Brendan Embser is senior editor of Aperture magazine. He is also editor of Aperture books by Deana Lawson, Chloe Dewe Mathews, Ethan James Green, Ming Smith, Philip Montgomery, Wendy Red Star, Zhang Xiao, Sunil Gupta, and Rebecca Bengal. He has been co-curator of the Aperture Summer Open exhibitions since 2018, and he has served on the jury for the Addis Foto Fest, Changjiang International Photography and Video Art Biennale, Sony World Photography Awards and WMA Masters. Brendan’s writing has appeared in Apartamento, Gagosian Quarterly, n+1, and The PhotoBook Review. He holds an M.A. in Africana studies from New York University, and a B.A. in English from Haverford College, Pennsylvania.

Clothilde Morette is Head of programme at Maison Européenne de la Photographie (MEP), Paris where she is in charge for the Studio programme –exhibition space dedicated to emerging creation– and for the events. She also curated a major retrospective exhibition dedicated to the artist Samuel Fosso, Rineke Dijkstra’s exhibition and she is working on Viviane Sassen’s solo show. Prior to this she worked at the Palais de Tokyo, on the exhibition Le Bord des Mondes (2015). She also practices independently as both a critic and curator, working between literary narratives and both historic and contemporary art.

Drew Sawyer is a curator and writer who holds the title Sondra Gilman Curator of Photography at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Sawyer holds a Ph.D. in Art History from Columbia University, and specializes in photography, queer studies, and experimental documentary practices. His exhibitions include Jimmy DeSana: Submission (2023), John Edmonds: A Sidelong Glance (2020-2021), Liz Johnson Artur: Dusha (2019), and Isaac Julien: Looking for Langston (2018-2019).

Itō Takahiro is curator of photography at the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum (TOP). Born in Tokyo in 1986. Joined TOP in 2013 after curating at the Musashino Art University Museum and Library. Major exhibitions he has been curated include MATSUE TAIJI: makietaCC (2021), Photography in the Ryukyu Islands (2020), Photography and Fashion Since the 1990s (2020), Things So Faint But Real: Contemporary Japanese Photography vol. 15 (2018-2019), Nagashima Yurie: And a Pinch of Irony with a Hint of Love (2017) and In the Here and Now TOP Collection: Scrolling Through Heisei Part 1 (2017).

Mirjam Kooiman is an art historian and curator at Foam Photography Museum Amsterdam, where she is responsible for a number of exhibitions among which most recently Sara Cwynar – S/S 23 (2023). She is currently researching how photography can relate to virtual realities, artificial intelligence, gaming and online experiences. Mirjam holds a B.A. in Art History and a M.A. in Curating Arts and Culture from the University of Amsterdam. She previously served as a curator-in-training at Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum. She regularly participates in juries for festivals and awards among which the Hariban Award, Meitar Award for Excellence in Photography, Firecracker Photographic Grant, Getxophoto, PARALLEL Photo Platform and Organ Vida, amongst others. Mirjam has written for artist books and publications such as L’Internationale, Something We Africans Got, Migrant Journal, and she is a regular contributor to Foam Magazine. Mirjam Kooiman lives and works in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Pauline J. Yao is Lead Curator, Visual Art, at M+. She has held curatorial positions at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco and worked as an independent curator and writer in Beijing for six years, during which time she helped co-found the storefront art space ‘Arrow Factory.’ Since joining M+ in 2012, Yao has played a leading role in building the museum’s holdings of visual art by overseeing and acquiring works from around Asia and beyond. She is currently responsible for all acquisitions, public programmes and research pertaining to Visual Art at M+, including the sub-area of Ink Art, and oversees curatorial-led museum publications. Her previous exhibitions include In Search of Southeast Asia through the M+ Collections (2018, with Shirley Surya) and Five Artists: Sites Encountered (2019), both mounted at the M+ Pavilion. For the 2021 M+ grand opening she organized Antony Gormley: Asian Field (2021-2022) and lead the curatorial team for Individuals, Networks, Expressions (2021), the inaugural collection-based presentation of visual art at M+ featuring over 150 artworks from nearly 70 artists. Yao is a regular contributor to Artforum International and her writings on contemporary Asian art have appeared in numerous catalogues, online publications, and edited volumes.

