Judges from this year include gallery directors, curators, and festival directors of international repute. Together, they will select the 200 shortlisted images to be published in the Portrait of Britain Vol. 6 book printed in collaboration with Bluecoat Press (sponsored by JCDecaux), and 100 winning images that will be exhibited on JCDecaux screens.
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Tracy Marshall-Grant is an Arts Director, Curator & Producer specializing in the production of photography exhibitions, festivals, education, and archive projects. Most recently, she was Deputy Director of the Centre for British Photography which houses the Hyman Collection. She was previously Director of Development for the Royal Photographic Society and directed Bristol Photo Festival and LOOK Photo Biennial in Liverpool.
Tracy has also been Director of Development at Open Eye Gallery Liverpool and Executive Director at Belfast Exposed Gallery. Tracy is also co-founder and Director of Northern Narratives, the non-venue-based photography production company specializing in archive exhibitions and long-term archive development projects. Amongst the productions within this, she has developed a large international tour and publication of Martin Parr’s Irish work- currently touring museums and galleries in Ireland and America until 2023. She has worked with Marketa Luskacova, Jem Southam, Café Royal Books and RRB Publications on several archive books and exhibition productions. Tracy is co-curator and co-editor of the international touring exhibition and associated monograph Chris Killip: retrospective with The Photographers Gallery, London and Thames and Hudson publishers. She is also Director of Liverpool Photographer Ken Grant’s Archive.
Tracy is associate and guest lecturer on professional practice for the BA and MA photography courses at several universities in the UK. She is a selector on the Royal West Academy Photography Open, the Royal Photographic Society Women in Photography Bursary and a judge for a number of Awards including British Journal of Photography‘s Portrait of Britain and Photo London Student Photography Award.
Bindi Vora is a British-Indian artist working with expanded photography, Associate Lecturer at London College of Communication and Curator at Autograph a London-based non-profit arts charity that explores issues of identity, representation, human rights and social justice through photography. Since joining Autograph, she has curated Eric Gyamfi (2023), Poulomi Basu: Fireflies (2022), co-curated Ajamu: The Patron Saint of Darkrooms (2023) Sasha Huber: You Name It (2022) Care I Contagion I Community – Self & Other (2021-2022); Lola Flash: [sur]passing and Maxine Walker: Untitled (both 2019) and contributed to a series of in-conversations with multidisciplinary artists include Mónica Alcázar-Duarte, Maryam Wahid, Tobi Alexandra Falade, David Uzochukwu amongst others.She has independently curated Poulomi Basu: Centralia for Recontres d’Arles – Louis Roederer Discovery Award (2020); Let’s Go Through This Again (2018); her writing has appeared in publications by Maryam Wahid Zaibuinnisa (Midlands Art Centre, 2022); Another Country: British Documentary Photography Since 1945 (Thames & Hudson); FOAM Magazine and British Journal of Photography, participating in public programmes for Tate, GRAIN Photo Hub, The Photographers’ Gallery amongst others.
Creative Producer and Curator, Co-Founder/Co-Director of ReFramed
Sebah is a Freelance Creative Producer and Curator. She is experienced in working at international world-class festivals, projects and events. She is Co-Founder and Co-Director of ReFramed, a photography-based visual arts network based in the Midlands, supporting the community and artists who are Black, Asian, or from other ethnic minorities. She is also a Director at BCVA, where she has just started a heritage project with Derby Museums working with the South Asian community. She is currently Project Coordinator of Picturing High Streets, a Historic England funded project managed by Photoworks.
In October 2022, she started teaching the BA Photography course at Manchester School of Art, MMU. She was previously Creative Producer on an international British Council funded project with Ffotogallery, The Place I Call Home, connecting the UK to the Gulf region, culminating in 10 exhibitions from September 2019 — March 2020 in 7 countries. From 2013 — 2017, Sebah was Coordinator at FORMAT Festival. She became a freelancer in 2018 but continues to manage the UK’s largest annual portfolio review. She also manages the Belfast Photo Festival Portfolio Review. Sebah reviews portfolios internationally and mentors artists. With TRACE, she has launched a year-long mentorship programme for women over the age of 35. In 2022, she was on the Jury for UNSTUCK, Canada and The Ian Parry Scholarship. She was on the selection panel for the RPS IPE 163 Open Call and the BJP Portrait of Britain 2021. She is the Curator for AIS Open 2023 and NAE Open 2023. Currently UK editor for thephotoexhibitionarchive.com, Berlin, Steering Group member for FORMAT Festival, Derby and recently joined RPS and COMMUN as a Trustee.
