Kaunas Photo Star 2012 - Portfolio experts (on-line)

The first way photographs will face the reviewers is on the on-line system that we have created enabling photographers to show their work to a large number of internationally acclaimed experts of photography from 5 continents. In the course of several weeks, experts will review portfolios and at the same time attribute their votes.

With the stage of online reviews photographers will have a unique opportunity to show their work to a variety of experts. Moreover the pre-selection of Finalists who will be invited to come to Kaunas, will be as objective as possible.

The growing lists of experts is presented below.

Laura Beilby (Australia / France) Curator and photography consultant

Carlos Carvalho (Porto Allegre, Brasil) “Festfotopoa” festival director

Elda Harrington (Buenos Aires, Argentina) “Encuentros Abiertos de Fotografia” - director

Talking about Kaunas Photo Star, I think it is a great opportunity and really nice the way it is managed to get in two days so many things and experience from the curators and reviewers, plus also to discover work of other photographers who in some cases have dona a really really goooood job. You realize about such good photographers that you didn't know.....

Borja Lázaro Herrero
KAUNAS PHOTO STAR 2011 participant

Rui Prata (Braga, Portugal) “Braga Image Museum” and “Encontros da Imagem” festival – director

Inez Baturo (Bielsko-Biała, Poland) – publisher, educator, translator; “FotoArtFestival” – program director, Gallery of Photography "B&B" - curator

Jeff Moorfoot (Ballarat, Australia) – photographer, educator; "Ballarat Foto Biennale" - director

David Birkit (London, UK) - “DNB media” – director

Aristeidis Kontogeorgis (Athens, Greece) – curator; Faculty of Applied Arts and Design, Technological Educational Institute of Athens - professor

Qiao Jianguo (China) - “International Photography Festival Federation” - vice secretary-general

David Lloyd (Brisbane, Australia) - “The Australian PhotoJournalist” - executive editor, Queensland College of Art, Griffith University - deputy director

Michael Itkoff (New York, USA) – photographer, writer; "Daylight publishing" – co-founder, Daylightmag.org – editor

Howard Bossen (East Lansing, Michigan, USA) - Michigan State University Museum - adjunct photography curator, Michigan State University School of Journalism - professor

Dewi Lewis (Stockport, UK) – Dewi Lewis Publishing

Lisa Botos (Singapore and Hong Kong) – curator, picture editor

Yan Li (New York, USA and Beijing, China) “High Noon Culture & Art Corp”

Nikola Lautliev (Plovdiv, Bulgaria) - “International Meetings of Photography” in Plovdiv – artistic director, Academy of Music, Dance and Fine Arts Plovdiv – associate professor

Antoan Vasilev Bozhinov (Sofia, Bulgaria) - PHODAR Biennial – artistic director, PHODAR Foundation – chairman, Sofia University - lecturer of photography

Thomas Licek (Vienna, Austria ) Eyes On - “Month of Photography Vienna” - managing director

Sam Barzilay (New York, USA) - “United Photo Industries” - creative director

Irina Chmyreva (Moscow, Russia) – curator, writer, teacher; PHOTOVISA international festival of photography in Krasnodar (Russia) – artistic director

Zsolt Szamódy (Budapest, Hungary) – "Fotóhónap 2012" (Month of Photography, Budapest) – director

Anne Bourgeois Vignon (London-New York) – curator, consultant; NOWNESS-senior commissioning editor

Karin Bareman (Amsterdam, Netherlands) - FOAM, the photography museum in Amsterdam, - assistant curator

Fred Boucher (Beauvais, France) - Diaphane Association, Photaumnales festival

Adriana Wattel (Beauvais, France) - Diaphane Association, Photaumnales festival

Gonzalo Olmos (Arequipa, Peru) - FOLi, Museo de la Fotografia Lima - chief curator

Bridget Coaker (London, UK) - Troika Editions, photography online contemporary photography gallery - director, The Guardian and Observer newspapers - picture editor

Tina Schelhorn (Cologne, Germany) - Lichtblick Gallery & School

Agnes de Gouvion Saint Cyr (Paris) - AGSC consulting

Lisa Fetissova (Paris) - Russian Tea Room gallery, owner

Natalie Herschdorfer (Lausanne) - Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography, +1000 festival - director, Switzerland

Monica Allende (London) - The Sunday Times

Jan Mulder (Lima, Peru) - Centro de Imagen - director

Simon Bainbridge (London) - The British Journal of Photography - editor

Paul di Felice (Luxemburg) - Cafe Creme - artistic director, European Month of Photography Luxemburg - director

Nestan Nijaradze (Tbilisi, Georgia) - Tbilisi Photo Festival - artistic director

Kaisa Rastenberger (Helsinki) - Finnish Museum of Photography - curator

Florence Baur (Munich) - F5.6 Gallery - curator

Berenice Angremy (Beijing) - Coachangdi PhotoSpring - director

Louise Clements (Derby, UK) - Quad & Format International Photography festival - artistic director

Regina Maria Anzenberger (Vienna, Austria) - Anzenberger Agency and Anzenberger Gallery - owner and director

Christophe De Jaeger (Brussels) - BOZAR photo

The 20 experts coming to Kaunas are also reviewing online.