Liu Heung Shing (Photojournalist, Founder of the Shanghai Center of Photography)

Born in 1951 in Hong Kong, founded the Shanghai Center of Photography in 2015, lives and works in Shanghai, China. Liu Heung Shing first apprenticed at Life magazine in the mid-1970s where he was inspired and influenced by the legendary team of Life photographers, including Gjon Mili. Later, for Time magazine and the AP, Liu worked first in Beijing, with subsequent postings to Los Angeles, New Delhi, Seoul and Moscow. Liu’s photographs of the rise of China and the collapse of the Soviet Union have been recognized with multiple awards, including a Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography in 1992. In 2004, Paris Photo named Liu as one of the hundred most influential people in contemporary photography.

Kuo Li-Hsin (Professor at College of Communication, and Dean of the Office of Research and Development at National Chengchi University, Taiwan)

Critic of photography and documentary film, and PhD in Media and Communications at Goldsmiths College, University of London. He is currently Professor at College of Communication, and Dean of the Office of Research and Development at National Chengchi University, Taiwan. His juror experiences for various photography and film competitions include: Excellence Award (photojournalism category), Wu Shuen-wen Photojournalism Award, Taiwan International Documentary Festival, Golden Horse Awards, Taipei Film Festival, Chinese Documentary Festival, Fresh Wave Short Film Festival, HK, The Beijing Independent Film Festival, etc. Recent publications include More Writings on Photography (2013), Reading Photography: Critical Essays by Kuo Li-Hsin (2014), Interrogating Reality:Politics and De-politicization of Documentary Film (2014), and Manufacturing Meaning: Discourse, Power and Cultural Politics in Realist Photography (2018).

Philip Tinari (Director and CEO of UCCA Center for Contemporary Art)

Philip Tinari is Director and CEO of UCCA Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing, one of China’s leading institutions of contemporary art. Since joining in 2011, he has led its transformation from a founder-owned private museum into an accredited museum across multiple locations, a public foundation, and a family of art-driven enterprises. During his tenure, UCCA has mounted more than seventy exhibitions and thousands of public programs, bringing artistic voices established and emerging, Chinese and international, to an audience of over a million visitors each year. Having written extensively on contemporary art in China, he was co-curator of the 2017 exhibition “Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World” at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York.

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