Paul is Doctor of Visual Arts and Senior Lecturer in Art History and Art Pedagogy and in charge of the Visual Arts Laboratory at the University of Luxembourg. His field of research is representation and deconstruction in contemporary photography. He has been a workshop leader of the annual Art Workshop organized by Casino Luxembourg – Forum d’art contemporain in collaboration with University of Luxembourg, since 1998. He also works as an art critic and as an independent curator of international contemporary photography exhibitions. He is an active member of AICA and co-organizes the European Month of Photography in Luxembourg. Since 1984 he is co-editor and co-publisher of Café-Crème edition, an international art and photography magazine and edition. He has been frequently invited as a curator to international photography meetings and as a jury member for exhibitions and contemporary art biennials. He has been invited to international photography meetings such as Pingyao International Photo Festival (China, 2008) and Les Rencontres d’Arles – Photographie (France, 2013-2008). He has been frequently invited as jury member for exhibitions and was head of jury for Backlight Triennale Price, Tampere, Finland. Since 2006 Paul works as art critic for lacritique.org.

Marinella graduated in Contemporay Art at the University of Bologna (DAMS), Italy. She is a contemporary art critic and independent curator. She teaches Contemporary Art at the IULM University in Milan and ISIA in Faenza and Phenomenology of Contemporary Arts at the Fine Arts Academy in Bergamo. She was a correspondent for the international contemporary art magazine “Tema Celeste”, and is currently contribuing to contemporary art magazines "Frieze", “Flash Art” and "Exibart". She has curated various exhibitions on the portrayal of contemporary landscapes, such as “Alto Impatto Ambientale”, 2003; “Suburbia”, 2004 (in collaboration with Marco Senaldi); “Ground Zero. Lo spazio di nulla”, 2005; and the site-specific exhibitions at the Botanical Gardens in Parma (Open Air from 2005 to 2008, in collaboration with Isotta Saccani). Her activity as a curator also involves video art and photography. She has written a book dedicated to photography as part of the “Laboratorio Italia” series published by Johan & Levi (Laboratorio Italia. The photography in contemporary art, 2010). In 2008 she curated the “Same Democracy” project (in collaboration with Elvira Vannini), the first Italian exhibition on the theme of artistic and curatorial practices, inspired by the open source model, and a public project on the theme of visionary realism in art, architecture and cultural economics, entitled “We have a dream” (Spazio Gerra, Reggio Emilia, in collaboration with Luca Molinari and Pier Luigi Sacco). In 2012 she was the curator of Celeste Network Prize "Beyondmemory" focused on the archive fever in contemporary art. She has held various thematic conferences on contemporary art, with a particular focus on the phenomenology between different cultural sectors. From 1988 to 1994 she worked in fashion, collaborating with the designer Jean-Paul Gaultier as director of the “Junior Gaultier” product line.

Jim is founder and director of Lens Culture, an international photographic arts organization based in Paris. He is publisher and editor of Lens Culture’s popular international online magazine which explores contemporary photography, media, and world cultures. In its November 2012 yearly round-up of the best photography websites, publications and galleries, the UK Guardian wrote: “Lens Culture features essays, slideshows, audio and visual interviews and incisive criticism, making it one of the most authoritative and wide-ranging sites.” Lens Culture hosts the annual international photography portfolio review conference in Paris, Lens Culture FotoFest Paris, and sponsors the yearly Lens Culture International Exposure Awards competition for photography and multimedia. Jim also produces a series of audio and video interviews, titled “Lens Culture Conversations with Photographers”. He serves on juries of several international photo competitions, curates shows, lectures, conducts workshops, and writes about photography. In 2013 Jim was juror in the San Francisco International Photography Exhibition.

Clare is a curator and Head of Exhibitions at The Photographers' Gallery, London, UK, where she has been working since 2003. She has worked on a range of exhibitions including a retrospective of Keith Arnatt's photography, and with photographers Taryn Simon and Antoine d'Agata on solo exhibitions. She is the photography editor for Contemporary Magazine. and has written features on Anri Sala, Alan Sekula, Carlos Garaicoa and Lise Sarfati.

Hripsime is Conservator of Photography at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam since 1990. Before that, she has taught at several academies and institutions such as the Institut Francais in The Hague and ZWN in Delft. At the Stedelijk Museum, Visser has co-curated various exhibitions, among which Lewis Baltz (1992), Koen Wessing (1993), Hans Aarsman, Anton Corbijn and Bertien van Manen (1994), Oscar van Alphen (1995), Emmy Andriesse, Gerald van der Kaap and 100 x Photo, 100 Photographs from the Collection of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (1996), Boris Mikhailov (1997/8), Thomas Struth (1998), Beat Streuli/Gabriele Basilico (2000), Ed van der Elsken (2002), Sam Taylor-Wood (2002 and 2003), Jitka Hanzlova, and Footloose: Runa Islam, Vibeke Tandberg, Valérie Jouve (2001), Sam Taylor-Wood (2002), Rineke Dijkstra (2004 ) and Mapping the City (2007), Luigi Gariglio, Portraits in Prisons, Rome (2007). Broomberg & Chanarin (2007). She has also contributed texts to many books, catalogues, journals and magazines, such as Vrij Nederland, Perspektief (Rotterdam): Magazine for Photography, European Photography and Kunstschrif; ,lectures and is member on several boards and advisory committees of institutions related to photography.

Bas is director of Paradox in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He studied Economics at Erasmus University Rotterdam and photography at Academie St. Joost in Breda. He co-founded and directed Perspektief, centre for photography in Rotterdam, and the Fotografie Biënnale Rotterdam between 1980-1992. He acted as the editor in chief of Perspektief Magazine from 1980-1995.
Since 2003 Vroege lectures in editorial and curatorial practice at the Masters in Film and Photographic Studies (MaFPS) at the University Leiden. He is member of the International Board of Advisors of the Three Shadows Photography Art Centre (Beijing, China) and of the Supervisory Board of World Press Photo (Amsterdam).
As an independent curator, he has been responsible for a number of cross-media festivals and exhibitions. For the 2009 Noorderlicht International Photo Festival he curated the exhibition Multivocal Histories. As director of Paradox, Bas produces photography related projects (exhibitions, books, films, websites) driven by a social agenda, such as Go No Go (on migration in Europe, with photographer Ad van Denderen). As a photographer and curator, Bas has been responsible for a number of cross-media festivals and exhibitions such as: Obsessions – From Wunderkammer to Cyberspace (Foto Biennale Enschede, 1995), Digital territories (Rotterdam Festivals/DEAF, 1996), Avatar (dealing with the notion of the multiple personality in digital society, 1998, Amsterdam) and EXPERIENCE (Foto Biennale Rotterdam, 2003). For the University of Sunderland (UK) and the International Photography Research Network (IPRN), he curated a symposium on the representation of work in photography in 2005. He is involved in the project OswiecimNow, dealing with the post-war history of Auschwitz. As an advisor he has worked for several institutions such as the Mondriaan Foundation (1993-1995), The Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture (1998-2001), the MFA photography programme at St. Joost Academy in Breda (1999-2002), the bachelor photography programme of the Royal Academy of Arts, The Hague (2002-2004). In 1995-1996 he was part of the committee appointed by the Council for Advanced Studies that reviewed the visual arts educational institutions in the Netherlands. He became a member of the Supervisory Board of World Press Photo in 2006.