Alex Ng
PUBLISHER / PHOTONEWS.HK
Jury
Eleni Mouzakiti
IPA 2025 GUEST CURATOR
CURATOR HOUSE OF LUCIE ATHENS, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR PHOTOPOLIS FESTIVAL / GREECE, CO-FOUNDER WOMENS PHOTOFESTIVAL
Eleni Mouzakiti (PhD) is an Athens based photographer, educator, researcher and curator of photographic exhibitions and publications. Eleni is co-founder of the WomensPhotoFestival and of The Provinces, a platform that collects and promotes photographic projects that deal with the Greek periphery. www.the-provinces.com
Her photographic work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions internationally. Her works belong to the collection of the Portland Museum of Art, Oregon, USA, the Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, the State Museum of Contemporary Art in Greece, the ACG Art Collection and other private collections including the Zeppos & Yannopoulos collection.
As a curator she coordinated the production and curated numerous solo and group photography exhibitions.
Committed to long term projects, in her work she focuses on human ecology issues, behaviour in the public realm and leisure time geography.
Website: www.elenimouzakiti.com
Susan Baraz
IPA HEAD OF JURY
Susan Baraz helped found and is Co-Chair of the prestigious Lucie Awards. She gave the awards the name, “Lucie”, as it’s a derivation of Lux, meaning Light, which is what all photography is based on. She is the Head of Judging for the renowned photo competition, “The International Photo Awards” (IPA) and oversees it’s 80 exceptional jurors from around the world.
Susan, along with Hossein Farmani, curated the Climate Change Accord Exhibition for the U.N with 250 images from top photographer’s donating their compelling work. This show has traveled around the globe. Susan is the only American to be invited to curate HIPA, the Prince of Dubai’s photo competition. For 20 years, Susan was the Director of Photography for AtEdge, a high end, invitation only, commercial publication and marketing program.
In 1987 she helped establish and was Chair of “Focus on AIDS”, which became the largest fine art photography auction/benefit in the United States. It raised and gave away millions to AIDS organizations and built the only stand alone, Children’’s AIDS hospital, in world, “Asha Kirana”, located in Mysore India, also a safe house for AIDS street orphans in Tanzania. .
Susan is a photography curator and consultant in both commercial and fine art photography and enjoys helping to present photographers best images to get assignment work, as well as helping outstanding work get seen by gallery owners. She is also an avid collector. Susan has edited fine art photo books, curated exhibitions at the Museum of Tolerance, Holocaust Museum in Wash. DC, “Water” exhibition for PX3, Dupon Gallery, Paris, IPA, 20th Anniversary “Best of Show”, 10th Anniversary “Best of Show”, Robert Berman Gallery, House of Lucie, Thailand, Ukraine at War, Budapest gallery, and galleries world wide.
CURRENT JURY
MEET THE GALLERISTS, PHOTO EDITORS AND DIRECTORS, ART COLLECTORS, AND OTHER PHOTOGRAPHY LUMINARIES THAT COMPRISE OUR JURY PANEL.
