Professor Chris Wainwright is the Head of Camberwell, Chelsea and Wimbledon Colleges, at the University of the Arts London. He is also President of ELIA (The European League of Institutes of the Arts) and former Chair of the National Association for Fine Art Education in the UK. Chris Wainwright is a member of the Arts and Humanities Research Council, Peer Review College. He has also been appointed a member of the Tate Britain Council until 2011.
An active professional artist, Wainwright has recently had exhibitions featured at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Santiago, Chile; Donna Beam Gallery, Las Vegas, USA; and ‘Trauma’ at the Culturcentrum, Brugge, Belgium.

Elina Brotherus was born 1972 in Helsinki, Finland. She works in photography and video. Her current work is centered on the relation of the human figure and landscape, and on the gaze of an artist on his/her model. Among her recent solo exhibitions feature Yapi Kredi Art Gallery, Istanbul; The National Art Center, Tokyo; gb agency, Paris; Centre pour l’image contemporain, Genève. Selected group exhibitions include Kunsthalle Friedericanum, Kassel; MAXXI, Rome; Kiasma Museum for Contemporary Art, Helsinki; Biennale of Sydney; Istanbul Biennial.

Elina Brotherus was awarded the Finnish State Prize for Photography in 2008. She was shortlisted for the Ars Fennica Prize 2007 and the Citibank Photography Prize in 2002. She received the Prix Niepce in 2005, and Carnegie Art Award’s Young Artist’s Stipendium in 2003. Elina is also the author of Decisive Days (Kustannus Pohjoinen, Finland 2002), The New Painting (Next Level, UK 2005), and Études d'après modèle, danseurs (Les éditions Textuel, Paris 2007).

Since 2006 Claude Bussac has been Director of PHotoEspaña, the International Festival of Photography and Visual Arts. She was Director of Artistic Studies at the Casa de Velázquez of Madrid for seven years. Between 1996 and 1999 she was Assistant Director of the Círculo de Bellas Artes. She contributed to the organisation of the Autumn Festival of the Community of Madrid, the International Festival of Classical Theatre in Almagro, and the Fine Arts Theatre of Madrid from 1990 to 1993.

Presently, she is also the director of the Masters Programme “Cultural Engineering” at the European University of Madrid.

She graduated in International and European Economics at Panthéon Sorbonne University of Paris, DEES in Cultural Institutions Management at the Dauphine University of Paris and DEA in European Social and Cultural Transformations.

In 2005, the French Culture Ministry honoured Claude Bussac as “Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters”.

In 1979 François Hébel started working for the Journal Contact Fnac magazine and as assistant to Gil Mijangos, Director of Fnac photo galleries, whom he succeeded in 1983. Nominated Director of “Rencontres d’Arles” for 1986/87, he exhibited a new generation of photographers (such as M. Parr, N. Goldin, A. Leibovitz and S. Salgado) who marked the 80's and 90's.

Between 1987 and 2000 he acted as Director of Magnum Photos Paris and International and co–authored with Agnès Sire a number of Magnum books. During this time he was also Vice-president of the French News Agencies Federation and administrator of "Reporters sans frontiers".

In 1993, he was asked by the French Ministry of Culture to redefine the festival “les Rencontres d’Arles” and in 1996 he became Art Director of the Foundation CCF / HSBC.

Following his position as Vice-president at Corbis Europe in 2000/2001, François Hébel returned in 2001 as a Director to the “Rencontres d’Arles”. He is currently maintaining this position together with the coordination of the “Parc des Ateliers” Project in Arles for the Luma Foundation.

Vangelis Ioakimidis was born in Thessaloniki in 1962. He studied Photography at the department of Cinema and Audiovisual – sector of photography image, in the University Paris VIII. He worked in the publishing houses of “Contrejour”, “Camera International”, as well as in the European Editions “C.E.C” in Paris as manager of production and international editions.

As General Commissionaire, Vangelis Ioakimidis represented the Directorate of Fine Arts of the Greek Ministry of Culture, in the Biennale of Nice. He was curator of many exhibitions, such as: Attitudes and Aspects about Greek Photography, Religion’s spirit, Family’s spirit and Globalization’s spirit for the Photography Center of Skopelos, where he was the Artistic Director (2000-2005). Since 2005, he is the Director of the Thessaloniki Museum of Photography.

During her 20 year professional career, Orsolya Korösi has worked as a top manager in cultural management, as well as in the civil sphere. Through her expertise, she has dealt with the possibility of adapting positive Hungarian examples, the chances of a cultural paradigm shift in Hungary, as well as cultural policies (national and international issues).

Today, Orsolya Korösi is the Managing Director of the Hungarian House of Photography (www.maimano.hu) as well as founder and chair of the board of FotóFalu Alapítvány (PhotoVillage Foundation – www.fotofalu.hu). The project’s objective is the preservation of countryside values and the reinforcement of the Cserhát micro-region in Northern Hungary by artistic activities, mainly Hungarian contemporary photography. Orsolya Korösi is also board member of Extremely Hungary (www.extremelyhungary.org), which is a yearlong festival showcasing contemporary Hungarian visual, performing and literary arts in New York and Washington D.C. throughout 2009.

Winner of the European Publishers Award for Photography 2009, of the Leica Prize (2004) and of the Niépce Prize (2000), Klavdij Sluban is a French photographer of Slovenian origin born in Paris on 3 March 1963.

He develops a rigorous and coherent body of work, never inspired by immediate and sensational current affairs, making him one of the most interesting photographers in so-called “author-photography”. His images are on show in such leading institutions as the Metropolitan Museum of Photography in Tokyo, the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris, the Museum of Photography in Helsinki, the Fine Arts Museum in Canton and many more.
Among others he authored Entre Parenthèses, Transverses and Balkans – Transit, with a text by François Maspero. Since 1995, Sluban runs photography workshops with young offenders in prison.