemporary And (C&)

Jenny Nordquist - Artistic director for Landskrona Foto, Sweden

Taco Hidde Bakker - Writer, translator, teacher, curator, and sparring partner for photographers and artists

Thyago Nogueira - Head of the Contemporary Photography Department at Instituto Moreira Salles, Brazil and editor of ZUM photography magazine

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Milo Montelli – Publisher and founder of SKINNERBOOX

Virgilio Ferreira - Founder and director of Ci.CLO Porto

Emma Bowkett - Director of Photography at the Financial Times FT Weekend Magazine

Rebecca Simons - Independent photography editor, producer and educator

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