Anna Alexander
Anna Alexander is the Photo Director at Dwell Magazine. She was formerly the Deputy Photo Editor at Wired Magazine. Anna has a BFA in Photography from the University of Arizona.

Scott Alexander
Currently the Editor In Chief of American Photo, Scott Alexander has been making magazines for nearly 20 years. His work at a broad range of publications has provided him with experience across a wide variety of editorial photography styles, from the documentary visuals of Popular Science to the nudes of Playboy. Long an appreciator and collector of photography, his mission at American Photo is to showcase the best of today’s exciting photographic field, from up-and-comers to grand masters.

Gordon Baldwin
Gordon Baldwin is an independent curator. A recipient of the Rome Prize for his architectural drawings, during a twenty-year career at the J.Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles he curated or co-curated numerous exhibitions, including Fame and Photography in 1993, Nadar/Warhol (1999, with Judith Keller), The Man in the Street: Eugène Atget in Paris (2000) and exhibitions on Gustave Le Grey in 1988 and 2002 and Roger Fenton in 1996 and 2005. His many publications include Looking at Photographs: A Guide to Technical Terms (The J. Paul Getty Museum/British Museum, 1991, second, revised, edition, 2009) and Roger Fenton, Pasha and Bayadère (The J.Paul Getty Museum, 1996). Recent publications include A Place in the Sun: Los Angeles Photographs by John Humble (The J.Paul Getty, Museum, 2007); Mona Kuhn: Evidence (Steidl, 2007); and Robert Mapplethorpe: Portraits (Palm Springs Art Museum, 2009), the catalogue for an exhibition that will next appear at the San José Art Museum in January 2011. He is currently at work on a John Divola exhibition for the Santa Barbara Museum for the fall of 2011.

Anthony Bannon
Dr. Anthony Bannon is the seventh director of George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film in Rochester, N.Y., and has served in that role longer than any previous director. George Eastman House was founded in 1947 and is the world’s oldest museum of photography and one of the world’s largest motion picture archives. He has worked as a critic, filmmaker, and educator. Prior to his Eastman House appointment in 1996, Bannon was the director of Cultural Affairs at the State University of New York College at Buffalo and director of its Burchfield Penny Art Center. His book Photo Pastoralists of Buffalo won the American Photographic Historical Society’s merit award and his writing on deafness won the Gallaudet University Award. Bannon’s recent publications include essays on the photographer Steve McCurry, Diane Bush, Hiroshi Watanabe, and Roger Eberhard. Bannon earned a Bachelor of Science degree from St. Bonaventure University and his Master’s degree in Media Studies and his Ph.D. in Cultural Studies are from the English Department at the State University of New York at Buffalo.

Susan Baraz
Creative photography consultant, Susan Baraz, is considered an expert in the field of fine art photography and refers top galleries and private dealers to new and up and coming photographers and vice versa in the US, France and the UK. She is the International Photography Consultant for AtEdge, Co-Chair of the Lucie Awards, Head of Judging for the International Photography Awards and helped establish and is the Chair of "Focus on AIDS", the largest Fine Art Photography benefit in the United States.

Sherrie Berger
Sherrie Berger is co-founder of Scarletworks, a photographer’s representation agency with a commitment to giving back. Sherrie has extensive experience in entertainment, high-end celebrity portraiture, fine art photography, production, marketing and public relations. She continues to consult with private clients on photography events, as well as with individual photographers. Her career began at ABC television where she led the west coast network photo department, overseeing a team of publicists, photographers, producers and editors. Subsequently, Sherrie joined Corbis, one of the world’s leading international stock and syndication agencies where she again worked with the industry’s most talented photographers. Sherrie graduated with honors from UCLA’s fine art department with a degree in Art and Photography. She returns to her alma mater as a requested speaker in various classes and has participated in alumni entertainment mentoring events. She is a member of the Publicists of the International Cinematographers Guild of America.

Howard Bernstein
Howard Bernstein is the Managing Partner of Bernstein Andriulli and the CEO of Gallerystock.com. B&A represents Erwin Olaf, Stephen Wilkes, The Selby, Julie Blackmon, Douglas Friedman, Zach Gold, Emir Haveric, Matthew Hranek, Kareem Black, Nels Isrealson, Joachim Ladefoged, Gillian Laub and Joel Meyerowitz. Gallerystock is a premium rights managed image library offering content from some of the most distinguished photographers in the world, along with curated collection from the George Eastman House and The Museum of the City of New York.

