The Portfolio Reviews 2019 List:
It’s here: the 2019 Update of our all-time classic List of PF Reviews. We have compiled this list for all of you who might interested in showing your work to qualified professionals around the world!
Entries are shorted by date and simplified for a practical use. For more info, go to their respective websites.
If you know of any other ones we should add, let us know 🙂
EXPOSURE Portfolio Review (July, USA)
DUESSELDORF Photo Weekend (March, Germany)
ASMPNY FINE ART Portfolio Review (March, USA)
PHOTO ALLIANCE Portfolio Review (March, USA)
FORMAT Portfolio Review (March, UK)
DENVER MONTH OF PHOTOGRAPHY Portfolio Review (April, USA)
FOTOGRAFIA EUROPEA REGGIO EMILIA Portfolio Review (April, Italy)
ART PHOTO BARCELONA Portfolio Review (May, Spain)
PALM SPRINGS Portfolio Review (April, USA)
CONTACT Portfolio Review (April, Canada)
PHOTOIRELAND’s Critical Practice Reviews (March, Ireland)
DESCUBRIMIENTOS PHOTO ESPAÑA Portfolio Review (May, Spain)
OFFSPRING PHOTO MEET Portfolio Review (May, UK)
GRAND PRIX FOTOFESTIWAL (June, Poland)
THE ATHENS PHOTO FESTIVAL Portfolio Reviews (June, Athens)
VOIES OFF PORTFOLIOS REVIEWS (July, France)
PHOTO FOLIO REVIEW Arles Portfolio Review (July, France)
OBSCURA FESTIVAL Portfolio Review (August, Malaysia)
LANDSKRONA PHOTO FESTIVAL Portfolio Review (September, Sweden)
FILTER FESTIVAL Portfolio Review (September, USA)
ENCONTROS DA IMAGEN. Portfolio Review (September, Portugal)
CENTER REVIEW SANTA FE Portfolio Review (October, Mexico)
THE EYES ON Portfolio Review (November, Slovakia)
IMAGO LISBOA Portfolio Review (October, Portugal)
MEETING PLACE Paris (November, USA)
PHOTO NOLA Portfolio Review (December, USA)
LA NOBLE Portfolio review (Online)
Name: EXPOSURE Portfolio Review
Organizer: Los Angeles Center of Photography
Date & Place: February 10, 1-5 pm, 2019. Gallery Hall Taylor Familiy Library, University of Calgary.
Application Deadline: Not published yet.
Profiles of Reviewers: publishers, exhibition curators, museum directors, agency chiefs, gallerists, collectors, critics, press art directors and others
Registration Fee: 60$
Number of reviews: 4.
Price / Review Ratio: Not published.
Email:exposurefotofest@gmail.com
Presentation Text: Exposure’s Portfolio Review offers participating photographers the opportunity to present their work to influential members of the photographic community. Whether you are showing a completed body of photographic work or you are seeking feedback on work in progress, meetings with these photography professionals will provide you with advice, guidance, and networking opportunities. Photographers share their work with reviewers in twenty-minute one-on-one meetings. Each participating photographer will receive at least four meetings with reviewers, assigned by lottery. Reviewer preference forms will be emailed to participants when they have registered for the event. An informal reception for participants will be held at the conclusion of the reviews. The 2019 Portfolio Review is presented in partnership with The Nickel Galleries, University of Calgary.
Name: DUESSELDORF Photo Weekend
Organizer: NRW-Forum Düsseldorf
Date & Place: In March 2019. Düsseldorf, Germany
Profiles of Reviewers: Publishers, photo editors, photography agents, gallery directors, photography critics, advertising agency creatives, magazine editors and museum directors from the US.
Registration Fee: TBA
Application Deadline:
Presentation Text: The Portfolio Review aims to give the participants the opportunity to showcase their work in a format that lies between a review and an artist talk. During the event the images are screened with a projector. After the presentations the jurors engage in dialogues with the artists, and possibly initiate future collaborations. The Portfolio Review is a two day event. On the first day the public presentations and discussions take place, on the second day the artists and judges have the opportunity to continue the discussions from the day before in one-to-one reviews.
