Live portfolio reviews
11 September 2026
Location: Foyer Chassé Theater, Claudius Prinsenlaan 8, Breda
Date: 11 September 2026
Time: 10.00-13:00
Price: €15,- per review
We bring together industry professionals and emerging photographers, including students and advanced amateur photographers. Our reviewers are a carefully selected group of curators, editors, publishers, and photographers.
If you’d like to have your work reviewed but can’t afford the fee, you can apply for a free review by emailing astrid@bredaphoto.nl.
Tickets are also available for the online portfolio reviews on 22 September and 13 October.
Ruben Lundgren (Curator Nederlands Fotomuseum)
Ruben Lundgren (b. 1983) is Senior Curator at the Nederlands Fotomuseum in Rotterdam. A conceptual photographer, curator, and researcher, he is known for publications including Empty Bottles (2007) and Tokyo Tokyo (2010). In 2011 he completed a master’s degree in photography at the Central Academy of Fine Arts. His two decades in China profoundly shaped his practice and led to a sustained engagement with contemporary Chinese photography and visual culture.
Lundgren worked as a photojournalist for the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant and later established himself as an independent curator and specialist in Chinese photography. Together with Martin Parr, he co-edited The Chinese Photobook (2015), a landmark publication on the history of Chinese photography. As guest curator of BredaPhoto, he curated the exhibition China Imagined (2020). His ongoing interest in vernacular photography resulted in the acclaimed publications MeNu (2018), Dream Machine (2023), and Wildman Fever (2024).
Appointed Senior Curator in 2025, he initiated Quickscan 3: Photography Now (2026) together with Guinevere Ras, continuing his focus on photography as a reflection of contemporary culture and society.
Annaleen Louwes
Annaleen Louwes (1959) lives and works in Amsterdam. She studied photography at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, where she later became a lecturer. She also teaches at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague. Alongside commissions for cultural institutions, theatre companies and magazines, Louwes works as an independent artist.
Her work explores the fragile and transient nature of human existence. She is fascinated by the ways in which people survive under different circumstances, and by how these experiences affect the body and the way we carry ourselves. These themes recur throughout her photographic series and films.
Rob van Hoesel (The Eriskay Connection)
Rob van Hoesel is a Dutch graphic designer focusing on editorial and book design. In 2011 he founded The Eriskay Connection, an independent publisher focusing on contemporary storytelling at the intersection of photography, research and writing. His work is characterized by a conceptual approach, co-authorship, and the importance he gives to meaning and communication. Van Hoesel has been often awarded at Dutch and International book design competitions, such as: Best Dutch Book Designs, European Design Awards, Aperture/ParisPhoto Photobook Awards, Deutsche Fotobuchpreis and more.
Tom J.J. Viaene (Trigger, FOMU Antwerp)
Tom J.J. Viaene is a Belgian editor, lecturer, and programmer with a background in aesthetics and intercultural philosophies. His research explores the philosophical and ethical dimensions of image making, presentation, and collection. He coordinates the Trigger book series for FOMU – Museum of Photography in Antwerp, a publication for reflection on photography. He teaches at Sint Lucas Antwerpen School of Arts, where he also serves as program coordinator for the Sint Lucas Antwerp Research Group (SLARG). Additionally, he is an editor of Grounds, the school’s research journal. He lives and works in Brussels.
Velina Stefanova
Velina Stefanova is a Bulgarian curator, artistic director, and co-founder of BECA (Before Creating Academy), an independent platform dedicated to contemporary photography and visual storytelling through educational programs, exhibitions, publishing, and international collaborations with organisations such as Magnum Photos.
As curator of BECA Gallery, she has curated more than twenty exhibitions across galleries, festivals, and independent art spaces in Bulgaria and internationally. Her practice also extends to publishing, where she has edited numerous photography books, including BLIK, BECA’s annual photo-text publication, which she leads as Editor-in-Chief.
Interested in projects at the intersection of documentary, conceptual, and personal narratives, she works closely with artists to explore how curatorial practice can generate new perspectives and meaningful public engagement.
Currently a Director’s Fellow in the One-Year Certificate Program in Curatorial Practices at the International Center of Photography (ICP) in New York, she is developing the curatorial framework for a future international photography festival in Sofia, envisioned as a platform for long-term artistic collaboration and international exchange.
Samira Damato (Pride Photo)
Samira Damato is a Maltese-German filmmaker, curator and cultural programmer based in Amsterdam. She is currently the Artistic Director for the Pride Photo organisation.
Samira has worked with multiple high-caliber cultural foundations, NGO’s and institutions such as Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth (Milieudefensie), EuroPride, the World Press Photo Foundation and NOOR images, to curate and develop exhibitions, cultural programmes, and educational workshops, ensuring their accessibility and working to create sincere and urgent dialogue with a specialised focus on environmentalism, human rights, and inclusive representation.
Frederiek Biemans
Frederiek Biemans is an independent curator and programme maker. She curates and produces exhibitions and related public programmes. She was artistic director of Humanity House, where she shaped the artistic and curatorial direction of exhibitions and programmes exploring international and global issues around peace, justice and migration.
She has also worked at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague (KABK), where she collaborated with third-year photography students on an exhibition, and at World Press Photo, where she developed educational projects for emerging professional photographers and contributed to publications and exhibitions. She currently works as a freelancer and is closely involved in photography projects at Prospekor, a journalistic production agency.
