2020 Women
photographers grant
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Judges

• Mariama
  Attah

  

  Curator at Open Eye Gallery Photography Museum in Liverpool

  Bio

  Mariama Attah is a photography curator and editor with a particular interest in overlooked visual histories, and using photography and visual culture to amplify under and misrepresented voices. Mariama is curator of Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool. She was previously Assistant Editor of Foam Magazine. Prior to this, she was Curator of Photoworks, where was responsible for developing and curating programs and events including Brighton Photo Biennial and was Commissioning and Managing Editor of the yearly magazine Photoworks Annual.

• Magdalena
  Herrera

  

  Director of Photography Geo France

  Bio

  Born in Havana to a family of artists, Magdalena Herrera left Cuba as a child to settle in Paris, where she studied fine art and art history at the Sorbonne before starting her career as a photographer and art director. She has worked in books, print and magazines, spending ten years as Art Director and head of the photo department at National Geographic France before joining Geo France as Director of Photography. Parallel to her journalistic work, Magdalena Herrera runs workshops and seminars around the world organized by the World Press Photo Foundation including the Joop Swart Masterclass. She is a tutor in photography at the Noorderlicht Masterclass at Groningen, Holland, and at Jamia Millia Islamia University in New Delhi, India, as well as for Fokal, the Soros foundation in Haiti. She has taught photojournalism at Sciences-Po Journalisme, Paris. Her experience and her eye for photography mean that she is regularly solicited as a Jury Member at international photography competitions. She was the chair of the 2018 World Press Photo contest.

• Adama
  Delphine Fawundu

  

  Artist and co-founder of MFON

  Bio

  Adama Delphine Fawundu (born 1971) is an American multi-disciplinary photographer and visual artist promoting African culture and heritage, a co-founder and author of MFON: Women Photographers of the African Diaspora – a journal and book representing female photographers of African descent. The critically acclaimed book resulted in Fawundu going on a book tour which included events at Tate Modern, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, International Center of Photography, Harvard University and other institutions. Fawundu’s photography and art works are exhibited in numerous private and public collections including Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York; the Brooklyn Historical Society, New York; Corridor Gallery, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; David C. Driskell Center at the University of Maryland; the Museum of Contemporary Art at the University of São Paulo, Brazil; Norton Museum of Art in Villa La Pietra, Italy; the Brighton Photo Biennial, UK, and others.

• River
  Bullock

  

  Curatorial Fellow, MoMA Department of Photography

  Bio

  River Bullock is an art historian and a curator. Currently, she is the Beaumont and Nancy Newhall Curatorial Fellow in the Department of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Most recently, River worked on Dorothea Lange: Words & Pictures, and the rehang of the 1940s-1970s Collection galleries. Previously River worked at Participant INC as a curatorial associate where she assisted with Narcissister’s Studies for Participatory Sculptures and was the managing editor of M. Lamar’s monograph NEGROGOTHIC (2019). River has guest curated exhibitions at the Milwaukee Art Museum, Center for Creative Photography, Phoenix Art Museum, and the Chazen Museum of Art. She holds a Ph.D. in Art History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, her current book project considers vocality and listening in contemporary art.