Helen Ennis is an experienced writer and curator with a focus on photography. She has published notable works such as Photography and Australia, Reveries: Photography and Mortality, and biographies on Olive Cotton and Margaret Michaelis. In 2021, she received the J Dudley Johnson Medal from the British Royal Photographic Society. Helen was previously the Director of the ANU Centre for Art History and Theory and is now an Emeritus Professor. Currently, she is working on a biography of the renowned photographer Max Dupain.

Magdalene Keaney is Curator at the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra and writer specializing in photography and lens-based media. She has written extensively on the intersection of portraiture and photography, contemporary culture, conflict, and women’s photographic practice for books, museum catalogs, and magazines. Keaney has curated numerous exhibitions at institutions such as the National Portrait Gallery in London and Canberra, and the Australian War Memorial. She was the Senior Curator of Photographs at the National Portrait Gallery in London from 2018 to 2022. Keaney is currently curating an exhibition titled Francesca Woodman & Julia Margaret Cameron: Portraits to Dream In, which will be displayed at the National Portrait Gallery, London, in February 2024. She is also a PhD candidate at the Australian National University and lives and works on Ngunnawal and Ngambri country.

Russell Storer is Head Curator, International Art, at the National Gallery of Australia. He was formerly Director (Curatorial, Research and Exhibitions) at National Gallery Singapore, where he co-curated exhibitions including Minimalism: Space. Light. Object., Yayoi Kusama: Life is the Heart of a Rainbow, and Between Worlds: Raden Saleh & Juan Luna. He previously held curatorial positions at QAGOMA in Brisbane, where he co-curated the 6th, 7th, and 8th Asia Pacific Triennials, and at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, where he developed exhibitions with artists including Simryn Gill, Matthew Ngui, and Juan Davila. He was a co-curator of the 3rd Singapore Biennale in 2011 and has written widely on Asian and Australian contemporary art.

Vanessa Gerrans is the CEO of the Ballarat International Foto Biennale and was previously the Director of the Warrnambool Art Gallery from 2015 to 2022. She spent over a decade at RMIT Gallery, where she curated and collaborated on various exhibition programs, including the retrospective of Peter Corrigan Cities of Hope. Vanessa has successfully completed infrastructure and renovation projects for cultural institutions in Victoria, and her innovative public and exhibition programs demonstrate her insightful ways of enhancing regional communities. She has also worked with Aboriginal elders of the Maar Nation to promote opportunities for engagement and create a sense of place and purpose. Vanessa holds a Masters in Art Curatorship from the University of Melbourne and graduated from the Advanced Leadership Program, Women & Leadership Australia, Monash University in 2019.