As part of the GLAZ Festival, we are delighted to host a full day of portfolio reviews!

This is a unique opportunity to present your work to photography professionals and take your projects to the next level.

Curators, editors, art directors, and institution leaders will all be there to engage with you, discover your images, and share their insights.

Free admission, open to all – limited places!

Each review takes the form of a 20-minute one-to-one session with an expert of your choice. You’ll have the chance to present your work, receive constructive feedback, and benefit from a fresh, informed perspective. These exchanges are invaluable for enriching your artistic approach, expanding your network, refining your projects, and sometimes even sparking future collaborations (exhibitions, publications, and more).

Above all, this day is designed as a space for sharing, transmission, and conviviality.

Ben Harman (Scotland)

Ben Harman is the Senior Curator of Photography at the National Galleries of Scotland. From 2014-2024 he was Director of Stills – Centre for Photography, a gallery and production facility based in the heart of Edinburgh. His curated exhibitions for Stills included a variety of solo and group presentations of new photography from Scotland as well as showcases of work by internationally renowned artists and photographers such as: Markéta Luskačová, Ishiuchi Miyako, Cindy Sherman and Jo Spence. From 2003–2013, Ben Harman was Curator of Contemporary Art for Glasgow Museums and Lead Curator on Glasgow’s Art Fund International collecting project. He is a Trustee of the Richard & Siobhán Coward Foundation.

Vivienne Gamble (Scotland)

Vivienne Gamble is the Director of Stills – Centre for Photography in Edinburgh. She took up the post in January 2025 and is currently shaping the programme that will celebrate the 50th anniversary of Stills in 2027. She is also Co-Founder and Co-Director of Peckham 24 festival in South London. Peckham 24 began as a 24 hour pop-up exhibition during the second edition of Photo London in 2016, and has since grown into a major event renowned for supporting new talent and experimental approaches in contemporary photography. From 2015 to 2023 she ran her own gallery space, Seen Fifteen, also in Peckham. She holds an MA in the History and Theory of Photography from Sotheby’s Institute of Art, London.

Siân Addicott (Wales)

Siân Addicott is an arts professional and educator with extensive experience in the cultural sector and wider creative industries. She is currently Director of Ffotogallery in Cardiff, Wales and has a background in higher education, photographic practice, and visual culture. Her work focuses on supporting emerging and underrepresented artists, with a particular interest in feminist practice and strengthening the visibility of marginalised voices in the arts.

Angel Luis Gonzáles – Julia Gelezova (Ireland)

Ángel Luis González Fernández is a designer, artist, and curator supporting engaging visual arts practices, winner of Business to Arts David Manley Emerging Entrepreneur Awards 2011. His work manifests through PhotoIreland, which he founded in 2010 to stimulate a critical dialogue on Photography.

Julia Gelezova is a cultural producer and curator, specialising in contemporary lens-based practices. She is General Manager at PhotoIreland, producing and curating events and exhibitions throughout the year like the annual PhotoIreland Festival and Critical Academy, while collaborating on ambitious projects like Creative Europe Photography Platforms—Parallel and FUTURES.

About PhotoIreland

PhotoIreland grows the reputation of Irish artists globally through a 360 degree support system and platform for contemporary photography, activated through a diversity of projects. In July 2025, PhotoIreland launched the International Centre for the Image in Dublin.

Joanne Junga Yang (South Korea)

Joanne Junga Yang is an internationally recognised artistic director, curator, juror, lecturer, portfolio reviewer, and writer specialising in photography.
She is the founder and director of Y&G Art Contemporary, where she leads global photography initiatives in collaboration with galleries, private museums, and art publications. She served as Artistic Director of the Daejeon International Photo Festival and has curated major exhibitions for the Korea International Photo Festival, DongGang International Photo Festival, and the Seoul Photo Festival, among others.

In 2011, she received the Art and Culture Award for Curating from the Seoul Metropolitan Government, which also appointed her as Director of the International Committee. Joanne has contributed numerous articles and interviews to leading publications including Korea Monthly Photography, PhotoDot, PhotoArt, and Art Now.

Her book, Photography, Curation, and Exhibition, became a national bestseller in South Korea in the fields of photography and media studies.

Through these engagements, she actively supports emerging photographic talent and contributes to the evolving global discourse on contemporary photography.

Nicola Shipley (England)

Nicola Shipley is a Curator, Producer, Mentor and Consultant specialising in contemporary photography. She is co-founder and Director of GRAIN Projects, UK. She has an MA in History of Art, and a background in the visual arts, including in commissioning, curation, project management and artists professional development.

