One of the primary goals of EXPOSED Torino Foto Festival is to foster and support artistic production, with a particular focus on contemporary photography. Launched as an annual prize, the EXPOSED Grant for Contemporary Photography aims to empower photographers to bring visionary projects to life, with the resulting work featured in the festival’s main program. This initiative reflects the festival’s forward-thinking drive and its role as a platform for dialogue between classical and contemporary photographic approaches, promoting fresh perspectives on pressing issues of our modern world.
River Claure (1997, Bolivia) is a photographer and visual artist known for his meticulously constructed portraits and surreal landscapes. His work challenges dominant notions of cultural identity and explores the role of photographic images in shaping our perception of reality. Claure lives and works in Cochabamba, Bolivia.
Born into a family of migrants from a small Andean highland community, Claure grew up in the city, navigating the tensions between his indigenous roots and the urban landscape of the 21st century. After beginning his training in Cochabamba, he pursued studies in contemporary photography in Madrid.
Mackenzie Calle is a Brooklyn-based freelance photographer whose work blurs the line between documentary and fiction, exploring forgotten histories, groundbreaking science, and queer futures. Through a multidisciplinary approach, she combines photography with research-driven storytelling to uncover hidden narratives and challenge conventional perspectives.
Amak Mahmoodian (1980, Shiraz, Iran) is a multidisciplinary artist whose work navigates the intersections of conceptual and documentary photography. She began her career in 2003 as a research-based photographer in Iran and has been living in the UK since 2007, where she works as a visual artist and educator. In 2015, she earned a practice-based PhD in photography from the University of South Wales.
Gisela Torres (1962, New York, US) is a London-based photographic artist whose work blends self-portraiture, performance, 3D technologies, printmaking, sculpture, and sound, creating immersive and evocative works of art. At the heart of her practice is storytelling, which Torres weaves with a supernatural aesthetic, exploring personal and historical archives through a distortion of time and space.
Jojo Gronostay (1988, Hamburg, Germany) is a German-Ghanaian artist whose practice explores themes of identity, representation, platforms, recycling, and liminality. His work investigates the political and economic structures between formerly colonized African countries and the so-called Western world. Through platforms such as DWMC, he has created his own structure to intervene in these cycles, examining concepts like economy, value, and the exchange of people and goods between continents.
Tanvi Mishra
Jury member
Curator, writer and photo editor
Tanvi Mishra is a photo editor, curator, writer, and educator working with images to explore issues of rights, representation, and research strategies in visual culture. Her interests include the interplay of truth and fiction in photography, particularly in today’s political context. She has been the Creative Director of The Caravan, a journal of politics and culture, and is part of the photo-editorial team of PIX, a South Asian publication and exhibition platform.
Danaé Panchaud
Jury member
Director of Centre de la photographie Genève
Danaé Panchaud is a Swiss curator, museologist, and lecturer specializing in photography. She currently serves as the director of Centre de la photographie Genève, one of the leading Swiss institutions for contemporary photography, after four years at the head of Photoforum Pasquart in Biel (2018-2021). She previously held positions in several Swiss institutions in the fields of contemporary art, design, and science and has worked as a freelance curator, author, and lecturer since 2012.
Femke Rotteveel
Jury member
Director of Fotodok
Femke Rotteveel has been the director of FOTODOK since 2017, an institution in Utrecht (Netherlands) that curates photography exhibitions on social themes to broaden perspectives and provide new insights. FOTODOK organizes in-depth programs on topics like photo books, supports the development of photographers, and is involved in international talent programs such as Lighthouse, FUTURES, Talent Embassy, and Blurring the Lines. Rotteveel aims to integrate the educational program Learning to See into school curricula to raise awareness among younger generations about the importance of visual literacy.
Tim Clark
Jury member
Editor in Chief of 1000 Words and Artistic Director of Fotografia Europea
Tim Clark is Editor in Chief of 1000 Words and Artistic Director of Fotografia Europea in Reggio Emilia, Italy. He has contributed to numerous international projects, including as curatorial advisor for the Discovery section of Photo London 2022 and 2023, and adjunct curator for Masculinities: Liberation through Photography (2020-22) at the Barbican Centre in London, an exhibition that also traveled to Gropius-Bau in Berlin, Les Rencontres d’Arles, and FOMU in Antwerp.