Jury

Pie Aerts is a photographer based in Amsterdam. His work examines and questions the intricate and often melancholic relationship between people and place in an attempt to explore why we seem increasingly disconnected from each

Cyrielle Gendron is editor-in-chief of PHOTO magazine, the oldest French magazine dedicated to the art of photography and an international reference.Born in 1989, the journalist joined the editorial team fifteen years ago, organizes exhibitions, and

Tomasz Trzebiatowski is a photographer and independent publisher. He is the founder of FRAMES - quarterly printed photography magazine and the accompanying digital platform. He is also the editor-in-chief of the FujiLove Magazine for users

Siegfried Hansen, born in 1961, is a photographer, author and coach and is one of the most renowned German street photographers. His work has been presented worldwide in solo and group exhibitions. Hansen's works are

[Mexico / UK] Marioly Vazquez (or Maria) is the creative mind behind Maria Marie, she is a photographer and stylist from Mexico currently living in London. Her main interest is photographing and styling interiors, still

Federica Nardese, originally from Veneto, passionate about travel, has worked and lived in various cities on both sides of the ocean and has found her home in Milan for over ten years. It has a humanistic

Natela Grigalashvili is a Georgian documentary photographer known for her long-term, in-depth visual storytelling. Her work often focuses on rural communities, cultural identity, and the lived experiences of people in remote or marginalized regions of

Founder and Director of URBAN Photo Awards, Trieste Photo Days and Exhibit Around APS ETS | Juror at URBAN Photo Awards.Stefano Ambroset is the creative force behind significant photographic initiatives such as the URBAN Photo

Art historian, graduated from the University of Trieste, she is an executive conservator at the Civic Museums of History and Art in Trieste and is particularly involved in the Sartorio and Morpurgo museum houses and

[Czech Republic] Czech photographer Miloš Nejezchleb has only been focusing on conceptual photographic work for 3 years; however, he has already won several awards. He is the winner of Czech Press Photo contest, double absolute

[Croatia] Born in 1971 in Pula. Graduated in 1996 from the University of Trieste with a BA in History. In 1999 she obtained her MA in History from the Faculty of Philosophy at University of Zagreb.

Rohit Vohra is a street and travel photographer, educator, and Editor-in-Chief of APF Magazine. Rohit has garnered recognition for his distinctive approach to street photography. He is a Leica Camera Brand Ambassador, and a Leica

[Poland] Ania Klosek is polish documentary & street photographer, member of UN-POSED and BURN MY EYE collectives. She was awarded with prestigious Grand Press Photo Award. Klosek’s works were featured at various street photography exhibitions

[Spain] Born in Madrid in 1963. Photographer and COO at DNG Photo Magazine.Miembro de la Real Academia Bellas Artes y Ciencias Históricas de Toledo. Especializado en retrato, arquitectura y fotografía de escena. Me manejo bien

[Italy / Poland] Monika Bulaj / Bułaj, Polish photojournalist, reporter, non-fiction writer, documentary film maker, TED fellow, based in Italy, is exploring the borderlands of Monotheism, the nomadic tribes, the minorities, the migrants, the outcasts,

[India]Born in a village Venkatachalapuram near Theni, a town in Southern India, Rathika has always had a fierce connect with the drama of nature. She is based in Chennai and New Delhi. An MBA/Computer Engineer,

Director of photography, director and editor. He is a camera operator and director of photography of several short films, many of which won important awards. We can mention a few: "Interno 9" (winner of the

[Ethiopia / Canada] Born in 1974, Aïda left Ethiopia at a young age and spent an itinerant childhood between Yemen and England. After several years in a boarding school in Cyprus, she finally settled in

[Italy] Born in Trieste in 1948, he takes pictures since he was young. President of the Photographic Association Fincantieri-Wartsila of Trieste, during the 80s and 90s he first was Territorial, then Regional Executive of FIAF. Since

[Italy] Barbara Silbe lives and works in Milan. She is co-founder and chief editor of EyesOpen! Magazine, an Italian magazine about Photography culture. Since the Nineties she writes about Art, Photography, Technology and Culture for the

[Israel] "I am an Israeli-born street photographer presently living in Tel Aviv. After flirting with an initial fascination with photography and film cameras in the 1980's, I put my love for the still image aside. Fortunately,

[Italy] Diego Orlando is Senior Photoeditor and responsable of projects for BURNmagazine and @BurnDiary. Beside the online version, he is the photoeditor of the printed magazine as well as books, exhibits and of Emerging Photographer

[Poland] Based in Warsaw (Poland) | founder, publisher, and editor-in-chief of doc! photo magazine, a quarterly mook dedicated to contemporary documentary photography | originator of the DEBUTS project | juror in international photo contests | coordinator of

[Polonia] La sua passione per la fotografia e il design inizia qualche anno fa. Nel frattempo, studa fotografia presso l'European Academy of Photography (2012), e Motion Graphics in Active Art Study of Theater and Film techniques

[Poland / Ireland] Born in 1981 in Starachowice (Poland), he resides and works in Dublin (Ireland) for over a decade. Photographer, curator, TEDx speaker, educator, founder and chief editor of prism - editorial collective dedicated to

[U.S.A. / Brazil] Photographer, videomaker and editor of "Revista OLD" based in Los Angeles and São Paulo. "My photographic trajectory started when I entered the undergrad course of cinema in the University of São Paulo, in 2008.