Name: ASMPNY FINE ART Portfolio Review
Organizer: American Society of Media Photographers New York (ASMPNY)
Date and place: Not published yet. Last year March. The Center, 208 W 13th Street, New York, NY.
Profiles of Reviewers: influential members of New York’s photography/arts community: gallerists, curators, collectors, publishers and dealers.
Registration Fee: Registration is required and places fill up quickly. There will be a wait list. Register .
Number of reviews: Last year 5 to 8 reviewers (10 min. each)
Price / Review Ratio: Last year Free for all members
Email: asmpny.fineart@gmail.com
Web: http://asmpny.org/
Presentation Text: Fine Art Photographers, it’s time to make the connections and get the feedback you’ve been looking for to move your career forward. Don’t miss this opportunity to get real feedback on your work from art-world professionals! Recent participating organizations have included: the International Center of Photography, Aperture, and New York Foundation for the Arts; galleries have included Flowers, Howard Greenberg, Steven Kasher, Yossi Milo, and Yancey Richardson; and individual reviewers have included Elizabeth Avedon, Julie Grahame, and Mary Virginia Swanson.
Name:PHOTO ALLIANCE Portfolio Review
Organizer: PhotoAlliance /Lens Culture
Date & Place: March 15-17, 2019. San Francisco Art Institute.
Application Begin: December, 3rd 2018. (no deadline announced, early applications are highly encouraged!)
Profiles of Reviewers: Top photography editors, publishers, curators, gallerists, and educators
Registration Fee: Review fee is $695.00 for 10 review sessions. Initial fee upon registration now via this application: $95.00. Remaining $600 will be due by February 1st 2019, details to follow.
Web: PhotoAlliance.org
Email: PHOTO@PHOTOALLIANCE.ORG or call: 415.425.5608
Presentation Text: This event brings together top photography editors, publishers, curators, gallerists, and educators representing small, mid-sized, and major venues from around the U.S. and abroad to meet with engaged photographers, review their portfolios, encourage their careers and exchange opportunities.
Organizer: Format International Photography Festival
Date & Place: Saturday 16th March, 2019. Derby College in Derby, UK.
Application Deadline:
Profiles of Reviewers: Curators and directors, art dealers, publishers and photo editors are brought together for two days during CONTACT to review portfolios of established and emerging artists, with a focus on documentary, photojournalism or photo-based art practices.
Registration Fee: 4 reviews – £160, 6 reviews – £210, 8 reviews – £260 in 2019.
Number of reviews: You can choose from either 4, 6 or 8 reviews (there are maximum 8 reviews in one day – only select 8 in 2019.
Web: http://www.formatfestival.com/portfolio-reviews
Email: sebahc@derbyquad.co.uk
Presentation Text: Established in 2004. Today it is one of the UK’s leading international contemporary festivals of photography and related media. FORMAT organises a year round programme of international commissions, open calls, residencies, conferences and collaborations in the UK and Internationally. The 2013 festival welcomed over 100,000 visitors from all over the world.
FORMAT is focused on developing opportunities for audiences to see, debate, develop, contribute and participate in the best of what photography is and can be, with comprehensive professional practice programmes and a yearly International Photography Portfolio Review.
FORMAT is curated by Louise Clements, QUAD & FORMAT Artistic Director, and organised by QUAD in partnership with: Derby City Council, University of Derby & Derby Museums.
Name: DENVER MONTH OF PHOTOGRAPHY Portfolio Review
Organizer: Colorado Photographic Art Center has partnered with MoP founder Mark Sink
Date & Place: March 23 & 24 , 2019 / THE CURTIS HOTEL, 1405 CURTIS ST., DENVER.
