Anthony Luvera is an Australian artist, writer and educator based in London. His photographic work has been exhibited widely in galleries, public spaces and festivals, including Tate Liverpool, The Gallery at Foyles, the British Museum, London Underground’s Art on the Underground, National Portrait Gallery London, Belfast Exposed Photography, Australian Centre for Photography, PhotoIreland, Malmö Fotobiennal, Goa International Photography Festival, Les Rencontres D’Arles Photographie, Oslo Negativ, and Landskrona Foto. His writing has appeared in a range of publications including Photography and Culture, Visual Studies, Photoworks, Source, and Photographies.
Anthony is Associate Professor of Photography in the Centre for Arts, Memory and Communities at Coventry University, and editor of Photography For Whom?, a periodical about socially engaged photography. Anthony is Chair of the Education Committee at the Royal Photographic Society. He has designed education and mentorship programmes, facilitated workshops, and given lectures for the public education departments of National Portrait Gallery, Tate, Magnum, Royal Academy of Arts, The Photographers’ Gallery, Barbican Art Gallery, and community photography projects across the UK.
Nicola Shipley works as a Curator, Producer, Project Manager, Mentor and Consultant specialising in photography. She is the co-founder and Director of GRAIN Projects, an arts organisation that develops photography opportunities for all and delivers a programme of new commissions, professional development opportunities, exhibitions, publications and socially engaged photography projects. GRAIN work nationally and internationally on a diverse range of projects to support artists and engage with communities.
Nicola trained as an art historian, has an MA in History of Art, and a background in the visual arts, including in commissioning, exhibitions, collections, public art, artists education and professional development. Recent projects include collaborations with Format International Photography Festival, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, Photoworks, Brighton Photo Fringe, Library of Birmingham, The Hive Arts Centre, Birmingham 2022 – The Commonwealth Games, Coventry UK City of Culture, Birmingham City University, Guangzhou Library and British Council China, Tasweerghar and British Council Pakistan, Ffotogalleriet, Oslo, Appetite – Creative People and Places, MAC and Historic England.
Nicola is an experienced Mentor and Reviewer and has also been a jury member for the Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize, Source Graduate Prize and Portrait of Britain.
Katy Barron is a photography curator, mentor and advisor based in London. She has worked within the field of photography for the past 20 years, focusing on contemporary and twentieth century artists. Katy has undertaken a myriad of roles within the field – from Senior Director at Michael Hoppen Gallery to Chair of the Board of Photo Oxford. She currently works for the Maud Sulter Estate in Glasgow and is helping other women artists with issues around their archives, estates and legacies. Katy has a BA from the Courtauld Institute of Art and an M. Litt in the History of Art from Oxford University. She has curated numerous photographic exhibitions in the UK and abroad, most recently at Four Corners in Bethnal Green, St John’s College, Oxford as a part of the Photo Oxford festival and at Messum’s Wiltshire.
Vincenzo Albano is a financial markets professional, with an over three decades career in London and previously in his home country. After successfully serving banks and financial institutions in front office roles, Vincenzo's interest has shifted to the governance of indices and benchmarks, ensuring the correct application of relevant UK and International regulations. He currently serves a major financial institution, with responsibility in the supervision of fixed income and credit derivatives indices. Leveraging his financial expertise, Vincenzo has also served as volunteer treasurer of small charities, focussing on the Art world.
Since he was a teenager, Vincenzo has cultivated a strong passion for photography, extensively using film cameras and producing various works. His pictures have been used to illustrate a number of poetry books and local exhibitions. In recent years Vincenzo has transitioned to digital photography and furthered his skills attending photography courses at Photofusion, Open College of the Arts, and Central St Martins. Vincenzo is a member and volunteer of the Royal Photographic Society and in 2019 he was granted the Associateship of the RPS. In addition to his own photographic interests, Vincenzo is also active volunteering his photography skills to charities and non-profit organisations.
Geof Rayner PhD has been involved in Photofusion and predecessor organisations for four decades. He was the original company secretary of Photo Coop, Photofusion’s predecessor organisation. He was one of the founders of Photofusion and its chair over many years. He founded Photofusion Educational Trust, Photofusion’s now parent organisation His original interest was in photography for community development, social activism and publishing but shifted to writing with photographers for photography exhibitions, posters or books. Geof has worked across multiple fields and countries and was formerly a university professor of public health. He resigned as chair of Photofusion Ltd in 2015, but retained the role of chair of Photofusion’s charity. His many books and publications have included two photography books on the environment and energy.
Jessica Taylor has twenty years’ experience of leadership in the creative industries. From 2016 to 2021, she was Managing Director at PRELOADED, a studio creating award-winning (BAFTA, Google Play, D&AD) immersive experiences to drive engagement for clients such as V&A, Google, Magic Leap, R/GA, HTC and BBC. Prior to joining PRELOADED, she was VP, Experience Design at Antenna International, leading an international team of 40, delivering innovative visitor experiences for cultural institutions, such as the Met, MoMA, National Gallery, Tate, Royal Collection and Sagrada Familia. Jessica also spent ten years as a Documentary Producer / Director, making films about the arts, science and history for international broadcasters, such as BBC, Channel 4, PBS, Discovery, History Channel, including The Many Faces of Samuel Fosso for BBC FOUR.
Now an accredited and experienced coach, mentor and start up advisor, Jessica uses her extensive experience to develop and support leaders in a wide variety of sectors.
Destinie Paige is a British Jamaican director, photographer and set designer based in London, whose work explores the unseen beauty in the everyday experiences of women and people of colour. Using photography, film and set design, her imagery has a trademark use of rich colours and elaborate staging that playfully blends inspirations from cinema and fashion to redefine the picture of black culture and femininity.
During a highly successful 2020, her photography work was featured in Vogue, Grazia and the Evening Standard. In February 2022, she curated her debut exhibition ‘Black Bxy Joy’ at Photographic centre, Photofusion. Destinie’s fashion film ‘A Kind of Woman’, an ode to plus-sized Black women in fashion, empowering a new vision of femininity that caters to all sizes was recently screened at the V&A in August 2022. Destinie is a recent graduate from Ravensbourne University London.
Paul Graville is an experienced entrepreneur, having founded and grown successful companies in the technology sector, including Concentra which won multiple awards including the Technology Innovation Award as part of the Sunday Times Tech Track 100, Overall Winner of the Government Computing Awards and was listed in the Deloitte Fast 50 as one of the fastest-growing UK technology companies.
Paul is also a photographic artist and commercial photographer, specialising in staged tableaux and studio work. His work has been exhibited at the Copeland and Staffordshire Street galleries in London, as well at Photofusion as part of the Select exhibition in 2023. Paul has been shortlisted for inclusion in the Taylor Wessing Portrait exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in 2024. Paul has recently completed a BA Photography degree at UAL where he attained First Class Honours.