Dimitri Beck is the director of photography at Polka (magazine, gallery, and factory), which he co-founded alongside the Genestar family in 2008. Previously, he was the editor-in-chief of Webistan, Reza's photo agency, in Paris. Dimitri began his career as a freelance journalist in 1998, frequently working in Central Asia and the Caucasus. As a journalist, he regularly participates in conferences on visual storytelling and teaches at the journalism department of Sciences Po Paris and at the Spéos Photography School.

Laura Serani, curator and author, directed the Planches Contact Festival in Deauville (2019-2024) and co-directed the Bamako Encounters (2009-2014). She was also the artistic delegate for the Mois de la Photo in Paris and a curator for Fotografia Europea and SiFest in Italy. Formerly head of the Fnac Collection and Fnac Photography Galleries (1985-2006), she has published numerous works on photography. As a teacher and mentor, she serves on various prestigious juries, including Hasselblad, Leica Oskar Barnack, Niepce, and World Press. 

Lucie Moriceau-Chastagner, documentary studies officer, is responsible for the photography collection at the Musée de l'Armée. Former curator at ECPAD (2008-2021), she studies the history of military photography. Curator of major exhibitions, including Photographies en guerre (2022) and Léon Herschtritt (2023-2024), she has been leading the museum's photography residency since 2022 and sits on several award juries.

Raed Bawayah, born in Ramallah, is a Palestinian photographer living in Paris. 

Trained at the Musrara School of Photography in Jerusalem, Raed has exhibited in prestigious venues such as the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris, and has taken part in major events such as the Visa pour l’image festival in Perpignan and the Rencontres de la photographie d’Arles, where he presented a series of photographs of patients at Bethlehem psychiatric hospital as part of the Discovery Prize in 2009.Founder of many photographic events such La Quatrième Image, Vienna International Photo Award and others.

Marie Robert is Chief Curator of Photography and Cinema at the Musée d’Orsay. A former student of the École normale supérieure and agrégée in economics and social sciences, she led the photography department at the Médiathèque du patrimoine before joining the Musée d’Orsay in 2011. She has curated around twenty exhibitions combining social sciences and interdisciplinarity, teaches photography history through a gender lens, and co-directs A Global History of Women Photographers (2020). She serves on boards of multiple institutions, sits on international juries, and in 2023, she was in residence at the Villa Medici to build a collection on the private uses of photography.

Krzysztof Candrowicz is an interdisciplinary curator, sociologist, and activist. He co-founded the Fotofestiwal and the Foundation of Visual Education in Łódź, directed Art Factory and the Lodz Art Center, and from 2013 to 2018, served as Artistic Director of the Hamburg Photography Triennale. He was guest curator of the Ci.CLO Biennale in Porto (2018–2024) and frequently lectures and curates at European institutions. A member of international juries, he explores photography, visual art, and activism in connection with social and environmental justice.