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Laura Roumanos (she/her/hers) is a Lebanese Creative Producer hailing from Australia, serving as the co-Founder of Photoville, a non-profit organization devoted to cultivating a wide, diverse audience for visual storytelling by producing a free annual photo festival in NYC, activating public spaces, and connecting artists to a worldwide audience through educational programming and community events. Laura graduated from the prestigious National Institute of Dramatic Arts in Sydney, Australia and worked as a Theatrical and Events Producer before making the big move to NYC 18 years ago. Since then, Laura has worked in New York for the Manhattan Theatre Club, St. Ann’s Warehouse, Creative Time, The Future of StoryTelling, and the World Science Festival, in general management and senior producing roles respectively. Laura has also produced several large scale theatrical shows for creatives such as Karen O, Bryce Dessner, Richard Reed Parry, Spike Jonze, Opening Ceremony and the Brooklyn Youth Chorus. For the past 10 years, Laura has co-produced the New York Photography Portfolio Reviews with the New York Times and also continues to consult, manage, and produce numerous theatrical shows, events and public programs, in addition to teaching the Business of Art course at the NYU Tisch School. She is currently the Senior Creative Producer at Meta producing Instagram’s @design account. Laura has built a reputation in the New York Arts scene as someone to go to for consultation and advice regarding public art and multi-disciplinary projects and events across all mediums. |
Jennifer Pastore Creative Consultant
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Jennifer Pastore is an award winning visual director, curator and creator with over twenty years of experience working primarily in magazines. Most recently, Jennifer was the executive photography director of WSJ. The Wall Street Journal Magazine for over ten years. Previous publications include Harper’s Bazaar, Teen Vogue and T: The New York Times Style Magazine. In 2022, Jennifer was awarded The Rome Prize in design at the American Academy in Rome where she worked on a mixed media narrative project incorporating textiles and photography. In addition, Jennifer curated a show featuring the work of photographer Liana Miuccio and writer Jhumpa Lahiri at the Galleria d’Arte Moderna in Rome. Jennifer has taught and lectured in the photography programs of The School of Visual Arts, Parsons School of Design, Rhode Island School of Design, Red Hook Labs and The Danish School of Media and Journalism in Copenhagen and Oslo. Her work has been recognized by American Photography, ASME: The American Society of Magazine Editors, The Society of Publication Designers, Graphis and Photo District News. …” |
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Marissa Roth is a Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist, and documentary photographer, born and raised in Los Angeles. She was part of The Los Angeles Times staff that won the Prize for Best Spot News, for coverage of the 1992 Los Angeles riots. Her assignments for other prestigious publications, including The New York Times, have taken her around the world, where she photographed stories encompassing social, political, and cultural subjects. To date, Roth’s global documentary project, One Person Crying: Women and War, spans 38-years of her photography addressing how women have been directly impacted by war and conflict. An exhibition of this work debuted at The Museum of Tolerance/Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles in 2012 and has been showcased internationally as a traveling exhibition. A book is forthcoming. Her published books include Infinite Light: A Photographic Meditation on Tibet, with a foreword by His Holiness the Dalai Lama; Burning Heart: A Portrait of The Philippines; and The Crossing, a poetic photographic study of the Atlantic Ocean. Witness to Truth, a portrait series of Holocaust survivors commissioned by The Museum of Tolerance/Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles, spans 15 years of her work and contains 110 photographs that are on permanent exhibition at the museum. Roth’s work has been widely exhibited and is held in both public and private collections. In addition, she is a curator, lecturer, and teacher and continues to work on her personal projects as a photographer. Roth is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society in London and the Royal Photographic Society in England. She was granted a Global Talent visa by Arts Council England and resides in London. |
Artemis MoshtaghianNews Editor and Producer at CNN
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Artemis Moshtaghian is a News Editor and Producer at CNN covering major breaking news events in the U.S. and around the world. A distinguished Iranian-American journalist with over a decade of experience reporting on everything from politics and health to sports and entertainment, her expertise and foremost interest lies in human rights and international affairs. Her coverage of last year's pivotal uprising in Iran following protests over the death of 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian woman Mahsa Jina Amini, earned her two Emmy-nominations and several broadcast and digital media awards. Artemis was at the helm of CNN investigations to uncover details of Iran’s brutal repression, and her reporting exposed the regime’s systemic response of wide scale arrests, unjust executions, as well as severe torture and rape against jailed protesters. Her work continues to center around elevating different voices, especially those of women, to help shed light on inequality and injustice through impactful reporting. |
Jessica Dimson
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Jessica Dimson is the deputy director of photography at The New York Times Magazine where she conceptualizes and produces photography for special issues, covers, photo essays and features. She has also worked as a photo editor on the National and Metro desks at The Times and was also the photo editor for the 2016 presidential campaign. Previously she was a photo editor at Vanity Fair and Departures magazine. Her work has been recognized by World Press Photo, the Society of Publication Designers, American Photography, the Art Directors Club, and the Pictures of the Year International.
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