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Gu Feng
Graduated with a Master’s Degree from Communication University of China.
Editor of Popular Photography, one of the major Chinese photography magazine, member of TIPA.
Formely the editor of Popular Digital Video, a Chinese DV magazine.

Julia Anna Gospodarou
Multiple award-winning internationally acclaimed photographer, accomplished architect, best-selling author and highly sought-after educator, teaching workshops and lecturing around the world, Julia is considered a leader of contemporary black and white fine art photography.
Julia is the founder of (en)Visionography™, the artistic movement that aims to define a new way of creating fine art photography and that has introduced the concept of “total artistic freedom” in photography, a concept that reflects in her original processing method Photography Drawing.
Widely respected photography theoretician, Julia is one of the first artists working extensively with digital photography who became aware and publicly spoke in her books, articles, lectures, and workshops about the need to see digital photography as a new discipline, independent from traditional analogue photography.
Published internationally in numerous books and magazines, Julia’s work can be found in numerous

Panagiotis Kaldis
Panagiotis Kaldis studied Law but turned to this lifetime attraction, journalism. He has been involved in printed magazines since his university years up till now. In more than the last thirty years his professional course has been inextricably connected with Photographos magazine, at first as editor and now as editor in chief and director. Apart from numerous articles printed in almost 300 issues of Photographos, he has contributed lots to Photobusiness magazine, as well as https://www.photo.gr/ and the newsletters of the same publishing company. He has translated a few photographic books and is the author of “The photo camera” book. Longtime member of the Technical Committee of Technical Image Press Association and former executive of Greek Pyramid organization for photographic copyright.

Nilofer Khan
Nilofer Khan is a writer and photographer who began her journey as a photojournalist with The Hindustan Times. However, she soon pivoted to feature writing, curating photographic works, and shortlisting nominees for the in-house photography awards for Better Photography. In addition, the Chennai Photo Biennale invited Nilofer to celebrate the works of female artists in a print sale, and that year, she also contributed to a coffee table book highlighting the life of Indian veteran photojournalist Mukesh Parpiani.
In both her roles as a photographer and an observer, Nilofer is often drawn to themes such as gender, geopolitics, equality, religion, family, and identity. As the Managing Editor at The Phoblographer, Nilofer not only writes about the industry but also helps analyze trends that impact the medium.

Ton Hendriks
Ton Hendriks studied philosophy before starting his photography career. He specialised in documentary portrait photography and mainly used the individual portrait to represent the social system. He completed several projects, the most important of which was Global Street Child, which was about street children worldwide.
He was a photography professor at different Dutch photography schools. He also wrote many articles about the theory and the history of photography, as well as numerous interviews with photographers. He wrote a book, Beeldspraak ((Images That Speak), about how to read and understand photographs, widely used in Art Academies. Currently, he is the editor-in-chief of Professional Photography, the leading photo magazine in Holland, which focuses on photography as a form of independent art and storytelling. He is based in Amsterdam, Holland.