Profiles of Reviewers: Publishers, photo editors, photography agents, gallery directors, photography critics, advertising agency creatives, magazine editors and museum directors from the US.
Registration Fee: $352 (8 reviews), $528 (12 reviews) and $704 (16 reviews).
Each review session lasts for 20 minutes, and artists may choose 8, 12, or 16 sessions over the two-day event.
Number of reviews: 8,12 or 16.
Price / Review Ratio: $42 – 44.
Web: http://www.mopdenver.com/about/
Email: mop@cpacphoto.org
Presentation Text: MoP – Month of Photography Denver is a biennial celebration of fine art photography with hundreds of collaborative public events throughout Denver and the region March and April 2017. We are joining multiple museums galleries and schools surrounding fine art photography creating an exciting artistic and educational event for the city of Denver and the region.
Name: FOTOGRAFIA EUROPEA REGGIO EMILIA Portfolio Review 2018
Organizer: Un progetto di Fondazione Palazzo Magnani e Comune di Reggio Emilia
Date & Place: Apr, 2019, Biblioteca Panizzi, Reggio Emilia RE, Italia
Application Deadline: December 3rd, 2018.
(Registration period has closed)
Number of Participants: 16
Registration Fee: Each review costs 35 €. Each participant can participate in one or more reviews, the cost of the reviews will be cumulative: 2 readings € 70, 3 readings € 105 and so on.
Number of reviews: Acumulative
Price / Review Ratio: 35€
Email: info@fotosuperstudio.it
Presentation Text: At the end of Sunday, May 7 sessions, at 1.30pm, the present reviewers, at their sole discretion, will announce the 3 best portfolio, which will be published on Fotografia Europea website.
In addition, the winner will be awarded with the print of his own photographs (printing approximately 25 fine art photographs on Canson paper, size 30 x 45, thanks to Foto Superstudio) and expose them, in 2018, at VisionQuesT contemporary photography gallery in Genoa, Maria Livia Brunelli home gallery di Ferrara and MIA Photo Fair in Milan.
Name: ART PHOTO BARCELONA Emerging photography Festival _Portfolio Review
Organizer: Art Deal project
Date and place: May 23, 2020. Barcelona, Spain
Application Deadline: Jan 15, 2020.
Reviewers 2020: Irene de Mendoza (Fundación Fotocolectania) – Carmen Dalmau (EFTI) – Ada Sbricolli y Arola Valls (CFD) – Roger Batista y Xavier Francesc (Copia) – Eduard Bertran (IEFC) – Pablo Lerma (Meteoro Editions) – Arianna Rinaldo (Cortona on the move) – Mariela Sancari (Centro de la Imagen de Mexico) – Daria Tuminas (Fotodok / Unseen Amsterdam) – Hiuwai Chu (MACBA)
Registration Fee: 35 €
Email: fotografos@artphotobcn.com
Web: www.artphotobcn.com
Presentation Text: ART PHOTO BCN is a Festival and a Fair of Photography specialized in the activation of the artistic circuit and the incursion of new creative values bringing over to the general and specialized public the works and projects of new artists.
Name: PALM SPRINGS Portfolio Review
Organizer: Palm Springs Photo Festival
Date & Place: May 5 – May 10, 2019. Palm Springs, California, USA
Application Deadline: April 20th, 2019.
Profiles of Reviewers: Publishers, photo editors, photography agents, gallery directors, photography critics, advertising agency creatives, magazine editors and museum directors from the US.
Registration Fee: Prices are $480 for 6 reviews.
Web: www.palmspringsphotofestival.com
Email: information@palmspringsphotofestival.com
Presentation Text: The Palm Springs Photo Festival Connect 2018 offers the opportunity for professional, emerging professional & serious advanced amateur photographers to study with legendary photographers, show portfolios in our celebrated portfolio review program, check out the latest gear, attend cutting-edge seminars, symposiums, networking events and enjoy evening presentations by world famous image-makers. The inevitable relationships that are made or renewed at PSPF can oftentimes be transformative.
