Judges

Ajay Chhabra

Ajay is Artistic Director of the London Mela, the largest celebration of its kind in Europe. He is a board director and trustee of Visiting Arts and founder chair of the European Mela Network.

Lyndall Stein

Lyndall Stein joined Concern Worldwide UK as Executive Director in 2004. Lyndall has overseen the launch of Concern in the UK, and has been instrumental in developing its partnership with Positive Lives, an international photography project exploring global human response to HIV/AIDS which she co-founded and chaired in the early 1990s.

Mark Sealy

Director of Autograph (the Association of Black Photographers), Mark has curated several major international photography exhibitions, edited several photography books and is now developing a building project in partnership with the Institute of International Visual Arts.

Shahidul Alam

Shahidul was nominated the best photographer of the year by the London Arts Council in 1983. He became the president of the Bangladesh Photographic Society and in 1989 went on to set up Drik Picture Library and "Pathshala" - the South Asian Institute of Photography. He is also a director of Chobi Mela, the festival of photography in Asia and was the first Asian person to chair the international jury in World Press Photo history.