Photographers: SAVE THE DATE! Join us for the 6th Annual SPD Photography Portfolio Review this September and October 2023. Virtually share your portfolio with top Photo Directors & Visual Creatives from an assortment of publications and brands who are looking for new talent. They want to see your work!

SPD sets the standard for editorial excellence. This is your opportunity to put your best portfolio forward and talk to industry leaders online. During your review, you will be able to virtually screen-share your portfolio when you talk one-on-one. SPD does not need your portfolio beforehand.

I will be a mentor for Free Juice, a non-profit organization whose mission is to support BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) professionals following the dream of advancing a passion for photography into a thriving career.

On Saturday 13th of November a group of talented photographers selected by the Vogue Italia team – composed by Alessia Glaviano, Chiara Bardelli Nonino and Francesca Marani – will have the opportunity to have their portfolio freely reviewed by key industry experts – top international photo editors, publishers and curators.  

The Palm Springs Photo Festival Portfolio Review is the largest and most comprehensive portfolio review program for professional and emerging professional photographers in the United States, featuring influential professionals from both the commercial and fine art realms of contemporary photography.

211 free digital portfolio reviews with 39 international professionals working in photography.
Photogether è un’iniziativa senza scopo di lucro nata nel pieno dell’emergenza COVID-19. Il ricavato verrà interamente devoluto alla Protezione Civile tramite versamento diretto.

I’ve been a portfolio reviewer for LAPHOTOWORKS   organized by Boulevard Artist in Los Angeles. Among reviewers, colleagues of other magazines, creative directors and photo producers working for agencies, studios and companies including Apple, Fox, Warner Bros, Vans and Youtube.

Latest issue of Muse, Fall 2018
Cover illustration by @spiroshalaris
Featured Photographers: Cameron Karsten, Matt Morris, Gorka Postigo, Carlos Onetti, Peter Rosa, Yuki Saito, Amelia Troubridge

Voglino Prize is a photography recognition hosted during Festival della fotografia Etica in Lodi, Italy. I’ll be part of the jury and among the portfolio reviewers.

 

 

ArtCenter College of Design is a private college located in Pasadena, California. In 1935, Fred R. Archer founded the photography department, and Ansel Adams was a guest instructor in the late 1930s. ArtCenter’s Art, Industrial Design and Media Design Practices programs are ranked among the top 20 graduate schools in the U.S.

Among other photographers, art directors and academics, I was a portfolio reviewer for Art Center’s Photo and Imaging department graduating students.

Museo di Fotografia Contemporanea in Cinisello B. (Milan) presents a dialogue between Irene Opezzo photo editor of La Stampa and Edoardo Delille, photographer River Boom, with the introduction of Giovanna Calvenzi.

The meeting explores the role of photo editor and the photographer through direct dialogue with two professionals. Among the issues discussed: the relationship between social networks and photography, the American elections coverage told by different media (from daily newspaper to Instagram), the potential of new tools like drones, the work of the photo collective Riverboom.

Museo di Fotografia Contemporanea inCinisello B. (Milan), operated since 2004, the year of its inauguration, is the only public photography museum in Italy. It operates in the field of preservation, cataloging, study and research, with particular emphasis on the technological transformations in progress and on the relationship between photography and other disciplines.

Umbria World Fest in Foligno is a photo festival in Central Italy. The festival plays an active role in the support of young talents through the Umbria World Fest prize. Finalist works will be selected through portfolio reviews by photo editors, international recognized photographers, experts from photo agencies, teachers and curators. The winning project will be exhibited in the 2017 edition of the Festival. 

The winning work by Antonio Faccilongo is “Habibi”, the story of Palestinian prisoners’ wives who have turned to sperm smuggling in order to conceive children from their husbands, who are serving long-term sentences. Around 7,000 Palestinians are serving time in Israeli prisons, with nearly 1,000 facing sentences of 20 years or more. Conjugal visits are denied and prisoners are separated from visitors by glass panels. In the past three years, 60 babies have been born through IVF.

La Stampa is selected at Visa Pour l’Image in Perpignan, where International daily newspapers exhibit their best shots for the year, competing for the 2016 Visa d’Or Daily Press Award.  Among 2016 productions, La Stampa selected Guido Montani’s work on Labanof, the first project ever to identify those who lost their lives in the bottom of the Mediterranean.

The winner of the International award HAPPINESS ON THE MOVE is Klaus Pichler, a photographer living in Vienna, with “Golden Days Before They End” .

The international photography award is organized by the Cortona Photo Festival. I was part of the 2016 edition jury, among international photography experts like Daphne Angles, photo editor at The New York Times in Paris, Fiona Rogers, Global Business Development Manager at Magnum in London, James Wellford, chief of visual documentary project Screen in New York.

About the winning work. They still exist. These little inns, bars or dens in Vienna, Austria, where time seems to have stopped. If you pass by, you hear loud laughter through the half open door – and only very few walk in. Too often, these places appear in the media with reports of a fight or a stabbing between friends over a misunderstanding during one of their drinking sessions. For many customers, these are the only places they find somebody to talk to. Most of the time, the whole bar takes part in one conversation. These are substitute families with their own daily rituals. Once you’ve joined the family, you stick together and you drink together – all day, every day.

 

Since 2010, Spazio Labo’ in Bologna, has been a multifunctional center that deals with the spread of the culture of photography in different ways: as an exhibition space, with a gallery devoted to the work of emerging authors and internationally renowned photographers; as a school of photography, with a wide and varied educational program that offers numerous proposals, including a path of comprehensive annual studies to start the profession and to carry out artistic research, and the renowned workshops in New York; as a place dedicated to events such as presentations, conferences, exhibitions, debates and meetings dedicated to photography at national and international level.

I had a lesson during the photojournalism class held by photographer Stefano De Grandis. During the lessons I created a collective comparison coordinated by simulating the dynamics of the newspapers and watching the most expendable facts of actuality.

Tuttolibri last issue features Farang, a project by Francesco Merlini, a Milan-based photographer and photo editor of Prospekt agency.
The dark atmosphere and the night drawn in flash surprise ambiguous situations, making up Farang, a visual diary away from home and the comfort zone. “Farang” is a thai word  that refers to all that is foreign, typically “Western”. The project won the “Conscientious Portfolio Photography Competition” and was selected by the British Journal of Photography for “The Talent Issue: Ones to Watch in 2016”.

Phom delves into the field of photography by collaborating with internationally-renowned photographers and specialists to debate the shifts in society, territory, language and work with regards to the photographer’s perspective. Phom continues its investigation work on photography by organizing an evening dedicated to the presentation of “Irevolution, Notes About Mobile Photography”, the new book by Irene Alison.

Talk: Irene Alison, Irene Opezzo, Marco Benna (Phom)