Name: CONTACT Portfolio Review
Organizer: Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival
Date & Place: Not published yet. (Last year: May 7 & 8, 2018). Toronto, Canada
Application Deadline: Not published yet.
Profiles of Reviewers: Curators and directors, art dealers, publishers and photo editors are brought together for two days during CONTACT to review portfolios of established and emerging artists, with a focus on documentary, photojournalism or photo-based art practices.
Registration Fee: last year $200 for 4 reviews
Number of reviews: 4
Price / Review Ratio: last year $50 per review.
Web: www.scotiabankcontactphoto.com
Email: portfolioreviews@contactphoto.com
Presentation Text: CONTACT’s Portfolio Reviews provide an unparalleled opportunity for artists and photographers to meet with some of the most important professionals in the field of photography. The event is a platform for those with developed projects that are seeking opportunities for publishing and exhibiting nationally or internationally, as well as guidance on conceptual approaches or career development.
Each year, one artist will be awarded with a solo exhibition presented at the CONTACT Gallery. This award, chosen by a jury of international professionals in the field of photography, recognizes outstanding work presented at CONTACT’s Portfolio Reviews. The program was created to support and advance the careers of talented emerging photographers.
Name: PHOTOIRELAND’s Critical Practice Reviews
Organizer: PhotoIreland Festival
Date & Place: 1 May – 31 July, 2019, Dublin, Ireland.
Application Deadline: March 17, 2019.
Number of Participants: Until full, the jury will select 45 portfolios for review from all submitted work.
Profiles of Reviewers: International and Irish Curators, Magazine Editors, Gallery Owners, Festival Directors, publishers and other photography professionals.
Registration Fee: The fee per 1 hour session is €30 and artists are welcome to book no more than 4 sessions.
Number of reviews: 4 sessions
Price / Review Ratio: 7,5 Euros
Web: http://festival.photoireland.org
Email:info@photoireland.org
Presentation Text: Critical Practice Reviews (CPR) are group critiques in which 3 professionals listen, discuss and advise on the practice and development of 2 artists at a time. The sessions run for 1 hour, with 20 minutes presentations per photographer plus 10 minutes Q&A and feedback. A key component of these reviews is the approach, and the background of the experts.
Name: DESCUBRIMIENTOS PHOTO ESPAÑA Portfolio Review
Organizer: PHotoEspaña Festival. Madrid, Spain
Date & Place: June 3th and 4th, 2019. La Fabrica. Madrid, Spain.
Application Deadline: Tuesday April 9th, 2019.
Profiles of Reviewers: International photography and art curators, museum and festival people, publishers all over the world.
Registration Fee: pre-registration 10 € plus 240 € registration
Number of reviews: 6
Email: descubrimientos@phe.es
Web: www.phe.es
Presentation Text: Descubrimientos PHE is the portfolio review of PHotoEspaña. Offering photographers the opportunity to present their work to critics, curators and editors especialized in photography with the objetive of generating professional outlets for their work.
An independent jury will select seventy photographers to participate in the portfolio reviews. The jury will also determine a wait list in the event that there may be a cancelation. The portfolio of all of the selected participants will be included http://www.phe.es There is an inscription fee of 240 Euros for all participants.
Each photographer will have five appointments, each with a duration of twenty minutes. The appointments will be held over three days and are celebrated with strict punctuality. The reviews will be given in English or Spanish. The organization will do its best to arrange appointments with the reviewers preferred by each of the photographers. The organization will send each participant a personal schedule close to the dates, once we near the dates of the event.
The winner of the award may have participated in the portfolio review on previous occasions, but cannot have been recognized with this award in prior editions. PHotoEspaña will make public the jury´s results when the festival awards are announced. PHotoEspaña reserves the right to promote the winner´s name and images in printed and digital materials.
Name: OFFSPRING PHOTO MEET Portfolio Review
Organizer: PHOTO MEET
Date & Place: Not published yet, last year 8 & 9 June, 2018. SPACE HQ in London.
