JURY
HANIN HANNOUCH / CHIEF JUROR
Dr. Hanin Hannouch (she/her) is Curator for Analog and Digital Media at the Weltmuseum Wien, where she is in charge of the collections of photography, film, and sound. In 2025, she became the president of the European Society for the History of Photography and the editor-in-chief of its journal “PhotoResearcher”. Hanin is an expert on color photography around 1900 with publications such as “Gabriel Lippmann’s Colour Photography: Science, Media, Museums” (Amsterdam University Press, 2022) & “Three-Color Photography around 1900: Technologies, Expeditions, Empires” (PhotoResearcher, 2022). Moreover, being excited about the use of 19th century analog photography today, both as an artistic medium as well as a counter-cultural societal movement, Hanin has served as chief juror of Rotlicht Festival in 2024; a nomination she has accepted again in 2025.
© Dino Rekanovic
TAREK MOURAD
Tarek Mourad is a Brazilian-Lebanese artist whose practice centers on the printed image, with a focus on printmaking as well as analog and alternative photography. His work investigates the social ruptures and systemic flaws embedded within society, while examining the nuanced and evolving relationships between individuals, space and time.
Alongside his artistic practice, he is the director of the Beirut Printmaking Studio and a part-time lecturer at the Lebanese International University (LIU), where he teaches graphic design and foundation art courses.
FLORENCE DROUHET
Florence Drouhet (french) is the artistic director of the Photo Festival La Gacilly-Baden (Austria) and independent curator specialized in environmental topics. She is currently the artistic advisor and associated curator of the Albert Kahn Museum Festival (Paris) and the french coordinator for the Higashikawa International Youth Photo Festival (Japan).
In recent years, she collaborated with the Photoclimat Biennale, the Photo Festival Inpakt, the Jeu de Paume Gallery, the National museum of Natural history, the Gobelins school, and the Orchestre national de Bretagne for their long time project “Musique and Image” (France).
She is based in Paris.
SEBAH CHAUDHRY
Sebah is an independent producer and curator based in England, UK, working with organisations and artists internationally. She has worked in photography for over 20 years. She is director of Sebahtage, a new organisation supporting artists and writers from under-represented backgrounds. She currently works with Photoworks and Belfast Photo Festival. She is an Advisory Member of FORMAT Festival, where she also worked for over 10 years, and a Trustee at The Royal Photographic Society. She has been on the Jury for Portrait of Britain, RPS IPE, RBSA and many others, In 2025, she joined the nominator list for the prestigious Joop Swart Masterclass.
Her first (analog) camera was a hand-me-down from her Dad, an Olympus OM10 which ignited the passion she has for photography.
© MK Hussain
EMESE MUCSI
Art writer, editor and curator of the Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center in Budapest since 2018. Emese curates exhibitions where photography is interpreted in the context of contemporary art, and as a media that help to understand cultural and historical phenomena with a special focus on Eastern Europe. Her projects bring together artists and photographers with photojournalists, writers, editors, and other thinkers to experiment with new approaches to photography.
Emese went on to find DOXA exhibition space and educational venue in 2022. She contributes to leading international art magazines and publications such as British Journal of Photography, FOMU’s Trigger and The Routledge Companion to Global Photographies book. She is a guest lecturer at the Moholy-Nagy University of Arts and Design and the University of Szeged, and currently undertakes a PhD in the Film, Media and Contemporary Culture doctoral programme at Eötvös Loránd University.
LAURA ETTEL
Laura Ettel is a visual artist, researcher and curator based in Vienna, Austria.
She holds a degree in theatre, film and media studies and was trained as a cinematographer at Filmacademy in Vienna and in photography at Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. As a cinematographer, she pairs with filmmakers on the intersection of film, performance and fine arts. In her doctoral artistic research, she explores the emancipatory potential of the (film) camera work in social movements and collective film and media practices. Furthermore, she expands her research to digital and artists’ archiving practices and networked curating. She is the co-editor of two monographic books about Austrian filmmakers Jessica Hausner and Karina Kessler (Sonderzahl Verlag Wien). She is member of artist collective fitfit.studio and the network female photoclub and currently curating photography for Leica.
FLORENCE DROUHET
Artistic director of the Photo Festival LaGacilly-Baden (Austria).
Independent curator specialized in environmental topics.
Florence Drouhet is currently the artistic advisor and associated curator of the Albert-Kahn Museum Festival (Paris), the PHOTOCLIMAT Biennale (Paris), the Photo Festival INPAKT (Basque country, France), and Higashikawa Youth Photo Festival (Japan).
She collaborates with the Gobelins school (Paris), the Jeu de Paume Gallery (Paris), the Orchestre National de Bretagne (Brittany, France)
Florence is La Gacilly Festival president, and Baden festival Direktor.
