Portfolio Review
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July 17-18 2026, Palazzo Vagnotti
Deepen your photographic work in a 20-minute one-on-one session with industry professionals. From concept development to distribution, the reviewers will help you understand which aspects to refine and how to navigate the world of contemporary photography.
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20 minutes
20 minutes
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The reviewers
Antonio Biasiucci
Photographer & Professor
Founder LAB/per un laboratorio irregolare
Giovanna Calvenzi
Curator
Antonio Carloni
Deputy Director Gallerie d’Italia-Torino
Edda Fahrenhorst
Artistic Director Yeast Photo Festival & Environmental Photo Festival »horizonte zingst«
Cristina Ferraiuolo
Founder Spot Home Gallery
Gianmarco e Gianluca Gamberini
Founders L’Artiere Edizioni
Mirjam Kooiman
Senior Curator Foam
Chiara Magni
Head of Public Engagement Medici Senza Frontiere
Emanuela Mirabelli
Photo editor Marie Claire Italia
Maysa Moroni
Photo editor Internazionale
Andreas Prost
Director of Photography DIE ZEIT
Arianna Rinaldo
Curator PhEST
Fiona Shields
Head of Photography Guardian News & Media
Massimo Siragusa
Photographer & Sony Europe Imaging Ambassador
Editorial Director Phaos Edizioni
Barbara Stauss
Photo editor NZZ Media
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Antonio Biasiucci
Photographer & Professor // Founder LAB/per un laboratorio irregolare
| Antonio Biasiucci (Dragoni, Caserta, 1961) has lived and worked in Naples since 1980. His photographic work, initially focused on urban suburbs and the memory of his hometown, has gradually shifted to explore themes of Southern Italian culture and the fundamental elements of existence. Since 1984, he has collaborated with the Osservatorio Vesuviano, producing an important body of work on Italy’s active volcanoes, while between 1987 and 1993 he developed a significant collaboration with the director and theater actor Antonio Neiwiller. In 2012, he founded LAB/per un laboratorio irregolare, a training program dedicated to young photographers. He currently teaches Photography as an Artistic Language at the Academies of Fine Arts in Naples and Foggia. Among his major awards are the European Kodak Panorama (Arles, 1992), the Kraszna-Krausz Photography Book Award, and the Bastianelli Prize (2005). In 2015, he was invited to the Italian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. His works are part of major public and private collections in Italy and abroad. |
Giovanna Calvenzi
Curator
| After graduating in Literature in 1973, she taught history of photography and photographic language for 12 years in professional photography courses at the Società Umanitaria. In 1977 she began writing for photography publishing and collaborating with various magazines. In 1985 she became photo editor of Amica, published by RCS Periodici. She later worked for Max (1987), 7/Corriere della Sera (1987), and Vanity Fair (1990). In 1991 she became editor-in-chief of the monthly Lei Glamour, published by Condé Nast, a role she left in February 1992. That same year she became photo editor of Moda, published by the new ERI, and later of SportWeek (2000), the magazine of La Gazzetta dello Sport. In 2012 she left SportWeek and worked, until December 2015, as an image consultant for Periodici San Paolo. From 2016 to 2019 she served as image consultant for Donna Moderna, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore. From 2015 to 2022 she was president of the Museum of Contemporary Photography (now MuFoCo) in Cinisello Balsamo, Milan. Since 2013 she has been in charge of the Gabriele Basilico Archive. In 1998 she was artistic director of the Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie in Arles. In 2002 she was guest curator of Photo España in Madrid and lecturer in the Publishing Master’s program at the School of Advanced Humanistic Studies in Bologna. In 2014 she was, together with Laura Serani, artistic delegate of the Mois de la Photo in Paris. |
Antonio Carloni
Deputy Director Gallerie d’Italia-Torino
| Antonio Carloni is head of photography projects and commissions at Intesa Sanpaolo and has directed the Gallerie d’Italia in Turin since 2022, a unique space in the city center dedicated to photography and visual languages. In recent years he has commissioned projects to some of the greatest living photographers, including Carrie Mae Weems, Gregory Crewdson, Paolo Pellegrin, Mitch Epstein and many others. He constantly works to make the most of the creative effort of artists while trying to broaden the audience and those interested in the world of photography. He previously founded and directed the international photography festival Cortona On The Move. |
Edda Fahrenhorst
Artistic Director Yeast Photo Festival & Environmental Photo Festival »horizonte zingst«
| Edda Fahrenhorst is a Curator and Photo Editor. Since 2020 she is the Artistic Director of the Environmental Photo Festival »horizonte zingst« (Germany) and she also curates the year-round exhibition program in Zingst, including the Leica Gallery Zingst. Since 2022 she is also the Artistic Director of the Yeast Photo Festival in Matino (Italy), which is dedicated to the topic of food since it’s first edition until today. Edda is also co-owner of a corporate communications agency in Hamburg, Germany: Fotogloria | Office for photographic Collaborations. |
Cristina Ferraiuolo
Founder Spot Home Gallery