Application Deadline: Not published yet. (Last year: May, 2018)
Profiles of Reviewers: Curators and directors, art dealers, publishers and photo editors.
Registration Fee: Last year, £160 for 4 reviews or 8 reviews over the two days (4 on each day) for £200
Number of reviews: 4 or 8
Price / Review Ratio: £40/25 per review
Web: http://photomeet.org/portfolio-reviews/
Email: info@photomeet.org
Presentation Text: Offspring Photo Meet is run by some of London’s best picture editors and photographers and for a full weekend they will be there to help guide and direct you and your work in the right direction.
You will have 4 X 20-minute 1-2-1 portfolio reviews each day with someone who is well established in the industry. There will also be a photography talk each day which will give you valuable insight into certain areas of the industry. In between the portfolio reviews there will be areas where you can socialize with like minded people, make new contacts, read up on photography books and watch photography related projections.
You will also have a chance to meet picture editors and well established photographers within an informal setting, either during the day between talks and portfolio reviews or with a drink during the evening event.
Organizer: FOTOFESTIWAL
Date & Place: June 13 -16 2019, Art_Inkubator in Fabryka Sztuki, Lódz, Poland
Application Deadline: December 2, 2018.
Profile of reviewers: numerous, international and significant assembly of curators, directors of photography festivals, critics, journalists, publishers of books and magazines, galleries owners and photographers with a rich artistic achievements.
Registration Fee: The registration fee is PLN 100 (≈25Euro, ≈35USD; the currency is converted automatically).
Email: 0portfolio@fotofestiwal.com
Web: Grand Prix Photo Festival 2019
Presentation Text: Grand Prix gives photographers an opportunity to present their works during Fotofestiwal. We award artists of exceptional personality and projects that present daring ideas. The submission is open and does not impose any restrictions related to topics, age or place. The jury consists of experts from the greatest photography media and institutions.
Name: THE ATHENS PHOTO FESTIVAL Portfolio Reviews
Organizer: Athens Photo Festival, International Festival of Contemporary Photography & Related Media
Date & Place: Last Year, July, 2018. Benaki Museum(Pireos St. Annexe) in Athens.
Application Deadline: Submission for 2019 will be open in November. (Last year: April, 2018)
Profiles of Reviewers: International experts in the field of photography. A total of 22 curators, editors, critics and festival’s directors from around the world.
Registration Fee: Registration fee for the selected photographers is €80 for eight 20-minute sessions with eight reviewers.
Number of reviews: Last year, 2018. 4, 6 or 8.
Price / Review Ratio: Last year 2018. 20, 18,3 or 17,5.
Web: http://www.photofestival.gr/portfolio-reviews
Presentation Text: The Athens Photo Festival’s Portfolio Reviews offer an opportunity for emerging artists and photographers to meet and network with internationally acclaimed experts. A total of 20 curators, editors, agency and festival directors and influential experts from different countries are brought together during the Athens Photo Festival to provide an opportunity for photographers and artists to receive advice on their work.
This year’s portfolio review programme will take place on Monday and Tuesday 13-14 June 2018 at the Benaki Museum (Pireos St. Annexe) in Athens. Participants can register for either 4, 6 or 8 one-to-one reviews. Each review session lasts for 20 minutes. Places are limited, so early application is highly encouraged.
Name: Voies Off Portfolios Reviews
Organizer: Voies Off Arles
Date & Place: July 1 to July 6, 2019. Arles, France.
Application Deadline: Not published yet.
Profiles of Reviewers: publishers, exhibition curators, museum directors, agency chiefs, gallerists, collectors, critics, press art directors and others
Number of reviews: Last year, 2018.limit of 2 meetings per day
Price / Review Ratio: Last Year, 2018. 4€ for meeting.
