Online portfolio reviews - second 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.

Daria Tuminas 
Daria Tuminas (1984, based in Amsterdam, she/her) is an independent curator and co-founder of Growing Pains, a foundation operating at the intersection of visual arts, publishing, education, conversation, and human connection. Since September 2025, she has served as Program Leader of Curatorial Practices in Photography at the International Center of Photography (ICP) in New York. From January to June 2026, she was a temporary curator of visual arts at Stroom Den Haag.

Since 2019, Tuminas has curated regularly for FOTODOK in Utrecht and has developed exhibitions with institutions and festivals including Foam Amsterdam, Les Rencontres d’Arles, EXPOSED Torino Foto Festival, BredaPhoto Festival, WORM, and GALLERI IMAGE. The exhibition Haufi nyana? I’ve Come to Take You Home by Lebohang Kganye, which she curated at Foam, received the 2024 Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize. Her exhibition Undercover at the Contemporary Art Museum Erarta, co-curated with Zhenia Sveshinsky, received a Silver Award at the 2014 European Design Awards.

Alongside her curatorial practice, Tuminas writes regularly on photography, visual culture, and publishing. Her texts have appeared in publications including Foam Magazine, Trigger (FOMU), YET, The PhotoBook Review (Aperture), doc! photography magazine, LensCulture, Unseen Magazine, and others. Between 2017 and 2019, she headed the Unseen Book Market at Unseen Amsterdam and has contributed to numerous photobook-related projects as a writer, editor, and curator. She co-curated the symposium The Moving Page at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, contributed a chapter to How We See: Photobooks by Women (10×10 Photobooks, 2018), guest-edited The PhotoBook Review #12 (Aperture, 2017), and has curated multiple exhibitions dedicated to photography books and printed matter.

Lisanne van Happen 

Lisanne van Happen supports upcoming talent mainly working with the medium of photography within her work. She is a freelance curator, project developer, educator, fundraiser and producer with a particular interest in social issues, specialized in the field of documentary photography.

She strives to connect people and create collaborations that are greater than the sum of its parts. Lisanne has a BA in documentary photography from art academy St.Joost in Breda. She studied social-cultural work and attended courses in Sociology at Utrecht University and worked as a curator and producer for organizations such as: Critical Mass, Docking Station, Prospektor and FOTODOK. 

Currently Lisanne works as a fund raiser and project developer at The Eriskay Connection, photobook designers & publishing house in Breda, The Netherlands. We focus on contemporary storytelling at the intersection of photography, research and writing. In close collaboration with authors we make books as autonomous bodies of work that provide us with new and necessary insights into the world around us.

Heide Häusler
Heide Häusler has been the managing director and artistic director of Internationale Photoszene Köln since 2013. As a curator and exhibition manager, she previously worked for institutions including the Museum of Applied Arts in Cologne, the Stadtmuseum in Düsseldorf, and the Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt. From 2009 to 2016, she was Exhibition Director of the Mannheim, Ludwigshafen, Heidelberg Photo Festival (also known as the Biennale for Contemporary Photography). Most recently, she curated the exhibitions “Next Generations” and “From A to B” at the Museum Morsbroich in Leverkusen. She served on the board of the DGPh’s Bild Section from 2013 to 2015 and from 2024 to 2026, and was a jury member for the DGPh’s Otto Steinert Prize and the City of Cologne’s Chargesheim Prize for Media Art from 2015 to 2025. In 2026, she was honored by the Cologne Cultural Council as Cultural Manager of the Year 2025.

Nesli Gül
Nesli Gül is an independent curator, researcher, and art writer. Her practice approaches the archive not as a static repository, but as a living field where memory, migration, artistic identity and legacy are continuously reinterpreted. Her research focuses on contemporary art, transcultural art history, exhibition-making, institutional critique, and the ways artistic narratives move across institutions, archives, and cultural systems going beyond geographies. 

Holding a PhD in Contemporary Art Practices, Archive and Memory, she deepened her research into cultural memory and heritage as a visiting scholar at the University of Amsterdam. Gül’s curatorial framework actively bridges communities and cultures by transforming research into public dialogues, critical art writing, and collaborative reviews that challenge how we experience contemporary art.

Her research and curatorial projects include Mountain: As a Living Archive at PAKT Amsterdam, The Waves at Contour Gallery, Scattered: Hidden Narratives Through Archives at Framer Framed, Hidden Screenplays at Sazmanab Contemporary Art Platform, and Point Counter Point at Space Debris. Her writing has appeared in academic journals and art magazines, including Tubelight, Archives and Records, Archivo Papers, Metropolis M, Sanat Dünyamız, ArtDog Istanbul, Argonotlar, and RH+ Art Magazine. She is a member of ArtTable Nederlands, The Collectors Circle, AICA and ICOM in the Netherlands. 

Rob van Hoesel 
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.

John Fleetwood
John Fleetwood (South Africa) is a photography curator and educator, focusing on socially engaged visual practices. He serves as Co-Head of BA Photography at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague (KABK), while also directing the Johannesburg-based platform Photo: and working within African photography contexts. Previously, Fleetwood led the Market Photo Workshop in Johannesburg (2002–2015).

Mohamed Somji
Mohamed Somji is a curator and the Director of Gulf Photo Plus (GPP), a Dubai-based gallery and community organization cultivating visual practices in photography in the UAE, and across the wider MENASA region since 2004. As part of GPP’s commitment to developing visual and critical literacy, the organization engages the community with regular educational and art programming, exhibitions of work from and about the region and providing resources for photographers from film developing and processing to fine art printing, a photobook store and more. Mohamed is also a practicing documentary photographer whose practice locates and probes schisms in contemporary life, challenging the status quo with sensitive, critical commentary on the politics of representation. 

Kim Knoppers
Kim Knoppers is an independent curator, writer, and educator whose work explores photography as a material, cultural, and social practice. Rather than approaching photography solely as an image, she is interested in how photographs are produced, handled, exhibited, circulated, and transformed over time. She brings together perspectives from photography, contemporary art, crafts, and archaeology, connecting theoretical questions with the practical realities of exhibition-making.

She previously served as Senior Curator at Foam, Amsterdam (2011–2021), where she curated over seventy exhibitions. Kim currently teaches at ECAL, Lausanne, Switzerland and ICP, New York. She regularly curates exhibitions for the Marubi National Museum of Photography in Albania. Her most recent transhistorical exhibition of contemporary art, Living Mesh – A World Beyond Linnaeus, is on view at the Verwey Museum Haarlem until November 2026.

Guinevere Ras
Guinevere Ras is a curator, advisor and speaker specialising in pluralistic approaches to photography. As a curator at the Nederlands Fotomuseum in Rotterdam, she develops exhibitions that challenge dominant visual narratives and create space for underrepresented perspectives. Most recently, she curated the exhibition Awakening in Blue. An Ode to Cyanotype (2026), which approached the historic photographic technique through contemporary perspectives on ecology, the colonial past and the body as an archive.

Alongside her curatorial work, she advises cultural institutions and serves on the Visual Arts Committee of the Dutch cultural fund Het Cultuurfonds. She is also active as a jury member, including for De Zilveren Camera (2023–present) and the Paris Photo–Aperture PhotoBook Awards (2025).