[U.S.A.] Chris Gampat is the founder of The Phoblographer and he manages all of the daily tasks. He has worked for a large number of publications on the web and spent some time at both Magnum

[Italy] "Casa Trauner" director, Trieste. Website

[Italy] Craftsman TAIL, Tonadico - TN. Website

[Italy] Artist and illustratrator, Trieste. Website

[Italy] Photographer, Trieste. Website

[Italy] Professor in Trieste University.

[Italy] Jury President. Ad agency "Giotto Enterprise" Art Director in Trieste.Website

[Italy] Graduated at DAMS in Bologna, infantry artist expert, works for more than 10 years on music production and events. With her pictures she realized many covers of music albums. Besides some videoclips, photography is her

[Italy] Luciano Dolcini was born in Pesaro, Italy, in 1952 where he actually lives and works as photographer. Since 2000 Luciano Dolcini has undertaken the activity of curator of exhibitions, musical and cinematographic events, presentations and

[Italy] Photographer and cultural operator since 1979, has made tens of exhibitions in Italy and abroad. He runned an exhibit space in the '80s and projected international events. In the last years his creativity is oriented

[U.S.A.] New York City graphic designer, with 27 years of experience in every area of graphic design, especially logos, lettering, type and corporate identity. His famous logos are: History Channel, the personal flag for Hillary Clinton

[Italy] Sea and Sails photographer from over 30 years. Going around through Seas all over the worls looking for new images has let him get in touch with people and places all different. Website

[Italy] Famous italian rapper on the scene more then 20 years, 5 albums (Sony Music) e various cooperations with singers like Giorgia, Daniele Silvestri, Roy Paci, Niccolò Fabi, and the americans Nas e RZA. He is

[U.S.A.] Tampa/St. Petersburg Florida Area based professional Photographer specializing in commercial, car and event photography. Has worked in Asia for nine years. He travelled taking pictures many countries, South Korea, to Japan, to Thailand, Cambodia, Hong

[Italy] He lives and works in Florence, where he moved in 1993. Here he has enthusiastically welcomed social reportage and the urban landscape. He is fascinated by the depth which he is able to tell the

[Spagna] Nata a Madrid nel 1962, si è laureata all'Università Complutense in Lingue e letterature spagnole, e ha conseguito un master in studi di documentazione. Spinta da un lungo interesse per la vita nel potenziale

[U.S.A.] James Maher is a fine art and studio photographer based in New York City. He studied photography at the International Center for Photography and the School of Visual Arts in New York. He works as

[Italy] Massimo Giacon was born in Padua, Italy, in 1961. From 1980 he worked in Milan suspended between its different activities of cartoonist, illustrator, designer, artist and musician. Star since the early 80s of the renewal

Professional photographer, he divides his time between corporate, editorial, advertising and film sets. He has worked on many Italian and international productions, including "The best offer" by Giuseppe Tornatore, "Tutto il mio folle amore" by

[Germany] Born in West Germany in 1973, Guido Steenkamp has been working in Berlin for the last thirteen years. He earned a degree in computer information systems and makes his living as head of a IT

[Poland] Born in 1955, lives and works in Sosnowiec, Poland. A member of the Association of Polish Art Photographers (ZPAF), currently he is the chairman of the Mountain Area of ZPAF. The board member of the

[Holland] Creative Photographer & Digital Imager. For his autonomous work he "picks" his models largely from the streets. The handling of his models with his working method he dubs as "Gorilla Style". Ronald has in the

[Italy] Massimiliano made his passion in photography into profession since he graduated at the School of Photography “R. Bauer” in Milan. He has been photographing weddings professionally since 1992. He has also taught photography at different photography

[Slovakia] Born in 1971 in Bratislava, Slovakia. President of Association of Professional Photographers of Slovakia. Master QEP (Federation of European Photographers). Awarded the prestigious Master QEP by FEP and “The Leadership Award” in the field of

[U.S.A.] Studio photographer based in Birmingham, Alabama. Her work in commercial advertising and Fine Art photography is gaining recognition worldwide. In 2011 she was named the Grand Prize winner of the International Photography Masters Cup, and

[Poland] Artist photographer, translator, publisher, editor. Born in 1966. Now she lives in Bielsko-Biala, Poland. Master’s degree in English Philology (Silesian University, 1991). Cofounder and Vice-President of the Foundation Centre for Photography (since 2004). One of

[Latvia] She was born, lives and photographs in Jurmala, city of Latvia, overlooking the Gulf of Riga. Her photographs reveal a great experience as well as a strong personality.There is no photographic genre that has not

[Spain] Young photographer and film director based in Madrid. Self-taught, he soon began working in advertising for clients like Pepsi, Smart, Movistar and Sony, as well as for agencies like Contrapunto BBDO, DDB and McCann Erickson. Many

