freelance basis for a variety of international publications. Michiel van Iersel (1978, the Netherlands) co-founded Nonfiction, an Amsterdam based office for cultural innovation, in 2008. He speaks and writes about art and culture on a regular basis and has hosted or co-hosted conferences on museum innovation, including McMuseum (2002), Open Museum (2008) and Curating the City (2009).
Anne-Celine Jaeger (1975, Germany) is a British-based journalist and critic. Among her books is Image Makers, Image Takers: The Essential Guide to Photography by Those in the Know. She has written for many publications, including The Guardian, The Sunday Times, Foam Magazine and Wallpaper* as well as Süddeutsche Zeitung and Du magazine. Michael T. Jones (1960, United States) is Google’s Chief Technology Advocate. He was previously Chief Technologist of Google Maps, Earth, and Local Search. He has developed scientific and interactive computer graphics software and has used a home-built 4-gigapixel camera made with parts from the U2/SR71. JR (1983, France) is an artist describing himself as a photograffeur. His artistic research involves photography, street art and participatory art. His first exhibition, Expos 2 Rue, was held in the streets of Paris in 2001. With the project Face2Face (2007) he made portraits of Palestinians and Israelis and pasted them up in huge formats on both sides of the wall. After winning the TED Prize in 2011 he started the project Inside Out, a large scale participatory project about identity. His current project Unframed reinterprets in huge formats photos from important photographers taken from the archives of museums. JR is represented by Galerie Perrotin in Paris.
Kadir van Lohuizen (1963, the Netherlands) is an independent photojournalist. He has covered conflicts throughout the world, but he is probably best known for his projects on the seven rivers of the world and the diamond industry (published as photobooks Diamond Matters, the diamond industry and Aderen). In Via PanAm Van Lohuizen brings the focus back to Latin America, which is hardly visible in today’s news coverage. He has received numerous prizes for his work, and established with ten others the photo agency NOOR images (Amsterdam). Flora Lysen (1984, the Netherlands) is an independent writer, curator and researcher, currently teaching at the Master program in Artistic Research at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague. In 2010 she was the curator of The Smooth and the Striated, an exhibition in collaboration with the University of Amsterdam, showing the work of eight contemporary artists. Lev Manovich (1960, Russia) is professor in the Visual Arts Department of the University of California, San Diego, director of the Software Studies Initiative, and a professor at the European Graduate School (EGS). He focuses on developing analytical tools that can model new patterns and trends within web-based cultural production and social media. Anne Marsh (Australia) is Director of the Art Theory Program and Associate Dean Research at Monash University in Australia. Her research areas include photography, performance art, feminism, postmodernism and psychoanalysis. Her books include Look: Contemporary Australian Photography since 1980 (Macmillan Publishers, 2010). Lesley A. Martin (1970, United States) is publisher of Aperture Foundation’s book program. She was one of the inaugural curators of the New York Photo Festival in 2008. In 2006 American Photo named Martin one of the Innovators of the Year, for ‘breaking the mold for iconic photography books’ with her
cadre of ‘conceptually oriented books that have added a fresh vision to the photography world’. Nicholas Mirzoeff (United Kingdom) is Professor of Media Culture and Communication at New York University. His publications and projects contributed fundamentally to the general development of Visual Culture as a field of study and a methodology. He wrote and edited An Introduction to Visual Culture (2nd ed. 2009) and The Visual Culture Reader (3rd ed. forthcoming 2012). His very last book just came out: The Right to Look: A Counterhistory of Visuality (2011). Alison Nordström (1950, United States) is Senior Curator of Photographs and Director of Exhibitions at George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film in Rochester. In 2011 she curated a major retrospective of more than 150 photographs by Lewis Wickes Hine at the Fondation Henri CartierBresson in Paris. Sean O’Toole (1968, South Africa) is a Cape Town-based journalist and writer. His writings on South African photography have appeared in the magazines Art in America, Camera Austria, DAMn Magazine, eye Magazine, Frieze and Kyoto Journal; and in the books Alias (2011) and Ghetto (2004), both by photographers Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin, Joburg Circa Now (2004) by Terry Kurgan and Jo Ractliffe, and Positions (2010), which included an essay on Guy Tillim. Marisa Olson (1977, Germany) is a visual artist based in New York. Her work combines video, performances, drawing and installations. Her research focuses on the cultural history of technology, the politics of participation in pop culture and the aesthetics of failure. She is Assistant Professor of New Media at the Purchase College State University of NY and was previously Editor & Curator at Rhizome. Paulien Oltheten (1982, the Netherlands) is an artist/photo grapher that focuses her research on prolonged observation of the public sphere, documenting the fleeting human situations. She was resident artist at the Rijksakademie van beeldende Kunsten (the Netherlands) and ARCUS project in Japan. Her work has been exhibited widely and it’s part of several collections, including the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. Paulien Oltheten is represented by Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
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Lisa Oppenheim (1975, United States) lives and works in New York City. Her films and photographs have been recently been exhibited at the Guggenheim Museum in New York and Bilbao, the New Museum, and at the Museum of Fine Art, Houston, as well as in many gallery exhibitions throughout the United States and Europe. Recent solo exhibitions include Blood to Ghosts at Galerie Juliette Jongma (Amsterdam) and at Klosterfelde; and Invention without a Future at Harris Lieberman. Arthur Ou (1974, Taiwan) is an artist and writer based in New York. His writings have been published in Aperture, Artforum. com, Afterall.org, Bidoun, Fantom, X-Tra, and Words Without Pictures (Aperture: 2010). He is currently the Director of the BFA Photography Program at Parsons the New School for Design. Ou co-organized the conference The Photographic Universe together with the Aperture Foundation, The Shpilman Institute, and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics. Outlook Magazine is China’s leading original creative lifestyle magazine. It covers content ranging from fashion to architecture, from travel to art, and from culture to design. Outlook has been published in Shanghai continuously since October 2002. The editor-in-chief is Jiaojiao Chen and the art director is Peng Yangjun, both them used to be authors of COLORS magazine during 2006 to 2008. Asmara Pelupessy (1981, United States/ the Netherlands) is an independent curator, researcher, writer, editor and project organizer in photography and visual culture. Together with Sara Blokland she is the co-founder of UNFIXED Projects, a non-profit organization aimed at creating platforms for dialogue between photography, contemporary art and theory. Willem Popelier (1982, the Netherlands) is a Dutch visual artist who uses photography. In 2011 he was granted a special mention at Dutch Doc Awards. He exhibited his works at Foam Amsterdam, the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and at Les Rencontres d’Arles. His work is centred on photographic representations of identity. Laurel Ptak (United States) is a curator who has been based in New York City for the last ten years. She is the founder of the blog about contemporary photography iheartphotograph.com. Recently
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The Impossible Project was initiated by Dr.Florian Kaps (CMO), André Bosman (COO) and Marwan Saba (CFO) in 2008. Its mission was not to re-build Polaroid film but to develop a new product with new characteristics. In 2010 Impossible introduced its first, brand new analog Instant Film materials. Impossible initiated also several projects dedicated to support and promote Instant Photography amongst artists and photographers. Impossible Project Spaces have opened in New York City (USA), Tokyo (Japan) and Vienna (Austria).
Erik Kessels (1966, the Netherlands) is a founding partner and creative director of KesselsKramer, an international communications agency based in Amsterdam. He has curated numerous photography exhibitions such as USE ME, ABUSE ME at the New York Photo Festival 2010 and most recently From Here On at Les Rencontres d’Arles, France.