Current Exhibit Jurors
Exhibit Jurors for Spring 2022
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Irmina Walczak
Irmina Walczak is a photographer, anthropologist, and educator. She’s a mother of three world schoolers and a digital nomad; co-founder and editor-in-chief of Clan Magazine.
Graduated in Latin America Cultural Studies from Warsaw University, Poland, and Ph.D. in Social Sciences from the University of Brasilia, Brazil. Most of her work is biographical. She explores family relationships, intimacy, and daily life aspects. She creates representations of herself as a mother and reflects about how motherhood is inscribed in the female body and how it shapes mother’s identity. She frequently works with her life partner Sávio Freire. They study and successively deepen the condition of the child in contemporary society and its corporeality. In 2016 they published their first book – “Retratos pra Yayá”/ Portraits to Yayá which was presented to the European audience on the Paris Photo in 2017.
Irmina is a winner of the FotoFestiwal 2021, Revela’t Festival 2021, the HeadOn Portrait Prize 2017.
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Julia Chang-Lomonico
Julia Chang-Lomonico is a New Jersey-based photographer and home educator. Her work primarily focuses on the human condition and its effect on the environment and interpersonal relationships within the family unit. For the past 10 years, she has photographed over 100 families, with her own family playing a central role in her work.
Julia graduated from Syracuse University in 2004 with a BFA in interior design, and a minor in art history. Her early career as an interior designer allowed her to study and observe the spaces people inhabit, which later influenced her photography sparking her interest in documenting human relationships and interactions in different environments.
She has won awards in the Documentary Family Awards and as a finalist in LensCulture Home ’21. Her work has been published in The Washington Post’s InSight and The New Jersey Star-Ledger. Julia lives in Bergen County, NJ with her husband, Keith, and their two daughters.
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Julia Rose Greim
Julia Rose-Greim is a photographer and lives with her husband and three sons in Halle/Germany. She holds a Master's degree in Media and Communication Studies and Art History from Martin Luther University Halle. With her work, she wants to strengthen the humorous view of parenthood and also pays special attention to the individual personalities of children and the fact that they discover the world with an open mind and find creative solutions.
Julia's work has received several international awards, including at the DFA. She is also a co-founder of the German Community for Documentary Family Photography - DFF and has been working as a mentor and educator in this field for several years.
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