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Visitor Information: The RPS Gallery and coffee shop will be closed on Saturday 7 December

Our international panel of selectors

Roy Mehta
Roy Mehta
Photographer and Senior Lecturer
Since he became a photographer, Mehta's work has regularly engaged in different ways with cultural identity, through images presented in REVIVAL, LONDON 1989-1993 and his other books and projects such as 'DISTANT RELATIONS' and ‘COASTLINE'.
 
He is drawn to seeing how photography can offer us an opportunity to reflect on our common histories and celebrate our respective identities. His work explores how different cultures and identities touch, engage and interweave around each other. As part of this process he has recently been making new work in Mumbai, India exploring a city that he could have gown up in had his family not moved to the UK. This new work examines second-generation immigration and the resulting cross-cultural fluidity.
 
In a similar way his work also explores what we consider to be ‘nature’, as in his recent series LOCKDOWN where he uses image and text to interpret the current Pandemic.
 
His work is in private collections and the permanent collections of Autograph, Historic England, The Library of Birmingham, The Harris Museum and Art Gallery and IKS Collection, Germany.
He is also a senior lecturer on the BA Photojournalism and Documentary course at LCC, London
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Rosy Santella
Photo Editor, Internazionale

Rosy Santella is photo editor at Internazionale. She joined the weekly magazine in 2010, and since 2014 she has been working on the Portfolio section, where she selects and publishes reportages from all over the world.

She also works on the website where she has been assigning photographers for several years. Since 2016 she has been teaching photo editing. She works as curator and consultant for editorial projects and international awards and grants.

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Alejandro Chaskielberg
Photographer and curator

Alejandro Chaskielberg (Argentina, b 1977) is a photographer and curator based in Buenos Aires. He was named World Photographer of the Year by the World Photography Organization in London and received the Magnum Foundation's BURN Emerging Photographer grant and the Leopold Godowsky Jr. Award from Boston University.

He is currently the curator of the photo gallery of the Palacio de las Aguas in Buenos Aires.

https://www.chaskielberg.com/

 

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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.
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Roger Tooth
formerly Head of Photography, the Guardian and Observer

Roger Tooth studied photography at the Polytechnic of Central London, Regent Street in the early 70s. 

He trained as a newspaper photographer on the Hackney Gazette in East London for three years. 

Following that, was the staff photographer on IPC magazines' Nursing Mirror and Community Care.

He freelanced from 1982 for the Guardian and other national newspapers and magazines until joining the Guardian as Assistant Picture Editor in 1988.

In 1995 he was appointed deputy Picture Editor and in 1997 worked on the launch of the Guardian Unlimited website.

Roger was made Picture Editor of the Guardian in 2001 and in 2008 was appointed Head of Photography of the Guardian, the Observer and Guardian.com.

He left the Guardian in 2017. Roger wrote on photography while at the paper and has lectured on photojournalism throughout the UK and Europe.