Web:http://voies-off.com/index.php/en/portfolio-reviews/photographers
Email:photofolio@rencontres-arles.com
Presentation Text: Voies Off offers personalized support to young photographers by organizing more than 1,100 portfolio reviews: individual meetings of 20-min between photographers and professionals of the contemporary photography.Art critics, publishers, galerists, iconographers, directors of festival, members of collectives, agencies… For the reviewers, it is one of the best way to prepare a future programming and to discover new talents : a lot of them are loooking for new collaborations.
Name: THE RENCONTRES D’ARLES Portfolio Review
Organizer: The Rencontres d’Arles
Date & Place: July 1-6, 2019. Arles, France
Application Deadline: Registrations 2019 will begin on May 15.
Profiles of Reviewers: publishers, exhibition curators, museum directors, agency chiefs, gallerists, collectors, critics, press art directors and others
Number of reviews: 5 – 20
Price / Review Ratio: 200€ for 5 reviews of 20 minutes each, 320€ for 10 reviews of 20 minutes each, 450€ for 15 reviews of 20 minutes each, 550€ for 20 reviews of 20 minutes each.
Email:photofolio@rencontres-arles.com
Presentation Text: The Rencontres d’Arles Photo Folio Review enable participating photographers to present their work to renown international photography experts. They thus benefit from experts’ advice, and for some, obtain real exhibition and/or publication projects. The Rencontresd’Arles Photo Folio Review is open upon registration to all photographers whatever their photographic practice or image treatment technique.
Name: OBSCURA FESTIVAL Portfolio Review
Organizer: Obscura Festival
Date & Place: August 16th – 21st, 2019. George Town, Penang, Malaysia
Application Deadline: February 28th, 2019.
Registration Fee: TBD
Number of reviews: TBD
Price / Review Ratio: TBD
Web: http://www.obscurafestival.com
Email: info@obscurafestival.com
Presentation Text: Portfolio reviews are paid review sessions with some of the leading photographers, curators, editors and industry experts Asia and around the world. Portfolio reviews are instrumental in getting professional feedback on your work as well as networking with people who may be able to help you with your career development. Sign up for a review on the morning of the workshop to secure yourself a place. You will need at least two bodies of work either in print or on a portable device (laptop or tablet).
Name: LANDSKRONA PHOTO FESTIVAL Portfolio Review
Organizer: Landskrona Photo Festival
Date & Place: Not Published yet. Last year, 15-16 September, 2018. Landskrona, Sweden.
Application Deadline: Not published yet.
Number of Reviews: Last year 7
Profiles Reviewers: publishers, art historians, artistic directors, photographers, photo editors, curators, chief editors, photography professors, etc.
Registration Fee: Last year, 2018,2500 SKK (250 euros).
Price / Review Ratio: Last year 35,70 Euros
Web: http://www.landskronafoto.org/en/
Email: portfolioreview@lphoto.se
Presentation Text: A good way to spread your photography is to exhibit at photo festivals in different parts of the world. It is important for us that portfolio exhibitions can lead to something more for the participating photographers. This year too, we have therefore invited curators from international photo festivals. This year’s reviewers together select the »Best Portfolio« and the winner is offered the chance to be part of the official festival programme during the Festival in 2018.
Name: FILTER FESTIVAL Portfolio Review
Organizer: Filter PhotoFestival
Date & Place: September 19 – September 22, 2019, 2018. Millennium Knickerbocker Hotel , 163 East Walton Place , Chicago, Illinois.
Application Deadline: Registration for the 2019 Filter Photo Festival opens on May 1 for Filter Photo Members and May 15 for the general public.
Number of Reviews: 5, 8 or 12 portfolio reviews.
Profiles Reviewers: photo editors, curators, editors, etc.
Price / Review Ratio: Not published yet. (Last year: $275 for 5, $375 for 8 and $525 for 12 (Student Pricing: $40 per individual review).
