Group Portfolio Review Session seeks to build community, offer guidance, and provide a safe space for artists to present their work. This session facilitates critical feedback on creative practices, knowledge exchange, and exploration of professional opportunities. The program brings together leading photography experts from South Florida and beyond, including photo editors, curators, and artists. These experts will ask questions and provide comments on participants’ work in front of an audience. Participants should also anticipate questions from the audience.

Reviewers

• Juliana Forero. Director and Curator Coral Springs Museum of Art
• Dina Mitrani. Director Dina Mitrani Gallery
• Noelle Flores Théard. Senior Digital Photo Editor The New Yorker
• Verónica Sanchis Bencomo. Founder and Curator of Foto Féminas / Photo Editor at The New York Times
• Éline Gourgues. Co-director and Curator La Station Culturelle, Fort de France, Martinique
  

Note: Constructive criticism, honesty, and fairness are essential for a successful group portfolio review session. Five photographers will showcase their projects and will receive questions and feedback from reviewers and the audience.

This event is part of the 2024 WOPHA Congress “How Photography Teaches Us to Live Now.” This four-day creative convening is co-presented by Women Photographers International Archive (WOPHA) and Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM). The Congress will take place at PAMM and various other locations across South Florida from October 23-26, 2024.

About the Reviewers

Juliana Forero is the Director of the Coral Springs Museum of the Arts and previously served as Chief Curator for the City of Pembroke Pines (The Frank Art Gallery and Studio 18 Art Complex). She is also the founder of Nomad Art Projects. Juliana has curated exhibitions for various South Florida cultural centers and previously served as Director of Education at Houston Center for Photography. A native of Colombia, she holds a Ph.D. in Arts Education, an MA in Arts Administration, a Museum Studies Certificate from Florida State University, and a BFA in Visual Arts from Universidad de los Andes in Colombia. Her research explored the role of artistic communities in revitalizing the South Bronx.

Dina Mitrani opened her gallery in Wynwood in 2008, specializing in fine art photography and photo-based art. With a Bachelor’s in Art History from the University of Michigan and a Master’s from Hunter College, she honed her skills at Christie’s and two galleries in New York before returning to Miami. She and her sister Rhonda, a filmmaker, were pioneers in transforming Wynwood into a thriving art district. Dina’s gallery showcases emerging and mid-career artists, promoting narrative and conceptual photography through exhibitions, education, and community outreach. She is now working on opening a new Center for Photography, Film, and Video in Miami’s Little River neighborhood.

Noelle Flores Théard is a senior digital photo editor at The New Yorker and part-time faculty in the BFA photography program at Parsons School of Design. She has taught courses on photography, social justice, race, and representation, as well as African Art and Global Hip-Hop Cultures. She is co-founder and board chair of FotoKonbit, a non-profit organization created in 2010 to engage, educate, and support Haitians in the telling of their own stories through photography. Noelle holds a BA in Journalism from the University of Texas at Austin, an MA in African Diaspora Studies from FIU, and an MFA in Photography from Parsons. She was a photojournalist for the Miami Herald and a program officer at Magnum Foundation.

Verónica Sanchis Bencomo is a Spanish-Venezuelan photographer and photo editor. She lived in the U.K. for nearly a decade, where she obtained her BA in Photojournalism in 2010. In 2015, Verónica founded Foto Féminas – an online platform to promote the works of Latin American and Caribbean women and non-binary photographers. She has organized exhibitions in Argentina, China, Guatemala, Peru, Chile, and Mexico. In 2016, she launched Foto Féminas’ mobile library, showcasing photobooks at art institutions and festivals in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, and New York. After nearly six years in Hong Kong, Verónica is now based in New York City.

About the WOPHA Congress

The WOPHA Congress is a creative convening and exhibition series held at the Pérez Art Museum Miami and virtually, with parallel activations taking place across South Florida. It aims to establish a critical space for photography by bringing together worldwide organizations of women photographers, art historians, theorists, and curators with a goal to enrich and more accurately represent the dynamic history of women photographers from the nineteenth century to the present day. This event showcases both seminal and emerging research and discourse in the field, encompassing national and international discussions on women and feminisms in the history of photography. Additionally, it serves as a platform to celebrate women and foster an unparalleled network for the international community of women in the photographic arts.

About WOPHA

Women Photographers International Archive (WOPHA) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded to research, promote, support, and educate on the contributions of women and non-binary photographers to modern and contemporary art in order to rewrite the artistic canon and provoke social change. WOPHA fosters a more diverse and equitable world by providing a permanent archive for future generations that preserves, documents, and promotes women photographers’ work while being a driving force for innovative thinking and discussion about the role of women in photographic arts.

About Pérez Art Museum Miami

Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), led by Director Franklin Sirmans, promotes artistic expression and the exchange of ideas, advancing public knowledge and appreciation of art, architecture, and design, and reflecting the diverse community of its pivotal geographic location at the crossroads of the Americas. The 40-year-old South Florida institution, formerly known as Miami Art Museum (MAM), opened a new building, designed by world-renowned architects Herzog & de Meuron, on December 4, 2013, in Downtown Miami’s Maurice A. Ferré Park. The facility is a state-of-the-art model for sustainable museum design and progressive programming and features 200,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor program space with flexible galleries; shaded outdoor verandas; a waterfront restaurant and bar; a museum shop; and an education center with a library, media lab, and classroom spaces.

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