As a format author active at the point where art, social politics, and personal development meet, Hans-Joachim Gögl has gained insights from innovation research, religious rituals, and artistic strategies, all of which are elements found in many of his works.

Since 2018, Hans-Joachim Gögl has been directing the series "INN SITU – Photography, Music, Dialogue" at the BTV Stadtforum Innsbruck, which he conceptualized and initiated. Through direct resonance, the series intertwines an international artist-in-residence program for photographic artists with works commissioned from regional music makers, each responding to their artistic strategies. All INN SITU projects are published in Salzburg by Fotohof Edition in their bilingual publication series.

Together with the Berlin concert designer Folkert Uhde, he is the founder and artistic director of the "Montforter Zwischentöne" in Feldkirch, Austria. The "Hugo" International Competition for New Concert Formats, developed by Hans-Joachim Gögl and Folkert Uhde as part of the festival, is regarded today as one of the foremost young awards for innovative performance practice in the German-speaking world.

In addition, Hans-Joachim Gögl organizes the " Tage der Utopie" (Days of Utopia), held biennially in Götzis, Austria. The festival combines images of the future by experts from science, social policy, art, and spirituality with commissioned compositions by contemporary musicians.

 With over 1500 participants over the week, live streaming, and various media partnerships (ORF Ö1, Brand 1, Hohe Luft), the format is one of the most extensive networking and educational platforms in the four-country region of Austria, Germany, Switzerland, and Liechtenstein. "Tage der Utopie" is the winner of the Austrian State Prize.  

Various teaching assignments and publications by Hans-Joachim Gögl can found at www.goegl.com

Monica Allende is a curator, artistic director, consultant, and educator. She is currently curating The Blue Skies Project, a multidisciplinary initiative with artist Anton Kusters. Her work has been showcased at prestigious venues, including the V&A, UNESCO, Museum Angewandte Kunst, Rencontres D'Arles, and The Photographer's Gallery in London. Additionally, she curates the annual exhibition of the Sony World Photography Awards at Somerset House in London and is collaborating with Laia Abril on a new project focused on Women Political Prisoners.

From 2019 to 2022, Allende served as the Artistic Director of the Landskrona Foto Festival and was the Artistic Director of the GetxoPhoto International Image Festival from 2017 to 2019. She curated the exhibition "Light" during Photo London 2021 at Peckham24, was the director of the FORMAT17 International Photography Festival, and has worked with WeTransfer and Canon as a consultant and artistic director.

Allende contributes to strategy and exhibition programming for CAMPO.lat, a digital educational online platform in Latin America, and collaborates with the VII Foundation on its academic and mentorship programs.

Her experience includes producing and teaching creative labs for various organizations, such as FIFV in Chile, Proyecto Imaginario in Argentina, ScreenLab in London, and Taskheil in Saudi Arabia. She has also conducted the Mentorship Business Programme for the University of Sunderland, workshops for Internazionale in Ferrara, the WPP workshop in Angola, Magnum Professional Practice, and the Grain and Format "East Meets West" Programme, among others.

Previously, Allende was the Photo Editor at the Sunday Times Magazine, where she launched Spectrum, an award-winning photography section.

Dedicated to nurturing both new and established talent, Allende nominates and judges numerous photography awards and artists' residencies. She also advises on curatorial practices and serves on the Boards of Trustees and advisory boards of The Photographer's Gallery in London and the Deutsche Börse Foundation.Allende advises on curatorial practices and serves on the Boards of Trustees and advisory boards of The Photographer’s Gallery, London, and the Deutsche Borse Foundation.

Arianna Rinaldo, a freelance professional in the world of photography, has made significant contributions to the field. As the former artistic director of Cortona On The Move, an international festival of visual narrative, she played a vital role from 2012 to 2021. Since 2016, Arianna has been the photography curator at PhEST, a festival showcasing contemporary photography and arts in Puglia.

Arianna's journey in photography began in 1998 as the archive director at Magnum Photos in New York. She later served as a photo editor for Colors magazine in Italy, further deepening her understanding of visual storytelling. During her time in Milan from 2004 to 2011, Arianna worked as a freelance curator and photo consultant, including a remarkable four years at D, the weekend supplement of La Repubblica (2008-2011). Additionally, she held the position of editorial director for eight years at OjodePez, a bilingual documentary photo magazine published by La Fabrica in Madrid.

