Susan Bright - Writer and Curator
Susan Bright is a curator and writer.She has taught extensively and convened major conferences and seminars on many aspects of art and photography. Previously she was Assistant Curator of Photographs at the National Portrait Gallery, Curator at the Association of Photographers and Acting Director for the MA Photography (Historic and Contemporary) at Sotheby’s Institute, London. She is an interviewer for the Oral History of British Photography project at the National Sound Archive and part of the AHRC research team investigating ‘New British Photography’ at the University of the Arts, London.

She has curated a wide variety of photography exhibitions and writes for a number of journals and magazines. She is a regular contributor to Source, Tema Celeste and Contemporary. She has written texts on Guy Bourdin and Rineke Dijkstra for 100 Greatest Photographs (Folio, 2006) and entries for photographers for The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004)

Art Photography Now (2005) was published by Thames and Hudson and she is currently working on another on photographic self portraiture also for Thames and Hudson (2009).

Recent curatorial projects include: 1+1=3 Collaboration in Recent British Portraiture for Fremantle Arts Centre (2006) in Western Australia and the Australian Centre of Photography, Sydney (2007); Face of Fashion for the National Portrait Gallery, London (2007); How We Are: Photographing Britain for Tate Britain (co-curated with Val Williams, 2007); and Something out of Nothing for Fotogalleriet, Oslo, Norway (2007).

Paul Herrmann - Director, Redeye
Redeye, the Photography Network, was formed in 1998. It aims to support photographers and photography, by providing information, opportunities, events, training and professional development. Paul has extensive knowledge spanning both the professional and arts photography sectors and can advise on issues ranging from copyright to ethics to portfolio and career development. As a practitioner he apprenticed in the 1980s with former Picture Post photographer Humphrey Spender. Paul’s work has appeared in newspapers, magazines and exhibitions nationally and internationally. www.redeye.org.uk

Ed Horwich - Shot Up North
A founder member of Shot Up North (SUN) Awards an independent not-for-profit event highlighting the best images and best practice achieved by professional photographers based in the northern regions of the British Isles, working within the areas of Advertising, Design, Editorial and Fashion www.shotupnorth.co.uk Set up Prodig in 1998 as the email forum for professionals to discuss issues about the digital image. It’s still going strong after nearly 10 years and has over 1,700 subscribers around the world. www.prodig.org
Ed`s photographic training was at Derby in 1979/82.  A member of the Association of Photographers since 1988, elected to the Board as a director since 2004 he is currently board member with responsibility for the Regions. www.edphoto.com

Brian Griffin - Photographer
Brian has worked as a freelance photographer since 1972 during which time he has worked for magazine and advertising clients to numerous to mention. At the end of the 80’s was cited “Photographer of the decade” by the Guardian newspaper. Has self published six books on his photography with his book Work being awarded the “Best photographic book in the world” at the Primavera Fotografica, Barcelona 1990. Having exhibited extensively worldwide, his photographs can be found in the collections of The Arts Council Great Britain, V & A, and National Portrait Gallery. Continues to work in both photography and film and has recently completed a commission to photograph the people who helped to build the Channel Tunnel Rail Link into St Pancras. This has resulted in what he believes could be the most substantial corporate book of photographs since the Great Exhibition of 1851, featuring approximately 165 subjects over 208 pages. This accompanying exhibition is currently at the German Gymnasium on St. Pancras Road in London.
http://briangriffin.co.uk/

Gwen Thomas, Executive Director, Business & Legal Affairs at The Association
of Photographers

Gwen has worked for the AOP for 20 years campaigning for photographer¹s
rights in the UK and EU and advising members on copyright, contract and
ethical problems. She is co-editor and contributing author of Beyond the
Lens, the AOP¹s definitive guide to rights, ethics and business practice
in professional photography; General Manager of Pyramide Europe Ltd. a
European Economic Interest Group lobbying and advising the Commission in
Brussels; and is a director of DACS (Design and Artists Copyright Society),
the Collecting Society for the Visual Arts.