GRAIN Projects is a leading exponent of photography, an arts organisation that works collaboratively with partners regionally, nationally and internationally, to support artists and develop a broad range of opportunities, including exhibitions, commissions, projects and publications.

As an integral part of commissioning new work Nicola is interested in community engagement, socially engaged practice, social documentary and developing opportunities for photography in the public realm. Nicola has developed opportunities for emerging photographers and delivered a range of professional development programmes.

Jodi Kwok (England)

Jodi Kwok (HK/GB) is a UK-based Curator at FORMAT International Photography Festival and QUAD. She curates exhibitions, residencies, and public programmes focused on photography, digital media, and socially engaged practice. Recent projects include FORMAT25, Petra Szemán: Towards a New Monomyth (2024), FORMAT24: Future Now, FORMAT23: Open Calls and From That Day On, and Lawrence Lek: Nepenthe (Summer Palace Ruins) (2022). Jodi Kwok also coordinates photobook markets, produces catalogues, manages artist relations, represents FORMAT and QUAD at portfolio reviews and festivals, and has served as a juror for national and international open calls, contributing to the selection of photographers and artists.

Joāo Kulcsàr (Brazil)

Joāo Kulcsàr holds a Master of Arts from the University of Kent (Canterbury, UK) and was a visiting scholar at Harvard University (USA). He also serves as a coordinator at Senac University. As a curator, he has organised more than 80 photography exhibitions in Brazil, including Claudia Andujar, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Elliott Erwitt, Magnum Cinema, Observers, British Photography since 1930, Edward Curtis, and many others. He has also curated exhibitions in Portugal, the USA, Cuba, Italy, and Switzerland. He is the director of the Visual Literacy program in Brazilian public schools and has coordinated the Photography with Visually Impaired People project since 2008. He also directs the Paranapiacaba Photo Festival and the São Paulo Photo Festival. An author of several books, he is also the editor of www.alfabetizacaovisual.com.br.

Barbara Gregov (Croatia)

Barbara Gregov (1991) is a curator, writer, and producer based in Zagreb, Croatia. She holds a Master’s degree in Comparative Literature from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Zagreb.

As a curator, she has been an integral member of the curatorial team of the Organ Vida Festival, focusing on image-based practices, particularly at the intersections of visual art and contemporary digital and popular culture. Since 2023, she has worked as a curatorial associate at the Miroslav Kraljević Gallery (GMK) and as a program associate at Kurizv, where she concentrates on experimental, collective, and reparative research methodologies in visual art. In the same year, she joined the Zagreb Film Festival as a producer, contributing to a program dedicated to contemporary arthouse film and independent cinema. She has contributed as a writer and editor to feminist media outlets including Vox Feminae and Krilo, with a focus on film and popular culture. Currently, she edits Mondenka, a small print publication dedicated to experimental approaches to writing on visual art and culture.

Franek Ammer (Poland)

Franek Ammer (b. 1988). Multimedia artist and curator of Fotofestiwal in Lodz. Before joining Fotofestiwal, co-founded TIFF International Photography Festival in Wroclaw. He devoted a large part of his work to bringing up aspects related to the photobooks and popularising them in Poland. This interest resulted in several exhibitions, lectures and cooperations. In the Fotofestiwal collective, he is responsible for the festival program, coordination of exhibitions, events and photobook section. Franek is also Co-CEO of artistic company Eternal Shipping Ltd. and co-founder of 19 Rivers publishing collective. He lectures at the Fine Arts Academy in Lodz and the University of Arts in Poznan.

Sylvie Hugues (France)

Photography consultant, Sylvie Hugues works across many sectors of photography. Since 2024, she has been the President of Réseau LUX, the national network of photography festivals and fairs. Since 2021, she has been a correspondent at the Académie des Beaux-Arts and curated exhibitions for the Prix Marc Ladreit de la Charrière, including Pascal Maitre, FLORE, and Regards, 15 ans du Prix Marc Ladreit de la Charrière at the Institut de France.

In 2021, she served as Artistic Advisor for the HSBC Photography Prize and curated exhibitions of the laureates at the Rencontres d’Arles, at the Esther Woerdehoff Gallery, and at the Arsenal in Metz. As a photographer, she was awarded the “Résidence pour la Photographie” Prize by the Fondation des Treilles in 2020 and has exhibited her work at the Hôtel de Sauroy (Paris) and Stimultania (Strasbourg).

She has been the Artistic Director of the Festival du Regard since 2016 and has led masterclasses and workshops (FotoMasterclass, Rencontres d’Arles, Venezia Photo…) since that year. She collaborates with Camera Obscura Gallery and has conducted portfolio reviews at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie (MEP) since 2015.