Sandy Boss Febbo
Sandy Boss Febbo is the Executive Art Producer at Carmichal Lynch Advertising Agency in Minneapolis where she has produced for a great range of clients for over fourteen years. She has a degree in Art History and her background includes time with the Minnesota State Arts Board.

Frish Brandt
Frish Brandt is Director and Partner at Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco. Since 1979 Fraenkel Gallery has presented almost 300 exhibitions exploring photography and its relationship to other arts. Exhibitions have spanned the medium's history, from its early masters to the present day. In addition to its museum-quality exhibitions, the gallery has published numerous monographs and exhibition catalogs. A number of exhibitions have brought together work across media juxtaposing photographs with paintings, drawings and sculpture. Her interest in education and the arts is furthered in her long time role as a board member for San Francisco Art & Film for Teens. Reviewer Preference: Well honed questions from you will provide us with the best use of our time together. I am interested in providing insight and guidance regarding the direction of your work.

Jane Brown
Jane Brown has worked in book publishing for 24 years; she’s played a role in the publishing and marketing of hundreds of books. Since 2002 she’s been the National Accounts Director for the New York based publisher and distributor D.A.P. (Distributed Art Publishers) and she directs the west coast satellite office. She co-edited Looking at Los Angeles, published by Metropolis Books in 2006. Prior to D.A.P. Jane was the National Accounts Manager for Harry N. Abrams, and was a sales rep for a consortium of University Presses: Harvard University Press, MIT Press, and Yale University press.

Paul Buckley
Paul Buckley is V.P. Executive Creative Director at Penguin Books, overseeing the covers and jackets for ten imprints. Reviewer Preference: I prefer to see work that might have potential use on book covers, or that might spark a future commission. Please note that the imprints I work on rarely publish pure photography books, so I’m not the guy to see to help you get a book deal.

Bonnie Butler Brown
Bonnie Butler Brown has worn a Sr Art Producer's hat for 15 years. She has produced great work for some fantastic agencies including Butler, Shine, Stern & Partners, and a good many years at Carmichael Lynch. She has produced for Goodby Silverstein, Apple, DraftFCB, Olson, Y&R, Cutwater, BabyCenter, and Pereira & O'Dell.

Marianne Campbell
Marianne Campbell is a photography agent with offices in San Francisco and New York City. Her company, Marianne Campbell Associates currently represents photographers Christine Alicino, Jamie Kripke, Michael Lamotte, RJ Muna, Jim Salzano, Matthew Turley, and Margaret Lampert. The diverse and hugely talented group has worked most recently with clients such as Apple Computer, Infiniti, Del Monte Foods, Peet's Coffee, Nordstrom, Chevrolet, Genentech, ElectronicArts, Nestle, Cadillac, Fisher Price, Pfizer, Macy's, Sony PlayStation, Visa and Verizon.

Claire Carter
Claire C. Carter is the Assistant Curator at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art. During her five-year curating practice, Ms. Carter’s exhibitions have been the recipient of the grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and Graham Foundation. Ms. Carter is a regularly invited lecturer and reviewer for university fine art photography programs. In addition to her career at SMoCA, Ms. Carter has published photography criticism in international art magazines and journals. Among her museum publications are At the Crossroads of American Photography: Callahan, Siskind, Sommer and swNET: photography and video, Modernity and Its Discontents.

Sara Distin
Sara Distin is Group Director of Curation and Content at 20x200.com / Jen Bekman Projects. She also oversees and participates on the panel for JBP’s photography competition, Hey, Hot Shot!, and collaborates with Jen Bekman Gallery to create innovative and diverse opportunities for artists. She’s worked with hundreds of artists to create limited-edition prints for 20x200 and present and market their work online. Also an artist and writer, she earned an MFA in photography from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY, in 2008. Reviewer Preference: Interested in seeing fine art and documentary portfolios and can provide critical guidance, tools and feedback to photographers looking to refine and edit their work. She is also able to share the kinds of advice and info that is usually absent from MFA programs—how to navigate galleries, build working relationships, and present and market your work to both traditional and new media audiences.

Crista Dix
Crista Dix is the Director of the Wall Space Gallery of Seattle and Santa Barbara.

Jim Doherty
Jim Doherty is currently the Senior Photo Editor and Art Director at Blend Images. Before joining the team at Blend, Jim was a photo editor at Getty Images. Working at Getty for ten years, he placed stock images in all of Getty’s properties across all licensing models. Jim started his career in stock photography as an Account Executive at the Stock Market photo agency in 1995.

