Giuseppe Oliverio is an Italian entrepreneur and curator. In 2012, he launched PHmuseum, a platform for contemporary photography widely known for its grants program. Past grant recipients include artists Laura El-Tantawy, Max Pinckers, Diana Markosian, Jacob Aue Sobol, Sanne De Wilde, and Alejandro Cartagena. PHmuseum is based in Bologna, Italy, where Oliverio founded the PHmuseum Lab, a multifunctional space for workshops, talks, and exhibitions, and PHmuseum Days, the platform’s first international photography festival.

Oliverio has served on the juries for the Lucie Photo Book Prize, Magenta Foundation’s Flash Forward, UPI’s The Fence, and Happiness OnTheMove, and regularly works as a portfolio reviewer at festivals such as Unseen, Photo Vogue Festival, and Visa Pour L’Image. He has also written for TIME magazine and L’Uomo Vogue. Oliverio holds a degree in economics from Bocconi University (Milan) and a Master’s in Quantitative Finance from Cass Business School (London).

Hideko Kataoka has been Director of Photography at Newsweek Japan since 2001. She joined the magazine as a photographer in 1991, covering national news, social issues, and world business and cultural leaders, and currently oversees and directs photography for the print and digital editions of the magazine, as well as its special issues. In 2004, she created the “Picture Power” section in the magazine, a weekly photo essay on underreported topics from around the world. The book Ten Years of Picture Power, with selected photo stories from the section, was published in 2014. Kataoka is a lecturer at Tokyo Polytechnic University and serves as a member of the external review committee at Tokyo Photographic Art Museum. She has also served as a juror at international photography festivals and competitions, such as World Press Photo, FotoFest, and many others.

Gulnara Lyabib Samoilova is a photographer, author, and founder of Women Street Photographers. With 40 years’ combined experience as a documentary and street photographer, artist, darkroom printer, photojournalist, and photo editor, Samoilova transformed the successful Instagram account @WomenStreetPhotographers into a global platform. She has launched a website, traveling exhibitions, artist residency, inspirational film series, and photography book, Women Street Photographers (Prestel, 2021). A former Associated Press photojournalist, Samoilova received national and international awards for her iconic photographs of September 11, including first prize in the World Press Photo competition. She holds a certificate in creative practices from the International Center of Photography in New York City and a diploma in photography from Moscow Polytech College. Samoilova lives and works in New York City.

Scott Hall is the Photo Director at Travel + Leisure magazine. Previously, he was the Director of Photography at Departures and Newsweek, and a Photo Editor at T: The New York Times Style Magazine. His work has been recognized by The Society of Publications Designers, American Photography and PDN. Hall holds a BFA in Cinema Studies from New York University and an MA in Media Studies from The New School.

Pierre Terdjman has worked as a conflict photojournalist for over 15 years for publications such as the New York Times, Paris-Match, GQ and Haaretz.
Stunned by the speed of information cycles and the growing public mistrust of the media, Terdjman began to wheat-paste giant posters of his own documentary images in the streets of Paris in 2014 with his colleague Benjamin Girette, to reach and inform the public directly, bypassing traditional media outlets.

In 2019, nonprofit Catchlight (California) awarded him a fellowship in visual leadership. Terdjman was on the jury for the Bayeux-Calvados Prize for war correspondents in 2015, the Getty Instagram Photo Contest in 2018 and the Lucas Dolega Prize in 2016.

Danielle A. Scruggs is a Picture Desk Editor at Getty Images and a freelance photographer and writer living in Chicago, Illinois. She graduated from Howard University with a degree in journalism and from the Maryland Institute College of Art with a Master’s in Digital Art. Her photography clients include the New York Times, AARP, Buzzfeed News, ESPN, Financial Times, and the New Republic. She has written about art, culture, and film for RogerEbert.com, Ebony, Essence, Teen Vogue, Artsy Magazine, and other publications. Scruggs is also the founder and editor of Black Women Directors, a digital library highlighting the work of Black women and non-binary filmmakers throughout the Diaspora.

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.