| Cristina Ferraiuolo is the founder of Spot Home Gallery, a contemporary photography gallery based in Naples. Born in Naples in 1967, she graduated in Economics and initially worked as a certified public accountant. Since 2002, she has devoted herself entirely to photography, a passion she has nurtured since childhood, developing personal and curatorial projects and collaborating with Italian and international artists and curators across Italy and France. In 2020, she founded Spot Home Gallery within a family-owned space in the historic center of Naples, a place already connected to photography through her father’s professional activity. The gallery’s programme ranges from solo and group exhibitions, both in-house and in external venues, to participation in art fairs in Italy and abroad, including Paris Photo. It represents both established and emerging artists, such as Anders Petersen, Michael Ackerman, Miho Kajioka, and Dimitra Dede. In parallel, it promotes and produces artist residencies, inviting photographers whose work aligns with the gallery’s vision to develop new projects in dialogue with Naples and the Campania region. Residencies completed to date include Anders Petersen, Anaïs Tondeur, and Kourtney Roy, whose works have resulted in exhibitions and publications. |
Gianmarco e Gianluca Gamberini
Founders L'Artiere Edizioni
| Gianmarco and Gianluca Gamberini are the creative minds behind L’Artiere, an independent publishing house based in Bologna, Italy and Paris, France known for its high-quality fine art photography books. Gianmarco, with a background in production, brings technical expertise and a meticulous eye for design, ensuring that each L’Artiere publication is a beautifully crafted art object. Gianluca, with his art background, discovers talent and builds relationships, helping L’Artiere gain international recognition. Their shared vision and dedication to the craft of bookmaking celebrate the power of the printed page. |
Mirjam Kooiman
Senior Curator Foam
| Mirjam Kooiman is an art historian, curator and writer, having created over 40 exhibitions at Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam — among them The Camera as a Weapon, Ai Weiwei — #SafePassage, John Edmonds — A Sidelong Glance, and Missing Mirror: Photography Through the Lens of AI. A running thread through her work is photography’s ever-evolving nature as a technology — from Daisuke Yokota’s darkroom experiments and Dominic Hawgood’s explorations of belief and digital perception, to the AI-generated images explored in Missing Mirror — a question she has returned to across many exhibitions: what is photography, and what is it becoming? What drives her most is artists who, whatever technologies they use, open up worlds we have never entered before: whether that is Samuel Gratacap’s portrait of migrants crossing from North Africa to Europe, Giath Taha’s brother in Syria only reachable through an online game while war kept the real world closed between them, or the way photographers such as Carlijn Jacobs or Paul Kooiker use the framework of fashion to enter the surreal. Mirjam has contributed to several art publications and artist books, regularly joins international juries and continuously writes for Foam Magazine. She is also co-founder of De Kunstmeisjes, a Dutch independent art review platform through which she has co-authored two books. |
Chiara Magni
Head of Public Engagement Medici Senza Frontiere
| Chiara Magni is Head of Public Engagement at Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), the international medical humanitarian organisation. For nearly twenty years, she has worked in communications for non-profit and international organisations. She leads the Public Engagement Unit at MSF Italy, which promotes public involvement in humanitarian issues through campaigns, events, partnerships, and special projects. As part of her work, she oversees cultural initiatives dedicated to photography, publishing, and cinema, exploring their potential as tools for testimony, storytelling, and raising awareness about contemporary humanitarian crises. Bearing witness is part of MSF’s DNA, just as much as providing medical care and saving lives. For MSF, bringing attention to humanitarian crises and sharing the stories of the people affected by them is a fundamental responsibility. Documenting what happens in crisis settings means not only informing the public, but also fostering greater awareness and encouraging concrete action in support of the most vulnerable communities. For this reason, MSF has been involved in photographic initiatives and collaborations for many years. |
Emanuela Mirabelli
Photo editor Marie Claire Italia
| Emanuela Mirabelli is the Photo Editor of Marie Claire Italy magazine, where she publishes a variety of projects, from documentary photography to new languages in contemporary photography, and a variety of authors, from established artists to emerging talents. She also writes texts and holds various lectures about photography in workshops, masterclass, conferences and schools. She is regularly invited to do portfolio reviews in Italian and international festivals, and she is a jury member of international photo awards. Born in Milan, she has always been intrigued by all that is expressed through the images. After high school she started to write movie reviews for magazines, while studying art history at the University. She worked for Photo magazine and then she worked as the executive director of Carla Sozzani Gallery, before becoming Photo Editor of Marie Claire Italy. |
Maysa Moroni
Photo editor Internazionale
