2025 Portfolio Reviews

Jessica D. Brier – Curator of Photography, Loeb Art Center, Vassar College
Jessica D. Brier is a curator and historian of art and design with a focus on modernism and the intersecting histories of photography, print, and design. She serves as curator of photography at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, where she co-organized the exhibitions Making a Life in Photography: Rollie McKenna (2024) and On the Grid: Ways of Seeing in Print (2022). Her first book Typophoto: New Typography and the Reinvention of Photography was published in 2025 by University of Minnesota Press.

Gail Fletcher – Photo Editor
Gail Fletcher is a Photo Editor at The Guardian, where she develops and produces visual stories. She is also on faculty at the International Center of Photography and was previously an Associate Photo Editor at National Geographic. She has served as a juror for the Alexia Grant, Review Santa Fe, American Photography, and others, and she regularly reviews portfolios to help photographers and artists refine their best work. Originally from South Florida, she is now based in Brooklyn, New York.

Jenia Fridlyand – Artist and Educator
Jenia Fridlyand is a photographer and educator based in NYC and the Hudson Valley. Her photographs and books have been exhibited in the United States and abroad. Fridlyand’s artist’s book Entrance to Our Valley was shortlisted for the Paris Photo – Aperture First Photobook Award 2017, and the trade edition (TIS Books) is now in its 3rd printing. Fridlyand is a co-founder of  Image Threads, a non-profit educational collective, and is the chair of the Long Term Photobook Program at Penumbra Foundation in New York.

Sara Ickow – Associate Director of Exhibitions, ICP, & Managing Director, Women Photograph
Sara Ickow is the Associate Director of Exhibitions at the International Center of Photography. Recent projects at ICP include Gillian Laub: Family Matters (2021), ICP at 50: From the Collection, 1845–2019 (2024), and To Conjure: New Archives in Recent Photography (2025). She is also the Managing Director with Women Photograph and is co-editor of the book Women Photograph, What We See: Women and Non-Binary Perspectives Through the Lens (White Lion Publishing, 2023). Previously, she worked as a Curatorial Assistant and Collections Manager with the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery in their Department of Photographs. She holds an MA in art history from NYU’s Institute of Fine Arts.

Sophie Landres – Curator and Exhibitions Manager, The Dorsky Museum of Art
Sophie Landres is a curator and art historian specializing in intermedia and critical theory. Her recent exhibitions for The Dorsky Museum approach photography from oblique angles and through expanded definitions. The Arrested Image situates photographic portraiture and policing on parallel paths to capture, classify, and interpret personhood. Through camera-based work by artists who explore the role landscape plays in burying or exhuming social history, Landmines considers the coincidence of the earliest existing landscape photographs, the founding of the Hudson River School, and a concentrated period in which Native people from New York were forcibly relocated to Wisconsin. Sophie has taught at Columbia University, Sotheby’s Institute of Art, The New School, and New York University. She holds an Art History and Criticism Ph.D. (Stony Brook University), Art Criticism and Writing M.F.A. (School of Visual Arts), and Political Science B.A. (University of Iowa). Her writing has appeared in Art Basel Stories, Art Journal, The Brooklyn Rail, Hyperallergic, and PAJ among other publications. She is currently working on a series of essays about policing.

Justin O’Neill – Photography Director, Photographer & Educator
Justin O’Neill is a Photography Director who most recently oversaw the photography for both the print+digital editions, and social media platforms of Esquire Magazine at Hearst Publications. Previously he has worked as a Senior Photo Editor at GQ Magazine, GQ Style, New York Magazine, The New York Times Magazine, T Magazine, and the New Yorker. Justin is an undergraduate faculty member at the School of Visual Arts in New York.

Cay Sophie Rabinowitz – Founder & Director, OSMOS
A recognized art world insider, Cay Sophie Rabinowitz effortlessly develops significant projects and collaborations with museum and corporate institutions alike. Director of OSMOS, a publishing imprint and curatorial project based in New York, Rabinowitz has been Artistic Director of Art Basel (2007 – 2008) and Senior Editor of Parkett (1999 – 2007). Known for her highly professional yet deeply personal approach, Rabinowitz is one of the most respected assets in the art world. Her knowledge and strategic facility has helped to leverage productive partnerships in the arts for brands, such as LaMer (2010), Net-A-Porter (2012) and Tiffany & Co. (2014-2017).

Sara J. Winston – Artist and Educator
Sara J. Winston is an artist and writer who works with photographs, text, and the book form to describe and respond to chronic illness and its ongoing impact on her body, mind, family, and memory. Sara currently serves as Associate Director of the Photography Program at Bard College and Acting Chair Long Term Photobook Program at Penumbra Foundation. She has published several photobooks and has book projects forthcoming with For the Birds Trapped in Airports, Saint Lucy Books, and Composit Press.

Sasha Wolf – Director, Sasha Wolf Projects and the PhotoWork Foundation.
Sasha Wolf reviews or judges work for leading art institutions and fairs numerous times a year (Fotofest, Filter Festival, Photo NOLA, ICP, SVA, The New York Times and more ) and conducts workshops around the country for artists on working with galleries and professional development.(Columbia University MFA, School of Visual Arts MFA, Houston Center of Photography, Aperture Foundation).Sasha’s book, PhotoWork, was published by the Aperture Foundation in 2019 and Sasha has a podcast of the same name available on all streaming services.