The Artistic Council of the photobooks.pl project in the 2024 edition includes the following invited experts:

  • Anka Sielska – photographer, cultural animator (founder of the Image Culture Foundation). A graduate of the Institute of Creative Photography in Opava (Czech Republic) and the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice, where she teaches courses on narrative in photography and photobook editing. She works with private stories, amateur photographs, and souvenirs from photo studios. She also works in artistic photography and co-creates multimedia projects. Author’s website: www.ankasielska.com IG: ankasielska
  • Grażyna Siedlecka – independent curator and author of texts on photography. Founder of the Fresh From Poland platform. Author of solo and group exhibitions in Poland, England, the Netherlands, Germany, and Iceland. She has presented projects at festivals such as Krakow Photomonth, Krakow Photo Fringe, Istanbul Photobook Festival, Just Another Photo Festival Delhi, Noorderlicht International Photo Festival, and Riga Photomonth Festival. She co-created PAPERLUST Photobook Fest in Krakow. Former editor of Miesięcznik FOTO (Poland) and Prism Magazine (Dublin), she currently collaborates with Contemporary Lynx (London). She is a student of Curating and Exhibition Organization at the Academy of Art in Szczecin and a participant in Curae 2024/2025 Online Masterclass On Curatorial Practice (Erik Kessels). She is the co-curator of the exhibition Ausnahmezustand. Polnische Fotokunst heute (2022) in Berlin.

and the management board of the unContemporary Foundation:

  • Jakub Dziewit – lens-based artist and visual researcher, doctor of arts, cultural studies scholar, curator, and publisher of photography publications. Originator and artistic director of Paper Photo Festival. President of the unContemporary Foundation, founder of the Photography Department at Jan Długosz University. Author of, among others, the monograph Aparaty i obrazy. W stronę kulturowej historii fotografii (Cameras and Images. Towards a Cultural History of Photography) and Ocalać. Zofia Rydet i fotografia wernakularna (To save. Zofia Rydet and Vernacular Photography; together with Adam Pisark), the photobooks This is not another Martin Parr exhibition and Desires of meaning, as well as several exhibitions and photographic performances. Publisher, designer, and editor of dozens of books and photobooks. Author’s website: dziewit.art.pl, IG: jakubdziewit,
  • Jadwiga Janowska – Graduate of the Institute of Creative Photography (Institut tvůrčí fotografie) in Opava (Czech Republic). Currently an assistant at the Department of Photography at the Jan Długosz University in Częstochowa. In 2018, she won the main prize for photojournalism in the Young Poland category at the Grand Press Photo competition. Winner of the Jan Sawka Award at the Fama festival (2021). Second prize in the Talent of the Year competition organized by Pix House (2021). Her works have been presented in Poland and abroad, including at the Silesian Museum, Esta Contemporary Art Gallery, Les Rencontres de la photographie d’Arles, Granze Arsenali Fotogafie Verona, Oslo Negativ Fotofestival, and others,
  • Zuzanna Frydel – Member of the board of the unContemporary Foundation, marketing specialist, lecturer at UKEN in Krakow. Privately, she is a lover of analog photography, handicrafts, and cultural events.