| Maysa Moroni has been a photo editor at Internazionale magazine since 2008, with a particular focus on the cover image. Originally from Milan, she has been based in Rome since 2003. Before joining Internazionale, she graduated from the Riccardo Bauer School of Photography in Milan, travelled extensively working as a photographer’s assistant, and held positions as a photo researcher at the Franca Speranza Photo Agency, a production assistant at the photojournalism agency Contrasto, and a photo editor for the L’Espresso publishing group. She occasionally gives talks about the creative process behind the making of Internazionale’s covers. She is especially interested in viewing documentary photography, photojournalism, and long-term projects. |
Andreas Prost
Director of Photography DIE ZEIT
| Andreas Prost is the Director of Photography at DIE ZEIT in Berlin. With a background in photojournalism, he previously worked for news agencies such as AFP and dapd before starting his career at ZEIT ONLINE. Since 2020, he has been head of the photography department in the Berlin newsroom of DIE ZEIT. He is consistently interested in new forms of visual storytelling for both digital and print publications. While he feels most at home in reportage and documentary photography, he is equally enthusiastic about artistic and personal projects. |
Arianna Rinaldo
Curator PhEST
| Arianna Rinaldo is a freelance professional working with photography at a wide range. From 2012 to 2021 she was the artistic director of Cortona On The Move, international festival of visual narrative. Since 2016 she is the photography curator at PhEST, a festival on contemporary photography and arts in Puglia. Arianna’s relationship with photography started in 1998 as Archive Director at Magnum Photos, NY; and then, back in Italy, as photo editor for Colors magazine. From 2004 to 2011, in Milan, she worked as editorial consultant and curator for exhibitions and special projects. For 4 years she was photo consultant at D, the weekend supplement of La Repubblica. For almost 10 years she was the director of OjodePez, a bilingual documentary photo quarterly published by La Fabrica in Madrid. Based in Barcelona since 2012, Arianna is active as consultant, teacher, curator and mentor. She participates in photo events and festivals around the world as speaker and portfolio reviewer; and she is regularly invited on jury panels and selection committees for international institutions and organizations, including Leica Oskar Barnack Award, British Journal of Photography Ones To Watch, Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize. |
Fiona Shields
Head of Photography Guardian News & Media
| Fiona has over twenty years’ picture editing experience across a range of newspaper titles as well as being a curator, speaker on photojournalism and mentor within the photography community. She was picture editor of the Guardian for ten years before taking up the role of Head of Photography for the Guardian News and Media Group. Throughout her career she has been involved in the coverage of some of the most historic news stories of our time. In addition she has judged numerous high profile photographic awards including the Sony World Photography Awards, The Carmignac Photojournalism Award, The Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize and is a regular nominator for the prestigious Prix Pictet Prize. Fiona was the chair of the global jury for the World Press Photo Awards 2024. |
Massimo Siragusa
Photographer & Sony Europe Imaging Ambassador // Editorial Director Phaos Edizioni
| In collaboration with Sony Photographer, teacher, curator and Sony ambassador, Massimo Siragusa teaches at the IED in Rome and at the Abadir Academy in Catania. He is a photographer and Editorial Director of Phaos Edizioni. He directed the Plenum Gallery for six years and served as Director of the Ragusa Foto Festival in 2024 and 2025. His photographs are part of the permanent collections of the Vatican Museums, the Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Roma, the MART, and the Museo di Roma in Trastevere. His work has also been published in leading international magazines. Throughout his career, he has collaborated with numerous public institutions and private foundations and, through his corporate photography projects, has documented the identity of many of the world’s most prestigious companies. He has won four World Press Photo awards and two Sony Awards, and has published sixteen books. He lives between Rome and Catania. |
Barbara Stauss
Photo editor NZZ Media
| Barbara Stauss is a trained photographer who now works as a freelance photo editor at Studio Stauss. She was one of the founding members of the German reportage magazine «mare» and headed the photo editorial department there for 25 years. In 2010, she also became project manager of the German section of Reporters Without Borders’ annual Photo Book «Fotos für die Pressefreiheit». She now works as a freelance photo editor for various publications of the Switzerland-based Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ). She curates photo exhibitions and edits books and other publications, primarily focusing on documentary or historical photography. Barbara Stauss is also a founding member of the online magazine ReVue, which focuses on photography and perception. She divides her time between the Swiss mountains and Berlin. |
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July 17–18, 2026 · Palazzo Vagnotti, Cortona
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