Russ is the Picture Editor of the Sunday Times Magazine in London. He has worked for some of the biggest consumer publications in the UK market as a Photographic Editor and Director. Collaborating with the biggest photographers in the world, both in the UK and abroad, he regularly commissions assignments ranging from high-end celebrity portraiture, to in-depth reportage, conflict photography in hostile environments and long-form documentary photography. Russ has been on the judging panel of numerous high-profile photographic competitions including The Sony World Photography Awards, The Royal Photographic Society, British Journal of Photography, Lensculture, Nikon, Amnesty International and The Ian Parry Scholarship.
Tim Clark is Editor in Chief of 1000 Words and Artistic Director for Fotografia Europea in Reggio Emilia, Italy, together with Walter Guadagnini, Director of CAMERA, Torino and Luce Lebart, Curator and Researcher for the Archive of Modern Conflict. He also currently serves as a curatorial advisor for Photo London Discovery 2022 and 2023. He has been involved in a wide range of projects: adjunct curator on Masculinities: Liberation through Photography (2020-22) at the Barbican Centre London, an exhibition which travelled to Gropius-Bau Berlin, Les Rencontres d’Arles and FOMU Antwerp; guest curator at the Ci.CLO Bienal 2021 with the exhibition titled The Horizon is Moving Nearer for the Portuguese Center of Photography, Porto; curator of Mutable: Multiple, Derby QUAD, FORMAT International Photography Festival; and guest curator of London Art Fair’s Photo50 section with Who’s looking at the family, now?; (all 2019). Clark has also taught and devised numerous academic programmes, most recently on BA (Hons) Photography at The Institute of Photography, Falmouth University and MA Photography & Visual Design at Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti (NABA) Milano.
Nadav Kander (b. 1961) lives and works in London. Selected past projects include Yangtze – The Long River, winner of the Prix Pictet award in 2009; Dust, which explored the vestiges of the Cold War through the radioactive ruins of secret cities on the border between Kazakhstan and Russia; Bodies. 6 Women, 1 Man, a series of monumental photographic figure studies drawing references from Renaissance sculpture; Dark Line – The Thames Estuary, a reflective exploration of the dark waters of the UK’s storied Thames river; and Obama’s People, an acclaimed 52 portrait series commissioned by the New York Times Magazine.
Kander’s work is housed in several public collections including the National Portrait Gallery, London, UK; The New York Public Library, USA; Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, USA; Marta Herford Museum, Germany; Sheldon Museum, Lincoln, USA; The Frank-Suss Collection, London, New York and Hong Kong; and Statoil Collection, Norway. He has exhibited internationally at venues including Weserburg Museum, Germany; Musée de L’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland; Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, USA; Museum of Applied Arts, Cologne, Germany; the Barbican Centre, London, UK; The Photographers’ Gallery, London, UK; Somerset House, London, UK; Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France; and Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Israel. Recent fellowships and awards include an Honorary Fellowship Award from the Royal Photographic Society and Outstanding Contribution to Photography Award from Sony World Photography Awards.
Anne McNeill is Director of Impressions Gallery, a national charity based in Bradford that helps people understand the world through photography and acts as an agent for change. She is a curator and writer with over 30 years of experience. Recent curated exhibitions include ‘In Which Language Do We Dream?’ Rich Wiles and Ruba al-Hindawi (2021), ‘Being Inbetween’ Carolyn Mendelsohn (2020), ‘Borderland’ Christopher Nunn (2019), ‘The Queen, The Chairman and I’ Kurt Tong (2017). In 2010 she curated ‘Cockroach Diaries & other stories’ the first retrospective of Anna Fox’s work, which was shortlisted for Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize. In 2022 she was the recipient of the Curatorship Award from the Royal Photographic Society, in recognition of excellence over a period of time in the field of photography.
20+ years leading BJP’s aesthetic as Creative Director. Responsible for its evolution over multiple redesigns and the driving force behind its forays into digital publishing. Now, as CEO Mick is working to take BJP to the next level.
Ronan Mckenzie is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice includes photography, curation, design and writing. Notable within Ronan’s practice is a sensitivity to honest, relatable emotion and the celebration of individuality. Her work is often tied together with her passion for creating more imagery of connections, relationships and black joy, presenting the world as she would like to see it. Alongside creating still and moving image works for titles and brands including Sunday Times Style, T Magazine, Garage, Luncheon, Wall Street Journal, Clinique, Glossier, Nike, Browns, BMW, and Net-A-Porter, Ronan founded her gallery meets community space HOME in 2020, which has gone on to collaborate with and curate exhibitions and events for Carl Freedman Gallery, The V&A Museum, The Royal Academy, Gucci, and WePresent.
In 2020, Ronan also founded her clothing brand SELASI, where she freely and instinctively explores notions of skin, whilst juxtaposing sensitivity and strength. Ronan is currently working on a number of commissions and special projects including spatial design at Tate Modern and a multi-activation event curation project with The British Pavilion which recently kicked off at The Venice Architecture Biennale.
