Availability | Friday + Saturday

William Boling is an artist, photographer, writer, lawyer, and the founder/publisher of Fall Line Press. In 2009, Boling expanded his art practice to include publishing art and photobooks under the aegis of Fall Line. Since its inception, Fall Line Press has published, in one form or another, the work of over 100 photographers and artists. Boling is a frequent lecturer on photography and publishing, having given talks at numerous institutions in the US and abroad. He has reviewed portfolios formally in various settings including Rencontres Arles, NY Times, PhotoLucida, PhotoNOLA, Atlanta, and others. Boling’s personal work is in many private and public collections. He is open to seeing all manner of lens-based work, especially work that is breaking new ground, moving the photography and art conversation forward.

Availability | Friday + Saturday

Darren Ching is the Co-Owner of Klompching Gallery, private art dealers based in NYC. Klompching Gallery specializes in the selling of contemporary fine art photography, placing artworks into numerous private, corporate and public collections. Ching’s involvement in photography spans over 20 years including jurying photo competitions, curating exhibits, and contributing to publications and panel discussions. Ching has been an Adjunct Faculty member at SVA, an External Examiner for MICA’s BFA Photography program, and Guest Critic at RISD and Parsons School of Design. Formerly, Ching was the Creative Director of Photo District News and a perennial judge for its annual 30 Emerging Photographers issue. He was also Co-Founder of the Fresh Annual Photography Exhibition and the Rhonda Wilson Award. In addition to dealing artworks Ching is a freelance designer, working on photography-based projects and as a consultant to photographers and art collectors. Ching is interested in seeing exceptional bodies of work, especially those suitable for sale within the fine art photography market—open to a wide range of subject matter and conceptual approaches. He can also give critique and advice on works-in-progress.

Availability | Friday + Saturday

Whitney Cole is a Gallery Director at Candela Books + Gallery, a commercial fine art photography gallery and publisher in Richmond, Virginia. She has a BFA in Photography and over ten years of professional photography experience. Candela seeks to elevate the discourse around contemporary photography with an emphasis on science, politics, and experimental applications of the photographic medium (alternative processes, cameraless photography, mixed media works). The gallery holds 6-10 exhibitions a year for regional, national, and international artists. Notably, the gallery hosts UnBound! – an annual (free) open call which serves as a survey of the medium and offers an additional collection opportunity to accepted artists. Cole is interested in bodies of work featuring unique photographic objects, experimental processes, and strong conceptual threads, and is happy to give guidance about layout for artists working on book projects. She does not care for potentially exploitative imagery, conceptually weak nudes or travel portraits.

Availability | Friday

Cecily Cullen is the Director and Curator at MSU Denver’s Center for Visual Art where she develops progressive, contemporary exhibitions and programs to engage the public in examination of global issues. She has curated or organized over 110 exhibitions that give voice to challenges we face in our day. Recent curatorial projects in lens-based media have included artists Sarah Sense, Marcella Kwe, Xaveria Simmons, Nicholas Galanin, Isabelle Hayuer, Shadi Ghadirian, Wangechi Mutu, and Dineo Seshee Bopape. Cullen has been a guest juror for numerous exhibitions and public art projects, is a member of the Colorado Attorneys for the Arts advisory board and chair of the Colorado Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts.

Availability | Friday + Saturday

Hernease Davis is an artist, educator and an Assistant Curator at the Visual Studies Workshop (VSW). She is a curator of exhibitions and public programs that focus on contemporary photographic conversations. Davis manages VSW’s long-running artist residency and produces the Project Space Podcast, which features past participating artists-in-residence. Davis holds an MFA in Advanced Photographic Studies from ICP-Bard College.

Availability | Friday + Saturday

With over 25 years of creative and cultural production experience, Dowell has worked as a museum director, curator, public art advisor, and large-scale cultural events producer. Since 2013, she has directed curatorial affairs for M-AAA, which includes oversight of its national touring exhibition program, ExhibitsUSA (EUSA). These exhibitions tour throughout the United States and are primarily produced to accommodate and support the work of small and mid-sized not-for-profit venues. As such, Dowell is most interested in reviewing fully developed bodies of work suitable for thematically driven exhibitions that offer numerous opportunities for community engagement and dialogue. She is not interested in projects that are deeply coded and/or abstract.