Kim Sunyoung is a senior curator at Museum Hanmi (priorly The Museum of Photography, Seoul). She has worked with photo-artists from various nationalities and generations for exhibition projects since 2011. Her research interests currently focus on medium specificity and its latent influence on contemporary photographic practices in post-medium conditions. She is currently a Ph.D. in photography at the Centre for Research and Education in Arts and Media (CREAM) at the University of Westminster in London.

Kim Sung woo is a curator and writer. He is interested in curatorial methodologies to produce/pose questions based on time and space, and is considering how to achieve subjectivities of individuals in the form of exhibition. Kim directed the curatorial project/exhibition and management of Amado Art Space, not-for-profit alternative space in Seoul (2015-2019). He was also appointed as a curatorial advisor for the Busan Biennale 2020, SongEun Art Space (2019), and was a curator for the 12th Gwangju Biennale (2018). He currently launched a curatorial space ‘Primary Practice’ in Seoul.

Kim Jeong Eun is editor-in-chief of IANN, the contemporary art magazine in Asia and the founder of IANNBOOKS launched in 2007. Serving as chief coordinator of Daegu Photo Biennale (2012) and curator of Seoul Photo Festival (2010), she has been widely involved in curatorial activities within the field of photography. In an effort to introduce the contemporary photography scene of Asia, she continues to publish and collect numerous art and photo books via ‘The Reference’ platform located downtown Seoul.

Seok Jae-hyun was born in Daegu, Korea. He completed his graduate studies at Ohio University in the United States majoring in Visual Communication. His career can be summarized as a photographer, professor, and curator. He has experience working as a freelancer photographer for New York Times, International Herald Tribune, and Korean GEO. To start his career as a curator, he organized Daegu Photo Biennale in 2006 with others. Moreover, he has curated many international exhibitions such as Daegu Photo Biennale Imaging Asia in Documents (2006), ON KOREA (2013), Daegu Photo Biennale Women in War (2014), Blooming Silk Road (2014), Ara Guler – Eye of Istanbul (2015), Wang Qingsong – The Glorious Life (2019), Busan Photo Festival Anthropocene – Save Our Planet (2020), Korean Contemporary Photography: Insight into the Nature and Humanity (2023), Korean Shamanism GUT: Breath of the Spirit (2023). He has also participated in international photo festivals such as Dali, China, Singapore, and Istanbul as a foreign curation team. He received the Best Curator Award from Dali International Photography Exhibition (DIPE) in China, in 2015 and 2017.

Since 2016 she’s working as a curator for establishing The Photographic Arts Center, Seoul Museum of Art, Korea’s first public photography Museum, where she has developed the Korean Photography collection and Research. She is interested in contemporary art activities based on photographic media, and researching photographic images and photographers who are alienated from existing photography or art discourse. She recently curated exhibition The Printed World, The Photographic Arts Center, Seoul Museum of Art Pre-opening Program (2022). She served as a curator or coordinator of Photo Book Exhibition The Photographers in the Library, Seoul Photo Festival Our Happy Day, 70th Anniversary of Independence: A Photographic Reflection (2015), The Birth of Seoul’s Visual Space: Hanseong, Gyeongseong, Seoul (2014), Portrait of Times, Times of Portrait (2013), and Daegu International Photo Festival Photographics (2012).

Song Sujong is a curator and photography critic based in Seoul. Her research interest lays in the unfolding of media and visual culture. Song was the senior curator of the Museum of Photography, Seoul, and the commissioner of Dak’Art Biennale and co-founder of the Seoul Lunar Photo. She previously curated exhibitions including Dakar Biennale Hybrid/Metamophorsis (2016), Map of Daily Life (2015), Five Views from Korea (2014), Hurroo Hurroo (2013). Song is currently the senior curator at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea (MMCA).

Lee Sunghui majored in industrial design and art theory, and has been working as a curator of HITE Foundation since 2012. Lee is interested in the ways and aspects of various works of contemporary artists being practised as exhibitions. Lee’s latest exhibitions include Kak (2022, co-curating), Chun Kook-kwang, a Modernist (2022), 21st Century Paintings (2021, co-curating), I, Etcetera (2020), Live Forever (2019) and Allover (2018).