The portfolio reviews of Cortona On The Move 2017 and the first edition of the VISURA PORTFOLIO prize

Cortona On The Move international photography festival - edition seven - from July 13th to October 1st, 2017, is now accepting reservations for its portfolio reviews to be held during the festival inauguration on July 14 and 15. The portfolio reviews give you the opportunity to show your work to 19 international photo editors and photography pros hosted by Cortona On The Move.

For the very first time in Europe in the role of portfolio reviewer, Sarah Leen - senior photo editor of National Geographic will take part to the festival.

Cortona On The Move 2017 introduced a novelty for its portfolio review section: the VISURA PORTFOLIO prize which will be awarded by a jury composed of all the portfolio reviewers present at the festival. The jury will be headed by Scott Thode, editorial director of VISURA, the global networking platform for photographers and media and arts professionals.

The jury will select five portfolios among all those presented and their authors will be rewarded with free access to the platform. The first prize will be a Prime subscription while the remaining four authors will receive a Plus subscription.

There are two types of portfolio review: the Basic, lasting for 20 minutes, and the Premium, which is exclusively for long-term projects, giving you one full hour with your chosen reviewer.
Portfolio review bookings are available until all places have been filled. Bookings can be made through our website at www.cortonaonthemove.com/it/il-festival/letture-portfolio or by sending us an email to: portfolio@cortonaonthemove.com.

Book whitin 1st June 2017 for a 10% discount. All participate will receive a 50% discount to Visura’s Prime membership.

Here are the 19 portfolio reviewers for our 2017 edition:

 

Monica Allende - FORMAT & GetxoPhoto
Photo editor, curator, cultural producer and educator. Director of Fotografia Internazionale at FORMAT17 and Artistic Director of GetxoPhoto Festival 2017-2019.

 

Giovanna Calvenzi - Donna Moderna
Image Consultant for Donna Moderna. She has worked as a photo editor for ten Italian periodicals and was the director of Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie di Arles for a year

 

Manila Camarini - D La Repubblica
Photo editor of Panorama Travel Mondadori and Traveller Condè Nast. Professional journalist and photo editor at D La Repubblica since 2003; Director of photography at D Lui since November 2014

 

Krzysztof Candrowicz - Fotofestiwal
Curator, researcher; founder and artistic director of Triennal of Photography Hamburg.

 

Jim Casper - LensCulture
Editor-in-chief of LensCulture, one of the principal online communities for discovering contemporary global photography, organising events and curating art shows.

 

Renata Ferri - Io Donna, Amica
Chief picture editor of Io Donna, the women’s weekly of Corriere della Sera, and of Amica, the monthly fashion magazine of the Rcs Mediagroup; jury member of photography awards and editor of photo books.

 

Alice Gabriner - Time
Currently international photo editor for Time; previous appointments: Senior Photo Editor at National Geographic; vice director of photography at the White House under the Obama administration.

 

Sandro Iovine - FPmag
Journalist and photography critic; from 1989 to 1998, editor at Editrice Reflex, from 1999 to 2014 director of Il Fotografo magazine; lecturer on History of Photography, Photojournalism and Visual Communication.

 

Anna Iuzzolin - Pagina 99
Photo editor of Pagina99; has contributed to Internazionale magazine, to the TerraProject documentary photography collective, to 10bPhotography gallery and to Photo España festival.

 

Sarah Leen - National Geographic
Director of Photography at National Geographic Magazine & Partners; staff and visual content supervisor for the photography department of National Geographic Magazine, for Traveller magazine, for the natgeo.com website and the @natgeolnstagram website.

 

Elisa Medde - Foam
Managing Editor of Foam International Photography Magazine, produced by Foam, the museum/platformof photography (based in Amsterdam) and of the Vandejong Communication Agency.

 

Ute Noll - DU Magazine
Director of photography for DU; author, curator and university lecturer; manager of her own Stuttgart-based agency ON PHOTOGRAPHY & ILLLUSTRATION, specialising in photography and illustration.

 

Giuseppe Oliverio -Phmuseum
Italian entrepreneur and moviemaker, in 2012 he founded phmuseum.com, an online contemporary photography platform (with 5,000 selected photographers) to help members connect with photo editors and curators.

 

Jenna Pirog - The New York Times Magazine
Virtual Reality Editor; produces 11 VR filmsforthe NY Times including ‘The Displaced', nominated for an Emmy Award, winner of the1stInnovative Storytelling prize, 2016 editionofthe World Press Photo.

 

Adele Sarno - Huffington Post
Social media editor and manager of Terza Colonna for the Huffington Post Italia,edited by Lucia Annunziata. Worked for many years on Repubblica.it and was a contributor to L’Espresso weekly news magazine.

 

Marie Louise and Maarten Schilt - Schilt Publishing
Schilt Publishing -publisher of photojournalism, art projects anddocumentaries, editorial partner ofthe World Press Photo. Main publisher of World Press Photo Yearbook since 2008 and of publisher of Next annual, since 2011.

 

Daria Scolamacchia - Fabrica
Photo editor and editorial consultant for Fabrica, Benetton Group's research and communications centre. Contributor to Futura, a Corriere della Sera newsletter focusing on identity.

 

Agata Stoinska - Blow Photo
Founder in 2010 and executive director of BLOW Photo, winner of the Overall Print of the Year Award. In 2009 she founded D-Light Studios in Dublin, a multimedia space for the photography and TV industries. In 2014 she founded the online fashion review, Maven46.

 

Scott Thode - Visura
Editorial director of Visura, professional networking platform for arts and the media. Also works as an independent curator and editor.