The Jury

HASTED HUNT KRAEUTLER - New York
Joseph Kraeutler, Partner

Mr. Kraeutler has over ten years of experience successfully managing and promoting photographers and the sale of their work through numerous esteemed New York galleries. Mr. Kraeutler has extensive experience in advising private collectors in both contemporary and classic photography. In 2006, Joseph signed on as New York Director of the Photographs department with Phillips de Pury & Company. As active Director, he assembled numerous auctions quickly becoming known for his ability to introduce young talent into the auction world with powerful results. At the end of 2008, he resigned from his position at the auction house to start the company Klever Holdings Inc. where he is currently managing a large collection of important art as well as negotiating private treaty sales on behalf of a selective group of clients. In October of 2009 he partnered with Bill Hunt and Sarah Hasted to open a new gallery in Chelsea titled The Hasted Hunt Kraeutler Gallery. The gallery represents and exhibits such world renowned photographers as Edward Burtynsky, Erwin Olaf, Andreas Gefeller, Albert Watson, Jeff Bark among others. Mr. Kraeutler holds advanced degrees in Art as well as Business, and is active on the board of several charitable art-based organizations.

CHRISTIE'S - London
Alexander Montague-Sparey, Specialist Head of Sale

As Specialist Head of Sale at Christie's, Alexander Montague-Sparey is responsible for all London Photographs sales. Since his tenure at Christie's, Mr. Montague-Sparey has been responsible for sales including the 100% sold Norman Hall Collection, which included Self-portrait, Cuzco Studio, 1948 by Irving Penn, offered for the first time at auction. He also managed the sale of Gert Elfering's collection of Jeanloup Sieff, Photographies, where the world auction record was achieved for the artist with Yves Saint Laurent, Paris, 1971. In May 2011 he brought to market the largest Peter Beard ever to be offered at auction, Cheetahs, Tarn Desert, setting a world record for the artist. Prior to Christie's, Mr. Montague-Sparey worked for Phillips de Pury and Company, overseeing an international selling exhibitions programme of contemporary art, design and photographs, working with photographers such as Mario Testino, Annie Leibovitz, Tierney Gearon and the Guy Bourdin estate, curating the latter's first retrospective commercial show, Unseen. Alexander is also the UK correspondent for La Lettre de la Photographie. He has recently worked with the moving image, choreographing Robin Hardy's most recent film, The Wicker Tree, the sequel to the legendary The Wicker Man. Alexander earned his master's degree in the history of art from the University of Oxford.

GALERIE ALEX DANIELS - REFLEX AMSTERDAM
Alex Daniels, Director

Representing and dealing in modern established artists since 1987, Galerie Alex Daniels – Reflex Amsterdam opened a new space in 2003 to focus on young and established contemporary artists, and to put an accent on present-day photography and painting showing their different facets and kinds. The galleries are situated opposite each other in the centre of Amsterdam opposite the Rijksmuseum. In January 2010 a third space will be opened expanding our capacity to present young talents, established and contemporary artists.Annually Galerie Alex Daniels organizes 4 - 6 solo exhibitions and 3 - 4 group shows. We regularly initiate unparalleled projects and co-productions with artists like Yasumasa Morimura or David LaChapelle. Many artists like Daido Moriyama, Nobuyoshi Araki, and the young artist Mahomi Kunikata from Takashi Murakami’s Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd. were given a steppingstone to the Dutch art scene with their first show at our gallery. A tradition of the gallery to produce limited editions and books in close collaboration with the artists. Galerie Alex Daniels participates at local and international art fairs including The Armory Show, Arco Madrid, Artissima Torino, Art Amsterdam, Art Rotterdam and EAB New York.

BRANCOLINI GRIMALDI ARTE CONTEMPORANEA - Rome
Isabella Brancolini and Camilla Grimaldi, Gallery Owners

Brancolini Grimaldi Arte Contemporanea has locations in Rome and Florence and presents a program dedicated exclusively to contemporary photography and video. The only gallery in Italy to have such a focus, Brancolini Grimaldi represents several of the most important photographers, such as Olivo Barbieri, Francesco Jodice, and Massimo Vitali. The gallery also works with important international artists, including Mitch Epstein, Larry Sultan, and Andrea Fraser. The gallery is dedicated to producing and commissioning new works, as evidenced by Vitali's portfolio "Landscapes with Figures", as well as Barbieri's "site specific_ Las Vegas" 35 mm film. The focus on new emerging art trends throughout Europe and around the world is also an integral part of Brancolini Grimaldi's approach, hence the gallery also represents several younger, emerging artists.