Web: http://filterphoto.org/filter-festival/
Email: portfolioreview@lphoto.se
Presentation Text: Participants sign up for twenty-minute face-to-face reviews and receive candid advice about their images, as well as information on getting their work exhibited and published. We are thrilled to have so many of our attendees walk away with connections that have led to exhibitions, publications, and the indispensable opportunity to network with their peers.
All Filter Photo Festival attendees receiving blocks of portfolio reviews are encouraged to sign up for our annual Portfolio Walk, where Filter VIPs will roam the room and the general public is invited to vote for their favorite portfolio for the 2017 Festival People’s Choice Award.
Name: ENCONTROS DA IMAGEN. Portfolio Review
Organizer: Festival Encontros da Imagen
Date & Place: Not published yet. Last year, September 2018. Braga, Portugal.
Application Deadline: TBA
Number of Reviews: 8
Profiles Reviewers: Commissioners, curators, art critics, gallery owners, expert editors, etc..
Registration fee: Last year, Pre-Registration: 25€, Registration 150€
Price / Review Ratio: 21,5€
Web: http://encontrosdaimagem.com
Email: emergentes@encontrosdaimagem.com
Presentation Text: The International Photography Award Emergentes dst is an initiative of Domingos da Silva Teixeira group, organized by Encontros da Imagem, with a prize money that will be granted to the best 2017 Contemporary Photography Portfolio.The Photography Prize Emergentes dst will be awarded aer the Portfolio Review which shall give photographers the opportunity to show their work to commissioners, gallery owners and expert editors, thus establishing solid foundations for the promotion of their work.
Name: CENTER REVIEW SANTA FE Portfolio Review
Organizer: Center
Date & Place: October 17th – 20th, 2019. Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Application Deadline: January 29, 2019 & February 20, 2019.
Profiles of Reviewers: curators, editors, publishers and gallerists
Fee: options here
Number of reviews: 9
Web: http://www.visitcenter.org
Email: eteller@visitcenter.org
Presentation Text: Review Santa Fe is the premier juried portfolio review event in the world. Considered one of the most important events for photographers who seek career advancement, Review Santa Fe is designed to facilitate relationships between photographers and leading industry professionals looking for new work.
Name: Imago Lisboa Portfolio Review
Organizer: Imago Lisboa Festival
Date & Place: October 17th – 18th, 2019. Lisbon, Portugal.
Application Deadline: Aug 31, 2019, Via Picter.
Profiles of Reviewers: curators, editors, publishers and gallerists
Fee: 10€ for preselection plus 140 € = 150€
Number of reviews: 6
Price / Review Ratio: 25€
Web: http://imagolisboa.pt/portfolio_review.php
Email: contact@imagolisboa.pt
Presentation Text: The event takes place one week after the openings exhibitions of Imago Lisboa, more precisely on 17th and 18th October. The Portfolio Review is open to the applicants worldwide, and is an opportunity for emerging and mid-career photographers to showcase their work to an exclusive group of professionals in the field of photography including curators, festival directors, magazine editors and photographers.There are about 80 places available.
Name: THE EYES ON Portfolio Review
The Eyes On Portfolio Review has been organised this year for the first time in collaboration with the Month of Photography Bratislava. The following editions of the Review will alternate annually between Vienna and Bratislava.
Organizer: Museumsquartier Wien
Date & Place: TBA November 2018. Bratislava, Slovakia
Application Deadline: Not published yet. Last year 2018.
Profiles of Reviewers: publishers, art historians, artistic directors, photographers, photo editors, curators, chief editors, photography professors, etc.
Registration Fee: Not published yet. 6 meetings 135€, 12 meetings 255€
Number of reviews: Last year, 6-12.
Price / Review Ratio: Last year, 22,5€
Presentation Text: The Eyes On Portfolio Review brings photographers and renowned experts together in one place to enable practitioners of artistic and documentary photography to discuss their work with curators, editors, gallery owners, and festival directors.
