Panel of Advisors

Cale Garrido is a Spanish independent curator, author, and photo editor with a focus on contemporary photography. Based in Hamburg, she collaborates internationally with artists, collectives, art institutions, festivals, and galleries. Working on exhibitions and publications, Cale’s main interest lies in addressing social and ecological issues. She is a curator at the 9th Triennial of Photography Hamburg and a guest lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Hanover. Image: Simone Kessler.

Mary Conlon is the Director of The Dock, Leitrim’s flagship arts centre in Carrick-on-Shannon. She was the founding Director of Ormston House in Limerick city from 2011 to 2023. She served three terms on the Board of EVA International, Ireland’s Biennial of Contemporary Art, and one term on the Executive Committee of Trans Europe Halles, a network of grassroots cultural centres in 40 countries. She recently joined the Board of Pallas Projects in Dublin and she is the co-chair of the Cultural Transformation Movement hub, an international alliance of multidisciplinary art centres, production houses, and cultural organisations working on best practices in diversity and inclusion. Image: Shane Vaughan

John Fleetwood (b. 1970, South Africa) is a photography curator, educator, and director of Photo; a multi-operation platform for the development and promotion of socially engaged photography work, projects, photographers, and critical visual culture. He recently curated ‘Five Photographers: A Tribute to David Goldblatt’ exhibited in various cities including Johannesburg, Maputo, and Bamako (2018-2019). In 2017, he was guest editor for Aperture’s Platform Africa edition. From 2002-2015 Fleetwood was the director of the Market Photo Workshop. He lives and works in Johannesburg.

Jordan Alves is Associate Editor at Atelier EXB a leading photo book publisher that publishes works that address new forms of photography, contemporary art and science. Founded in 2002 by Xavier Barral, and taken over in 2020 by the five members of the team (Jordan Alves, Nathalie Chapuis, Yseult Chehata, Charlotte Debiolles and Perrine Somma), the publishing house designs each book with great attention to both content and form. Questioning the forms of photography, discovering artistic writing, and addressing the major questions that innervate our contemporary societies through the image: Atelier EXB is at the same time a space of creation, curiosity and openness to the world. Jordan led the publication of the award-winning “Akihiko Okamura – The Memories of Others’ photo book edited by Pauline Vermare, co-published by Prestel, in partnership with Photo Museum Ireland.

Pauline Vermare is the Phillip and Edith Leonian Curator, Photography, Brooklyn Museum. Previously, she served as the cultural director of Magnum Photos in New York, and curator at the International Center of Photography and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. She was formerly the cultural director of Magnum Photos NY, and a curator at the International Center of Photography (ICP) and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA).From 2002 to 2009, she worked at the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation, in Paris. She is the author of numerous interviews and essays on photography. She sits on the boards of the Saul Leiter Foundation and the Catherine Leroy Fund. She recently curated the “Troubles I’ve Seen’ installation for our recent Protest exhibition at Photo Museum Ireland.

Tracy Marshall-Grant is an Arts Director & Producer specialising in the production of photography exhibitions, festivals, education, and archive projects. She is currently Head of Capital Campaign, National Museums, Liverpool. Tracy was previously Executive Director at Belfast Exposed Gallery. Tracy is also co-founder and Director of Northern Narratives, the non-venue-based photography production company specialising in archive exhibitions and long-term archive development projects. She managed the international tour and publication of Martin Parr’s Irish work. She has worked with Marketa Luskacova, Jem Southam, Café Royal Books and RRB Publications. She co-curated the Chris Killip retrospective exhibition with Ken Grant. She is also the Director of Liverpool Photographer Ken Grant’s Archive.

Jeanne McDonagh is CEO of the Open Doors Initiative, which works with a large number of companies and NGOs to help marginalised people such as refugees and asylum seekers, people with disabilities and youth from disadvantaged backgrounds, find employment. Previous to this, she was Head of Society and Engagement in Diageo, worked in communications and strategy for Our Lady’s Hospice, was campaign manager for Stephen Donnelly TD in the 2016 election, Communications Co-ordinator for Yes Equality (the Marriage Campaign) and Head of Communications for the Bar Council of Ireland.  She is on the board of Pride Dublin and was previously a board member of HIV Ireland and the Community Law and Mediation Service. She is on the Advisory Panel for the HIV and AIDS Monument, being organised by the Government.

Mark Cunningham is the Ellen Mayston Bates Professor of Neurophysiology of Epilepsy at Trinity College Dublin. He was born in Newry, Co. Down and educated at the Abbey Grammar CBS. After reading Physiology at Queen’s University Belfast, he received a PhD in Physiology from Bristol University and held a Professorship in Neuronal Dynamics at the Institute of Neuroscience, Newcastle University. His research has been funded by the BBSRC, MRC, Wellcome Trust, Epilepsy Research UK, Action on Hearing Loss, Hadwen Trust, Innovate UK, Wolfson Foundation, The Royal Society and Science Foundation Ireland. In 2019 he was elected as a Professorial Fellow at Trinity College Dublin. He has an interest in STEAM and has collaborated with ANU Productions and the interdisciplinary artist, Fiona McDonald.