Y&R - Asia
Marcus Rebeschini, Chief Creative Officer

Marcus Rebeschini is Chief Creative Officer for Y&R Asia. In 2006, Campaign Brief Asia named him Advertising Person of the Year for consistent creative excellence over a two-year period and ranked him as the number one creative in Asia Pacific. His work has won hundreds of industry accolades and a host of best of shows, and his campaigns have been ranked in the top 10 of shots and the Gunn Report. As well as his creative credentials, Marcus also used to be a sponsored dirt boarder, having won a bronze medal at the World Dirt Boarding Championships in LA. Marcus returned to Asia in 2008, fresh from a successful stint with TBWA/Chiat/Day in New York with another Gold Lion from Cannes to his credit, and back to the scene of some of his greatest successes while with TBWA Singapore, where he helped the agency win its first ever two Gold Lions, lifting them to number one in the market, as well as earning five local and regional Agency of the Year citations. Working with some amazing talent throughout the network’s 17 offices, Y&R Asia has experienced a creative resurgence in the last two years. Y&R Jakarta won the country of Indonesia it’s first ever Gold Lion in 2010 and Y&R Singapore won Republic of Singapore Navy after the client being with Saatchi & Saatchi for 28 years – just one the many new business wins in the last two years including Tiger Beer, Audi, Bank Of Singapore, Good Year, Sands Casino and China Southern Airlines. The network also has two Guinness World Records under its belt for clients. This year Y&R Thailand won it’s first ever Gold Cannes Lion, two for that matter; another first after more than 20 years for Y&R Thailand.

DAVID & GOLIATH - Los Angeles
Tim Delger, Sr. Art Director

Tim Delger is a Sr. Art Director at creative agency David&Goliath in Los Angeles. He graduated from the University of North Texas with a Bachelors Degree in Communication Design. Prior to moving to LA, Tim worked at Publicis in Dallas and GSD&M in Austin on brands including BMW, Air Force, Southwest Airlines and AARP.

GREY GROUP - Jakarta
Randy Rinaldi, Executive Creative Director

Grey Group Indonesia's Executive Creative Director, Randy Rinaldi is an industry veteran with experience across categories covering local, regional and global markets. Having worked with clients Procter & Gamble, Nestle, HSBC, LG, Samsung, Telkomsel, Mitsubishi Motors and Gudang Garam, Rinaldi's stellar track record has put his his name on many industry awards and won client relationships, as well as having established himself within the creative industry as an unconventional thinker and an individual who always delivers beyond the expected. Born and bred in Indonesia, Rinaldi has judged at various industry shows such as New York Festivals, AdFest, Pinasthika Ad Festival and Cakram Awards, and also regularly contributes as a speaker at several creative platforms, from Pinasthika Ad Festival, Bedah Iklan Asia Pacific to seminars organised by the communications industry. Rinaldi was previously Executive Creative Director at Publicis, and was Creative Director at JWT and Leo Burnett.

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GALERIE THIERRY MARLAT - Paris
Thierry Marlat, Director

Galerie Thierry Marlat is exclusively dedicated to the art of photography and has a wide selection of images ranging from vintage prints from the nineteenth century to contemporary masters (Guy Bourdin, Walker Evans, Lee Friedlander, Nan Goldin, David Hockney, William Klein, Robert Mapplethorpe, Helmut Newton and Irving Penn) through the years from 30-50 (Brassai, Denise Colomb, Horst P. Horst, Man Ray and Julius Shulman). The gallery opened in 1998 and is located in the Marais, the historic district of Paris where many contemporary art galleries and two museums devoted to photography are located. Gallery Director, Thierry Marlat's professional and artistic vision is to discover the best new innovative photography talent. Gallery exhibitions are guided by the desire to emphasize the richness of expression of the photographic medium in its most varied form.

CHRISTOPHE GUYE GALERIE - Zurich
Christophe Guye, Gallery Owner

Since its establishment in 2006, the Christophe Guye Gallery - former SCALO|GUYE Gallery - has exhibited a wide range of exciting and outstanding contemporary photography. In response to a growing number of contemporary artists and art collectors alike turning to photography as their medium of choice, the gallery is proud to represent leading contemporary artists whose works have previously been scarcely represented in Switzerland, from countries such as America, Australia, Canada, China, England, Finland, Japan, Korea, and Switzerland. Furthermore, we seek to support and exhibit significant young emerging artists whose works notably contribute to the art historical discourse and development within photography.

