Reviewers

Completed list of reviewers.

• Sheyi Antony Bankale

  Editor and Founder, Next Level, London www.nextleveluk.com

  Sheyi Antony Bankale is the Editor and Founder of Next Level magazine. Next Level is one of Europe’s leading art photography magazines with a dynamic mix of art photography and ideas. It features a diverse range of some of the world’s most influential photo artists. It aims to bring awareness and debate to contemporary culture, showcasing and celebrating emerging and established artists, across various disciplines and alongside inspiring, provocative and critical writing. Bankale is also Curator of Next Level Projects, an exciting platform for innovative and experimental contemporary art photography situation in the heart of Shoreditch, London.  He is also curator for the European City of Culture 2011.

  Next Level is the hub between photo artists, curators, dealers, collectors, galleries and institutions.
  
  Bankale is only interested in contemporary art photography. He is not interested in photo- journalism. He can help photo artists through publishing work in Next Level magazine and monographs, and selection of a major international photograph exhibition scheduled for 2011. 

   

• Selva Barni

  Co-Editor, FANTOM Photographic Quarterly, Milan www.fantomeditions.com

  Selva Barni is the editor - with Cay Sophie Rabinowitz - of FANTOM, a new international photographic quarterly. She was the photography editor of Italian monthly Rodeo from 2005-2008 and has previously worked in the studio of photographers Ralph Gibson, Robert Polidori and Sally Gall in New York. Barni studied in Milan and completed her education at MoMA's Photography Department. She lives in Milan.
  
  FANTOM is a new international publication about the uses and abuses of photography. A voyage into photography, FANTOM will orient readers and viewers in the scaled horizons drawn by photography and those who critique, exhibit, collect, occupy and emulate it. Found, forgotten and not yet discovered, first and foremost FANTOM features the voice of photographers, in interviews, portfolios, and statements alongside the often silent but rarely without a voice medium of Fotography.
  
   

• Melissa Bennett

  Curator of Contemporary Art, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton www.artgalleryofhamilton.on.ca

  Melissa Bennett is Curator of Contemporary Art at the Art Gallery of Hamilton. She received her Masters of Fine Art and Graduate Diploma in Curatorial Studies at York University. Bennett earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in photography at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University. She has recently been an instructor of Contemporary Canadian Art at the Ontario College of Art and Design, and has an independent curatorial practice.

  Bennett is particularly interested in bodies of photography that deal with conceptual or theoretical themes, as well as work that addresses the medium itself.

   

• Stefanie Braun

  Curator, The Photographers' Gallery, London www.photonet.org.uk

  Stefanie Braun is a curator at The Photographers’ Gallery in London, a publicly funded gallery dedicated to photography (established in 1971). After completing a degree in Visual Theories in 1999, Braun worked at Creative Camera magazine before joining The Photographers' Gallery in 2000. For the past six years, she has organised and curated the prestigious annual Deutsche Börse Photography Prize. Other curatorial projects include solo and group exhibitions of historical and contemporary photography including The London Fire Brigade Archive (2006), Danny Treacy: Them (2008) and André Kertész: On Reading (2009). Braun has been the editor of various publications, regularly serves on international juries, is involved in portfolio reviews and lectures at universities and colleges.

  Braun would like to see bodies of work that are innovative and push the boundaries of the medium. She is particularly interested in work produced for a contemporary art context, but would not like to review commercial work intended for stock or advertising (with the exception of fashion photography). 

   

• Matt Brower

  Professor and Curator, University of Toronto Art Centre, Toronto www.utac.utoronto.ca

  Matthew Brower is a lecturer in Museum Studies in the Faculty of Information and the Curator of the University of Toronto Art Centre. His research explores the production and circulation of images in North American culture focusing on the question of how images function. He is particularly interested in images that occupy the intersections of art, science, and technology and has largely pursued these interests through the representation of nature and the figure of the animal.  He is on the editorial board of Antennae: the Journal of Nature in Visual Culture. His book Developing Animals: Wildlife and Early American Photography, forthcoming from the University of Minnesota Press, examines the emergence of animal photography in late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth century American visual culture.

