• Rocio Aranda-Alvarado, Jersey City Museum
• Kalia Brooks, Studio Museum in Harlem
• Mary Ann Fahey, Umbrella Arts Gallery
• Elizabeth Ferrer, Rotunda Gallery (am session only)
• Hannah Frieser, Light Work
• Elvis Fuentes, El Museo del Barrio
• Michelle Graham, Getty Images
• Charles Guice, Charles Guice Contemporary
• Lisa Henry, Independent Curator
• Stella Kramer, Photography Consultant
• Tim Kitchen / Jon Parker, VEER
• Joanna Lehan, Aperture
• Edwin Ramoran, ALJIRA Center for Contemporary Art
• Elizabeth Shank, Silverstein Gallery (am session only)
• Deborah Willis, Curator, Historian

More Reviewer Bios Coming Soon!

Rocio Aranda-Alvarado
Curator, Jersey City Museum
Rocío Aranda-Alvarado received her Ph.D. in Art History from the CUNY Graduate Center in 2001. Her dissertation was a study of modernist movements in Harlem and Havana between 1925 and 1945. She is the curator at Jersey City Museum, where she organizes exhibitions of contemporary art featuring work by both established and emerging artists in the New Jersey and New York region. She also organizes exhibitions drawn from the Museum's eclectic permanent collection of American art including painting, sculpture, photography, works on paper and material culture from the 18th to the 20th centuries. She recently organized The Feminine Mystique, based on Betty Friedan's book of the same title from 1963. She has been invited to speak at the Smithsonian Institution, the Whitney Museum, the Americas Society, the National Association for Latino Arts and Culture and has taught art history at local universities. Her writing has appeared in various publications including catalogue essays for the Museum of Modern Art and El Museo del Barrio, Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, Art Nexus, Review, the journal of the Americas Society, En Foco's Nueva Luz, NYFA Quarterly, Small Axe, BOMB and American Art. She is most interested in seeing poetic documentary photography, those that don't feel like documentary. Also interested in stark photos of architecture, general imagery, and photographic collage. Least interested in experimental works.

Kalia Brooks
Public Programs Coordinator, Studio Museum in Harlem

Mary Ann Fahey
Curator/Owner, Umbrella Arts Gallery

Elizabeth Ferrer
Director of Visual Arts Programs, Rotunda Gallery and BRIC Arts| Brooklyn
Ferrer is a curator and writer who specializes in Mexican and Latino photography. Her most recent book is Lola Alvarez Bravo (New York: Aperture Foundation, 2006), a monographic study of the pioneering modernist photographer in Mexico, with an accompanying exhibit presented at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC and other venues in the U.S. She is part of a team of international curators contributing to a major retrospective of the Mexican photographer Pedro Meyer to be presented in over 60 museums around the world in the fall of 2008. Other projects include a retrospective of photographs, prints and books by Mariana Yampolsky (1925-2002) exhibited at the UBS Gallery, NY and the Mexican Cultural Institute, Washington, D.C., in 2007; a traveling exhibition of the Sprint Corporation Latino and Latin American collection; Still Life: The Body as Object in Contemporary Photography at the Americas Society, New York in 1995, the book A Shadow Born of Earth: New Photography in Mexico (New York: American Federation of Arts, Universe Books/Rizzoli, 1993), and her essay "Mariana Yampolsky: Una Mirada Apasionada/An Impassioned Eye," in the book Mariana Yampolsky: Imagen Memoria/Image-Memory (Mexico City: Centro de la Imagen, 1999). In 1998 she received the International Association of Art Critics curatorial award for the exhibition, The True Poetry: The Art of María Izquierdo at the Americas Society, NY. Ferrer is former director of the Austin Museum of Art and of the Art Gallery at the Americas Society.

Hannah Frieser
Director, Light Work
Light Work is a non-profit organization in Syracuse, NY, dedicated to the support of emerging and underrepresented artists working in photography and related media. Hannah has curated exhibitions with photographers such as Don Gregorio Antón, William Earle Williams, Pipo Nguyen-duy, Rik Pinkcombe, Ben Gest, Kanako Sasaki, and Suzanne Opton. She also oversees Light Work’s Artist-in-Residence program. Prior to coming to Light Work, Hannah worked with the Society for Photographic Education for over ten years. Having held many responsibilities within SPE, including onsite conference coordinator at SPE’s national conferences and membership registrar, she was recently elected to SPE's national board of directors. She has been chosen to co-chair an SPE national conference with Miriam Romais, executive director of En Foco. The conference, tentatively scheduled for 2010, will focus on diversity and multiculturalism. Hannah is a photographer and book artist, born and raised in Stuttgart, Germany. She has lived in the United States for over 19 years. Her work can be found on her website at www.hannahfrieser.com

Elvis Fuentes Curator, El Museo del Barrio Elvis joined the staff of El Museo in 2006 following the success of his exhibition Felix Gonzalez-Torres: Early Impressions presented at the Trienal Poli/Gráfica de San Juan: América Latina y el Caribe in 2004 and subsequently presented at El Museo (2006). Since joining El Museo, he has co-curated El Museo’s Bienal: The (S) Files 007. Other curatorial projects include Killing Time: An exhibition of Cuban artists from 1980s to the present (Exit Art, New York, NY, 2007), Rewind… Rewind… Three decades of video art in Puerto Rico (Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, 2005-2006) and Print as Metaphor (Grand Prix, International Biennial of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana 2005). A member of IKT, Fuentes graduated from the University of Havana (Art History, 1999), and completed studies in museums of Europe and the U.S. He also worked as Curator at the Ludwig Foundation of Cuba, Havana (1999-2002), organizing over 20 exhibitions and worshops. Elvis is interested in viewing any type of work.