Michelle Dunn Marsh
Michelle Dunn Marsh, award-winning book designer and arts advocate, worked with the non-profit Aperture Foundation beginning in 1996 as a book designer and more recently as Co-Publisher. With a B.A. from Bard College and an M.S. in publishing from Pace University, she has dedicated herself to help develop and support educational programs for photography via Aperture and institutions promoting photography. She is recently left her position as the Senior Art Book Editor at Chronicle Books and is now a Publishing Consultant for Photographers.

Ruth Eichhorn
Ruth Eichhorn is the Director of Photography at the German GEO magazine published by Gruner + Jahr. German GEO is one of the world’s most prestigious general interest magazines. German GEO reports on scientific, sociological, and geographical subjects. GEO is particularly well known for its outstanding photography and exhaustive and unflinching reportage. Besides the monthly, the GEO family consists of 18 magazines. Amongst them issues on science, travel, history and three children magazines. GEO has 17 language editions. Eichhorn has curated and organized numerous exhibitions and edited a range of photo books and was part of many international photo juries.

David Fahey
David Fahey is the Director of the Fahey Klein Gallery in Los Angeles. Fahey Klein is one of the most influential galleries in California.

Amy Feitelberg
Amy Feitelberg is the photo editor at Los Angeles Magazine. Previously, she was the photo editor at Outside Magazine and has been in the magazine publishing business for 17 years having worked at Entertainment Weekly, New York and many others. She has degrees in both journalism and photography from New York University.

Taj Forer
Taj Forer, Editor of Daylight Magazine, the publisher of contemporary photography (magazine, book, web, tablet), received his MFA in photography from UNC-Chapel Hill, where he is currently a lecturer in the Department of Art. Daylight's books are distributed internationally by Distributed Art Publishers (D.A.P.) and the publishing program is currently accepting proposals for photographers' monographs.

Laurie Frank
Laurie Frank founded her gallery (then called Still/Moving) in 1968 with a focus on the still photography of motion picture cinematographers and film directors. In 2000 Laurie Frank moved the gallery to a space on the courtyard of Les Deux Cafés in Hollywood where she expanded its mandate to include painting and sculpture as well as photography under the name Media Rare Gallery. In 2002 Media Rare moved again to its present location at Santa Monica’s prestigious Bergamot Station Arts Center, under a new name, Frank Pictures Gallery. The gallery’s roster of artists includes legendary photographers Horace Bristol, Jeff Dunas, Robert Stivers, Andy Summers, and Lynn Goldsmith, noted California artists Laddie John Dill, Larry Bell, Andy Moses as well as Texas based Annabelle Livermore (Laura Bush’s favorite painter), and Hollywood hyphenates Val Kilmer (actor-collagist) Joel Grey(actor-photographer), Yul Brynner (actor-photographer), Ione Skye (actress-painter) and Jerzy Skolimowski (Director-painter).

Rip Georges
Rip Georges is the Creative Director of LA, The Los Angeles Times Magazine. With more than 20 years of experience in magazine design, fashion advertising and branding, he has served as the Design Director of Arts & Architecture, LA Style, Esquire, Mirabella and In Style magazines. He has received numerous awards and honors, including a National Magazine Award for Design (ASME) and the Henry Luce Award for Art Direction, as well as several gold medals from the Society of Publication Designers. He has also taught editorial design and art direction at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California

Nancy Glowinski
Nancy Glowinski manages photo sales/licensing in North America for Reuters News Agency.Reviewer Preference: News and photojournalism.

Howard Greenberg
Howard Greenberg is the Director of the Howard Greenberg Gallery in NYC. His is considered one of the most influential galleries in the world.

Jeana Hong
Jeana Hong currently works for the TV and print ad agency, ByrdBarlage, and consults in creative marketing and photographer business development. She received her B.F.A. from the Rhode Island School of Design and has produced print, web and TV advertising campaigns for fashion and luxury brands such as Mercedes-Benz, Samsung, Nautica, NBC Universal, Coty Fragrances and The Gap; and for celebrities from Gwen Stefani, Halle Berry, Sarah Jessica Parker to Fergie. She possesses over a decade of hands on experience in art buying and creative services on the client, ad agency and photographer ends. Jeana headed the creative production department for Brooks Brothers’ internal advertising division for four years and served as Business Manager of Shoot Production at the ad agency, Laird + Partners for two years.

Holly Hughes
Holly Hughes is the editor-in-chief of Photo District News Magazine, named to the Chicago Tribune’s list of the 50 Best Magazines in 2005. Holly and her editorial staff have won five Neal Awards for Outstanding Editorial Achievement from American Business Media. A graduate of Yale University, Holly has lectured widely on artists’ rights, copyright issues, and the business of photography.

