Belarus Press Photo 2015 Contest Jury

Daphne Angles
(France-The USA)
Daphné Anglès is a Paris-based assignments editor for The New York Times, a portfolio reviewer at LensCulture FotoFest and a curator of photo exhibitions at Galerie Dupon (Paris). She is an active jury member for a number of international awards and contests (Visa pour l’Image, the Canon Female Photojournalist Award, AFD, Int’l Red Cross, etc) and a member of the Prix Pictet expert board.

Artem Chernov
(Russia)
Artem Chernov is a photographer, a cameraman, a photo editor and a photojournalist. He is also the founder and the head of Photopolygon.com on-line project. Artem curates documentary photography. Over the years he worked with Forbes (Russia), National Geographic (Russia), “Russian Reporter”, «Photo & Video», as well as with AP and EPA agencies.

Ramunas Danisevicius
(Lithuania)
Ramunas Danisevicius is a photographer with the experience of cooperating with various national editions such as «Apžvalga», «Respublika», «Lietuvos žinios», «L.T.» and others. Since 2010 he has been working for the newspaper «Lietuvos rytas». Ramunas is a holder of multiple awards in the annual competition of press photographers «Lietuvos spaudos fotografija».

Jillian Edelstein
(The UK-South Africa)
London-based photographer Jillian Edelstein is an author of such editions as The Sunday Times Magazine, New York Times Magazine, Time, Vanity Fair, Life и The New Yorker, and a holder of international awards Visa d’Or, the John Kobal Book Award, etc. She also cooperates with UNICEF. She heads the “People” Jury Chair of the 2014 World Press Photo contest.

Petr Josek
(Czech Republic)
Petr Josek is a photographer and a teacher. He is a winner of a number of prestigious awards in the field of photojournalism, also being member of the jury Czech Press Photo international since 2011. Since 1990 he has been cooperating with Reuters.

Vadim Kachan
(Belarus)
Vadim Kachan is a photographer and a teacher. He is one of the founders of the Belarusian Union of photographers NGO “Fotoiskusstvo”.

Alexander Lyapin
(Ukraine)
Alexander Lyapin is a photographer, a journalist, a lecturer and a curator. He worked as the chief editor of “Fotolenta” news agency and “Vechernie Vesti” newspaper. Today he is the editor in chief of the portal foto.ua and the author of hundreds of articles on photography and one of the organizers of the largest national photo contests “Ukrpressfoto” and “Fotograf Roku” in Ukraine.

Jonas Staselis
(Lithuania)
Jonas Staselis is a photographer. He worked for “Lietuvos Rytas” newspaper and for “Zmones” magazine. Jonas is the founder and the president of the non-profit organization Lithuanian Press Photographers Club and serves as chairman of the Lithuanian Photographers Association. He is also the director of international photojournalism festival “Vilnius Photo Circle”.

Stephan Vanfleteren
(Belgium)
Stephan Vanfleteren is a photographer, a co-founder and the art director of  Kannibaal/Hannibal Publishing. In the period from 1993 to 2009 he was working as a staff photographer of the daily newspaper De Morgen. Today he is cooperating with the media around the world, he travels implementing his author photo projects. Stephan is the winner of multiple victories in international competitions, including the European Fuji Awards and World Press Photo.