  As curator of UTAC, he is currently co-curating “The Brothel without Walls,” a primary exhibition for CONTACT 2010 which brings together ten international contemporary artists to examine the significance of McLuhan’s theories for understanding the role of photography. He is also co-curating an exhibition on the articulation of a feminist Aesthetics of beauty in the work of Suzy Lake for 2011.

  Brower is interested in seeing documentary work, conceptual work, and work relating to animals and nature.

   

• Jim Casper

  Editor and Publisher, Lens Culture, Paris www.lensculture.com

  Jim Casper is editor and publisher of Lens Culture, a popular online magazine about international contemporary photography, which attracts more than 2.5 million visitors per year from more than 50 countries worldwide. Since early 2004, Casper has been writing articles, essays and criticism about photography; conducting, recording and publishing audio and video interviews with important photographers; and participating in portfolio reviews, conferences and photography festivals worldwide. He lectures about photography, conducts workshops, and curates photo-based exhibitions. He serves on the advisory boards of San Francisco’s PhotoAlliance and Montreal’s Anthropographia.  In 2009, Casper founded the Lens Culture International Exposure Awards and  photographers in 48 countries submitted more than 6,000 photographs. Prior to Lens Culture, Casper was founder and president of an international branding and design firm based in Berkeley, California for 20 years. He currently lives and works in Paris.

  Several photographers whose work has first appeared in Lens Culture have since gained worldwide recognition, including new gallery representation, solo and group exhibitions, promotion and profiles in international magazines and newspapers, editorial assignments, commissions and sales of their work.

  Casper is especially interested in contemporary photography and how it interacts and overlaps with other art forms, mass media, and world cultures. He is not particularly interested in commercial photography, fashion, stock, or work that relies largely on digital manipulation (except for digital multimedia/projections with sound).

   

   

• Kristin Dittrich

  Curator, Specialist and Director, Festival of Contemporary Photography, Leipzig www.f-stop-leipzig.de

  Kristin Dittrich is the founder of the Zentrum für Zeitgenössische Fotografie (Center for Contemporary Photography) in Leipzig, Germany. She is also the director of the F/Stop International Photography Festival, September 23- October 3, 2010. F/Stop is the first photo festival in Germany that focuses on contemporary and experimental art photography. Dittrich was educated at the Sorbonne in Paris, and is involved in several curatorial projects in Europe. She teaches at the Art History Department at the University of Leipzig.   

  Dittrich can provide the opportunity to exhibit photographer's work at the F/Stop Festival and publish work in the festival catalogue. She is interested in innovative photography and documentary photography with a strong human interest. She is not interested in commercial or classical photography.
  
  

• Sophie Hackett

  Assistant Curator, Photography, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto www.ago.net

  Sophie Hackett is the Assistant Curator, Photography at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto. Over the last decade, she has contributed to several Canadian and international art magazines and journals and curated many shows independently, including The Found and the Familiar: Snapshots in Contemporary Canadian Art in 2002, co-curated with Jennifer Long, which toured nationally. In her role at the Art Gallery of Ontario, she worked with Toronto artist Suzy Lake to create, Rhythm of a True Space, a site-specific installation on the AGO’s construction hoarding for CONTACT 2008.  Hackett also participated centrally in the reinstallation of the permanent photography collection for the gallery’s reopening last fall.  For CONTACT 2010, she is working with American artist Barbara Kruger to create a work for the front façade of the AGO.

  Hackett is interested in reviewing all types of photographic work, and recommends that artists research the AGO’s collection and exhibition history before their review.

   

• Jacqueline Hassink

  Photographer, New York www.jacquelinehassink.com

  Jacqueline Hassink was born in 1966 in Enschede, the Netherlands. Following studies at the Royal Art Academy of the Hague, she graduated from the Art Academy of Trondheim, Norway, 1992 majoring in sculpture. Her work has widely been collected and exhibited, including shows at the Kunstlerhaus Dortmund, Germany; galerie deux, Tokyo; Scalo gallery, New York; Recontre d'Arles, France; Fotomuseum Winterthur, Zurich; the Photographers' Gallery, London; Museum of Modern Art, Arnheim, the Netherlands; Huis Marseille, Amsterdam; and the Netherlands Photo Museum, Rotterdam; V&A, London. She has published over seven books of her work, including The Table of Power (1996), Female Power Stations: Queen Bees (1999), Mindscapes (2003), The Power Book (2007), Domains of Influence (2008) and Car Girls (2009).
  
