Former editor in chief of photography magazine PHaT PHOTO and gallery director, he established T3 PHOTO FESTIVAL TOKYO in 2017.In 2024, he initiated the T3 PHOTO ASIA art fair and the T3 NEW TALENT mentorship program. He is the director of T3 , an international cultural platform comprising a photography festival, art festival, and mentorship program.

Curator Emerita of Photography at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art(SFMOMA). Having joined the museum in 1987, Phillips organized numerous critically acclaimed exhibitions of modern and contemporary photography, including Daido Moriyama's first major exhibition in the US, Stray Dog (2004).

Art and performing arts critic. Researcher at the Archival Research Center, Kyoto City University of Arts.They write about contemporary art and performing arts with a cross-sectional perspective focusing on gender and queer issues and the (re-)presentation of history. They contributed to Momose Aya: Interpreter (Bijutsu Shuppan-sha, 2023).

Artist and research associate at Tokyo University of the Arts. During his time at Musashino Art University, he studied under Koko Yamagishi who donated the Shoji and Koko Yamagishi archive to the Tokyo University of the Arts in 2015. He continues to research this Yamagishi archive.

Art historian. Graduated from the Graduate School of Art and Design, Musashino Art University. Major essays include "Farewell to Ideology: T. J. Clark 'Gray Panic' as a Guide" (Eureka, Seidosha, June 2022).

Postdoctorate teaching fellow at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.After completing research stays at the University of Tokyo and Waseda University, she obtained her PhD from Inalco in Paris. Her thesis on Workshop Shashin Gakkō (Workshop school of photography) received multiple awards including the Shibusawa-Claudel Prize.

Paris-based independent writer, editor, and curator. A specialist in Japanese photography, he has recently contributed to monographs by Rinko Kawauchi and Ryudai Takano. A regular speaker and jury member at photography festivals and events, he has co-hosted the Artist Talks at Paris Photo since 2019.

Completed the Master's Program at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo. Assistant Curator at the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo. Her essays include "On the Absence of Female Photographers: Reconsidering the Response to the New Japanese Photography Exhibition" (Bulletin of the National Museum of Modern Art, no. 27, 2023).

Researcher on photography and gender representations. They organize lectures, workshops, training courses, and exhibitions at various schools/institutions and companies both in Japan and abroad, while writing and translating for magazines and online media. Their most recent publication is Jendaa mesen no kokoku kansatsu (Viewing advertising from gender perspectives) (Gendai Shokan, 2023 ).

Writer, editor, and publisher with close to 30 years of expertise on Japanese photography. His major publications include Setting Sun: Writings by Japanese Photographers (Aperture, 2006 ), Japanese Photobooks of the 1960 s and '70 s (Aperture,2009), and Japanese Photography Magazines: 1880 s to 1980 s (Goliga Books, 2023 ).

Founder and co-director of LE BAL in Paris,an independent platform for exhibitions,publications, ideas, and education, focusing on contemporary visual language in photography, video, film, and new media.

Estrellita and Yousuf Karsh Chair of Photography at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Having joined the museum in 1989 , she has led the MFA's Photography collection and program since 2001. Together with the MFA's Senior Curator of Japanese Art, Anne Nishimura Morse, she developed a strategic plan to collect Japanese photography.

Curator and head of photography at SFMOMA where she began her museum career in 2007. Specialized in postwar American photography, with an emphasis on work made in California, she is also deeply interested in Japanese photography and is organizing a Kunié Sugiura retrospective, opening at SFMOMA in April 2025.

Jeehey Kim, an assistant professor at the University of Arizona, holds a PhD in Art History from CUNY. She researches Korean photography, Cold War visual culture, and gender politics. She launched symposia on Asian photography in 2022 and is working on a book about funerary portrait photography in East Asia. Her first book is Photography and Korea.

Born in Tokyo in 1960 and raised in a Buddhist temple. Moved to the United States at the age of 18 and studied under Leo Rubinfien at the School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York. For a decade, he immersed himself in contemporary art, photography, and Buddhism. He is now the head priest of Chohouin Temple, director of Kurenboh gallery, and a photographer.

Curator at Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, first in the Moving Image department (2015 -19 ) and then in the Photography department since 2020. From the early days of photography and moving images to contemporary art, she explores the relationship between the photographic image and media or devices that act as its platform.

Photography critic and researcher of photography history. A part-time instructor at Rikkyo University and elsewhere, he contributes to magazines including Harper's Bazaar, Studio Voice, and So-en. Guest curator for T3 PHOTO FESTIVAL TOKYO 2023, he is also the head of Totonoeru, an editing service for photographic expression.

Kiritorimederu writes about and researches theories of digital photography. Her books include Insutaguramu to gendai shikaku bunka ron (A theory of Instagram and contemporary visual culture) (Co-authored,BNN Shinsha, 2018 ). She was a guest curator of T3 PHOTO FESTIVAL TOKYO 2022 and is a member of AICA.

Acting Chief Curator of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, where she has curated major recent exhibitions of the work of LaToya Ruby Frazier (2024 ), An-My Lê (2023 ), and Wolfgang Tillmans (2022 ). She is the co-founder of MoMA's Forums on Contemporary Photography, and co-chair of C-MAP's Southeast and East Asia groups.