John Jenkins
John Jenkins is the founder of DECODE Books. Since 2007, DECODE Books has published monographs for emerging and mid-career fine art photographers, including Kelli Connell, Suzanne Opton, Bill Jacobson, Doug Keyes, Jesse Burke, and Nealy Blau. Jenkins works closely with each artist to produce a book that best showcases the photographer’s work. He is also a fine art photographer who has shown his work throughout the United States. His photographs can be found in a number of private and public collections, including the Henry Art Gallery, the Tacoma Art Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Microsoft Corporation.

Susan Jones
Susan Jones is the Sales and Operations Manager of Age Fotostock America, inc., a position which she’s held for ten years. She has been working within the stock photo industry since 1982, and licenses imagery to clients in advertising, publishing and corporate markets. In the past, she has worked as a photo researcher, editor, freelance photographer and custom photo printer, and is an active member of ASPP and PACA.

Steven Kasher
Steven Kasher is the director of Steven Kasher Gallery. He also is a writer, curator, book designer, and publisher. He is the author of The Civil Rights Movement: A Photographic History, 1954-68 (Abbeville, 1996) and the America and the Tintype (Steidl/ICP, 2008), and numerous essays about art and photography. He has curated exhibitions about the Civil Rights Movement for over 20 institutions worldwide. He edited, designed, and co-published (with Steidl) books about Mike Disfarmer (2005), American Mugshots (2006), Albert Maysles (2007), Chauncey Hare (2008), Andy Warhol (2010), and John Chamberlain (2011). He is an expert in appraising photographic archives, and has been instrumental in selling numerous archives, in part or in whole, such as Magnum, The New York Times, Culver Pictures, Black Star and Sovfoto.

Geoff Katz
Geoff Katz is the Owner and Founder of Creative Photographers Inc (CPi) since 1994. New York based CPi has two divisions, CPi Syndication and CPi Reps. CPi Syndication is one of the world's leading licensing companies specializing in celebrity portraiture. CPi Reps manages an exclusive group of photographers for assignments, projects, books and exhibitions.

Robert Klein
Robert Klein is the Director of the Robert Klein Gallery in Boston, one of America's most distinguished photo galleries. He was a board member of Photographic Resource Center, Boston 1991-93, Honorary Board member of Center for Creative Photography, Tucson 1995-1998 and has been the President of the Association of International Photography Art Dealers (AIPAD) since 1995.

Laurie Kratochvil
Laurie Kratochvil is the Director of Photography for Nomad Editions and is both a photography dealer and appraiser, as well as a consultant on visual projects that include magazines, books, the internet and film. She began her career at the Los Angeles Times as a photography editor and went on to work for numerous national publications before joining Rolling Stone Magazine in 1982. During her twelve years there as photo editor, Kratochvil saw the magazine win every major photography award including the National Magazine Award. While working for Rolling Stone, Kratochvil edited a number of books, including the New York Times best seller, Rolling Stone: The Photographs. She has curated several photography exhibitions in the United States and Europe: she has been a frequent panelist and lecturer, and has judged numerous photography competitions. Kratochvil was the founding photography editor for In Style Magazine and worked there until 2005 before leaving to start her own visual consulting business, working with consumer magazines such as Self, O the Oprah Magazine, Bloomberg Personal, Men’s Health and Essence. Kratochvil’s book projects include Africa by Herb Ritts, CUBA-Picturing Change by E. Wright Ledbetter, Mil Besos by Ruven Afanador, and Cyclops by Albert Watson.

Elizabeth Krist
Elizabeth Cheng Krist is a senior photo editor for National Geographic. Before coming to the magazine in 1994, she worked at Asia and Fortune. Elizabeth has judged competitions for Kodak, Nikon, NPPA, College Photographer of the Year, and the RFK Journalism Awards. She has spoken at the Pingyao photo festival and served as a team editor at Eddie Adams Workshop. Elizabeth, with colleagues, shares awards from POYi, Overseas Press Club, and Communication Arts, and recently traveled to China on an International Reporting Project fellowship. Reviewer Preference: Color, especially journalistic narrative, archaeology, and wilderness landscape.

Patricia Lanza
Patricia Lanza began working for the Annenberg Foundation in 2005, to research an idea for Wallis Annenberg on the uses of photography and digital media. In 2007, the Trustees of the Annenberg Foundation voted to create a place for photography called the Annenberg Space for Photography, under the directorship of Wallis Annenberg. Patricia Lanza is responsible for working with the Trustees and Executive Director to create and carry out the vision through themed programming and photographic exhibitions. She began her career at the National Geographic Society, first as a photo researcher, than as a photography editor, followed by eight years as a contract photographer where she had over 700 pictures published. Assignments have taken her to 48 countries for a variety of national and international clients and publications, inclusive of a contract with the Herald Tribune Syndicate for both writing and photography.

