Anne Nwakalor is a British-Nigerian curator, artist and writer working within the photography field. She is currently based in Manchester, UK and is the Founding Editor of one of Africa’s first contemporary photography magazines, No! Wahala Magazine print photography publication championing authentic visual stories told by African creatives. Her practice developed while studying a BA in Photojournalism and Documentary Photography at the University of the Arts London and a Master’s in Media, Ethics, and Social Change at the University of Sussex. Her interests revolve around ethical storytelling within the photography space, Afrofuturism, representation, and elitism within the art world, alongside a range of other topics. Anne often integrates text and moving images into her work, creating multimedia pieces alongside still photography. She has facilitated workshops, curated exhibitions, reviewed portfolios, and served on photography juries for organisations and institutions, including World Press Photo, Magnum Photos, Foam Magazine, Format Festival, Paris College of Art, Photo Museum Ireland, and Manchester Metropolitan University. She has featured on panels for numerous photography contests, reviewed work at several portfolio reviews, and delivered presentations, talks and lectures at universities, exhibitions, art events and photo festivals.

Fintan O’Toole is one of Ireland’s foremost public intellectuals, whose work sits at the intersection of politics, history, culture and literature. He writes with clarity and depth about how decisions—both bold and flawed—reshape lives. 

Since 1988, he has been a columnist for The Irish Times, and he contributes to The New Yorker, The Guardian, The New York Review of Books, among others. He also previously served as Leonard L Milberg Professor of Irish Letters at Princeton University. 

O’Toole has authored around 25 books spanning topics such as Irish identity, literature, Brexit, and political critique. His accolades include the Orwell Prize, the European Press Prize, and the 2024 Robert B. Silvers Prize for “inclusive political commentary.” Currently, he is writing the official biography of Seamus Heaney. 

In his lectures and writings, he invites audiences to see their own role in shaping history and to reflect critically on power, identity, and progress.  

Zoe Harrison is a Northern Irish curator, project manager, and photographer based in east London. Currently Head of Awards and Partnerships at British Journal of Photography, the world’s longest-running photography title. Here, she curates magazine’s prestigious awards program, including Portrait of Humanity, OpenWalls, Female in Focus, BJP IPA and Portrait of Britain, and oversees partnerships and collaborations with the publication with organisations like WeTransfer, Nikon and Bodleian Libraries. She has been invited to review portfolios at a number of institutions and events such as PHotoESPAÑA, LCC, Falmouth University, and Nottingham Trent University; and serve on the juries of the Indian Photo Festival and Format Festival.

Trish Lambe is the Artistic Director/CEO at Photo Museum Ireland, Ireland’s national centre for contemporary photography. She leads the artistic programming team and the development of the museum’s collection initiative. She has curated solo and group exhibitions featuring leading Irish and international artists, and programmed national and international commissions, exhibitions, events, and symposia that address key issues in contemporary photography. Recent projects include a survey of the development of photography in Ireland, co-curated with Photo Museum Ireland’s curatorial team and the co-curation of the award-winning Akihiko Okamura ‘The Memories of Others’ exhibition and photo book. She is a nominator,  juror and portfolio reviewer for national and international artists’ awards and commissions, most recently the Deutsche Börse Prize,  LSI Women in Photography Grant, Prix Pictet, Format, Rencontres d’Arles, Hendrik teNeues Photo Award, Encontros da Imagen, Braga and the Creative Europe Project Groundswell Awards.