International Photography Exhibition 167

Jaskirt Dhaliwal-Boora (panjabi, brummie, artist, mother, educator) is a multi-disciplinary artist with a socially engaged practice, working with local communities on global issues. She is interested in celebrating untold stories while exploring visual representations of gender, ethnicity and place.  

Jaskirt creates work with the aim to empower and give voice to marginalised communities. Awards include winning the British Journal of Photography's Portrait of Britain award for three consecutive years, and the LensCulture Photo Art award. 

Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including at Wembley Stadium, UN Headquarters New York, Peckham24, New Art Exchange Nottingham and Manchester’s People Museum. Her work Birmingham Lockdown Stories (2020) is held in the permanent archive and collection of the Birmingham Museums Trust.

Jaskirt is also the founder of @womeninphotobham, a bi-monthly social event for women photographers in the W.Midlands and a Senior Lecturer at Birmingham City University.

Lydia Goldblatt is a British photographic artist based in London. Her work is concerned with female identities and she is interested in the ways personal experience informs collective understanding. She creatively fuses the approaches of both documentary and constructed photography. Of her work, she writes: “I am looking to see within experiences and moments that are unfolding, to reach something that speaks about being human, about our emotions, connections, and interior life as much if not more than external appearance.”

Lydia Goldblatt attended London College of Communications, studying a Master’s Degree in Photography. Her work has been exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery, Somerset House London, the National Museum Gdansk, the GoEun Museum of Photography and the Felix Nussbaum Museum in Germany. Her first book, Still Here, is held in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum National Art Library, and her work is held in numerous public and private collections. Lydia received an award for her portrait ‘Eden’ in the Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize, and the GRAIN Projects Artist Commission. She was awarded the Grand Prix at Tokyo International Photography Festival, and the Royal Photographic Society IPE Award in 2025. Her second book, Fugue, was published by GOST Books in 2024.

Max Gorbatskyi is a curator at Open Eye Gallery in Liverpool, UK. Together with Viktoria Bavykina, he co-founded Ukrainian.Photographies, a platform dedicated to international research on Ukrainian photography. Their curatorial collaborations include the Ukrainian National Pavilion at the 60th Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia (2024), the HOME programme for EuroFestival/Eurovision 2023 in Liverpool City Region, as well as exhibitions at BredaPhoto Festival, Stills Centre for Photography in Edinburgh and UK Parliament in London. Previously, Gorbatskyi was a curator at the Department of Contemporary Art at Mystetskyi Arsenal in Kyiv, Ukraine, where he led the photography direction and co-curated the landmark exhibition Sensitivity. Contemporary Ukrainian Photography.

Gorbatskyi is an Academy member of the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize and a jury member for the British Journal of Photography’s Portrait of Humanity award. He holds an MA in the History of Photography from Birkbeck College, University of London, and an MA in Cultural Management from the University of Bologna. He is also a recipient of the UK Government’s Chevening Scholarship.

Irene Lombardo is Senior Cultural Manager for EMEA & Asia at Magnum Photos, where she leads institutional partnerships and cultural strategy across these regions. She works closely with museums, festivals, publishers, and foundations to develop exhibitions, commissions, and cultural projects featuring Magnum photographers.

With over 13 years of experience in the photography sector, Irene has worked with museums, galleries, and major photography events, specialising in programme development, exhibition curation and project management. She also contributes to the field as a journalist for Il Fotografo and as a lecturer at Ca’ Foscari University (Venice) and Spéos Photography School (Paris).

Irene serves as a jury member for the Fondation Jean-Luc Lagardère Photography Fellowship and the Belfast Photo Festival, and is regularly invited as a portfolio reviewer by institutions and festivals including Les Rencontres d’Arles, FORMAT International Photography Festival (Derby), Belfast Photo Festival, and Photo Days Paris.

She holds an Advanced Master’s Degree in Management of Cultural Goods & Activities from ESCP Business School and Ca’ Foscari University, as well as a Master’s Degree in Modern Philology from Sapienza University in Rome.

Portrait by: Anna Hernik

Dr Michael Pritchard’s career started at Christie’s where he directed photography auctions. He has taught history of photography at MA level.  He joined the RPS in 2011 as Chief Executive until 2018 and Programmes Director until 2023. He now consults, working with collectors, photographers and institutions.

Michael has been a selector for the Leica Oskar Barnack Award, HIPA Awards, Food and Travel photographer competitions, International Photography Awards, Lucie Awards, Earth Photo and others.

In addition, he has curated exhibitions in the UK and been a selector and curator of exhibitions at festivals in China. He has written and broadcast on many aspects of photography in the UK and abroad.