Availability | Friday

Lisa Eldred has worked in the arts and museum field for 30 years and holds a BA in Arts Administration and an MA in Art History. For the last 18 years, Eldred has worked at the Denver Botanic Gardens as Director of Exhibitions and Learning Engagement and as Head Curator of Art. In addition to work that reflects humanity’s connection and response to the natural world, Eldred is drawn to observations of daily life. Passionate about how museums function and serve community, she also has experience working in development, membership, education, outreach, and collections. Eldred is active in the American Alliance of Museums as a peer reviewer and served on the leadership team for the Curators Committee (CurCom). She is a board member of the Mountain Plains Museum Association and serves within the American Public Gardens Association, IMLS, and more.

Availability | Saturday

Libby Garon has worked as Gallery Director at Walker Fine Art for the past 7 years, building strong and trusting relationships with collectors and artists. Walker Fine Art focuses on the healing power of art, intending to provide a meaningful experience by engaging visitors with evocative and uplifting multi-media artwork. Through art advisory, consulting, and curation of countless private and public collections, Garon believes that strong artwork and a diverse collection has the power to transform our day to day lives. As an art lover, she has been fortunate to have the arts as a constant in her life, beginning her art career studying studio art and art history at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts. Now, Garon is an active arts advocate in the Denver community, working and serving as an ambassador, and committee member for non-profit organizations, including the private and public sector.

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Mary Goodwin is the Founding Director at Aurora PhotoCenter, an Indianapolis nonprofit that supports visual artists working in photography through exhibitions, residencies, workshops, artist talks, and access to creative tools. Goodwin is also the publisher at Waltz Books, a photobook publishing company with a focus on the relationship between the photographic image and the book format. Goodwin holds an MFA in Photography from the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, where she also acquired a love of chilis, both red and green. She was the Associate Director at Light Work from 2003-2007, and her writing about photography has appeared in publications including the photoeye booklist, f-stop magazine, and the Contact Sheet Annual. Goodwin’s photographic practice depicts the land as a site of memory, culture, and politics. She is interested in reviewing fine art photography with a strong conceptual basis and cohesive style to realize collaboratively as an exhibition or book.

Availability | Friday + Saturday

KGP MONOLITH collaborates with artists to create limited edition publications and archival prints, focusing on contemporary photography and works on paper that address issues of race, identity, equity, gender, sexuality, and class.

Availability | Friday + Saturday

Jehan Jillani is the Visuals Director at The Atlantic, where she leads the photography and illustration efforts for the publication’s daily stories and digital features. Jillani began her career as a digital photo editor at The New Yorker. She was the Picture and Visuals Editor at The Guardian US and served as a photo editor at National Geographic before joining The Atlantic. Jillani’s work has been recognized by the Society of Publication Designers, the American Society of Magazine Editors, and American Photography. She has also been a guest critic and speaker at various educational institutions. Jillani is a graduate of Smith College and is based in Brooklyn.

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Maria L. Kelly is the Assistant Curator of Photography at the High Museum of Art. She served as the curatorial assistant in the photography department from 2011 to 2016 and returned to the Museum in 2019. During her time at the High, Kelly has helped organize more than twenty-five photography installations. Her exhibitions include Tyler Mitchell: Idyllic Space (2024), Underexposed: Women Photographers from the Collection (2021), What Is Near: Reflections on Home (2016), and Helen Levitt: In the Street (2015). Kelly was the venue curator for the traveling exhibitions Deana Lawson (2022) and André Kertész: Postcards from Paris (2022). She has also independently curated exhibitions at the Swan Coach House Gallery and Columbus State University. Kelly earned an MA from Columbia University and a BA from the University of Georgia, both in art history. She has held positions at The Sir Elton John Photography Collection and the Brooklyn Museum and internships at The Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum, and the Georgia Museum of Art. Kelly is most interested in reviewing work by artists looking for a dialogue on in-progress or recently completed bodies of work with a strong conceptual element. She has particular interest in work employing alternative processes, considering identity, concerning the environment or engaging with archives. Kelly is not interested in AI photography nor reviewing studio portraiture or traditional nudes without a thesis behind it.