  Hassink has lectured at the postgraduate photography program at the University of Art and Design, Helsinki; the ICP, New York; and she is a visiting lecturer of the Visual and Environmental Studies program at Harvard University. She is represented by Amador Gallery, New York. 

  Hassink would like to meet people who are in their final year of an art education/MBA program or have worked as a professional.

   

• Liz Ikiriko

  Photo Editor, Toronto Life Magazine, Toronto www.torontolife.com

  Liz Ikiriko is the Photo Editor at Toronto Life Magazine (currently on mat-leave). As Photo Editor and photographer she has won silvers in the Advertising & Design Club of Canada and National Magazine Awards. Ikiriko previously co-photo edited FLAVA: The Story of Wedge; a 10 year retrospective book; has participated in the CONTACT portfolio reviews; is on the jury for Magenta Foundation's Flash Forward Annual and teaches workshops at Pikto in Toronto.

  Ikiriko is interested in reviewing the portfolios of photographer's interested in pursuing work in the editorial photo industry.

   

• Jooli Kim

  Artist Representative, JK Productions, Toronto www.jkreps.com/

  Jooli Kim, agency director of JK reps/ productions has been working with photographers since 1997. Graduate of UofT Art History program, Kim's taste comes from an innate understanding of the subtleties of visual communications in both art and applied art. Representing an art-based group of Canadian photographers, from still life to conceptual, for corporate and culture brands. The aim of the agency is to bring the photographers unique stylists, content and discipline to the commissioned project. Current roster includes: Chris Buck, Candace Meyer, Sandy Pereira, Adam Rankin, Chris Stevenson, Lee Towndrow and Mark Zibert. New to the agency is Brett Simms, CG/ digital artist.

• Constantine Manos

  Photographer, Magnum Photos, New York www.magnumphotos.com

  Constantine Manos was born in 1934 in South Carolina to Greek immigrant parents. His interest in photography began when he was 13, in the school camera club, and at the age of 19 he was hired as the official photographer of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. He attended the University of South Carolina, graduating in 1955 with a BA in English Literature. After military service, he moved to New York, where he worked for Esquire, Life and Look. His book Portrait of a Symphony was published in 1961. He lived in Greece for the next three years and the resulting body of work, A Greek Portfolio, was published in 1972 and received awards at Les Rencontres d’Arles and the Leipzig Book Fair. In 1963 he joined Magnum Photos. 

  Manos's work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art,  New York, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Museum of Fine Arts,Houston, the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, the Art Institute of Chicago, the George Eastman House, Rochester, and the High Museum of Art, Atlanta. His book Bostonians, which celebrates the people of that city, was published in 1974. A new edition of A Greek Portfolio was published in 1999, accompanied by a major exhibition at the Benaki Museum in Athens. In 1995 American Color was published, and in 2003 he was awarded the Leica Medal of Excellence for his continuing work on that project.

   

• Anne Maureen McKeating

  Art Buyer, TAXI Canada Inc, Toronto www.taxi.ca

  Anne Maureen McKeating joined TAXI Canada as the Art Buyer in 2005. The Toronto-based agency is recognized globally for its ability to seamlessly combine attitude, advertising, interactive and design under one roof. Prior to joining TAXI, she was a Photo Rep, Producer and Integrated Project Manager.

  McKeating's passion for photography fuels her personal practice. She is an avid shooter and workshop participant. She works with Heather Morton as a portfolio reviewer at PIKTO and is an "Ask an Art Buyer" columnist on heathermorton.ca. She is also a member of the Art Producers + Photo Editors Forum.

  McKeating is interested in both commercial and fine art portfolios.

   

• Gaëlle Morel

  Associate Curator, Ryerson Gallery and Research Centre, Toronto www.ryerson.ca/about/provost/archived/gallery.html

  Gaëlle Morel is Associate Curator at the Ryerson Gallery and Research Centre, Toronto. In 2009, Morel was Guest Curator of Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal for which she edited the publication The Spaces of the Image (Montreal: Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal, 2009). She received her PhD in the history of contemporary art from Université Paris 1 – Panthéon-Sorbonne. Her research and recent work deal with the figure of the artist as author in contemporary photography and the artistic and cultural legitimization of the medium. She is a member of the editorial committee of the bilingual journal Études photographiques and has written essays that have appeared in a number of magazines and books. Recently, she edited Les Derniers Tableaux. Photojournalisme et art contemporain (Paris: Éditions des Archives Contemporaines, 2008) and co-wrote with Thierry Gervais La Photographie (Paris: Éditions Larousse, 2008). She is currently preparing an exhibition on Berenice Abbott for the Jeu de Paume in Paris, 2011.

