Folio 2021

Tommaso Parrillo is an Italian publisher and founder of Witty Books, a publishing house founded with the name of Witty Kiwi in 2012, that aims to promote photography and visual arts. Since 2016 he is also co-founder of JEST, an independent space dedicated to enhancing culture and photography in Turin . He also teaches photography in institutions as IED Torino, private school and workshops.

Federico Barbon is a graphic designer focusing on web and editorial design. He studied at Bauer school in Milan, Italy (2013) and graduated from ECAL in 2019. He worked at Studiopaola (Milan), Navone Associati (Milan) and Lamm & Kirch (Leipzig). He's now working as a book designer for a number of publishers (Witty Books, Humboldt, Yoffy Press, Skinnerboox) and collaborates with ECAL.

Magali Avezou is an independent curator and founder of a r c h i p e l a g o, a curatorial studio focusing on visual culture and art publications. Her projects explore the intersection between photography and other media such as installations, videos, web… archipelago has conceived projects for Flowers Gallery (UK), Les Rencontres Photographiques d’Arles (France), Manifesta (Netherlands), Peckham 24 (UK), PH Museum, Ensba (France)… She is the artistic director of Polyptyque, Marseille Photography Fair. She contributes regularly to photography Magazines. She is an Associate Lecturer at Ace Po (France), Istituto Europeo di Design (Italy) and London College of Communication (UK), and has given lectures and workshops at Royal College of Arts (UK), Southampton University (UK), Escola Massana (Spain) and Instituto Marangoni (It) among others.

Peggy Sue Amison, is Artistic Director of East Wing a platform for photography founded in Doha, Qatar (2015 - present). As curator, writer, producer, and consultant, Peggy Sue collaborates with numerous emerging and established photographers, festivals and publications internationally. She has curated exhibitions in multiple locations in Europe, the United States, and China. She also writes for photographic publications and artist catalogues. Prior to her work with East Wing, Peggy Sue was Artistic Director of Sirius Arts Centre in County Cork, Ireland and Board Member of Belfast Photo Festival in Northern Ireland.

With a history of mentoring artists on long-term photographic projects and supporting the development of new and innovative photography, Peggy Sue has been a long-time supporter for photographers on project development, distribution and strategies for promotion both through her work with East Wing and as a free-lance curator. Originally from the United States, Peggy Sue lives and works in Berlin, Germany.

Taco Hidde Bakker is a writer, teacher, translator, and curator in the field of the arts, specializing in photography. He studied at two art schools before obtaining an MA in Photographic Studies at Leiden University (NL). He has contributed his writing to numerous artist’s books, catalogues, and magazines, including Camera Austria International (AT), Foam Magazine (NL), British Journal of Photography (GB), and TRIGGER (BE). Bakker is the author of the text collection The Photograph That Took the Place of a Mountain (Fw:Books, 2018). He teaches theory to Photography students at Utrecht University of the Arts (HKU) and collaborates as a writer and curator with the art platform Radical Reversibility.

Sofia Borges is a visual artist who graduated in Visual Arts at the Universidade de São Paulo in 2008, receiving this year five art awards for her artistic research and production. From 2009 to 2011, Borges presented seven solo shows in Brazil, was selected by Rumos Itaú Cultural, was highlighted by the Bolsa Iberê Camargo, won the Premio Porto Seguro de Fotografia, was nominated to the Foam Paul Huf Award 2010 and in 2011 her work featured the Modern Art Museum of São Paulo. In 2012 Sofia was the youngest artist invited to the 30th São Paulo Biennial. In 2013, she was nominated to the BES Photo Award, once again to the Foam Paul Huf Award, granted with the acquisition prize of Centro Cultural São Paulo, and also presented solo shows in Mexico City, Madrid, Paris, Lisbon and São Paulo, besides having works featured in Rio de Janeiro, Denver and Oslo. In 2014 the artist was, for the third time, the Brazilian nominated to the dutch Foam Award and presented her works in London, Los Angeles, Lyon, São Paulo, Doha and Beijing.

In 2015, Sofia developed "No Sound", her first experimental project as a curator. Since then, she has been engaged in developing her research about the image in collaboration with writers, philosophers, musicians and other artists, transforming, even more, her exhibitions in spaces of investigation. In 2016 Borges presented solo exhibitions in Vienna and Amsterdam and won the British First Book Award with her authorial project "The Swamp", inspired by her exploration of the prehistoric caves in the South of France. The book was launched together with a solo show at PhotoLondon 2016. In 2017 she presented a solo show in Athens and was granted the Bolsa ZUM from Instituto Moreira Salles with her research about tragedy. In 2018 Borges presented her work at "Being: The New Photography Exhibition" at MoMA and was engaged as curator at the 33rd São Paulo Biennial. In 2019, she presented a solo exhibition at Galeria Mendes Wood DM, in São Paulo, and was nominated as one of Foam Talents 2020. In 2020 Borges presented the solo show at Galerie Kandlholfer, received the Jerusalem International Fellows' Israeli Award and is engaged with new series including performances and assemblages to be presented in December 2020. In October and December, the artists present new works in Berlin and Amsterdam as the result of the Foam Talent Award 2020.

Hoda Afshar. Born 1983, Tehran. Lives and works in Naarm (Melbourne), Australia.

Hoda Afshar explores the nature and possibilities of documentary image-making. Working across photography and moving image, the artist considers the representation of gender, marginality, and displacement. In her artworks, Afshar employs processes that disrupt traditional image-making practices, play with the presentation of imagery, or merge aspects of conceptual, staged and documentary photography. Recent exhibitions include; WE CHANGE THE WORLD, National Gallery of Victoria (2021), PHOTO International Festival of Photography in Melbourne (2021), Between the Sun and the Moon: Lahore Biennale (2020), Remain, UQ Museum of Art in Brisbane (2019), Beyond Place Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego CA, USA (2019), Primavera 2018, Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney and Waqt al tagheer: Time of Change, ACE Open in Adelaide (2018). In 2015, she received the National Photographic Portrait Prize, National Portrait Gallery, in 2018 won Bowness Photography Prize, Monash Gallery of Art, Australia and in 2021 she received the Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship for outstanding talent and exceptional courage. Hoda is represented by Milani Gallery in Australia.