Availability | Friday + Saturday

Michael Kirchoff is a photographic artist, Editor-in-Chief at Analog Forever Magazine, Founding Editor at Catalyst: Interviews, and Co-Host on The Diffusion Tapes podcast. Based in Los Angeles, he conducts artist interviews, presents features, and curates fine-art photographic work from emerging and mid-career artists worldwide. Kirchoff is also an independent curator and juror for several organizations and frequently reviews photographic portfolios. His consulting, training and overall support of fellow photographic artists continues with assistance in constructing one’s vision to finding exhibition and publishing opportunities. Kirchoff seeks portfolios that demonstrate a cohesive and thoughtfully edited body of work with an emphasis on the creative, either stylistically or thematically. Film-based and analog process work is of particular interest for fine art and documentary photography.

Availability | Friday + Saturday

Emilia Mickevicius is the Norton Family Assistant Curator of Photography, a position shared between the Center for Creative Photography and Phoenix Art Museum. In her role, Mickevicius primarily draws from the CCP’s permanent collection of over 120,000 fine prints and nearly 300 photographers’ archives to craft both monographic and thematic exhibitions for PhxArt. Her recent and current projects in Arizona have focused on photographers Laura Aguilar and Richard Avedon, contemporary landscape photography, and photographic humor, among other topics. From 2019 to 2023, Mickevicius worked in the photography department at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), where she contributed to numerous exhibitions of work by historical and living artists. She enjoys responding to work in progress and is particularly interested in seeing work with a conceptual and/or personal orientation. Previously, Mickevicius has served as a portfolio reviewer for FotoFest in Houston, Palm Springs Photo Festival, and PhotoAlliance in San Francisco.

Availability | Saturday

Eric Nord has served as the Executive Director of Leon Nonprofit Arts Organization for over a decade. For 13 years, Leon has been a vibrant and leading force within the Denver arts community, providing a platform for emerging and underrepresented artists. The organization has assisted them in gaining recognition and an audience for their work. Before moving to Colorado in 2002, Nord lived in New York City and served as Executive Director for the E. E. Cummings Centennial Celebration. Nord held positions at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, The New York Shakespeare Festival Public Theater, and Sperone Westwater Gallery.

Availability | Saturday

Alyssa Ortega Coppelman is a photo editor, picture researcher, and photobook consultant based in Austin, Texas. She works with photographers to craft powerful edits of documentary, reportage, and fine art work for exhibition and publication. Currently, she is Art Editor at Oxford American magazine and a senior photo editor contractor at National Geographic. Previously, she was Deputy Art Director at Harper’s Magazine; and Archival Producer on the Emmy-nominated PBS NewsHour series Brief But Spectacular, sourcing visual accompaniment for interview segments featuring a wide variety of guests. Several artists she pitched to be guests on the series were featured in episodes. Alyssa is most interested in seeing in-progress documentary, conceptual, and fine art projects, especially those that challenge traditional representation. She doesn’t have a client base interested in traditional nudes or landscapes, or commercial work.

Availability | Friday + Saturday

Eric Paddock is the founding curator in the Denver Art Museum’s Photography Department. Since it was established in 2008, the department has presented 25 photography exhibitions and has carefully added to the museum’s permanent collection. Paddock is interested in reviewing landscape and socially/culturally alert photographs. He graduated with a BA in Studio Art and Art History from Colorado College. After graduating, Paddock assisted photographer Frank Gohlke for three years, and later received his MFA in Photography from the Yale School of Art. Before he joined DAM, he was Curator of Photography at the Colorado Historical Society (now History Colorado).

Availability | Saturday

Kimberly Roberts is Curatorial Associate in the Photography Department at the Denver Art Museum where she organizes a photography lecture series and has worked on several exhibitions including New Territory: Landscape Photography Today, Curious Visions: Toward Abstract Photography, Other People’s Pictures: Gifts from the Robert and Kerstin Adams Collection, Personal Geographies: Trent Davis Bailey ǀ Brian Adams, among others. Prior to joining the DAM in 2017, Roberts was a Research Fellow at the Clyfford Still Museum where she researched the photographs in the museum archives. She has also been an affiliate art history faculty member at Metropolitan State University since 2013, teaching courses in the history of photography and 20th/21st century European and American Art. Roberts is interested in viewing all types of portfolios, but can only provide limited feedback on commercial, fashion, and travel photography.