Carol LeFlufy
Carol LeFlufy is the Director of Eye-Forward, a photographer's representative agency in Los Angeles. Eye-Forward is now representing Sam Jones , Christopher Wray-McCann, Patrik Giardino and Frank Ockenfels.

Elodie Maillet
Elodie Mailliet is Director of Photography for Contour by Getty Images where she oversees high-end celebrity, fashion, beauty and lifestyle collection. Prior to joining Getty Images, Elodie was Director of Photography for portraiture and entertainment at Corbis. In 2005, she was named one of the top 100 people in photography by American Photo.Reviewer Preference:I prefer to see mid-career professionals. Elodie has worked as a freelance writer for Le Nouvel Observateur, VSD and French Photo. She is author of the book one2one, published by TeNeues. In 1999, she published Kant entre Desespoir et Esperance, the result of her Master's thesis in philosophy from Paris X Nanterre. A native of Paris, France, she came to the United States in 1999 to pursue a Master's in Journalism at Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University.

Gail Marowitz
Gail Marowitz has been art directing and designing music packaging for more than twenty years. In 2005, she won a Grammy® award for "Best Recording Package" with Aimee Mann's "The Forgotten Arm" and was nominated again in 2008 for Mann's "@#$%&*! Smilers". She has worked with photographers Anton Corbijn, Mary Ellen Mark, Ross Halfin and Sante D'orazio among many others for projects as varied as Aerosmith, Bette Midler, James Taylor and Megadeth. Her work has been featured in Print's Regional Design Annual and Varoom! She is currently the creative director at Roadrunner Records.

Norman Maslov
Norman Maslov, a native San Franciscan, is an Artist’s Agent representing commercial photographers Nationally from his hometown by the Bay. He attended San Francisco State University studying Communications and Film. His Photography Agency, Maslov, Agent Internationale opened in 1986

Wally Mason
Wally Mason is the Director of the Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he has curated over 90 exhibitions. The Haggerty is an academic art museum that hosts 9-12 exhibitions annually. Mason holds a BA from Beloit College and an MFA from Indiana University. Mason is most interested in reviewing bodies of resolved work suitable for exhibition with no restrictions regarding style or content. He is not interested in reviewing work directed towards advertising or stock applications. He can offer photographers exhibition opportunities including solo and group exhibitions. The museum does acquire photography for it’s permanent collection.

Nicholas McClelland
Nicholas McClelland is the Deputy Photo Editor at Time.com.

Nion McEvoy
Nion McEvoy is the Chairman & CEO of Chronicle Books LLC and of The McEvoy Group LLC. Chronicle Books, based in San Francisco, California is known for its excellence in design and the strong popular appeal of its titles, including such best-sellers as The Beatles Anthology, The Worst Case Scenario Survival Handbook, and Weber’s Art of the Grill. In addition, Chronicle Books creates gift and stationery products based on works ranging from the photography of William Wegman and the menus of Chez Panisse to the musings of Goth tween icon Emily the Strange. Mr. McEvoy joined Chronicle Books in 1986, and served as Editor-in-Chief of the adult trade division until he acquired the company through The McEvoy Group in 2000. The McEvoy Group also includes becker&mayer! LLC, a book packager in Bellevue, Washington; Spin magazine in New York; and McEvoy Media, which publishes 7x7 magazine and California Home & Design in San Francisco.

Shannon McMillan
Shannon McMillan is an Advertising Producer at Ideacity Advertising Agency. During her 14 years in Advertising she has worked as an Art Producer with worldwide clients (BMW, Kohler, Brinker, The US Air Force, Southwest Airlines, AT&T, AARP, Harrah's, and others), talented photographers and production teams, and reviewed hundreds of portfolios, websites and promos. She has been a juror for panels such as: PDN’s PIX, PDN’s Photo Annual, and the Palm Springs Photo Festival. She enjoys the sense of satisfaction and accomplishment that comes creative power and strives to maintain her artistic integrity. Photography is her personal passion and she looks forward to any opportunity to create. Reviewer Preference:Mid-career to established photographers. Knowing I work in the advertising industry I'd like to look at predominately commercial and editorial photographers.