  Morel is open to all kinds of photography (Conceptual photography, photo-reportage, etc.), but is specifically interested in seeing projects dealing with the topics and concepts of History, Politics, Archives and Memory.

   

• Heather Morton

  Freelance Art Buyer and Photographer Consultant, HMAb, Toronto www.heathermorton.ca

  After 5 years as the Head of Art Buying at one of Canada’s largest advertising agencies, Heather Morton left in 2006 to pursue a freelance career- offering Senior Art Buying services for advertising agencies and Creative Consultant services for photographers. In these unique roles, she scouts talent, awards jobs and produces photo shoots for major Canadian agencies and clients. In addition, she helps photographers build the best portfolio possible with unique insights into the demands of the commercial world. Through her close working relationships with photographers and Art Directors, she has had the opportunity to view and assess hundreds of portfolios from around the globe and believes that successful books communicate both a unique creative vision plus technical and professional expertise. In 2008 Morton also launched a blog: HMAb that receives over 25,000 hits a month and encourages interesting discussion about all matters having to do with photography in the commercial world. Morton is a member of the Art Producers Forum, and is the Chair of ADBASE's FoundFolios Buyer Advisory Group. 

  Because she works in the commercial realm, she is most interested in seeing work that may have commercial potential. If you want a gallery show, she can't help you with that.

   

• Helga Pakasaar

  Curator, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver www.presentationhousegall.com

  Helga Pakasaar is a contemporary art curator and writer based in Vancouver. In addition to an ongoing independent practice, she has been Curator at Presentation House Gallery in North Vancouver since 2003 and previously was Curator of Contemporary Art at the Art Gallery of Windsor from 1995-2001 and the Walter Phillips Gallery in Banff from 1987-1990. She was curator of the visual arts program at the Canada Pavilion at Expo 2005 in Aichii, Japan. She has produced many exhibitions and publications on contemporary art, including solo exhibitions on Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Judith Barry, Stan Douglas, Jochen Gerz, Martha Fleming/Lyne LaPointe, Judy Radul, Simon Starling, Colette Urban and Ian Wallace, and on historical photography.
  
  Pakasaar is interested in seeing new approaches to photography and images that might not be geared for "portfolio" format, as well as time-based media work. 

• Caitlin Robinson

  Photographer Representative, Westside Studios, Toronto www.westsidestudio.com

  Caitlin Robinson has been working in the advertising photography industry for over five years.  With a background in print production, Robinson’s outgoing personality led her into a career of photographer representation.  She has been fortunate to work with many of Toronto's top photographers. Currently employed by Westside Studio, she holds a roster of eleven photographers.  

  Robinson is interested in viewing portfolios of young up and coming photographers, concept driven photography and advanced digital imaging/CGI photography.

   

• Bonnie Rubenstein

  Artistic Director, CONTACT Photography Festival, Toronto www.contactphoto.com

  Bonnie Rubenstein has been a Director at CONTACT since 2002 and is primarily responsible for the festival's artistic programming. She curates exhibitions of photography by Canadian and international artists based on the annual festival theme, including CONTACT's primary exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, the University of Toronto Art Centre and the CONTACT Gallery. Rubenstein established CONTACT's Public Installation Program in 2003 and curates several high profile, grand scale projects throughout the city for the festival each year. 
  
  Rubenstein holds a Master of Fine Arts Degree from the School of the Art Institute, Chicago and worked previously at Lisson Gallery in London and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. She has over 20 years experience curating and coordinating contemporary art exhibitions and public commissions internationally for museums and galleries and in representing contemporary artists in exhibition and catalogue planning and production. 
  
  Rubenstein works with a broad range of photographic practices but is currently particularly interested in contemporary works that reflect human intervention in the landscape and relationships between figure and ground.
  
