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  Azu Nwagbogu

  Lagos Photography Festival Director

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  Azu Nwagbogu is the Founder and Director of African Artists’ Foundation (AAF), a non- profit organisation based in Lagos, Nigeria.Nwagbogu was recently elected as the Director of the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art in South Africa. Nwagbogu also serves as Founder and Director of LagosPhoto Festival, an annual international arts festival of photography held in Lagos. He is the creator of Art Base Africa, a virtual space to discover and learn about contemporary African Art. For the past 20 years, he has curated private collections for various prominent individuals and corporate organizations in Africa.

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  Carlos Fontes

  Director

  Artist Director

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  Carlos Fontes was born in Braga in 1957.

  He received his bachelor degree in History and Social Science Teaching from the University of Minho, Braga. We attended the Economics course at the Faculty of Economics in Porto. Carlos throughout the years was responsible for different courses in the field of History, Educational Sciences and Photography. He taught History in middle, high school and Photography in different Vocational Training Centers. 

  During some years, he worked has Cultural and Community Animator. In the Municipality of Braga, he worked as Head of Division and Cultural Action, Director of the Municipal House of Culture in Braga, Coordinator of the Historical-Cultural Magazine Bracara Augusta and Deputy Director of the Image Museum in Braga.

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  Estefânia R. de Almeida

  Adorna Corações Gallery Director

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  Estefânia R. de Almeida is since 2003, Artistic Director of gallery Adorna Corações (Porto, Portugal), she I also a member of the MIP (Month of Image in Porto). She develops a pioneer work when it comes to the propagation of the contemporary photography practices in the Portuguese context. Her curatorial approach privileges an artistic view that differs from the more classic ways of image making, she works with multidisciplinary artist. The gallery Adorna Corações is looking to showcase not only stablished photographer but also new national and international emerging photographers.

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  Jeanne Mercier

  Independent Curator

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  Jeanne Mercier is a critic and curator since 2006 based between Europe and Africa. She is co-founder and editor-in-chief of Afrique in Visu, an independent platform for photographers in Africa (2006). She is working on new photographic practices and the question of representation.Today, she divides her time between Afrique in visu and curatorial projects for several festivals and exhibitions in Europe and Africa. She writes regularly for different journals on the visual arts and collaborates with artists, museums, galleries, residencies for exhibition texts. In 2015, she was the curator of the Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie de Fez. 2017, she publishes the book "The profession of photographer in Africa, 10 years of Afrique in visu" by Clémentine de la Féronnière. 2018, she is co-curator of the exhibition " Africa is no island. June 2019, she curated the exhibition, Mythologies of resistance, Nicola Lo Calzo, Fotofestiwal 2019, Lodz, Poland.

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  Pablo Berástegui

  Galeria Salut au Monde! Director

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  Pablo Berástegui (Pamplona 1968 lives and works between Portugal and Spain), he was been working for the past twenty years as a cultural producer in Spain, working in diferente cultural areas and with different public and private institutions. At this moment Berástegui is the director of the documental photography project Salut ao monde!, that started in February 2019 in Porto. Before this he was the director of PhotoEspaña in four editions (2003 - 2006). In 2016 he was also the director of European Capital of Culture in San Sebastián. He was also director of La noche en blanco de Madrid in four editions (2007 – 2010) and responsible for city cultural centers like Matadero Madrid (2008-2012) o Centro Conde Duque (2013).