Frank Meo
In 1986 Meo founded his own company, Meo Represents, a photo agency based in New York City. For over 25 years now Frank has represented top photographers and photojournalists in securing highly valued commercial assignments. Recently Meo reinvented his company to form thephotocloser.com, an online search engine for art buyers, editors and clients searching for photographers worldwide. To date thephotocloser represents over 65 photographers in more than 45 cities around the world and growing. Meo has been an active member of The Society of Photographers and Artists Representatives (SPAR) from 1984-present

Lesley Meyer
For the last three years Lesley Meyer’s she has worked at the Annenberg Space for Photography as the Photo Editor and Archivist, focusing her expertise in the new direction of exhibition and programming. Her experience as a photo editor in publishing spans 17 years. Meyer’s eclectic talent for pairing photographers and artists with assignments led her to work for such diverse magazines as Harper’s Bazaar, Interview, JANE, VLife and Outside magazine.Through her knowledge of photojournalism, documentary, editorial and fine art photography she offers photographers a broad degree of advice and direction. Reviewer’s Request: Lesley’s is interested in seeing work that is stylistically and technically mature, focused and evolved. She prefers to see work that is of a particular series or project topic.

Kevin R. Miller
Kevin R. Miller is the Director of the Southeast Museum of Photography in Florida and has published numerous exhibition catalogs. Originally from Australia, he studied at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and an MFA from Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Miller has served as the Department Chair of Visual Arts at Daytona Beach College and was the head of photographic studies at Australia’s Charles Stuart University and the Melbourne School of Art.

Robert Morton
Robert Morton has worked in the world of book publishing for more than four decades for such publishers as Bantam, Time Life and over 25 years at Harry Abrams as Director of Special Projects. Currently, Morton works as an editor, agent, and consultant for photographers and artists seeking publication in books. In addition to helping to prepare presentations for consideration by publishers (selecting and sequencing photographs, deciding upon forms of presenting work, discussing desired formats and printing methods), Morton works with the artist and publisher to find and enlist authors for introductions and other texts. After acceptance of a project for publication, he negotiates the contract terms and serves as intermediary between the artist and the publisher's editor. During completion of a project, he uses his long experience in book publishing to assist the publisher and artist to find ways of marketing, publicizing and promoting the finished book. Reviewer Preference:Robert is interested mostly in seeing subject-based work of all kinds, especially book-worthy ideas, rather than abstract images or work of purely personal expression.

David Muench
David Muench has photographed the landscape in all its grandeur for half a century. Traveling the U.S. since early childhood with his father, renown photographer Josef Muench, there was never another way of life for him. His 4 x 5 large format camera is as much a part of him as his innovative eye. He has lately been experimenting with digital cameras as a result of his work photographing World Heritage Sites for UNESCO and Panasonic. For him, every photograph is a journey in perception, an exploration in seeing. Inventor of original and oft-imitated approaches to the landscape, Muench brings his own idea of geography into both his spectacular color and black and white images. For him, the craft and the art of photography are paramount, yet nothing is more important than presenting his beloved wilderness to viewers so that they might be moved to act on its behalf. For him, all of nature is a context, each tiny element of critical importance to the magnificence of the whole. It is this connectedness he seeks, an idea he presents in the book, Plateau Light. “When photographing, I tune in to the natural rhythms and pulse of the land . . . to communicate and champion the stark beauty that is nature – its wildness, its opposites . . .” As James Lawrence wrote in the text for Plateau Light, “Muench’s international reputation derives from an unflinching embrace of nature’s nuances. He engages the primal landscape across all the human fronts: as thinker, dreamer, seeker, lover, lifelong friend.” Long intimate with America’s wild places, in recent years Muench has expanded outward across the globe, photographing in Antarctica, New Zealand, Australia, Iceland, Japan, Morocco, South Africa, the Galapagos, Patagonia, Russia, Belarus. “I am inspired by the power and beauty of the primal landscape,” Muench says. “In the unending experience it offers of light, space and time, I engage in my equally unending search for sublime beauty.” Muench’s work has been exhibited in numerous museums and galleries, including the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, and Mountain Light Gallery in Bishop, California. A shared exhibit with Ansel Adams and Jack Dykinga was mounted at the Phoenix Art Museum, The Center for Creative Photography, and the Museum of Northern Arizona. He was commissioned by the National Park Service to provide 33 photographic murals presenting the landscapes of the Lewis and Clark expedition. These are on permanent display at the Jefferson Expansion Memorial under the Arch in St. Louis. Monumental in concept, the 15 foot tall panels extend more than 350 feet along their wall. His work also hangs in numerous private collections. He has published over 50 exhibit format books.