   

• Kitty Scott

  Director, Visual Arts, The Banff Centre, Banff www.banffcentre.ca

  Kitty Scott is Director, Visual Arts at The Banff Centre, Banff. Previously she was Chief Curator at the Serpentine Gallery, London, and Curator, Contemporary Art at the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. Scott has curated exhibitions of artists such as Francis Alÿs, Janet Cardiff, Paul Chan, Peter Doig, Ragnar Kjartansson, Silke Otto-Knapp and Ron Terada. Recently, she organized the curatorial symposium Trade Secrets: Education/Collection/History at The Banff Centre and edited the forthcoming publication Raising Frankenstein: Curatorial Education and Its Discontents. She has written extensively on contemporary art for catalogues and journals including Parachute, Parkett and Canadian Art. Scott has contributed to monographic publications on the work of Peter Doig, Brian Jungen, Daniel Richter and Matthew Barney. She is Visiting Professor for the Curatorial Practice program at the California College of the Arts, San Francisco; Adjunct Professor at York University, Toronto; University of British Columbia, Vancouver; and University of Ottawa, Ottawa. 

  Scott is interested in seeing photography that deals with photo-conceptualism and re-photography.

   

• Bree Seeley

  Picture Editor, The Walrus Magazine, Toronto www.walrusmagazine.com

  Bree Seeley, picture editor of The Walrus has been a facilitator of photography for thirteen years. Bree has served as picture editor in the U.K. at the Sunday Telegraph Magazine and in Canada at Saturday Night, Maclean's and Shift. She was editorial director at New York photo agency Morisot Inc. in 1999, and at Magnum Photos U.K. from 2004-2006. Bree currently teaches Visual Studies at Ryerson University. She has been involved in the development of ten photographic books, including the 2005 Infinity Award- winning Lodz Ghetto Album: Photographs by Henryk Ross. Bree has been the commissioning photo editor on dozens of works receiving gold and silver awards from the National Magazine Awards and the Advertising and Design Club of Canada; she has also been the commissioning editor of projects recognized by the NY Art Directors Club, American Photography, and the Society of Publication Designers.
  
   

• Wendy Watriss

  Senior Curator, Artistic Director and Co-founder, FotoFest, Houston www.fotofest.org

  Wendy Watriss is a photographer, curator, journalist, and writer. She is a co-founder of FotoFest and has served as FotoFest's Artistic Director and senior curator since 1991. As curator for FotoFest, she has organized and curated over 30 exhibitions from Europe, China, Latin America, Asia, Africa, and the U.S.  The exhibitions have featured contemporary and historical work, conceptual/multi-media projects and documentary photography. 

  Watriss began her professional career as a reporter and writer for national newspapers in the U.S.; then she became a producer of news documentaries for national public television in New York and, in 1970, a freelance photographer.  From 1970 to 1992, she worked internationally as a professional photographer doing both editorial assignment work and independent documentary photography. Her photographs have been published and exhibited around the world. She is the author of numerous essays on international politics as well as photography.  In 2009, her work and that of her partner Frederick Baldwin, was the subject of the book Looking at the U.S., 1957-1986  with a traveling exhibition

  Watriss selects work for FotoFest’s Biennial, its year-round exhibition program and International Discoveries exhibitions. She is interested in all types of work, abstract or figurative, which reflects a clear concept and the ability of the artist to successfully carry through their idea in 15-30 images. 

   

• Denise Wolff

  Editor, Book Program, Aperture Foundation, New York www.aperture.org

  Denise Wolff is a photo book editor, known for her work with both contemporary and historic photography. Prior to joining Aperture last year, she worked at Phaidon Press. Throughout her career, she has had the opportunity to work on many beautiful books with some of the world’s top photographers, including Mary Ellen Mark, Martin Parr, Eugene Richards, and Stephen Shore to name a few.
  
  Aperture - a nonprofit foundation dedicated to promoting photography- was founded in 1952 by photographers Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, Barbara Morgan, and many others.  in the 1960s, Aperture expanded to include the publication of books (over five hundred to date) that comprise one of the most comprehensive and innovative libraries in the history of photography and art. Aperture's programs also include limited-edition photographs, artist lectures and panel discussions, and a traveling exhibitions program that has presented shows at major museum and arts institutions in the United States.

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