Donja Nasseri
Donja Nasseri‘s was born in 1990 in Düsseldorf. She studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy and at the Kunstakademie Münster under Mariana Castillo Deball. Donja Nasseri’s work navigates the shifting relationship between tradition and change, across artistic mediums and broader social landscapes. Emerging from an engagement with intertwined histories and narratives, her practice examines identity, trauma, and collective memory through materials drawn from museums, archives, and communities, reactivated via translation, fragmentation, and recontextualisation. Conceived as a form of visual and material archaeology, it brings historical and personal memories into dialogue with the present, evoking the resonances of colonial histories and the ongoing urgency of restitution. Working across language, metal, audio, photography, sculpture, and installation, her approach is inherently multidisciplinary. Photography and collage are central, expanding into layered sound and fragmented text. Through assemblage and montage, the work resists singular interpretation, inviting multiple readings and temporalities to coexist. It foregrounds relationality over representation, revealing how memory, voice, and silence interlace to shape complex, multivocal forms of meaning.
Fleurie Kloostra
Fleurie Kloostra is a curator at Melkweg Expo, an exhibition space for contemporary photography and a platform for emerging artists, located in the heart of Amsterdam. With a focus on photography that explores identity, society and pop culture.
“Melkweg Expo offers programs throughout the year that highlight themes such as equality, gender identity, and sexuality. It collaborates with various organizations and supports emerging artists. This program creates accessible encounters with important social issues and makes an impact by giving a voice to subcultures and communities that are not sufficiently heard.”
After obtaining her master’s degree in Art and Economics from HKU, she worked as a curator for Vlaams Cultuurhuis de Brakke Grond.
Next to working at Melkweg Expo, Fleurie Kloostra is often solicited as a jury member or portfolio reviewer, and teaches at art academies, private institutes, and talent programs. She works as a freelance curator for different institutions and is board member of Fonds Anna Cornelis
As a curator, she feels it is her role to act as an intermediary between an artist and the audience.
Lotti Pronk
Lotti Pronk is currently a photo editor at Dutch newspaper Trouw. For twenty years, she worked as a producer, adviser and connector with extensive experience in the international photography industry. She was involved in setting up NOOR and produced and developed several photography platforms, including the Dutch National Portrait Gallery, ForHanna and the photography show De Donkere Kamer. As a photo editor, she has worked for Volkskrant, Volkskrant Magazine and was the photo editor of Amnesty’s magazine Wordt Vervolgd for 15 years. She is passionate about discovering and supporting new photographic talent and connecting photographers with opportunities, ideas and networks.
Marga Rotteveel
Marga Rotteveel is a senior researcher and educator. Educated as a photographer at the St. Joost Academy (Breda), she has built on that foundation to make artistic research the core of her practice, a living process that happens through making, testing, and reflecting, in the studio, the classroom, and the field. She works with materials, situations, people, and non-human others, letting what emerges, often a new direction, sometimes an answer, guide the next step. Photography is her primary tool for observing, questioning, and materializing ideas, a way of making visible what often remains unseen. For her, research and education are communicating vessels that feed each other.
For over two decades, she has taught at leading art academies. Rooted in commons thinking and ecological principles, her teaching explores how artistic practices, beyond institutional frameworks, can contribute to more grounded, relational, and regenerative ways of working and living. She currently lectures in two master’s programs, Photography & Society at KABK The Hague and Master Art & Design at St. Joost, teaching courses including Define Your Practice, New Photo Economy, and Rethinking the Artist Economy, a residency she co-developed and continues to shape.
As a researcher in the Collaborating for Regenerative Value Systems research group (Avans University of Applied Sciences), she looks at what it takes to become rooted in a place, studying workplaces where art, ecology, and economy form one living practice.
She is also a mentor and advisor in the photography field, working with festivals, institutions, and professionals across Europe.
Her practice is guided by one recurring question: what does it take to truly belong to a place, shifting from transactional to relational ways of thinking and acting to build meaningful, enduring bonds, bonds that keep people, places, and practices resilient and evolving together over time.
Femke Rotteveel
Femke is since 2017 the director of FOTODOK. FOTODOK is an institution in Utrecht (NL) where photography exhibitions are curated around social themes to broaden perspectives or provide new insights. In addition, FOTODOK is organizing in depth programs , i.e. on photobooks, and is guiding artists in their development FOTODOK is actively involved in (inter)national talent programs such as Lighthouse, Journeys and FUTURES. With the major role of images nowadays in information provision, it is FOTODOK’s mission to include the educational program Learning to See in the fixed curriculum of education for all children.
Femke is a connector with a large (inter)national network of cultural institutions, photographers, social organizations, funds, (impact) investors and entrepreneurs. She studied social-economic history at the University of Amsterdam and Exeter University. At the start of her career Femke worked for 8 years as head of World Press Photo’s exhibition department where she was responsible for organizing and financing the 100 exhibitions that take place worldwide every year. She subsequently was 8 years the Head of Allocations at the Dutch Charity Lotteries, where she was responsible for the distribution of the proceeds of the Postcode Lottery and Friends Lottery to cultural institutions, charitable organizations and social enterprises. She distributed more than 2.5 billion euros in this role.
Femke is part of different (international) jury’s. She was i.e. heading the HKU Awards jury between 2020 – 2025. She was involved as a mentor in various startup programs and is a board member at KLABU, National Violin Competition, One Acre Fund and the Max Foundation.
