Anne McNeill has been the Director and curator of Impressions Gallery, since 2000, a public funded charity ‘that helps people understand the world through photography’. Anne began her career in 1984 as a darkroom worker at the radical gallery Camerawork, London. In 1995 she set up the commissioning agency Photoworks, Brighton where she was the founding Director and Curator. She was Artistic Director for Photo 98, the UK Year of Photography.
Judges
Matt Black is a photographer with Magnum Photos. His work has explored the connections between migration, poverty, agriculture, and the environment in his native rural California and in southern Mexico. He received the W. Eugene Smith Award in 2015. In 2016, he received the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award and was named a Senior Fellow at the Emerson Collective. His work has also been honored by the Magnum Foundation Emergency Fund, the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, the Center for Cultural Innovation, and others.
Trish Lambe is Director of Gallery of Photography – Ireland’s leading centre for contemporary photography. She is responsible, with colleague Tanya Kiang, for exhibition curation. In addition to contemporary photography practices, she has particular interest in the history of photographic representation in Ireland. In 2010 Gallery of Photography curated the photography section of The Moderns, a major survey of modernism for the Irish Museum of Modern Art; and The Collector’s Eye, an exhibition of Irish vintage prints from the Sean Sexton collection.
Malcolm Dickson is a curator, writer and organizer, and as Director of Street Level Photoworks, he coordinates a programme which embraces different genres of photography in its galleries in the art hub Trongate 103 in Glasgow. It works to extend the reach of its exhibitions through local community venues, regional art galleries, and national and international partners.
Peggy Sue Amison is the Artistic Director of East Wing, in Dubai, UAE. As a curator, writer, producer and photographic consultant, Peggy Sue also collaborates with numerous emerging and established photographers, festivals and publications internationally. Working extensively in visual arts, but specifically in photography, Peggy has curated exhibitions in Ireland, Berlin, Poland and China and written for various photographic publications and artist catalogues.