Curator Biographies
MaryAnn Camilleri
Founder, The Magenta Foundation
Director, Flash Forward Festival
After a ten-year experience at Magnum, NYC, MaryAnn Camilleri returned to Toronto in 2004 to establish The Magenta Foundation, Canada’s pioneering arts publishing house. With a mandate to promote Canada’s artists in the context of their international peers, The Magenta Foundation has released two volumes in its Carte Blanche series of books, Vol. 1: Photography and Vol. 2: Painting, as well as internationally reviewed, high quality publications for artists Greg Girard, Robert Bourdeau, and Jack Burman. Future multi-media projects include One Shot, focusing on the career of celebrity documentary photographer George Pimentel.
MaryAnn may be best known for championing emerging photographers through the popular Flash Forward annual competition and the recently launched festival component, Flash Forward Festival Boston.
MaryAnn keeps The Magenta Foundation connected with its community of supporters and artists through the online arts journal, Magenta Magazine Online, the web-based YouTube channel, Magenta Television, and its blog, Imprint: Tracking Magenta’s Flash Forward Photographers.
Jon Feinstein
Jon Feinstein is a photographer, curator and the Co-Founder and Curatorial Director of Humble Arts Foundation. Jon has curated
numerous exhibitions including 31 Women in Art Photography, Group Show: Taschen at Taschen Books NYC and Women in Art Photography UK
at Taschen Books London. His curatorial and personal projects have been covered in The Village Voice, New York Press, The New York Observer,
Daily Candy and Photo District News. He has also served as a juror for the New York Photo Awards as and guest critic for numerous portfolio reviews including Powerhouse Books, International Center for Photography, PDN's PhotoPlus, ASMP and Review Santa Fe. His own photos have been exhibited throughout the US, including
Mixed Greens and Silverstein Gallery, in NYC, and Wallspace in Seattle, and at The Australian Centre for Photography, and have been featured in VICE, GOOD, and Nylon magazines.
James Hull
James Hull is an artist, gallery director, critic and an independent curator. He currently teaches in the photo department at AIB at Lesley University, the Fine Arts Department of NESAD/SU and is Gallery Director of the Suffolk University Art Gallery at NESAD. He founded the award winning artist-run, non-profit, Green Street Gallery in a subway station in Boston in 1998 after moving to Boston from Atlanta, Georgia in 1996. Hull has worked as art handler and installer at the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, The List Visual Art Center at MIT, The Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), the Peabody Essex Museum, the High Museum of Art and the Corporate Curator's Office at Fidelity Investments.
He founded and ran the Boston Drawing Project at the Bernard Toale Gallery for over two years featuring works on paper by over 200 artists, which still operates at Carrol and Sons Gallery. Hull has written critical articles and art reviews for Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Art Papers Magazine, ArtsMedia, Art New England and Big Red and Shiny. Hull has taught at Georgia State University, Boston University, The Art Institute of Boston and the Rhode Island School of Design and the New England School of Art and Design at Suffolk University. He has lectured at The Museum of Fine Arts, Cranbrook Academy, The ICA, The List Visual Art Center at MIT, The High Museum of Art, MassArt and juried many regional exhibitions.
Eunice Hurd
Boston native Eunice Hurd has been with the Robert Klein Gallery for 12 years. Gallery Director since 2002, Hurd manages the Gallery’s contemporary roster and advocates for new and established photographers. Eunice has been a regular participant at the annual portfolio reviews at the Rhode Island School of Design and the Griffin Museum of Photography at the Photographic Resource Center. She frequently provides in-home consultations to collectors, art consultants, and interior designers. Hurd studied Art at the University of Massachusetts – Boston.
Established in 1980, the Robert Klein Gallery ranks among the world’s most prestigious showrooms of fine art photography. The Gallery maintains an extensive and ever-changing inventory of 19th century, 20th century, and contemporary photographs and is a regular presence at international art fairs such as The AIPAD Photography Show - New York, The Armory Show - Modern, Art Miami, and Paris Photo.
Jason Landry
Jason Landry is the Owner/Director of Panopticon Gallery in Boston, MA. Established in 1971, Panopticon Gallery is one of the oldest fine art photography galleries in the United States specializing in contemporary, modern and vintage photography. Landry represents established and emerging photographers with a primary focus on developing and expanding their careers. The gallery regularly assists collectors in buying, selling and locating photographs and supports local educational institutions, regional art museums and estates.
Landry brings over twenty years of business management and fine art photography experience to the gallery. Prior to acquiring Panopticon Gallery in early 2010, he worked at Boston University’s Photographic Resource Center in various capacities and was a member of their Board of Directors. In keeping with the gallery’s core focus, Landry regularly attends portfolio review events and photography art fairs both nationally and internationally, has juried group exhibitions, and has lectured at regional and national art colleges and universities.
Landry received a B.F.A. in Photography from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design and an M.F.A. in Visual Arts from The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University. An avid photography collector, Landry currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Griffin Museum of Photography in Winchester, MA.
Amani Olu
Amani Olu (b. 1980) is an independent curator, writer, essayist and the co-founder and executive director of Humble Arts Foundation, a New York based 501c3 committed to supporting and promoting new art photography. He is producer, designer and co-curator of The Collector’s Guide to New Art Photography Vol. 2, published by Humble. In addition to his work as a non-profit director, he also organizes Young Curators, New Ideas exhibition. Olu recently penned the catalog essay for Rashaad Newsome's debut exhibition at Marlborough Chelsea. This spring he will curate the MFA Syracuse University thesis exhibition as well as a solo presentation by artist Ellen Jong. In the past, he has curated exhibitions at PPOW, Mixed Greens, Bose Pacia and TASCHEN, just to name a few. His projects have been reviewed and featured in prestigious publications such as The New York Times, The New Yorker, Artnews, Time Out NY, Code, and AM New York, and online at Art in America, Art Observed, Art Fag City, Blackbook, Bomblog, Cool Hunting, Daily Serving and Flavorwire. Olu is also a regular contributor to Whitewall magazine where he has interviewed William Eggleston and Gottfried Helnwein, and profiled K8 Hardy, Elad Lassry, Rashaad Newsome and David Benjamin Sherry. He lives and works in New York and is a proud member of New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA).
Aaron Schuman
Photographer, Writer, Editor and Curator
Aaron Schuman is an American photographer, editor, writer and curator based in the United Kingdom. He received a B.F.A. in Photography and History of Art from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts in 1999, and an M.A. in Humanities and Cultural Studies from the University of London’s London Consortium in 2003. He has exhibited his photographic work internationally, and has contributed photography, articles, essays and interviews to publications such as Aperture, Foam, Photoworks, ArtReview, Modern Painters, HotShoe International, The British Journal of Photography, Creative Review, The Guardian, The Observer, The Telegraph and The Sunday Times. Schuman was the curator of Whatever Was Splendid: New American Photographs, one of the principal exhibitions at the 2010 FotoFest Biennial. He is a Senior Lecturer in Photography at the University of Brighton and the Arts University College at Bournemouth, and is the founder, director and editor of the online photography journal SeeSaw Magazine. For more information, please visit: www.aaronschuman.com.
Julien Beaupré Ste-Marie
Julien Beaupré Ste-Marie is the Photo Editor at enRoute magazine. Commissioning emerging and established photographers both locally and internationally, the magazine has won several awards during his tenure – Applied Arts, Communication Arts and National Magazine Awards, to name a few. With a background in Art History and Communications, his interests lie in fashion photography and magazine media.