Mark Murrmann
Mark Murrmann is photo editor at Mother Jones magazine, a position he has held for three years. He came to Mother Jones with a background as a freelance photographer, having covered Congress, worked on documentary projects and extensively photographing the world of punk rock. In addition to his work at Mother Jones, Mark still shoots plenty of music and street photography and recently curated a photo issue and exhibit for punk music magazine Maximum Rocknroll and. Mark is a contract photographer with ZUMA Press and holds degrees from Indiana University and UC Berkeley Grad School of Journalism.

Jennifer Pastore
Jennifer Pastore is the Former Photo Director of Teen Vogue magazine where she worked with the photo and art departments to commission and produce a range of photographic assignments for the magazine. Prior to joining Condé Nast Publications, Jennifer was the Associate Photo Editor of T: The New York Times Style Magazine. Jennifer has a BFA in Graphic Design from the University of Florida and worked as a graphic designer before beginning her career in photo editing at the Times. Reviewer Preference:I would prefer to see fashion, portrait and still life photographers.

Chris Pichler
Chris Pichler is the Founder and Director of Nazraeli Press, one of the world's best-known publishers of photography books.

Jodi Rappaport
Jodi Rappaport is the Director of The Rappaport Agency, established in 1986, representing a diversified roster of globally recognized photographers and stylists. The Rappaport Agency also offers creative business management for Special Projects.

Chris Robinson
Christopher Robinson is the Editorial Director of the Werner Publishing Imaging Group of magazines. For 14 years he has worked as a photo magazine editor. He was part of the team that launched Digital Photo Pro in 2003 and he continued to serve as the editor of that magazine as well as being the editor of Outdoor Photographer.

Cindy Rowe
Cindy Rowe has been an art producer in advertising agencies since 1994. She started her career at BBDO/Los Angeles, where she worked on the Apple Computer, Pioneer Electronics, Starbucks and Best Western Hotels accounts. After six years in that role, she left BBDO to become Manager of Art Production at Saatchi & Saatchi Los Angeles in 2000, overseeing the department while working on many exciting Toyota projects. A popular reviewer, she brings her unique perspective to her critiques at PSPF.

Sarah Rozen
Sarah Rozen is the Photo Director at Women’s Health. Prior to that she was Photo Director at Fast Company, Entertainment Weekly and People Special Issues.Reviewer Preference:I prefer to see beauty, fashion and environmental portraits.

Glenn Ruga
Glenn Ruga is the Executive Director of Photographic Resource Center at Boston University (PRC). The PRC provides opportunities for photographers with its gallery, Loupe (the PRC magazine), and NEO (a monthly online gallery.) www. prcboston.org. Ruga is also the founder and director of SocialDocumentary.net, an online gallery and portal for documentary photographers.

Dana Salvo
Dana Salvo is the owner of Clark Gallery. Clark Gallery exhibits contemporary art in all media by emerging, mid-career and established artists from the Northeast and nationally. Clark Gallery, Best of Boston 2011, is one of New England's leading art galleries and a member of the Boston Art Dealers Association. Salvo has also has been the recipient of two awards from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and has twice received the Fulbright Scholar Award. A nationally recognized photographer, his work has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions throughout the United States. He is the author of Home Altars of Mexico, published simultaneously by University of New Mexico Press in the United States as well as Thames and Hudson in Great Britain, the book examines how people evoke sacredness in their everyday environments in the creation of devotional altars and household arrangements which sanctify and personalize the places in which they live. His work is represented in numerous collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, MOMA, The Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Fogg Art Museum, San Francisco MOMA, the Houston Museum of Fine Arts and the Addison Gallery of American Art.

Paul Schiek
Paul Schiek- Schiek is the Founder / Principle of TBW Books in Oakland CA. TBW prides itself on publishing challenging photography books from some of todays most exciting and celebrated photographers.

Amy Silverman
Amy Silverman is the Photo Editor of Outside Magazine

Leslie Simitch
Leslie Simitch is the Executive Vice President at Trunk Archive. Before joining Trunk Archive, she had been president of LS Limited for 20 years, where she represented Philip Lorca DiCorcia, Pamela Hanson, Dewey Nicks and Elaine Constantine, among others. In addition, she cast and produced countless campaigns for many of the top photographers in the world such as Annie Leibovitz, Steven Meisel and Joel Sternfeld. She has worked with many of the premier advertising agencies and design firms, and has consulted with Ian Schrager on photography acquisition for the Gramercy Park Hotel and also on various hotel and residential projects for Andre Balazs Properties.

