Amanda Voisard is a visual journalist and producer with over twenty years of experience focusing on social-issue multimedia projects. She was a key member of The Washington Post team that earned the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, after which she joined the publication full time as the climate change photo assignment editor. In 2024, she returned to the world of advocacy and currently holds the position of senior assigning photo editor at UNICEF Headquarters.

As the co-founder of Mesa 7 Media, a women-owned international media collective, Voisard has championed powerful storytelling through diverse mediums. Her career spans the globe, working as a regular contributor to The Washington Post, video producer at the World Bank, staff photographer at the United Nations HQ, documenting the Secretary-General’s work internationally and covering the on-going conflict in South Sudan and refugee crisis in Uganda as a multimedia producer for the UN mission in South Sudan.

Voisard's work has been regularly featured in publications such as The Washington Post, The New York Times, Al Jazeera, The Guardian, The Center for Investigative Reporting, Reuters, and more. Her imagery is showcased in the book Picturing Resistance, and will be included in the permanent collection ‘Why We Make’ at the Victoria and Albert East Museum, opening in 2025.

Currently, Amanda Voisard is pursuing an additional Master’s degree in Global Environmental Policy at American University, furthering her commitment to addressing critical global challenges.

Danaé Panchaud  is a Swiss exhibition curator, museologist and lecturer specialising in photography. She has been the director of the Centre de la photographie Genève since 2022, after serving from 2018 to 2021 as director of Photoforum Pasquart in Biel, Switzerland. She trained in photography at the Vevey School of Photography before completing a bachelor’s degree in visual arts with a specialisation in curatorial practices at Geneva University of Art and Design. She later studied museology at Birkbeck, University of London, earning a master’s degree in 2017. She has held positions in Swiss institutions in the fields of contemporary art, design and science since 2007, including at Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève, Gallery SAKS, Fondation Verdan and mudac.

As a free-lance curator, Danaé  has curated exhibitions for several Swiss and international museums, independent spaces and galleries since 2012. She often writes texts for monographs of contemporary artists, exhibition catalogues, and thematic publications such as Flora Photographica, co-authored with William Ewing and published by Thames & Hudson in 2022. She regularly lectures at art and photography schools in Switzerland since 2014, and joined the teaching faculty of the CAS in Theory and History of Photography at University of Zurich in 2023.

Fiona Wachera is a media strategist, photo editor and the Storytelling & Content Specialist at the Aga Khan University. Their work blends hands-on design for photo, art direction, and media project management, utilizing varied communication mediums, design disciplines, and research techniques. 

Wachera has collaborated with storytelling teams at Everyday Africa, the World Press Photo Foundation, Black Women Photographers, the Hamburg Portfolio Review, amongst others. They write a photography column for Dispatches – The VII Insider Blog, called Postcolonial Perspectives, which showcases new photography from Africa and visual stories that foreground embodied experiences and challenge colonial histories. Wachera is also a comic book author, and consults for children’s workshops about visual storytelling.

Jessica Lim is the director of the Angkor Photo Festival & Workshops (APFW), a non-profit organization in Cambodia that supports visual media practitioners in Asia. With over 15 years of experience, she focuses on amplifying visual voices from the majority world.

Before her current role, Jessica was the key coordinator at APFW and began as a volunteer in 2010.
Her experience includes working at Drik Picture Library in Dhaka, Bangladesh, where she served as a photo and news editor, advocating for equal opportunities and representation in media.

A journalism graduate from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, Jessica has also worked as a writer and photographer for local publications. In 2022, she chaired the Southeast Asia/Oceania jury for the World Press Photo Contest. She has been an invited speaker and panelist to numerous photography events.

Jessica is currently based in Siem Reap, Cambodia, where on any given day there is a good chance of meeting water buffalos.
 

Juan Manuel, born in 1981, is an Argentine native from Mendoza. He embarked on a military career at the Argentine Air Force Academy in 2000, becoming an officer in 2003. For 13 years, he served as a Helicopter Pilot and participated in UN Peacekeeping missions in Cyprus (UNFICYP) and Haiti (MINUSTAH).

After retiring from the Air Force in 2016, he joined the UN Department of Safety and Security as a Local Security Advisor in Argentina. In 2018, Juan Manuel transitioned to the International Telecommunication Union as Chief of the Physical Security Unit. A year later, he became President of the ITU Photo Club.

Passionate about photography since 2010, Juan Manuel began capturing images to share the remarkable places he encountered through his work with his family and friends. His camera became an extension of his hand and soul, allowing him to document his experiences and surroundings.

Paolo Pellegrin  was born in Rome in 1964. He studied Architecture at L'Università La Sapienza before studying photography at l'Istituto Italiano di Fotografia, both in Rome. He became a nominee of Magnum Photos in 2001 and a full member in 2005. Pellegrin is the winner of many awards, including ten World Press Photo awards and numerous Photographer of the Year awards, a Leica Medal of Excellence, an Olivier Rebbot Award, the Hansel-Meith Preis, and the Robert Capa Gold Medal Award. In 2006, he was assigned the W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography.

In 2018 the Maxxi Museum in Rome opened the exhibition “Paolo Pellegrin. Un’antologia”, curated by Germano Celant. The exhibition has been shown at Deichtorhallen museum in Hamburg in 2019 and at Venaria Reale in Turin in 2021. In April 2022 Gallerie d’Italia Torino of Intesa Sanpaolo opened the exhibition ‘La fragile meraviglia’, a tribute to Pellegrin’s long-term documentary project on climate change.

In August 2023 Le Stanze della Fotografia in Venise have celebrated the exhibition ‘Paolo Pellegrin. L’orizzonte degli eventi’.
Pellegrin has published eleven monographs, including Kosovo in 2002, Double Blind in 2007, As I was Dying in 2008, Dies Irae in 2012, Un’Antologia curated by Germano Celant in 2018, La Fragile Meraviglia in 2022.