Michelle Graham
Getty Images

Charles Guice
Art Dealer, Charles Guice Contemporary

Lisa Henry
Independent Curator, Writer
An independent curator and writer based in Los Angeles, Lisa is a columnist for Fotophile magazine and has written profiles on documentary and conceptual photographers such as Ingrid Pollard, Laura Aguillar, Ming Smith and Gerald Cyrus. Lisa was formally Assistant Curator for American Art at the Newark Museum, where she oversaw the rotation of prints and photographs on display in the permanent collection galleries. She also increased the museum's holdings of contemporary photographs by working closely with their collectors group, The Friends of American Art. Since 2004 she has worked as a guest curator for The Amistad Center at The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, CT. She is one of the curators of the traveling exhibition Young Americans: Photographs by Sheila Pree Bright, which premiered at The High Museum of Art this spring, and will open at The Wadsworth Atheneum in September 2008. Since relocating back to Los Angeles, she has worked as a consultant for The Japanese American National Museum, The California African American Museum and the MAK Center for Art and Architecture. Past exhibitions include Double Exposure, MoAD, San Francisco, CA, and I'm Thinking of a Place, UCLA Hammer Museum, CA. She is interested in artists who use photography as a conceptual strategy, photographers exploring landscape, land-use and architecture, collage, and extended projects that are intended to be completed as photographic books. She is not interested in nudes, fashion, advertising or commercial photography.

Stella Kramer
Photography Consultant
A Pulitzer Prize-winning Photo Editor, Stella worked at The New York Times, PEOPLE, Entertainment Weekly, Sports Illustrated, and Newsweek. She is based in New York City and works as a private consultant to photographers, helping them to strengthen their creative eye, put together the strongest portfolios and websites that reflect their work, and set a course to reach their professional goals.  She also lectures and teaches classes in and around New York.
Stella has worked on many of the major news events in recent history, serving as the photo editor for The New York Times series “Portraits of Grief” memorializing those who lost their lives in the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks. Her work as part of the that team won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service and the 2002 Infinity Award for Public Service from the International Center of Photography.  She was also part of the team at The New York Times that won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography. 
Stella is most interested in reviewing editorial, photojournalism, portrait, documentary, photo essays, food, fine art and sports imagery.  She is least interested in viewing nudes, fashion, photo-illustration, or  advertising/commercial photography.

Tim Kitchen / Jon Parker
VEER

Joanna Lehan
Associate Editor of Books, Aperture Foundation
Joanna was formally Assistant Curator at ICP, where she worked on the first and second ICP Triennials, Strangers and Ecotopia. Her writing has appeared regularly in PDN and Photograph, and she has also worked as a freelance photo editor at magazines such as Newsweek and The New Yorker. She is most interested in reviewing work developed by artists over a sustained period. She is particularly interested in work that has a story to tell, whether directly or elliptically.

Edwin Ramoran
Director of Exhibitions & Programs, Aljira, a Center for Contemporary Art
In 2007, Ramoran received the apextart Outbound Residency to Athens, Greece. Ramoran is currently working on a major group exhibition The B Sides that will focus on house music culture and contemporary art; and developing the group exhibition Me Love You Long Time on Asian and Pacific Islander sexuality and gender expression. From 2002-2007, he was director and curator for Longwood Arts Project, the contemporary art center of the Bronx Council on the Arts, where he organized the following exhibitions: Do You Think I’m Disco, Post Plátano/Ante Formalism: Abstraction in the Bronx, BX1: The First Bronx Artist Biennial, DL: The “Down Low” in Contemporary Art, and No More Drama: New Projects after Novelas. Previously, he was Assistant Curator at The Bronx Museum of the Arts (1994 to 2002). He has also been a guest curator in New York at the Museum of Chinese in the Americas, PERFROMA 05 at Artists Space, Center for Book Arts, Dieu Donné Papermill and Gallery, Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning, The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Community Center, South Asian Women's Creative Collective, and Visual AIDS. He is also former program director for Arkipelago, the New York City-based Filipino cultural organization. Ramoran received a BA in Art History with minors in Ethnic Studies and Journalism from the University of California, Riverside, and is currently an MA candidate in Art History at Hunter College.

Elizabeth Shank
Director, Silverstein Gallery
At the gallery, Shank works closely with both living photographers and photographers' estates, including Leonard Freed, Andre Kertesz, Nathan Lyons, Marvin Newman, Rosalind Solomon, Zoe Strauss, and Joel-Peter Witkin on developing exhibitions, creating book projects, and managing archives. She also works with young photographers at the gallery's new 20th Street location, which showcases emerging artists, as well as during the Silverstein Photography Annual exhibition. Ms. Shank began her career at Magnum Photos in New York promoting its comprehensive archive. At Magnum, she worked with such luminary photographers as Henri Cartier-Bresson, Bruce Davidson, and Elliot Erwitt. Ms. Shank is interested in reviewing fine art photography, creative photography, and conceptual photography. She can offer portfolio critique, advice on how to approach fine art galleries, and provide potential contacts at other galleries.

Deborah Willis, Ph.D
Curator, Writer, Professor & Chair of the Dept of Photography & Imaging at NYU/Tisch School of the Arts
Willis is a recipient of the MacArthur Fellow (2000), Guggenheim and Fletcher awards (2005), and the 1996 recipient of the Anonymous Was a Woman Foundation award. She has pursued a dual professional career as an art photographer and as one of the nation's leading historians of African American photography and curator of African American culture. Willis is an exhibiting photographer and has curated numerous exhibitions and is the author of Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers - 1840 to the Present (New York: W.W. Norton). She is working on a new book entitled Posing Beauty. She is most interested in reviewing narrative photographs.

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