Karen Sinsheimer
Karen Sinsheimer. In her tenure of nearly twenty years as Curator of Photography at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Karen Sinsheimer has organized fourteen traveling exhibitions that have appeared in both national and international venues, each of which was accompanied by a major publication. In addition, she curated nearly fifty exhibitions as well as overseeing twelve exhibitions from other institutions. Ms. Sinsheimer has participated in numerous portfolio reviews and juried exhibitions, and has written for several publications. In collaboration with Anne Tucker and Gus Lyndall Wortham, Curator at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, she co-curated “Chaotic Harmony: Contemporary Korean Photography,” which is accompanied by a Yale University Press publication. She is a member of the Board of JGS, Inc., a non-profit organization that has funded more than sixty single-artist books of contemporary photography.

LIsa Sutcliffe
Lisa Sutcliffe is the Assistant Curator of Photography at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, one of the most respected museum institutions in the United States.

Mary Virginia Swanson
Mary Virginia Swanson is a consultant who helps artists find the strengths in their work, identify appreciative audiences and present their work in an informed, professional manner. Her informative seminars and lectures on marketing opportunities have proven to aid photographers in moving their careers to the next level. She maintains a popular blog about opportunities for photographers called Marketing Photos and coauthored Publish Your Photography Book with Darius Himes

Alex Tasch
Alex Tasch is currently Senior Art Producer at Euro RSCG New York. She has worked in the field of Photography for more than 17 years; as a Producer, a Studio Manager, an Agent and presently as an Art Producer.

Jeffrey Teuton
Jeffrey Teuton is the Director of Jen Bekman Gallery in New York City. He has curated more than 50 shows at the gallery and other outside venues.  He works mainly as the liaison between the gallery and its artists as well as between their artwork and collectors. His work starts with the planning stages of exhibitions and spans all the steps until the art is up on the collectors’ walls.

Lisa Volpe
Lisa is a Curatorial Fellow working with several museums in the Southern California area. She is the former Ralph M. Parsons Curatorial Fellow in the Wallis Annenberg Photography Department of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and is a PhD candidate in the History of Photography at University of California, Santa Barbara where she was the Assistant Curator of Photography at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. She received her BA from Dartmouth College and her MA from Case Western Reserve University. Formerly the CWRU Fellow in the Department of Photography at the Cleveland Museum of Art, Lisa has helped to organize a number of exhibitions on both the East and West coast.

Stephanie Waxlax Hughes
Stephanie Waxlax Hughes is the Photo Editor of T: The New York Times Style Magazine. Previously, Stephanie was the Photo Director for Men’s Vogue and the Senior Photography Producer at Bergdorf Goodman. She has also contributed as Photo Editor for GQ, Spin, and InStyle magazines.

Colin Westerbeck
Colin Westerbeck is the former Director of the California Museum of Photography at the University of California, Riverside, a position he assumed in the fall of 2008 and left in 2011. After moving to Los Angeles in 2003, he wrote a weekly column on photography for the Los Angeles Times and taught photographic history at the University of California, Los Angeles, as well as the University of Southern California. From 1986 until 2003, he was a Curator of Photography at the Art Institute of Chicago. In 2000, the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain awarded him the J. Dudley Johnston Award for Writing on Photography. Among his publications are Bystander, A History of Street Photography, co-authored with Joel Meyerowitz, and Irving Penn, A Career in Photography.

Susan White
Susan White, former Director of Photography at Vanity Fair, has taken up her new post as Executive Director, Editorial, at Trunk Archive.

Allegra Wilde
Allegra Wilde has more than 20 years of experience as a branding and creative consultant to artists, photographers, art based businesses and to the advertising, editorial and fine art marketplaces. She was formerly the Director of Talent and Agent Branding at The Workbook. During her tenure there, and currently as an independent consultant and Creative Director in her own business, Allegra’s expertise lies in a broad overview of the commercial photography industry. Allegra is a recognized Photography industry authority on agent/artist relationships, marketing for artists, agency and talent branding, and editing.

Tracey Woods
Tracey Woods is the Photo Editor at Essence Magazine in New York.

Zana Woods
Zana Wood is the Director of Photography at Wired Magazine.

Yukiko Yamagata
Yukiko Yamagata is the Associate Director for the Open Society Foundations Documentary Photography Project, which explores the intersection of photography and social change through grantmaking, exhibitions, and public programs. Prior to joining the foundations in 2005, she was a researcher for the In Motion: The African American-Migration Experience project, an exhibition, book, website, and digital archive organized by the New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and a Senior Curatorial Assistant / Researcher in the Department of Photography at the Whitney Museum of American Art. She has taught grant writing workshops for photographers at the International Center of Photography.