For the first time, the RPS will be hosting an in‑person Portfolio Review Day at one of our touring exhibition venues. This special event brings together a panel of International Photography Exhibition featured artists and industry experts, each offering a unique range of experience, knowledge, and creative insight. These portfolio reviews will take place in person only at The Royal Geographical Society London, 16 April.
Explore the International Photography Exhibition 166 exhibition at the Royal Geographical Society during your visit for the portfolio reviews and talk to some of the exhibiting artist.
These portfolio reviews offer a valuable opportunity to share your work in a supportive environment. Discuss ideas and future directions and receive constructive advice from established practitioners.
There are 30 minute review slots available for each reviewer running from 10am until 5pm. Please see the list of reviews below:
Reviewers:
Aneesa Dawoojee | Book Now
Anthony Luvera | Book Now
Billy-Jay Stoneman | Book Now
Danilo Zocatelli Cesco | Book Now
Margarita Galandina | Book Now
Murray Ballard | Book Now
John Boaz | Book Now
Aneesa Dawoojee is a multi-award-winning portrait and social documentary photographer from South London. She is a photographic educator, an Associate Lecturer at the University of Northampton, and a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society.
Aneesa's international exhibitions, Only Human and March of the Hummingbirds, have been shown at the Royal Albert Hall and Saatchi Gallery, bringing portraiture and social documentary together through human-focused storytelling.
Anthony Luvera is a socially engaged artist, writer, and educator, and Director of Education at the Royal Photographic Society. His long-term collaborative work with individuals and communities has been widely exhibited across galleries, public spaces, and international festivals, including the UK House of Commons, Tate Liverpool, the British Museum, London Underground’s Art on the Underground, the National Portrait Gallery, Belfast Exposed, PhotoIreland, Les Rencontres d’Arles, and Landskrona Foto Festival. His writing appears regularly in publications such as Trigger, Photography and Culture, Visual Studies, Photoworks, Source, and Photographies. He is also the editor of Photography For Whom?, a periodical dedicated to socially engaged photography. Anthony has developed education and mentorship programmes, and delivered workshops and public lectures for organisations including the National Portrait Gallery, Tate, Magnum, the Royal Academy of Arts, The Photographers’ Gallery, Barbican Art Gallery, and community photography initiatives across the UK.
Curator & Head of Exhibitions at the Royal Photographic Society, responsible for the curation and delivery of exhibitions, call for entries, tours and other collaborative projects. Her curated exhibitions for The RPS have included most recently the International Photography Exhibition 166 at Saatchi Gallery, London, To Shine a Light / Who Dared to Dream, and Only Human: Aneesa Dawoojee. Billy-Jay’s key interests are accessibility for all, supporting emerging artists and photographers, community engagement and contemporary storytelling.
Danilo Zocatelli Cesco, is an Italo-Brazilian artist based in London. Inspired by personal stories, queer identity, and social issues, his work explores themes of love, loss, and transformation. Through photography, sculpture, and video, he challenges traditional perspectives and invites viewers to see the world anew.
Margarita Galandina is a multidisciplinary artist from Siberia, currently based in London. She studied ballet and academic drawing in her early years before moving to the UK, where she received a BA in Fashion Communication from Central Saint Martins and an MA in Photography from the London College of Communication. Her work is deeply influenced by Indigenous Siberian heritage, particularly Buryat-Mongolian, and delves into themes of memory, indigenisation, migration, and cultural identity in postcolonial spaces
Murray Ballard is a photographer based in Brighton, UK. His work explores a variety of subjects across several interrelated areas: the environment, social issues, science and technology.
He is best known for his long-term project - The Prospect of Immortality - an investigation of cryonics - the practice of freezing the dead in the hope that future science and technology will be able to bring them back to life. In 2024 he completed his Masters in Photography at the University of the West of England.
John Boaz is an award-winning photographer based in Britain. John’s approach to creating photographs is one of poetic sensitivity, playing with light and tone to emphasise feeling, emotion and atmosphere within his photographs. John is drawn to topics that represent a sense of place, time, love and faith. Looking for the complex beauty within life and humanity.