In 1992, she participated in the creation of Réponses Photo magazine, where she became Editorin-Chief from 1996 to 2014.

Véronique Prugnaud (France)

Véronique Prugnaud is co-founder and associate director of The Eyes, a publishing and production house specialising in photography. After a career in live performance production, she joined Paris Photo in 2009 and co-founded The Eyes in 2013, a magazine exploring major societal issues through the lens of images.

Today, with The Eyes, she develops editorial projects, exhibitions, residencies, grants, and educational formats (conferences, podcasts, artist talks), in collaboration with institutions such as Les Rencontres d’Arles and the French Ministry of Culture (Elles font la culture). In 2025, she cocreated FLOW, an artistic pathway dedicated to contemporary issues in emblematic sites across
Occitanie.

Emilia Genuardi (France)

Emilia Genuardi is a specialist in contemporary photography and a curator.
Driven by the desire to create a fair with a unique format, she founded A ppr oc he in 2017, dedicated to artists experimenting with images. Every year, she serves as its artistic director alongside guest curators.

Supporting contemporary creation, in 2023 Emilia Genuardi launched unRepresented by A ppr och e, the first fair dedicated to artists not represented by galleries, supported by a community of patrons. That same year, the approche team launched Proche, an association dedicated to contemporary artists, aiming to promote and disseminate their work while providing moral and financial support to contemporary art projects and events in France and internationally.

Since 2020, Emilia Genuardi has been the artistic advisor for photography for the Prix Swiss Life à 4 mains, which awards an original collaborative creation project between a photographer and a composer.

She regularly participates in various mentoring programs and curatorial projects and is a member of the board of Réseau LUX.

Claire Pathé (France)

Claire Pathé is a curator and photographer. In 2021, she founded the international and free festival Les Mesnographies, for which she has served as artistic director since its inception. Les Mesnographies is an outdoor photography festival held annually in the Parc des Mesnuls, a small village in the Yvelines (78).

She was a member of the artistic direction team of Collectif Fetart from 2015 to 2025 and served as artistic director of the Circulation(s) festival for ten years alongside her co-artistic directors. She is also the founder of the festival’s photography studios.

Committed to supporting young people, Claire leads photography workshops in high schools and middle schools, as well as in underprivileged neighbourhoods, aiming to combat school dropout.

Michel Le Belhomme (France)

Vice-President of the photography association Freelens, Michel Le Belhomme is a photographer based in Rennes. A graduate of the École des Beaux-Arts de Rennes and the University of Rennes 2, he works as a professor, lecturer, curator, and photography critic. Since 2014, he has been represented by Binome Gallery in Paris and Cuadro Art in Dubai. He exhibits regularly in France and internationally (festivals, institutions, and galleries) and has notably been awarded the Voix OFF Prize in Arles and the Solas Photography Prize in Dublin.

Yves Bigot – Richard Volante (France)

Richard Volante and Yves Bigot founded Éditions de Juillet in 2004. This publishing house specialises in high-quality illustrated books, aiming to produce books that foster encounters between emerging and established talents. Its catalog explores the practice of photography and its questions, as well as the contemporary history of people and territories. Photography, history, society, contemporary art… The editorial line is simply guided by the spirit of encounter. Richard is a photographer, Yves is a graphic designer, and together they co-direct the publishing house.

François Boucard (France)

Since 1998, François Boucard has been the director of the Carré d’Art municipal gallery in Chartres-de-Bretagne (Ille-et-Vilaine), the only permanent institution in the Rennes metropolitan area dedicated exclusively to photography since 1997.

With a regular schedule of author-focused photography exhibitions (four to five per season), Carré d’Art develops its activities in three main areas: the public (diverse programming and educational initiatives); the artists (support through residencies and assistance with photography book publications); and cultural outreach, through numerous partnerships with local, regional, and national actors fostering multidisciplinary approaches.

Carré d’Art is a member of the Diagonal and Art Contemporain en Bretagne networks.

Jean-Christophe Godet (France)

Based in the United Kingdom for over 30 years and originally from Normandy, Jean-Christophe Godet founded the Guernsey Photography Festival in 2010, which has become one of the major cultural events on the small Anglo-Norman island where he has lived since 2008. Passionate about interdisciplinarity and engaging diverse audiences, he created Photo-Symphony in 2021, a visual and musical experience combining photography and symphony orchestra. In 2023, he co-founded the GLAZ Festival in Rennes, bringing together renowned international photographers and emerging talents. He has worked as a professional photographer and, for many years, in the London cultural scene, notably with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and the Barbican Centre.