[Italy] Born in Florence inherits from his father the passion for travelling and photography so much that he made it a profession. He is official photographer of the Nikon Professional Team, national level coordinator of the

[Holland] Superb talented photographer and photo manipulator, who shoot amazing photographs with humour and creativity. His images are compositions from different photos and brilliantly processed and put together. Each image he produces tells a story. Some

[Germany] Born and educated in Germany, Ronya moved to London in the early 1990s and it is there that she launched her photography career and developed her own style of urban and street photography, extracting the

Co-Editor of Nocturno, self-styled journalist. He worked for 11 years as a script consultant for Medusa Film. He directed documentaries for Raisat Cinema, including Il Mistero Wicker Man and Cinema De-Genere. He worked as assistant

[U.K.] Nicholas Goodden is an award winning urban photographer with a focus on London. In the past two years his work has been extensively featured in major London and photography publications. His late 2014 solo exhibition was

[Bangladesh] "I have received more than 80 international awards and my work has been featured in over 90 major, international publications including: National Geographic, Vogue,Time, Sunday Times, Newsweek, Geo, Stern, Der Spiegel, The Fader, Brand Ein,

[Canada] Amanda Diaz is a Fashion, Beauty & Conceptual Photographer currently living in Western Canada. She has been working as freelance since mid 2008 as Amanda Diaz Photography. To share her passion for creativity, Amanda teaches

[Pakistan] A highly talented and renowned landscape and nature photographer from Pakistan, who is well known for his versatile photographic style. For Atif, his photography is a method of self-expression and a method to share his life experiences. Saeed

[India] Gulzar Sethi is one of the High end Candid & Destination Wedding Photographer based out of Delhi, providing his services throughout India, so be it in a luxury ambience of a Five Star property, Exotic

[France] Born on May 1, 1968 in Bordeaux, France, Alain Laboile is a photographer and father of six. In 2004, as he needed to put together a portfolio of his work as a sculptor, he acquired

[France] Julie de Waroquier is a self-taught French photographer, also philosophy teacher, who started photography in 2008. Since 2010, she has distinguished herself by winning several national and international awards, including the International Emerging Artist Award.

[France] "I’m 37 and I live in Amiens, Somme, France. I have a Phd in human physiology and I work in the field of physical medicine and rehabilitation. I have been practicing photography for 3 years

Art historian, since 2017 Director of the Museums and Libraries Service of the Municipality of Trieste, with expertise in the entire museum system and civic librarian. From 2015 to 2016 Director of the Bologna Museums Institution

[Francia] "Ho scoperto la fotografia nel 2008 e ho deciso di farne un lavoro. Prima di allora non ho mai premuto il pulsante di scatto di una reflex, avevo torto: scattare una buona foto è un

GMB Akash is a compassionate and award-winning photographer from Bangladesh, who dedicates his life to capturing the essence of people living on the edge of society all over the world. With his lens, He has

[Italy] Silvio Mencarelli is an Italian photographer, teacher, journalist and editor of  PHOTOSOPHIA.IT web magazine.

[Brasile]Mozart Mesquita è partner di FHOX, storico magazine brasiliano dedicato all'immagine nonché promotore di Fotografar SHOW, il più grande evento sulla fotografia del Brasile.Website

[India]Manish Mamtani è un fotografo naturalista vincitore di numerosi premi. E' specializzato in paesaggi, fotografia notturna e astronomica, fotografia aerea e a raggi infrarossi. Originario di Nagpur, in India, ora risiede a Boston (USA). Ha

[Croatia] Art critic, independent curator, art producer & graphic designerAt the begining of eighties (1980.) Maja Briski has founded the creative multimedia manufacture EGOIST ARTZ & PARTZ which she leads today. Her wide concept incorporates

Andrea Boni, born in 1969, second generation of publishers, trained at the Bocconi management school, integrates his studies with a degree in communication. Currently managing director of Editrice Industriale, publishing house born in 1964 which

[U.S.A.] Christy Karpinski is the founder and editor of F-Stop Magazine, an online photography magazine that promotes contemporary photography from established and emerging photographers from around the world to inspire and support a community of

[Italy] Born in Mals (Bolzano, Italy) in 1948, for several years he was a middle school teacher. From a previous experience in the field of arts decided to switch to photography in 1968. He has worked

[Italia / Regno Unito] Alex Liverani, giovane fotografo Italiano che vive e lavora a Londra. Alex ha frequentato un master di fotografia documentaria contemporanea alla DOOR Akademy di Roma. Ha inoltre ottenuto innumerevoli riconoscimenti in ambito

[Poland]"My fascination in photography I started a few years ago. In the meantime, I completed study multimedia graphics in the 'Active Art Study of Theater and Film Techniques' and photography in the 'European Academy of

[Cyprus] Born on 1966, he is Analyst / Programmer and working as IT Manager in a large company in Cyprus. His passion for photography began at the early childhood and carries him to win several awards

[Italy] Born in Taranto in 1958. He began his professional career working in an advertising agency where he learned with serious professionists communicative possibilities of the video, but it's the photography that intrigues him to make