Name: MEETING PLACE Paris 2019
Organizer: FotoFest with VU’ and Fonds Régnier pour la Création
Date & Place: November 1 – 4, 2019; Paris, France
Application Deadline: Open until full
Profiles of Reviewers: Renowned photography experts and industry leaders from Europe, North America, South America, and Asia
Registration Fee: 1-day: 250 euros; 2-days: 450 euros; 4-days: 800 euros
Number of reviews: Minimum of 4 per day
Price / Review Ratio: 50 – 62.50 euros, depending on session choice
Web: www.meetingplaceparis.art
Email: sarah@fotofest.org
Presentation Text: The FotoFest Meeting Place Paris 2019 organizes one-on-one meetings between registered artists, and dozens of renowned photography experts and industry leaders from across Europe, North America, South America, and Asia. Occurring just before Paris Photo, the Meeting Place Paris is a unique opportunity for artists to establish connections and create opportunities with global art professionals, curators, collectors, and colleagues in the context of one of the biggest photography events in the world. It fosters connections with a wide range of decision-makers who can offer tangible opportunities such as exhibitions, residencies, publication, gallery representation, and art sales.
Name: PHOTO NOLA Portfolio Review
Organizer: New Orleans Photo Alliance in partnership with museums, galleries and alternative venues citywide.
Date & Place: Not published yet. Last year, December 2018. TBA, New Orleans, USA
Application Deadline: Not published yet.
Profiles of Reviewers: Twenty-minute face-to-face meetings with gallery owners, editors, publishers and museum curators from throughout the U.S. provide photographers with networking opportunities, critical advice, and guidance for bringing their work to a larger audience.
Registration Fee: TBA
Number of reviews: 30 / The registration fee will guarantee each participant 8 twenty-minute reviews over the two days
Price / Review Ratio: TBA
Registration / Email: registration via website / info@photonola.org
Presentation Text: PhotoNOLA is an annual festival of photography in New Orleans, coordinated by the New Orleans Photo Alliance in partnership with museums, galleries and alternative venues citywide. Showcasing work by photographers near and far, festival programming includes exhibitions, workshops, lectures, a portfolio review, gala and more. PhotoNOLA draws hundreds of photography professionals to the city to partake in a variety of educational programs, and reaches broadly into the local community with exhibitions and events that are largely free and open to the public.
Organizer: PORTFOLIO DIALOGUE IVS
Date and place: Online via Skype. Portfolio Dialogue offers a new, in-depth approach to portfolio reviews with well-prepared reviewers and the possibility to reach out for feedback right when you need it.
Price / Review Ratio: 149€. The fee covers the reviewer’s preparation time and a 30-minute review on Skype.
Profiles of Reviewers: Curators, museum directors, publishers, magazine editors, artistic directors, fellow artists, etc.
Email: info@portfoliodialogue.com
Web: www.portfoliodialogue.com/
Presentation Text: Traditionally organized as physical meetings within the framework of international photography festivals, portfolio reviews are a highly efficient form of communication. Artists meet experts, present their work, receive feedback and, over time, develop their artistic practice as well as their career. Portfolio Dialogue takes this successful concept one step further by providing an online platform for professional portfolio reviews and mentoring – no longer exclusively for photographers but for visual artists.
Name: LANoble Portfolio review
Organizer: L A Noble Gallery
Date and place: scheduled appointment. Prospect Hill, London.
Price / Review Ratio: 1 hour session: £99
2 X 1 hour session: £180
3 X 1 hour session: £285
4 X 1 hour session: £375
5 X 1 hour session: £470
6 X 1 hour session: £525
Studio Visit with 1.5 hour session: £240
Profiles of Reviewers: Laura Noble
Email: hello@lauraannnoble.com
Web: http://www.lauraannnoble.com/portfolio-reviews/
Presentation Text: L A Noble Gallery conducts individual portfolio reviews regularly. Each review is a unique 1 hour service & places must be booked in advance. We advise that you bring a notebook also so that the you and the reviewer can note down key points of discussion.
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