Anthony Luvera is an Australian artist, writer and educator based in London. His photographic work has been exhibited widely in galleries, public spaces and festivals, including Tate Liverpool, The Gallery at Foyles, the British Museum, London Underground’s Art on the Underground, National Portrait Gallery London, Belfast Exposed Photography, Australian Centre for Photography, PhotoIreland, Malmö Fotobiennal, Goa International Photography Festival, Les Rencontres D’Arles Photographie, Oslo Negativ, and Landskrona Foto. His writing has appeared in a range of publications including Photography and Culture, Visual Studies, Photoworks, Source, and Photographies.
Anthony is Associate Professor of Photography in the Centre for Arts, Memory and Communities at Coventry University, and editor of Photography For Whom?, a periodical about socially engaged photography. Anthony is Chair of the Education Committee at the Royal Photographic Society. He has designed education and mentorship programmes, facilitated workshops, and given lectures for the public education departments of National Portrait Gallery, Tate, Magnum, Royal Academy of Arts, The Photographers’ Gallery, Barbican Art Gallery, and community photography projects across the UK.
Nicola Shipley works as a Curator, Producer, Project Manager, Mentor and Consultant specialising in photography. She is the co-founder and Director of GRAIN Projects, an arts organisation that develops photography opportunities for all and delivers a programme of new commissions, professional development opportunities, exhibitions, publications and socially engaged photography projects. GRAIN work nationally and internationally on a diverse range of projects to support artists and engage with communities.
Nicola trained as an art historian, has an MA in History of Art, and a background in the visual arts, including in commissioning, exhibitions, collections, public art, artists education and professional development. Recent projects include collaborations with Format International Photography Festival, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, Photoworks, Brighton Photo Fringe, Library of Birmingham, The Hive Arts Centre, Birmingham 2022 – The Commonwealth Games, Coventry UK City of Culture, Birmingham City University, Guangzhou Library and British Council China, Tasweerghar and British Council Pakistan, Ffotogalleriet, Oslo, Appetite – Creative People and Places, MAC and Historic England.
Nicola is an experienced Mentor and Reviewer and has also been a jury member for the Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize, Source Graduate Prize and Portrait of Britain.
Anne Williams is an experienced photography educator specialising in historical and contemporary fine art and documentary photography and related critical theory. Formerly Programme Director for Photography at London College of Communication, part of University of the Arts London, she was instrumental in developing an influential tradition of conceptually strong practice for which LCC students and graduates have won many awards.
In 2012, she received the Royal Photographic Society Education Award. Now retired from full time work, she continues to act as a consultant to photography education, photography organisations and arts funding bodies. She is a trustee at Autograph as well as Photofusion.
Katy Barron is a photography curator, mentor and advisor based in London. She has worked within the field of photography for the past 20 years, focusing on contemporary and twentieth century artists. Katy has undertaken a myriad of roles within the field – from Senior Director at Michael Hoppen Gallery to Chair of the Board of Photo Oxford. She currently works for the Maud Sulter Estate in Glasgow and is helping other women artists with issues around their archives, estates and legacies. Katy has a BA from the Courtauld Institute of Art and an M. Litt in the History of Art from Oxford University. She has curated numerous photographic exhibitions in the UK and abroad, most recently at Four Corners in Bethnal Green, St John’s College, Oxford as a part of the Photo Oxford festival and at Messum’s Wiltshire.
Geof Rayner PhD has been involved in Photofusion and predecessor organisations for four decades. He was the original company secretary of Photo Coop, Photofusion’s predecessor organisation. He was one of the founders of Photofusion and its chair over many years. He founded Photofusion Educational Trust, Photofusion’s now parent organisation His original interest was in photography for community development, social activism and publishing but shifted to writing with photographers for photography exhibitions, posters or books. Geof has worked across multiple fields and countries and was formerly a university professor of public health. He resigned as chair of Photofusion Ltd in 2015, but retained the role of chair of Photofusion’s charity. His many books and publications have included two photography books on the environment and energy.
Destinie Paige is a British Jamaican director, photographer and set designer based in London, whose work explores the unseen beauty in the everyday experiences of women and people of colour. Using photography, film and set design, her imagery has a trademark use of rich colours and elaborate staging that playfully blends inspirations from cinema and fashion to redefine the picture of black culture and femininity.
During a highly successful 2020, her photography work was featured in Vogue, Grazia and the Evening Standard. In February 2022, she curated her debut exhibition ‘Black Bxy Joy’ at Photographic centre, Photofusion. Destinie’s fashion film ‘A Kind of Woman’, an ode to plus-sized Black women in fashion, empowering a new vision of femininity that caters to all sizes was recently screened at the V&A in August 2022. Destinie is a recent graduate from Ravensbourne University London.