JURY OF THE GRAND PRIX IMAGES VEVEY 2025/2026

RINEKE DIJKSTRA

Photographer and video artist, based in Amsterdam (NL)

Since the early 1990s, Rineke Dijkstra has developed a complex body of photographic and video work, offering a contemporary take on the genre of portraiture. Her work primarily features adolescents at pivotal moments in their lives. Through subtle, minimal contextual details, she invites us to focus on the exchange between photographer and subject, as well as the relationship between viewer and viewed.
A Hasselblad Award laureate (2017), she has received several prestigious distinctions, including the Johannes Vermeer Prijs and the SPECTRUM International Prize for Photography. Her work has been exhibited in major institutions such as the Guggenheim Museum (New York), the Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam), and the Maison Européenne de la Photographie (Paris). She lives in Amsterdam and is represented by international galleries.

LEWIS CHAPLIN

Co-founder, Loose Joints, Marseille (FR)

Lewis Chaplin (b. 1992) is a British book-makerand graphic designer based in Marseille, France. In 2014, he co-founded Loose Joints, an award-winning publishing house anddesign studio with Sarah Chaplin Espenon. In 2021, they opened Ensemble, a bookshop and gallery in Marseille.
Loose Joints collaborates with artists on contemporary photography books, managing design, editing, and production in-house. Their publications won the Aperture–ParisPhoto PhotoBook Award in 2024, 2022, and 2020. Loose Joints also operates as a designstudio and runs a publishing residency with Mahler & LeWitt Studios in Spoleto, Italy.
Previously, Chaplin ran publisher fourteen-nineteen, co-organized Copeland BookMarket, and was senior designer at MACK.

OLUREMI C. ONABANJO

The Peter Schub Curator, The Robert B. Menschel Department of Photography, MoMA The Museum of Modern Art, New York (US)

Oluremi C. Onabanjo is the Peter Schub Curator in the Robert B. Menschel Department of Photography at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), where she manages its holdings of over 35,000 photographs spanning the history of the medium. At MoMA, her recent exhibitions include Ernest Cole’s House of Bondage, Projects: Ming Smith, and New Photography 2023.
The inaugural recipient of the Vilcek Prize in Curatorial Work 2025, she was a 2024 Center for Curatorial Leadership Fellow and the 2023 recipient of the Cisneros Institute Research Grant. Previously, she worked as Director of Exhibitions and Collections at The Walther Collection and was part of the curatorial team for the 8th Triennial of Photography Hamburg (2022).
Editor of Marilyn Nance: Last Day in Lagos (2022) and author of Ming Smith: Invisible Man, Somewhere, Everywhere (2023), her writing on photography has been featured in Aperture, Revista ZUM, FOAM Magazine, and The New Yorker, as well as in publications by the Art Institute of Chicago, Studio Museum in Harlem, and Tate.

ALONA PARDO

Director, Arts Council Collection, London (UK)

Alona Pardo is Director of the Arts Council Collection, UK, and was until recently a curator at Barbican Art Gallery in London for 15 years. With a focus on photography and film, she has curated numerous exhibitions including most recently RE/SISTERS: A Lens on Gender and Ecology (2023; Barbican & FoMU, Antwerp); The Infinite Woman (Fondation Carmignac, France 2024); Noemie Goudal: Phoenix (2022; Les Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles); Masculinities: Liberation through Photography (Barbican, Gropius Bau, Les Rencontres de la Photographie; 2020); Dorothea Lange: Politics of Seeing (Barbican & Jeu de Paume; 2018); Another Kind of Life: Photography on the Margins (2018); and Strange and Familiar: Britain as seen by International Photographers (with Martin Parr; 2016) amongst others. She has curated large-scale commissions with artists including Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum, Ayse Erkmen, Richard Mosse, Trevor Paglen, Damian Ortega, and Roman Signer amongst others.

URS STAHEL

Artistic Director, Fondazione MAST, Bologna (IT)

Urs Stahel studied German Literature and Linguistics, History and Philosophy at the University of Zurich. After graduating, he worked as an editor for “Der Alltag” and for the art magazine “du,” as an art critic for “Weltwoche” and for “ART” in Hamburg. 1986-92 Lecturer at the Höhere Schule für Gestaltung in Zurich. 1986 Co-founder of the Kunsthalle Zürich. 1993 Co-founder of Fotomuseum Winterthur. 1993-2013 Director and curator of Fotomuseum Winterthur. 2000-2003 Co-founder and curator of the Coalmine in Winterthur.

Since 2013 he has worked independently as a curator, author, lecturer and consultant. As a curator and art director mainly the Fondazione MAST in Bologna, as a consultant for the Art Vontobel art collection in Zurich(2014-2024) and for Foto Colectania in Barcelona, as President for Spectrum-Photography in Switzerland (2014-2020).Lecturer/visiting professor/visiting fellow for ZHdK (2013-2018), University of Zurich(2014-2015), University of Lucerne (2018) and for London College of Communication(2017-2019). In 2015 he was awarded the Prix Meret Oppenheim/Grand Prix Swiss Art, and in 2019 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Lucerne.