SIMON STUDER ART | ASSOCIATES - Geneva
Simon Studer, Director

RETHINK CANADA - Toronto
Adam Bailey, Creative Director

Adam was born and raised in Red Deer, Alberta. He studied anthropology at the University of Western Ontario before getting wise and landing a job in the ad biz. Prior to joining Rethink, Adam was an associate creative director at BBDO Toronto, where he worked on national campaigns for Tropicana, Pepsi, Doritos, Mercedes-Benz, Shaw Communications, RBC, and Harvey's. His diverse body of work has received international recognition, including Gold awards from The Cassies, The Bessies, The Digital Marketing Awards, and The Cannes Lions. In his spare time Adam can be found cycling, road-tripping, writing comic books, or stressing about how messy his backyard is.

TWO HEADS CHICKEN GALLERY - Portugal
Eva Hernández, Director

Founded on Spain in 1986 originally as Clave Art Gallery, the gallery was renamed Two Heads Chicken Gallery in 2010 and moved its activities to Évora, Portugal, a city catalogued by Unesco as Patrimony of Humanity. It was in this historical city where gallery owners Antonio López and Eva Hernández Calderónthe bought and and restored an 18th century antique Palace as a location for the new Two Heads Chicken Gallery. The gallery promotes a diffusion of the latest emergent trends in the international figurative art market with special attention given to sculpture and photography. Independently of exhibitions previewed in its own space, the gallery also organizes various exhibitions and contemporary art activities for public and private institutions through LMC Productions. The gallery publishes bibliographical editions, graphical works, multiples of sculpture, photography and objects which are available at the Two Heads Chicken art shop.

SID LEE - Paris
Sylvain Thirache, Executive Creative Director

Sylvain Thirache has served as Creative Director of Sid Lee Paris since spring 2009.

RICART GALLERY - Miami
Martial Ricart, Director

Ricart gallery was founded by Caroline Herail, Martial Ricart and Arno Valere through the same passion: Art. All three have various and complementary backgrounds in the art industry. Their principal focus is art as an investment and represent an international group of contemporary artists (established and emerging) whose diverse practices include painting, sculpture and photography. The gallery hosts solo and group exhibitions throughout the year and participates in prestigious international art fairs.

BERNARD KNAUS FINE ART - Frankfurt
Bernhard Knaus, Director

CAMARA OSCURA - Madrid
Juan Curto, Director

Juan Curto is the owner and director of camara oscura, a multidisciplinary art gallery specializing in emerging contemporary photography and video. The gallery opened in 2007 and currently exhibits the work of young international photographers, not only in the gallery but in the most reputed art fairs worldwide including VOLTA New York, SCOPE Basel, photo Miami, ARCO and Arte Fiera. Camara oscura has rapidly become a successful and trendsetting gallery. Mr. Curto teaches marketing of art at the Universidad de Nebrija (Madrid, Spain) and other institutions. He is regularly requested to review portfolios at the main festivals of photography like PhotoEspaña discoveries '09 and Fotofest 2010, Houston, USA. He also guests as a juror on a number of prestigious awards panels. Last but not least, he is a passionate collector of photography from 1996. His collection focuses on the same type of photography as his gallery does, narrative and staged photography, and is named "Illuminations".

NL=US ART CONSULTANCY - Rotterdam
Clemente Brakel, Founder

NL=US Art consultancy is a global art agency that is dedicated to the promotion of emerging and established Dutch and American artists. Services include private and corporate art advisory and professional support for our visual artists. The agency represents contemporary artists Peter George d' Angelino Tap, Hans van Bentem, Ruth Borgenicht, Carel van Hees, Ted Langenbach & Pietra Ligura, Han Goan Lim, Ming Smith, Marcel van der Vlugt, Marleen van Wijngaarden and Hans Withoos. The focus of NL=US Art consultancy is to establish these artists in the commercial global marketplace. We handle marketing and promotion of their work, act as their business manager liaison to galleries, collectors, corporate institutions and critics alike. We are able to provide guidance and information to all who are interested in acquiring art work from these artists.

AMSTERDAM WORLDWIDE - The Netherlands
Richard Gorodecky, Executive Creative Director

Formerly known as StrawberryFrog, Amsterdam Worldwide has created highly original and engaging work for some of the world's most respected brands, including Chevrolet, Coca Cola, Heineken, IKEA, Mitsubishi and Sony Ericsson. Amsterdam Worldwide's multi-national and multi-disciplinary strategic, creative, digital, media and management teams work in collaboration with clients and agency partners to create highly effective, integrated pan-European and global campaigns. For more than nine years the agency has built passionate customer relationships, delivering results for clients who think big and are open to the innovative and unconventional.

