VERONIKA EPPLE
Veronika Epple is a junior curator at C/O Berlin. She is responsible for the C/O Berlin Talent Award, which supports emerging artists and theorists exploring new strategies in documentary photography. Prior to that she was a freelance Research Associate at the Evelyn Richter and Ursula Archiv of the Ostdeutsche Sparkassenstiftung at Museum of Fine Arts, Leipzig.
ANNE MURAYAMA
Anne Murayama is a curator, publisher, and director of Ephemere, a Tokyo-based independent press. Her work, which began as a personal way to cope with grief, fuels her mission to champion the tangible power of photography. She has produced over 30 photobooks and zines and directs the annual Ephemere Photo Fest and the Ephemere Photo Journal. Murayama advocates for works that explore the dualities of memory and continuity.
CHRIS NEOPHYTOU
Chris Neophytou is a photographer, educator and publisher based in Birmingham UK. His practice explores identity, memory and the visual language of diaspora, connecting personal histories with collective narratives.His publishing project, Out of Place Books, specialises in making photobooks about place and he is the creative director of Central Photobook Festival.
YOUVALLE LEVY
Youvalle Levy is a photographic artist and publisher based in Berlin. She is a co-founder of Replika Publishing, an independent publishing house which explores unconventional exhibition methods through printed matter and book arts. She is an integral part of Bildband Berlin, where she shares her expertise on independent publishing, bookmaking, and design and leads the Bildband Zine Making Workshop, as well as working as a picture editor at Berliner Zeitung.