Online portfolio reviews - first session

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.

Astrid Hulsmann (Curator BredaPhoto)
Astrid Hulsmann works as a curator at BredaPhoto and has been part of the team since 2022. Previously she has been working at Kunstmuseum & Fotomuseum Den Haag. She’s a guest tutor at various art academies, writes on contemporary photography and has organized photography talks as a board member of PictureThis. She holds a Master’s degree in Art History.

Marc Prüst (Curator photo gallery De Gang and teacher MOME Budapest)
I conduct research into the workings of the photographic industry to understand how and why photographs circulate: why do we see the photographs that we see, in print, on social media, in museums, on billboards, and elsewhere? The project uses the visual economy to look at all types of photography with the aim to describe an overall model of the photographic industry as a whole. This research has taken the form of a PhD trajectory at the University of Groningen.

I curate exhibitions for museums, festivals, and galeries. I edit photo books in close cooperation with photographers. I am the curator of photo gallery ‘De Gang’ in Haarlem, a free-entry non-profit gallery space in the city center. Also, I teach Visual Economy of Art Photography at Moholy Nagy University of Art and Design Photography MA in Budapest.

I have published two books: Tell Your Story, and Edit Your Story.

Dr. Ileana L. Selejan
Dr. Ileana L. Selejan is a writer, researcher and curator, currently Lecturer in Art History, Culture and Society at the Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh. A member of the PhotoDemos research collective and of the experimental arts collective kinema ikon, she has held curatorial, research and teaching positions at various institutions including the Department of Anthropology at University College London, the Decolonising Arts Institute at UAL, Central Saint Martins, The Davis Museum at Wellesley College, New York University, Tisch School of the Arts and the Parsons School of Design.

Berit Smit
Berit Smit – Studio Berit – works as a picture editor at Het Parool and as an exhibition designer, graphic designer and creative producer. Her experience spans a wide range of approaches to photography and visual storytelling. Drawing on this broad expertise, Berit develops and shapes different ways of telling stories, from editing to the choice of medium, always keeping the maker’s story at the heart of the process.

Fiepke van Niel 
Fiepke van Niel is an art historian and curator specializing in photography. She holds an MA in Film & Photographic Studies from Leiden University and currently works as a curator at Fotomuseum Hilversum. She is interested in urgent socio-political topics, feminism(s) and queer theories.