BFN - BEROEPS FOTOGRAFEN NEDERLAND - The Netherlands
Albert Sier, Chairman

BFN - Professional Photographers Association of the Netherlands, is the oldest and leading association for professional photographers in the Netherlands. Founded in 1919, BFN has represented its associated members for 90 years and brings professional photographers together, promotes photography, stimulates creative development of its members, and protects their rights. BFN provides education, information and business skills to the Netherlands local and national photography networks. Chairman, Albert Sier, is an industry veteran with over 25 years experience.

FOX BROADCASTING COMPANY - Los Angeles
Diane Cooper, Senior Director, Photo Publicity

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CHANNEL
Christos "Stos" DeVaris, Design Director

As Design Director for the National Geographic Channel (NGC), Christos "Stos" DeVaris is responsible for the network's overall graphic design efforts. Stos works to ensure a consistent style across all NGC platforms including programming, print, outdoor, and on-air promotion. He oversees all work handled by an internal staff of NGC designers as well as outside agencies, making sure all graphics are consistent with NGC's re-branding initiative "Dare To Explore." DeVaris comes to NGC from The Food Network, where he served for three years as director, on-air design, creative services. He led the network through a brand redesign process and oversaw all on-air graphic needs for marketing and affiliate sales. From 2000-2001, DeVaris designed and animated on-air promos and interstitials as the senior designer, creative services for Oxygen. From 1998-1999, he was a digital animation coordinator for MTV Animation and an animator for Nick Digital/Nickelodeon. DeVaris has also designed and animated graphics packages for TLC and ESPN. He has won two ProMax Awards and a BDA Award.

STILLS GALLERY - Australia
Bronwyn Rennex, Director

STILLS is a leading Australian gallery with a focus on contemporary photography and multimedia art. The gallery, established in 1991, is housed in a converted warehouse with a large exhibition and print room space in Paddington, Sydney's main gallery precinct. STILLS represents both emerging and established artists, and has a long history of fostering artists who work at the forefront of contemporary photo media practice. The gallery's annual program consists of nine exhibitions. STILLS also organizes artist talks throughout the year to promote discussion and understanding of the exhibited work. STILLS is a member of the Australian Commercial Gallery Association (ACGA), and has regularly collaborated with Australian and international public galleries on touring exhibitions. These have included "Photographica Australis", exhibited at ARCO Madrid and touring throughout Asia, "Rencontres d'Arles", touring through Europe and "Shimai - Sisters" touring in Japan and Australia.

NATIONAL MUSEUM OF SINGAPORE
Jason Toh, Senior Curator

Jason Toh is Senior Curator at SAM (Singapore Art Museum), a national museum under the National Heritage Board since July 2011. He was previously the Curator of Photography at NMS (National Museum of Singapore) from 2004 to 2010. He received his B.A magna cum laude in Art History & French from Middlebury College (USA) in 2002 and studied French 19th & 20th century literature at the University of Paris III – Nouvelle Sorbonne (France) as an exchange student in 2001. He is leading the international projects and art prizes cluster within SAM’s curatorial department which entails exhibition content development for an international audience to understand and appreciate new forms of art-making in Asia of the 21st century and the discovery of artistic talent through platforms like the APB Signature Art Prize. He also serves as the editor for Visual Culture, a SAM/ exhibition in print project due in November 2011.

PEKIN FINE ARTS - Beijing
Meg Maggio, Director

Pekin Fine Arts is a Beijing-based private consultancy and art gallery established by Meg Maggio in November 2005. Ms. Maggio is a 20-year China resident, arts writer, curator and director of Pekin Fine Arts gallery in Beijing. Ms. Maggio acts as advisor to leading museums, corporations and individuals on collecting and exhibiting contemporary art. With over 600 square meters of exhibition space designed by Beijing-based artist/architect Ai Weiwei, Pekin Fine Arts strives to represent and to promote the best and most innovative contemporary artists from Asia. In addition to hosting a wide range of gallery exhibitions in the Beijing gallery, Pekin Fine Arts plays an important role in promoting Asian artists internationally. Artists represented by Pekin Fine Arts have had exhibitions and/or works collected by art institutions such as Mori Art Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum, Musee Pompidou, MOMA - NYC, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, JP Morgan Chase Art Collection, Venice Biennale, Arles, UBS Art Collection and Lyon Museum of Contemporary Art.

MUSEE DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE - Bruxelles
Xavier Canonne, Director