Availability | Friday + Saturday

Rotem Rozental, PhD, is the Executive Director and Chief Curator of the Los Angeles Center of Photography. Between 2016-2022, she served as Chief Curator at American Jewish University, where she was also Assistant Dean of the Whizin Center for Continuing Education and Senior Director of Arts and Creative Programming. Recent curatorial projects include the group exhibitions If Memory Serves: Photography, Recollections and Vision (Brand Library and Art Center, 2023-2024), Expand and Contract: Photography and Mixed Media (LACP, 2024) and Anything Can Happen at Any Second: Images, Imaginations and the American West (Laemmle Royal, 2024-2025). Rotem edited and contributed to Shay Zilberman’s artist book Itinerarium (The Green Box, 2023). Her monograph, Pre-State Photographic Archives and the Zionist Movement (Routledge, 2023), received the Jordan Schnitzer First Book Award by the Association for Jewish Studies. Her writings about art and image-based media were published in Artforum, Photographies, Jewish Currents, Tablet, Artillery and Forward, among other outlets.

Availability | Saturday

Hope Saska currently serves as Chief Curator and Director of Academic Engagement at the CU Art Museum at University of Colorado Boulder. A specialist in prints, drawings and photographs, Saska joined CUAM in 2015, where she has curated several exhibitions featuring works on paper. Saksa is particularly interested in historical photographic technologies and learning more about the photo processes that share tools and techniques with printmaking.

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Roula Seikaly is a curator and writer based in Oakland, California, and co-founder of Print Study for All. Seikaly’s curatorial projects have been hosted at venues nationwide, including Berkeley Art Center, Colorado Photographic Arts Center, and SF Camerawork. Her writing has been published through KQED Arts, Hyperallergic and Photograph. Seikaly is interested in seeing exemplary work in all photographic genres for possible inclusion in PSFA traveling print portfolios.

Availability | Saturday

Mark Sink is a curator, photographer, and founder of the Month of Photography Denver (MOP) biennial festival. He is founder and director of the international street art exchange program The Big Picture Colorado, and The Denver Collage Club. Sink co-founded and was a curator at MCA Denver and RedLine Contemporary Art Center. He is also co-founder of the Festival of Light, an international photography festival consortium. Sink is always looking for new ideas in work that has craft, completed thought, in series and ready for presentation in a professional gallery or museum setting.

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Helen Trompeteler is Deputy Director and Director of Programs at Silver Eye Center for Photography. She brings two decades of curatorial expertise following roles at the Royal Collection Trust (UK) and National Portrait Gallery (UK), alongside extensive experience as an independent curator. Trompeteler has written extensively on photography for publications worldwide. Trompeteler is especially interested in seeing work that seeks to expand the possibilities of contemporary photography while speaking to subjective experience and contemporary social concerns. Of special interest is also work that critically questions the history of photography. Due to Silver Eye’s collaborative curatorial process, Trompeteler is interested in seeing work that is open to further development, as Silver Eye does not exhibit ready-to show proposals.

Availability | Friday + Saturday

Asha Iman Veal is Associate Curator of the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago. Her large-scale exhibitions include LOVE: Still Not the Lesser, Beautiful Diaspora/You Are Not the Lesser Part, Shore/Lines by Regina Agu, and RAISIN (vol. 1). Throughout her tenure at MoCP, Veal has introduced an array of new acquisitions into the museum’s permanent collection, including works by Xyza Cruz Bacani, Jorian Charlton, Jessica Chou, Jess T. Dugan, Işıl Eğrikavuk, Citlali Fabian, Sunil Gupta, Martine Gutierrez, Hassan Hajjaj, Mari Katayama, Kierah KIKI King, Mous Lamrabat, Farah Salem, Ngadi Smart, Yuge Zhou, and more. Veal has served as a jury reviewer for the Terra Foundation / American Academy in Rome, Visual Studies Workshop NY, University of Chicago Arts + Public Life, and East African Photography Awards. She frequently engages as a guest lecturer and panelist for several international cultural institutions, including GRAIN Projects (UK), Pakhuis de Zwijger (Amsterdam), Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Chicago, and Humanity in Action (Netherlands). Veal is a board member of Filter Photo and was a recent board member of Experimental Sound Studio and Audible Gallery, both located in Chicago. She received her B.A. from NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study, an M.F.A. from The New School, and an M.A. from SAIC.