Journalist, History Specialist (UFF), Master in History (UFRGS), PhD in Communication and Information (UFRGS). Co-Founder and coordinator of FestFoto and coordinates the  International Portfolio Reviews Platform of  FestFoto since 2015.
Coordinated the team that developed the project of the Palacinho Cultural Center – Photo Library of Rio Grande do Sul.
Has research related to photography and urban reform, with a Case on the work of the Italian photographer Virgílio Calegari.
Interested in themes such as urban landscapes, environment and photojournalism.

Gilma Suárez – Colombian photographer.

2000.- Teacher and director of the PHOTOMUSEUM – National Museum of Photography in Colombia. 2001.- Teacher and director of FOTOMARATÓN, the most important photography contest and the biggest awards in Colombia.

2005.- Creadora, curator and general director of the BOGOTÁ PHOTOGRAPHIC Bienal – Encuentro Internacional de Fotografía that in this year fulfills 15 years of activities. This biennial features renowned artists from five continents, curators and historians, from five continents, photographers and Colombian photography specialists.

2013.- Creator of the VIDEOTECA, The album of photographers, documentary about the masters of Colombian photography.

2013.- Named by the Semana y Royal Salute magazine for the TRIBUTE prize – for people who are examples of development and social examples for new generations.

Decoration Manuel Murillo Toro for his contribution to the Progress of Communication.

With more than 36 years of experience as a photographer. I lived 15 years in Paris collaborating with different Colombian and European media. Their photographs have been exhibited in different countries and published internationally in specialized photography magazines.

Exhibition curator: Tokyo-Japan; Almería, España; Mexico DF.- Mexico; and since the year 2000, of the totality of the PHOTOMUSEUM changes.

Jury of contests and portfolio review: PhotoEspaña, Madrid-España; Photofest, Houston-United States; Photoseptiembre, Mexico DF – Mexico; Pinyao Festival, Pinyao-China; Festival de la Luz, Buenos Aires-Argentina, Le Mois de la Photo in Montreal, Canada and in various cities in Colombia.

Silvio Frota is a successful businessman and also a man with a sensitive eye for art. Still in the 80’s he started his collection, which has several works, including paintings and sculptures. Whenever he can, he includes a cultural program in his travels. In addition to being the director of the Museum and a great art collection, Silvio is a Director of the Volpi Institute and president of the Paula and Silvio Frota Institute.

Steven Evans has worked on various cultural practices over the years, and his work has been exhibited in the cities of New York, Los Angeles, Basel, Berlin, Lisbon, Paris and Stockholm, among other cities.

Evans (born 1964, Key West, Florida) works in a wide variety of media, including photography, installation, sculpture and painting. He is currently executive director of FotoFest International in Houston. His work was recently included in exhibitions at Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York; Jonathan Hopson Gallery, Houston; and Spritmuseum, Stockholm.

Evans’ visual work explores memory, history and identity, as well as popular culture. The work is rooted in an examination of the formation and changes in sexual and gender identity, as well as in the vocabularies of subcultures.

Jim Casper is editor-in-chief and co-founder of LensCulture, one of the leading online destination for contemporary photography broadcasting around the world. As an active member of the contemporary photography world, Casper organizes annual international photography events, travels around the world to meet photographers and review their portfolios, curate art exhibitions, writes about photography and culture, lectures, conducts workshops, serves as a jury international and nominator for major awards, and is an adviser to arts and education organizations. He is on the board of SPE, the Society for Photo Education, the world’s largest association of photography educators.

Uruguayan born in 1971, photographer Daniel Sosa was one of the creators of the Photography Center in Montevideo, where he has been director since 2002. Institution dedicated to the diffusion of photography in Latin America, the center maintains a collection of more than 100,000 historical photographs of the period between 1840 and 1990, and more than 30,000 contemporary images from 1990 to the present day. One of the editors of the magazine Sueños de la Razão, he permanently coordinates six exhibition halls where he works with contemporary photographers from Uruguay and other countries are exposed. It also produces a weekly television program, f / 22, dedicated to the reflection and promotion of photography. The CdF organizes the International Photography Festival “MUFF” over a period of three years, of which Daniel Sosa is the director.

Fabián Goncalves Borrega has been coordinating exhibitions at the Art Museum of the Americas (AMA) in Washington, DC since 1998, working with museums, galleries and artists. Since the opening of the AMA Gallery F Stret in 2005, its focus has been on creating a photographic space with social and artistic content, giving rise to photographers and emerging artists from the Americas to exhibit their work.

She has been working in the photography segment since 1985 as a cultural producer, curator and editor. Founded and manages the companies Terra da Luz Publishing and Image Brazil Gallery in Fortaleza, northeast o Brazil.

She was the creator and director of the Encontros de Agosto Festival, an initiative held in Fortaleza / CE from 2011 to 2017, with the main objective of promoting Ceará photography and exchange with contemporary Brazilian and international production.

In 2018, it continues this program with a new proposal, the Ver Ver Festival of Photography, expanding partnerships and intensifying circulation and training actions. Participated in selection committees at national and international festivals.

Bacharel em Letras pela UFRJ, pesquisadora, curadora e conservadora de fotografia. Em 2006, inaugura a Galeria Tempo com Carolina Dias Leite e Georgiana Basto, em atividade até 2014. Em 2015 foi diretora-curadora da Marsiaj Tempo Galeria (RJ). Nesse periodo, além de organizar inúmeras exposições, participou como expositora das feiras SP/ARTE e ART/RIO. Entre suas atividades mais recententes, destaca-se a co-curadora das exposições “Kurt Klagsbrunn, um fotógrafo humanista no Rio (1940-1960)”, “Rossini Perez, entre o morro da Saúde e a África” e “Ângulos da Notícia, 90 anos de fotojornalismo em O Globo” no Museu de Arte do Rio todas em 2015. No Centro Cultural da Justiça Federal, curou a mostra “Tempos de Chumbo, Tempo de Bossa – os anos 60 pelas lentes de Evandro Teixeira” (2014) e na Galeria do Espaço SESC, “Deveria ser cego o homem invisível?”, fotografias de Renan Cepeda (2015).

Como pesquisadora, participou das exposições e livros: “Alair Gomes – A new Sentimental Journey”, Cosac Naify, 2009, e “Caixa Preta – fotografias de Celso Brandão”, Estúdio Madalena, 2016, ambas com curadoria de Miguel Rio Branco e exibidas na Maison Europeenne de la Photographie em Paris. Em 2015, participou do livro “Milan Alram”, edições de Janeiro e Bazar do Tempo, de Joaquim Marçal.

Autora dos livros “Só Existe um Rio”, Andrea Jakobsson Estúdio (2008) e “Refúgio do Olhar, a fotografia de Kurt Klagsbrunn no Brasil dos anos 1940”, Casa da Palavra (2013) ambos em parceria com Mauricio Lissovsky.

Participou da implantação do Departamento de Fotografia do Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, onde foi curadora entre 1988 e 1997. Prestou serviços para instituições públicas e privadas como o Centro de Conservação e Preservação Fotográfica da FUNARTE e o Arquivo Nacional. Desenvolve projetos de pesquisa e curadoria. Em seu escritório TEMPO, dedicado exclusivamente à fotografia, representa o trabalho de fotógrafos modernos e contemporâneos.