Jury
Jury 2025
Dawin MeckelUte Mahler
Photographer, Curator, Lecturer
1969–1974 Studied photography at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig
1990 Founding member of OSTKREUZ
2000–2015 Professor of Photography at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences
since 2005 Lecturer at the Ostkreuz School of Photography, Berlin
Ulrich WüstDaniel Blochwitz
Photographer and Curator
2003 Master of Fine Arts Photography (University of Florida, USA) Postgraduate Independent Study Program (Whitney Museum, NYC) Freelance Curator and Lecturer (photo basel etc.)
Manuel NieberleCaroline von Courten
Editor, Curator, Lecturer
2010 – 2012 and 2018 Managing Editor at Foam Magazine
2013 – 2023 PhD Leiden University, (»The Photographic Surface between Substances and Spaces«) as part of the Science4Arts-research project on Photographs & Preservation with the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
since May 2023 Artistic Co-Director DER GREIF
Angela MatyssekAngela Matyssek
Art Historian, Lecturer
2006 Ph. D., Humboldt University Berlin (»Art History as a Photographic Practice«)
2015 – 2018 visiting and substitute professorships at University of Stuttgart, HU Berlin and LMU Munich
since April 2019 Professorship for Art History with a focus on modern and contemporary art at Dresden University of Fine Arts
Sandra BuschowSandra Buschow
Photographer, Cultural manager, Lecturer, Curator
2018-2023 Master Classes at VII Photo Agency, f3 – Freiraum für Fotografie, Ostkreuzschule Berlin
2023-2024 Picture Editor of the PORTRAITS catalogues, with Helena Melikov
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2025 PORTRAITS Guest Professor at Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden (HfBK Dresden)
Jury Members 2015-2024
Matthew Hamon · Julian Röder · Matthias Flügge · Yvonne Most · Hilde Pank · David Campesino · Christiane Mennicke-Schwarz · Susanne Altmann · Ulrike Lerchl · Werner Lieberknecht · Matthias Creutziger · Stefan Heinemann · Dieter Jaenicke · Katja Schumann · Kristin Dittrich · Andrew Phelps · Karen Weinert · Carla van de Puttelaar · Jens Heinrich Zander · Francesca Cesari · Laura El-Tantawy · Tomasz Lewandowski · Inka Recke · Andreas Krase · Stefan Krauth