PARTICIPANTS
Amalie Smith
Amalie Smith was born in 1985, and lives and works in Copenhagen. She graduated from the Danish Academy of Creative Writing in 2009 and the School of Time-Based Media at The Royal Academy of Fine Arts in 2015 with a video installation titled Eyes Touching, Fingers Seeing, a work that considers the phenomenology of digital touch interfaces. Since her graduation from The Danish Academy of Creative Writing, Amalie Smith has published six hybrid books. In October 2015, Amalie Smith received the Danish Crown Prince Couple’s Rising Star Award.
Marianne Ager
Marianne Ager (1971) works as a curator of mainly photography and film at Brandts Museum of Art and Visual Culture in Odense, Denmark. Marianne Ager has worked as a culture journalist, concert manager and dj. From 2010 to 2013 she wrote reviews of photography books for KATALOGJournal of Photography & Video. Recently she was a member of the Young Nordic Photographer of the Year jury panel at Fotografiska in Stockholm, Sweden. Marianne is interested in fine art photography with a powerful narrative but is also deeply fascinated by images that exist in the zone between art and the documentary.
Gintarė Krasuckaitė
Gintarė Krasuckaitė (1991) holds a Bachelor’s degree in Art History and Criticism, and a Master‘s degree in Art Curating from the Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas. Having worked for the Kaunas Contemporary Art Biennial, she now works as a curator at Kaunas Photography Gallery, where she is also involved with the gallery residency programme as well as publishing projects.
Laura Kuusk
Laura Kuusk (1982) is a photographer and associate professor in the Photography Department at the Estonian Academy of Art. She has participated in exhibitions since 2007. Kuusk is interested in the focus of the gaze, the power relationship between the viewer and the image, as well as the various methods used to create narrative in a work of art. Her work can be found in the Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia and in private collections in Estonia and France.
Adam Mazur
Adam Mazur (1977) works as an art critic, curator and editor-in-chief of Szum magazine. During the years 2002-2013 he worked at the Centre for Contemporary Art at Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw, and curated several exhibitions. Published the books Histories of Photography in Poland 1839-2009 (2010), New Phenomena in Polish Photography after 2000 (2012), among others. In 2013 he established a research platform focusing on Polish photobooks. His main interests are contemporary art and documentary photography.
Marina Valle Noronha
Marina Valle Noronha (1981) is curator at the HIAP Residency Programme in Helsinki. She holds a Master’s in Curatorial Studies from CCS Bard, USA, and a Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Architecture from UFMG, Brazil. Marina has explored the relationships between permanent collections and temporary exhibitions, including display methods that experiment with exhibition props and environmental features such as light, sound and plants.
Baiba Tetere
Baiba Tetere (1978) is a visual arts researcher and co-founder of the ISSP association. She studied History of Photography at De Montfort University in Great Britain, and is writing her doctoral dissertation about early anthropological photography in Latvia in the late 19th century. Since 2006 Tetere has regularly organised educational and art projects related to photography. Tetere currently works at the National Library of Latvia and teaches a course in contemporary photography at Riga Stradiņš University.
Kārlis Vērpe
Kārlis Vērpe (1982) is a cultural journalist who writes for various Latvian cultural newspapers, teaches History of Ideas in Photography and Image Phenomenology at Rīga Stradiņš University. Vērpe obtained a PhD in Philosophy in 2012 for a paper investigating phenomenological conceptions of image consciousness. He is currently interested in specific issues of Latvian culture policy, the relationship between art and politics, gender and sexuality issues etc.
Maira Dudareva
Maira Dudareva (1960) is the director of the Latvian Museum of Photography. From 1992 until 1998 she worked as a photojournalist for various media. She worked at the Diena newspaper from 1998 to 2008 and was director of its photography department from 1998 to 1999. Dudareva has a Master’s degree in Social Sciences from the University of Latvia, where she studied the indexing of digital photographs. She regularly participates as an expert at photography festivals and events in Latvia and abroad.
Lizete Riņķe
Lizete Riņķe (1977) holds Master Degree in Art History from University of Copenhagen. She writes on art and culture, works as a curator. Lives and works in Copenhagen.
Paola Paleari
Paola Paleari (1984) is an Italian freelance author, editor and curator, currently living in Copenhagen. Among her main projects, she is deputy editor of YET magazine, a publication dedicated to international photography, and a member of artnoise, a web portal and curatorial collective focussed on contemporary art and culture. Her main area of interest is the photographic language and its relations with visual art practices.
Manon Recordon
Manon Recordon (1985) graduated from the Paris Academy of Fine Arts in 2009. Previously, she obtained a Master in Cinematographic Studies from Paris VII University. A former resident of the French Academy in Rome - Villa Medici, Recordon is also one of the founders of the artists’ journal M.E.R.C.U.R.E. Recordon’s interests and artistic practice extend across history, text, film and photography. Her artworks are assemblages and layering of still and moving images, using elements collected from historical archives or archaeological sites, film footages of Impressionist paintings or Ancient Greek sculptures, flashes of collective memory, snippets of news and fragments of modern daily life.
Guillaume Martial
After ten years of intensive figure skating, Guillaume Martial (1985) studied film. He dedicates now himself to the still image. In 2009, he spent several months on the set used for Jacques Tati’s film Jour de Fête. This event drives him to stage a character in the burlesque cinema tradition. His works raise the question of the place of man in space with much playing and derision. In 2015, he was one of the finalists for the International award Leica Oskar Barnack and he was prizewinner of the HSBC award the same year. He published the monograph Slap-Stick with Actes Sud publishing.
Zacharie Gaudrillot-Roy
Fascinated with cinema and its atmospheres, Zacharie Gaudrillot-Roy (1986) returned to his passion for pictures through photography and video. In 2011, he opened the workshop/photo gallery L'ABAT-JOUR in Lyon where he organizes exhibitions and has a silver lab in association with other photographers. In his work, he locates himself as a spectator of a distant world, questioning an individual’s place within his environment. His eye brings a confusion between reality and fiction, presenting the image to question the unknown and the void. He uses this contradiction to reflect a feeling of derealization, an alteration in the perception of the external world, like living as a stranger in fake scenery, or being included in it, like a shape amidst other shapes.
Morgane Denzler
Morgane Denzler (1986) builds her work around empathy, following a desire to share her experience with others, and driven by a deep concern for the "truth". That is why sometimes she becomes frustrated by the photographic image itself, which can be projected to infinity, but also where the essence of what you want to achieve can be lost easily, like sharing the experience that takes place when filming. The image´s role is a double-edged knife, a boundary between fiction and documentary where the viewpoint remains as the residue of experience. She tries to approach the concept of art and life: a poetic and political approach.
