Caroline Hunter is a picture editor for The Guardian Weekend magazine. Caroline has 20 years experience of commissioning photography (from concept to celebrity, portraiture, still-life, beauty, fashion and documentary photography) and reviewing photo-essays and proposals. Caroline is regularly invited to review portfolios at international photo festivals and has also acted as a judge for a number of photography competitions. In 2017, she was a nominator for the Deutsche Börse prize.

Olivier Laurent is a photo editor at The Washington Post. Previously, he was editor of TIME LightBox and before that, the associate editor for British Journal of Photography and the editor of FLTR, an independent weekly magazine about smartphone photography and its impact on today’s society.

Born in France in 1980, he graduated from the American University of Paris in 2005 and immediately moved to London to pursue a career in journalism, starting in the financial sector on publications such as Dealing With Technology and Post Magazine, before joining British Journal of Photography in 2008.

He has sat on the juries of the Visa pour l’Image Web Documentary Award, the Carmignac Gestion Photojournalism Prize, the FotoEvidence First Photobook Award, the Getty Images Grants for Editorial, the Visa d’Or News and Features, Photoreporter Festival, and LensCulture Emerging Talent Awards.

Molly Roberts is a photography editor, curator and photographer; she recently joined National Geographic Magazine as a Senior Photography Editor after 15 years as Chief Photography Editor at Smithsonian magazine. Previously she led the Washington Post Magazine and USA Weekend photography teams.

With 25 years of experience in the magazine publishing world, she is responsible for the content and appearance of magazines, books, websites and apps. Roberts is an advocate for powerful visual storytelling and human rights and recently created the non-profit HumanEyes USA to present documentary photography projects in public spaces and to use imagery to help illuminate complex issues facing America. She is also committed to developing diverse voices in the media: she is currently the acting director and board member of the DC-based organization Women Photojournalists of Washington.

Currently serving as the Creative Director of United Photo Industries, Sam Barzilay is also the co-founder of Photoville, a photographic gathering that has rapidly become one of the largest and best-attended photography events in North America. Sam is also one of the founding producers of the T3 Photo Festival in Tokyo, Japan.

Sam holds a Master in Photojournalism from the University of Westminster (UK), where his studies focused on curatorial and photo-editing practices. Over the past decade, he has worked alongside some of the best and brightest minds in the global photographic community in pursuit of developing new audiences for photography. He is interested in devising methods of presentation that further amplify the power of photographic storytelling to help increase public awareness and bring about social change.

Jacob Aue Sobol is a member of Magnum Photos. He was born in Denmark and studied at the European Film College and the Danish School of Documentary and Art Photography.

He has completed several award-winning projects and authored critically acclaimed photobooks. His book Sabine, a personal perspective on life in Greenland, was published in 2004, and the work was nominated for the 2005 Deutsche Börse Photography Prize. A project from Guatemala won First Prize Award, Daily Life Stories, World Press Photo 2006. His book I, Tokyo was awarded the Leica European Publishers Award in 2008 and was published in seven countries. A new book B (about Bangkok) was launched at Paris Photo in 2015. Jacob is currently working on the ongoing project “Arrivals and Departures”—a journey by land from his childhood home in Brøndby to the east coasts of Russia and China.

With more than 40 solo exhibitions over the past 10 years, Jacob’s work has been shown extensively around the world. Exhibitions include San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Contemporary Art (Shanghai), Milwaukee Art Museum, Michigan Museum of Modern Art, Three Shadow Gallery (Beijing), Les Rencontres d’Arles, Polka Galerie (Paris), Yossi Milo Gallery (New York), and Museet for Fotokunst in Denmark.

Jim Casper is the editor-in-chief of LensCulture, one of the leading online destinations to discover contemporary photography from around the world. As an active member in the contemporary photography world, Casper organizes annual international photography events, travels around the world to meet with photographers and review their portfolios, curates art exhibitions, writes about photography and culture, lectures, conducts workshops, serves as an international juror and nominator for key awards, and is an advisor to arts and education organizations. He serves on the board of directors at SPE, the Society for Photographic Education, the world’s largest association of photography educators.