PhMuseum 2018
women photographers grant
Winners

Judges

• Karen McQuaid

  

  Senior Curator, The Photographers' Gallery

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  Karen McQuaid is Senior Curator at The Photographers’ Gallery in London. She has curated exhibitions including Jim Goldberg, Open See (2009); Fiona Tan, Vox Populi, London (2012); Andy Warhol, Photographs: 1976 – 1987 (2014); Lorenzo Vitturi, Dalston Anatomy (2014) and Rosângela Rennó, Río-Montevideo (2016). She has co-curated Geraldo De Barros, What Remains (2013) with Isobel Whitelegg and Made You Look, Dandyism and Black Masculinity (2016) with Ekow Eshun. She has co-edited and produced The New Colonists (2018) by Monica Alcazar-Duarte, published with Bemojake. Karen has curated external exhibitions at The Moscow House of Photography and The National Gallery of Kosovo. She regularly writes for photography publications, and edits artists books. Karen also guest lectures across the UK.

• Alessandra Sanguinetti

  

  Photographer

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  Alessandra Sanguinetti was born in New York, 1968, brought up in Argentina from 1970 until 2003, and is currently based in Petaluma, California. She is a recipient of a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, a Hasselblad Foundation Grant, and a Rencontres D’Arles Discovery Award among others. Her photographs are in public and private collections, such as the New York Museum of Modern Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Houston Museum of Fine Arts and Boston Museum of Fine Arts. “On the Sixth Day” and "The Adventures of Guille and Belinda" were published by Nazraeli Press in 2005 and 2012, respectively. Most recently she has published “Sorry, Welcome”, published by TBW books, and “Le Gendarme sur la colline” with Aperture Foundation. She is a member of Magnum Photo Agency since 2007 and is represented by Yossi Milo Gallery in New York.

• Aïda Muluneh

  

  Photographer, Filmmaker and Curator

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  Born in Addis Ababa in 1974, Aïda graduated with a degree from the Communication Department with a major in Film from Howard University in Washington D.C. Her photography can be found in several publications and also in the permanent collection at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art, Hood Museum and the Museum of Biblical Art in the USA. She is the 2007 recipient of the EU Prize in the Rencontres Africaines de la Photographie, in Bamako. As well as the 2010 winner of the CRAF International Award of Photography in Spilimbergo, Italy. She has been a jury member on several photography competitions including the Sony World Photography Awards 2017 and the World Press Photo Contest 2017. Aïda is the founder of the Addis Foto Fest (AFF), the first international photography festival in East Africa held since 2010. She continues to develop cultural projects with local and international institutions through her company DFA PLC in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

• Pamela Chen

  

  Creative Lead, Instagram

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  Pamela is a creative leader at Instagram, where she focuses on designing content experiences with innovative creators on the platform. For four years, she led the team responsible for content development on @instagram, the most followed account in the world. Pamela joins Instagram after more than a decade of content development experience. Driven by curiosity, she is constantly exploring new ways of visually experiencing the world: she was Senior Editor for National Geographic magazine, and oversaw photography and video production for the Open Society Foundations. She produced and edited documentary films at MediaStorm, and worked as a national newspaper photojournalist. As a musician, her sound design and compositions appear in broadcast and online publications including The New York Times Magazine, Showtime, Hulu and Wired. Her work has earned numerous industry accolades, including national News & Documentary Emmy Awards, the duPont Award, Webby awards, and POYi awards in photography, picture editing, and multimedia. She has served as a juror for the World Press Photo Contest, Tim Hetherington Grant, and Pictures of the Year International. She was a member of the adjunct faculty for the School of Visual Arts and the International Center of Photography, and sat on the Board of Advisors for the Alexia Foundation. She studied photojournalism and mathematics, and received a Fulbright scholarship for journalism to Taiwan.