Since relocating to Barcelona in 2012, Arianna has continued to engage in photography projects on an international scale. Alongside her curatorial work, she dedicates herself to leading workshops, masterclasses, and private mentorship sessions. Arianna's expertise is highly valued, and she serves on the selection committees of esteemed institutions such as the Leica Oskar Barnack Award, the British Journal of Photography's "Ones to Watch," and the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize. Arianna Rinaldo is a sought-after speaker and portfolio reviewer, frequently invited to significant photo events worldwide. Some notable appearances include Houston Fotofest in the USA, Photolucida in Portland, USA, Format Festival in Derby, UK, Daegu Photo Biennale in Korea, and Paris Photo Lensculture Meeting Place in France, among others. She regularly participates in esteemed jury panels, including World Press Photo (2009), Hamburg Portfolio Review, Czech Press Photo, FNAC Talento Fotografico, PHMuseum Grant, Lensculture Awards, Photolucida Critical Mass, and 6 Mois International Photojournalism Prize, among many others.

Moritz Neumüller is a curator, educator and writer in the field of Photography and New Media, with a special interest in accessibility to the arts. He is currently Chief Curator of the Photobook Week Aarhus (Denmark) and runs a platform for the visual art fieldcalled The Curator Ship. Neumüller is a regular contributor to journals on photography and visual culture, and author of several books. In his latest publications, he questions the roles and contexts of photography in the 21st century, by exploring the current debates surrounding post-colonial thinking, empowerment, identity, diversity in the arts, Artificial Intelligence, visual mechanisms for control and manipulation, and the role of imagery in the times of crisis, such as pandemics, wars and climate change. 

In his 20 years of practice, Moritz Neumüller has been responsible for exhibitions, conversations and publications on and with Edward Burtynsky, Yuki Kihara, Cristina de Middel, Joan Fontcuberta, Azu Nwagbogu, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Fred Ritchin, Ricardo Cases, Yamamoto Masao, Martin Parr, Boris Eldagsen, Stephen Gill, Chris Jordan, Gabriel Orozco, Mireia Sallarès, Oliver Sieber & Katja Stuke, Marcel Duchamp, Gloria Oyarzabal, Erik Kessels, and Ad van Denderen.

Sandra Maunac is an independent curator and director since 2017 of the Trobades & Premis Mediterranis Albert Camus in Menorca (Spain). She is also the president of the Plataform for a Center of Photography in Spain with today 8.600 members. 

Majored in History with a DEA in International and African Studies at the Autonomous University of Madrid (Spain), she has been coordinator of cultural activities at the Three Cultures Foundation in Seville (Spain). She has worked in Cairo, Egypt, as representative of artists at the Egyptian Center for Culture and Art abroad. She was part of the organization of the African Film Festival of Tarifa (Spain) and in charge of artistic direction and lateral activities from 2005 until 2010. Until February 2016, she has been co-director with Mónica Santos of Masasam, a platform created in 2007 specialized in curatorial proposals and in the photographic image.

During this last fifteen years, Sandra Maunac has tried to defend and promote, as a mediator, projects that have revolved around issues related to the image.

As a specialist in postcolonial issues and cultural studies, her main objective during the first years of her career was to promote artists from the non-Western orbit, in order to provide other views, change the hegemony of the predominant Western image and enlarge our perceptions of the world.

Currently, she is focused from local to international. Always from an international, global, multiple and varied perspective, she is convinced that our responsibility is to erase cultural borders. This means, among other things, to defend creators who are aware that the image is no longer enough, critics of the media and whose languages are transversal and multiple, defending projects that explore the possibilities of telling stories in another way.

www.sandramaunac.com

Dr. Nina Kassianou holds a PhD in History and Theory of Photography from Panteion University of Athens and gained a scholarship from Princeton University in the USA, to research photographic archives relating to the Greek Civil War and the Greek Resistance against Nazi.

She has worked for a decade as a photo book critic for the Sunday edition of the prestigious Greek newspaper "To Vima" . She has participated as a portfolio reviewer in many important festivals in Europe.

She has curated more than 100 exhibitions of renowned artists in Greece and abroad and edited a significant number of photo book publications. She has collaborated with the Photographic Center of Skopelos, the Thessaloniki Museum of Photography (for more than 10 years). She was the artistic director of the M55projects gallery in Athens, a space aiming in inviting photographers and curators from all over Europe to exchange works and ideas with Greek Artists.

She has collaborated with various galleries based in Athens. She has authored numerous academic essays, and articles on the Greek and European Photography History as well as contributed to Cyclopedia “The History of European Photography 1900-2000” by writing the Greek History of Photography from 1900-1969.
The last four years she is the Photography Director at DL Gallery in Piraeus Greece, having curated international group and solo exhibitions.

She is the founder of R2I Curating Art & Artists Cultural Program, held every summer in her home island Ithaca.