OpenWalls Spotlight

Each year OpenWalls is judged by a panel of international industry leaders.

Judges from this year include editors, curators, and festival directors of international repute. Together, they will select the winning one bodies of work and three winning single images that will be exhibited as part of a group show at Galerie Huit Arles.

Julia de Bierre

Gallery Director, Galerie Huit Arles

Founder of Galerie Huit Arles, Julia de Bierre is an author, gallery owner and activist for heritage protection and sustainability. She lives and works between France and Malaysia, where she was born. After attending Uplands School in Penang, Malaysia, she completed her studies at the University of Bristol, UK.

For many years, Julia curated, restored and animated one of the most prestigious medieval castles in Switzerland, using this magnificent setting for the organization of workshops and seminars on fine and decorative arts. She continues to write for leading international publications; in Malaysia, her work is published by “Areca Books”. Julia is a regular guest of photography fairs such as Paris Photo, Photo Doc Paris, AIPAD New York, Photo London and Photo Basel. In Europe, she juries for the Bourse du Talent, and the InCadaques Photography Festival and is frequently invited to read photography portfolios. She is a member of Gallery Climate Coalition and Arles Contemporain, the network of galleries and museums in Arles.

Dalia Al-Dujaili

Online Editor and Writer, British Journal of Photography

Dalia Al-Dujaili is the online editor of The British Journal of Photography and an Iraqi-British arts writer and producer based in London. She has written for The Guardian, Dazed, GQ, WePresent, Aperture, Atmos, It’s Nice That, Elephant Art and more. She is the founder of The Road to Nowhere magazine which explores the intersection of diaspora and photography. @dalia.aldu / daliaaldujaili.com

Holly Fraser

Editor-in-chief, WePresent

Holly Fraser is VP Content at WeTransfer and Editor-in-chief of WePresent, WeTransfer’s arts platform, based in London. With over 15 years of experience in media and publishing, Holly was previously editor at HUNGER magazine, a style and culture biannual founded by photographer Rankin, where she oversaw print, digital, social and events.

Taking the helm at WePresent in mid 2019, Holly has led the publisher to a number of significant award wins, including a ‘Best Live Action Short’ Academy Award for one of its film commissions, The Long Goodbye, by Riz Ahmed an Aneil Karia. Building the site into one of the most globally representative creative platforms in the industry, she has overseen WePresent work with 1000 artists from over 120 countries. WeTransfer’s support of the creative community through WePresent’s commissions have seen her steer projects across the genres of film, music, photography, literature with some of the world’s most groundbreaking creatives including Marina Abramović, Solange Knowles, Olafur Eliasson, Michel Gondry, Little Simz and Alex Prager. Under her leadership, WePresent’s commissions have won awards at the Academy Awards, Cannes Lions, D&AD, the Webbys, the London Film Critics’ Circle, and BIFA (British Independent Film Awards), cementing WePresent’s reputation in the creative industries as a go to place to experience culture and creativity from around the world.

Daphne Chouliaraki Milner

Culture Director, Atmos

Daphne Chouliaraki Milner is a writer, photographer, and curator based in London.

She is the culture director of Atmos, a climate and culture magazine devoted to ecological and social justice, where she oversees the platform’s cultural output and special projects, including curatorial partnerships with the Hayward Gallery.

Previously, she worked as a reporter at The Business of Fashion, where she covered independent designers and emerging creative talent. In 2023, Daphne also served as a judge for the annual photographer’s residency and publishing award hosted by Loose Joints and Mahler & Lewitt Studio.

Her work has appeared in The Business of Fashion, Vogue Business, The Financial Times, i-D, Dazed, AnOther, System, GQ Middle East, South China Morning Post, and more.

Ken Grant

Photographer, Curator, Writer

Ken Grant was born in Liverpool in 1967. Since the 1980’s he has photographed in the city and engaged in sustained projects both in the city and wider Europe.

Grant’s photographs have been exhibited widely and included in major survey shows, most recently at Arles, France, Tate Britain, London, and the National Museum of Wales. His prints are held in collections of photography, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Folkwang Museum, Essen, the Martin Parr Foundation, the Hyman Collection and other international public and private collections. He was the course leader of the Documentary Photography course at Newport, South Wales, between 1998 and 2013, when he joined Belfast School of Art’s MFA Photography programme.

His books include The Close Season, No Pain whatsoever and Benny Profane. Ken Grant is also a curator and writer and, along with Tracy Marshall-Grant, curated the Chris Killip retrospective, and edited the accompanying book for Thames & Hudson. He lives in Liverpool.

Tosin Adeosun

Curator and Fashion Historian

Tosin Adeosun is a London-based researcher, curator, and consultant, specialising in the culture, art, and fashion history of Africa and the diaspora. As the founder and curator of African Style Archive, Tosin is dedicated to documenting African fashion history through archival photographs, footage and ephemera. Passionate about unearthing narratives of Africa, she collaborates with archives, communities, brands, and institutions to curate compelling stories.
With a background in visual art research for television, curation of exhibitions, expert consultation, magazine editing, and academic talks on fashion and photography, Tosin has worked with prestigious institutions and brands globally, including Byredo, International Curators Forum, Ahluwalia, Opera Gallery, Modern Art Oxford, Soho House, and Google, showcasing her expertise in archival research, visual culture, and educational projects.
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