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Our Advisors for selected Award Winners

As part of this year's DPA we will award the support of award winning and leading photographers as Advisors to one selected photographer from each category to help with project and photographic development. 

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Liz Hingley
Photographer, curator and anthropologist
Liz Hingley is a photographer, curator and anthropologist. Rooted in community engagement, her practice seeks to create connections between disciplines, technologies, geographies, and generations through the careful sharing of stories. She is currently Artist in Residence at Kings College London (Digital Humanities) and an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham.
Liz's projects have received numerous awards, including the Lens Culture portrait prize, PhotoPhilanthropy Award, Prix Virginia and Getty Editorial Grant. Her books include Under Gods (Dewi Lewis publishing, 2010), End Of Lines (Editions Intervalles 2013), Sacred Shanghai (Washington University Press 2019) and Shanghai Sacred (GOST books 2020). She recently completed a five year trusteeship of the AmberSide UNESCO world heritage collection of photography and film.  Liz is the founder of The SIM Project, which uses the minute objects of connection found in smartphones to shape new ways of sharing and archiving stories of migration.
Laura Pannack
CREDIT: Hana Knizova
Laura Pannack

Laura Pannack is a London based photographic artist.

Renowned for her portraiture and social documentary work, she seeks to explore the complex relationship between subject and photographer. Her work has been extensively exhibited and published worldwide, including at The National Portrait Gallery, The Houses of Parliament, Somerset House and the Royal Festival Hall in London.

Her artwork has received much acclaim and won numerous awards, among which are the John Kobal Award , Vic Odden prize, World Photo Press Awards, Juliet Margaret Cameron award and the HSBC Prix de la Photographie prize.

Mimi Profile
Mimi Mollica
Photographer and Director of Offspring PhotoMeet
Mimi Mollica (Palermo, Italy 1975) is an award winning documentary photographer, editor and Associate Lecturer, BA Photography at London Metropolitan University. Mimi’s work examines themes relating to identity, culture, environment, migration, and the impacts of social and political change upon communities. Mollica’s long-term projects are characterised by an immersive engagement with the themes he focuses on and reveal a distinctive dedication that goes beyond the professional aspect of being a photographer. In his words, photography flirts with immediate truths and feeds itself of visual deceptions and is ultimately an intelligent discrimination of reality.
Mollica’s multi-awarded work has been widely featured in various prestigious publications ranging from The Guardian Weekend Magazine, Financial Times Weekend Magazine, The New York Times Lens, Newsweek Japan, Sunday Times Magazine, Internazionale, C Photo, Granta Magazine, among many others. Exhibition highlights include Somerset House, London 2013, The Rencontres D’Arles 2011, London Street Photography 2011, Contributed Gallery, Berlin 2010, Jerwood Space, London 2010, Milk Gallery, New York City and Third Floor Gallery, Cardiff 2010 and European Parliament, Strasbourg 2009 plus more.
In 2015 Mimi founded the Offspring Photo Meet, a yearly event that champions artistic talent and celebrates photography through a series of portfolio reviews and a cultural programming of talks, panel discussions, projections and more. (photomeet.org).
Mimi published two books Terra Nostra (Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2017) and East London Up Close (Hoxton Mini Press 2021)
Since 2011 Mollica runs workshops and mentoring programs and is regularly invited to guest lecture in Universities, Art Colleges and institutions in UK and abroad.