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Alessandra Sanguinetti

Magnum

Alessandra Sanguinetti is an Argentine/American photographer, known for her ability to combine everyday experiences with myth, she immerses herself in long-term photo projects. Sanguinetti is a recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship, a Hasselblad Foundation grant a Robert Gardner Peabody Fellowship, a Rencontres d’Arles Discovery Award and a Sundance Development grant.

David Gibson

Up Photographers

David Gibson is a writer and photographer, he has taken street photographs for nearly thirty-five years.

His work has been widely published and exhibited, including, Bystander: A History of Street Photography (2017) by Joel Meyerowitz and Colin Westerbeck. Some of his photographs are held in the permanent collections of The Museum of London and the Museum of the City of New York.

He is the author of three books: The Street Photographer’s Manual (2014), 100 Great Street Photographs (2017) and Street Photography: A History in 100 Iconic Images (2019). The Street Photographer’s Manual is an international bestseller, and translated into 8 languages.

David has also taught street photography workshops in London and other cities worldwide.

In 2023, he was the Artist in Residence for Eyes on Main Street, in Wilson, North Carolina.

http://www.instagram.com/davidgibson_streetphotography

Damarice Amao

Musée National d'Art Moderne/Centre Pompidou, Paris

Damarice Amao is a historian of photography and a PhD in art history. She is currently a curator for photography at the Musée National d'Art Moderne/Centre Pompidou in Paris. She is also a guest professor at the National School for Photography in Arles.

In 2023, she was the artistic director of the Lectoure photography festival and a jury member at the World Press Photo contest. She curated Unbound at the Unseen fair in Amsterdam and was speaker at Paris Photo in 2022.

Photograph of Damarice Amao by Marguerite Bornhauser.

Harry Gruyaert

Harry Gruyaert is known for his extraordinary photographic work with color. Born in Antwerp in 1941, he originally dreamed of becoming a film director. In the late 1970s, Pop art and a trip to Morocco inspired him to become one of the first photographers in Europe to devote his work entirely to color photography.A member of Magnum Photos since 1982, Gruyaert has photographed extensively in the United States, Morocco, Europe, and India. He has also taken many photographs of Belgium, his native country, and published many books, his latest Homeland. As Gruyaert states, “For me, photography is not only a matter of composition or color; it must also talk about place and time."

Mania De Praeter

Winner 2024 BSPF Singles competition

Mania De Praeter is a neurosurgeon in her hometown, Antwerp.  She also lives part-time in NY where her partner resides.  Although she was an avid photographer for a long time, she became really passionate about photographer during Covid lockdown, when she started spending a lot of her spare time on the street chasing light, shadows, and people.  Her photography is mostly in black and white, but she’s also fascinated by color street photography.  Compositions  of contrasting lines, volumes, and shadows, in which human figures appear lost of seeking solitude are a recurring theme in her work.

Pascal Sgro

Winner 2024 BSPF Series competition

After getting a Master’s degree in photography from ArBa-ESA (Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Brussels) in 2021, Pascal Sgro won the Roger De Conynck Prize for his first series Parfum. His work has been featured in several group exhibitions, such as Archipel_1 at Contretype (Brussels), the 19th National Open Photography Prize at the Musée de la Photographie (Charleroi), and at the Festival des Boutographies (Montpellier). In 2024, his series Le Jardin du Lunch won first prize at the Brussels Street Photography Festival.

Dimpy Bhalotia

Dimpy Bhalotia (born 1987) is an award-winning street photographer and creative director renowned for her powerful and pioneering photographs. She is celebrated for transforming everyday moments into timeless works of art. Based between London and Mumbai, Dimpy is a master at capturing the interplay of humans, animals, and urban spaces in fleeting moments. She has been a huge inspiration in the photography industry and is widely known for her unique perspective and originality in her photographs. Her work has been featured in prestigious publications like The Washington Post, The Guardian, L’Officiel and The Telegraph.

Festival jury

Nikos Economopoulos

Magnum

Nikos Economopoulos joined Magnum in 1990, and his photographs started appearing in newspapers and magazines around the world. In the same period, he started traveling and photographing extensively around the Balkans. This won the "Mother Jones Award" (San Francisco, CA) for work in progress. Upon the completion of his Balkans project in 1994, he became a full member of Magnum. His book "In The Balkans" was published in 1995 in New York (Abrams) and in Athens (Libro).

In the 1990s, he started working on borders and crossings, photographing the inhabitants of the "Green Line" in Cyprus, the irregular migrants on the Greek-Albanian borderline, and the mass migration of ethnic Albanians fleeing Kosovo. In the mid-1990s, he started photographing the Roma and other minorities. In 2000 he completed a book project on the Aegean islands storytellers, commissioned by the University of the Aegean. A retrospective of his work titled "Economopoulos, Photographer" was published in 2002, and later exhibited at the Benaki Museum, Athens. Subsequently, he returned to Turkey to pursue his long-term personal project on the country, where he received the Abdi Ipektsi award (2001), for peace and friendship between Greek and Turkish  people.

He has recently turned to the use of color. Currently, he is spending most of his time away from Greece, traveling, teaching and photographing around the world, in the context of his long-term “On The Road” project.

Sabiha Çimen

Magnum

Magnum photographer Sabiha Çimen was born in Istanbul,Turkey. She is a self-taught photographer, graduated from Istanbul BilgiUniversity with an undergraduate degree in International Trade and Finance, anda Master’s degree in Cultural Studies.

Sabiha Çimen works on long term photo projects focusing onportraiture and still life rooted in Islamic culture.

Her first and latest long-term photo project ‘Hafiz’focuses on the daily life of the young girls in Quran schools in Turkey. Herwork is also supported by Lightwork, World Press photo, Eugene SmithFoundation, Aperture-Paris Photo.

She lives between Istanbul and New York. Çimen is mostlydeveloping self-reflective projects close to home in lstanbul.

Jane Evelyn Atwood

Jane Evelyn Atwood was born in New York and has been living in France since 1971. Her work translates the profound intimacy she establishes with her subjects over long periods of time. Fascinated by people and by the idea of exclusion, she manages to penetrate worlds that most of us ignore or choose to ignore. She is the author of fifteen books, including a monographe in the prestigious Photo Poche collection, and Too Much Time, Women in Prison, the monumental ten-year undertaking that remains today a reference for female incarceration, and will be re-published in 2025. Rue des Lombards, her first story on Parisien prostitutes; Pigalle People, the transgenders of a red-light district in Paris; or DARYA, a Ukranian woman who cares for the elderly in Italy are only some of her other books. Her latest, HORSES, just published in France, is completely different from anything she’s ever done before. She has won many of the most prestigious international awards including the first W. Eugene Smith Award, Leica's Oskar Barnack Award, an Alfred Eisenstadt Prize and the Ernst Haas Award. In 2022 the Minstère de la Culture in France bestowed upon her the title of Officier des Arts et des Lettres.  Her images have been exhibited internationally and may be found in private and public collections.  In France Jane Evelyn Atwood is represented by the gallery, In Camera.

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