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.

Self-taught photographer and video artist born in Juatuba Minas Gerais, Brazil, graduated in chemistry in 1980. He currently lives in Diamantina/ MG, Brazil. From 1989 onwards, he researched and developed alternative and multidisciplinary techniques, manipulating negatives and copies. For the past five years he has been researching electronic media including the
sequence and movement. Among other lines of interest, he approaches themes related to the identity and memory of Afro-descendant culture with social and critical works, which often take us to different levels of reading. His work has been widely publicized in several exhibitions in Brazil and abroad and has received awards and acclaim from the public and critics.

Rui Prata, Sesimbra,1955.

Degree in History from the Faculty of Arts of the University of Porto (1980); Postgraduate studies in Artistic Studies at Escola Superior Artística do Porto (2002-2003); Master in Museological and Curatorial Studies from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto (2007-2009).
He taught in Secondary Education (1980-1998) where he also held various managerial and pedagogical positions.
Senior Technician/ Main Advisor at the Braga City Council, as Director of the Museu da Imagem (1998-2014).
Visiting Assistant Professor at Escola Superior Artística do Porto (2003-2011).
Visiting Assistant Professor at the UCP Faculty of Philosophy (2011-12).
Co-founder and Director of Encontros da Imagem, an international photography festival in Braga (1987-2013).
Throughout his career, he has curated over two hundred exhibitions in Portugal and abroad.
He has participated, as a jury, in the awarding of prizes and scholarships in the field of photography.
In 2019 he created the Imago Lisboa photography festival, of which he is artistic director.

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.

Isabel Gouvêa is a photographer, master in Visual Arts, curator, educator, researcher and manager of sociocultural projects. Active member of the FOTOBAHIA Movement from 1979 to 1986, organizing and participating in exhibitions, workshops and debates. She worked as a photographer for the inventory for the listing of the Historic Center of Salvador by the Instituto de Patrimonio Histórico da Bahia.
She worked for 30 years in the Multimedia sector of Teatro Castro Alves, documenting the artistic programming and directly following the TCA Ballet. In recent years, she has held two large individual exhibitions, presenting her extensive photographic research in important cultural centers in Salvador, São Paulo and Brasília. She has numerous works in the collection of Espaço Pierre Verger da Fotografia Baiana in Salvador.
She carried out the research, publication and curatorship of the Design Popular da Bahia exhibition, presented in Salvador, São Paulo, Barcelona and Milan. For 12 years, she coordinated Oi Kabum! Salvador School of Art and Technology, where he coordinated the Projects: Popular Festivals of Salvador and Dois de Julho: Popular Resistance and Identity in Bahia, and curated the exhibitions, presented in Cultural Centers in Salvador, Cachoeira, Barcelona and New Orleans . She currently coordinates the Education of the Museum of Modern Art in Bahia.
Elected as president of the 2019-2022 administration of the Network of Cultural Producers of Photography in Brazil – RPCFB.

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.