Dr. Molemansstraat
Jury members 2025
Jury members 2025 – POI 14
Dr. Molemansstraat (path between Oude Markt and Lod Lavkistraat)
GPS 51.209632° NB 5.426287° OL
This outdoor exhibition is permanently accessible
Johan Brouwers (BEL), chairman of the jury
“I like to capture the image of people as they occur spontaneously. No deliberate or requested poses. Snapshots in which their glance, their attitude often tells a lot about what they think, also about me.”
During his long career as a professional photographer, Johan Brouwers has gained a great deal of experience as a jury member at home and abroad. As the first jury chairman of ‘Lens op de Mens’ in 2017, he helped shape the festival. Meanwhile, he has become an indispensable link in the organization of the festival.
Johan obtained the label of QEP – Qualified European Photographer.
He is a national board member of beroepsfotografen.be and active within the Federation of European Professional Photographers (FEP) where he is chairman of the EP-jury (European Photographer), a basic qualification for photographers and chairman of the FEP Awards Competition since 2019.
Caroline Alida (BEL)
Caroline Alida was one of the guest photographers of Lens op de Mens 2019. Caroline Alida’s photo projects are all thematic and the result of years of work.
Her interest is mostly in human interest photography of people on the margins of society, exposing the inner world of vulnerable people.
Her main projects have been published in book format: Bori/Healers of the Soul (Niger) – exhibited in FOMU 2010 -, and Hearing Songs in Pine Trees (East Siberia). Her work is a mix of both analogue and digital photography.
Caroline Alida has taught photography master classes to adults for many years. Now she focuses entirely on her own work.
In Pelt, Caroline is showing a selection of portraits from her new series “Blessed”. This series is about trans women in India. Notwithstanding the fact that they are recognised there as the third gender and are accorded higher status in Hinduism as both men and women in one person, they often live on the streets of beggary. This portrait series shows them in their dignity.
Zjuul Devens (BEL)
Visual artist, photographer, cinematographer, Master of Fine Arts and Photography. He was a lecturer in audiovisual communication and multimedia at the Plantijn Hogeschool of the Province of Antwerp, Department of Communication
Management.
He exhibits both at home and abroad, individually and in groups. This is done with photographic work, video installations, slide projections, video, as well as sculpture and installations. He also collaborates with and for other visual artists, dancers, musicians, theatre-makers.
As a professional photographer, he was a devil-do-well. Working for the diamond industry gave birth to his passion for macro photography. Now he is mostly into the theme of impermanence. Dead half-dead insects he likes to give a “new life”. As a volunteer for Child Help, he also photographs and films in Africa. There he discovered a love for documentary photography. Photography and art are a part of his life for him.
About his series Hovsep:
Hovsep is a young man from Armenia, who has applied for asylum in Belgium with his mother and younger brother. Hovsep is deaf and cannot speak. He has been through a lot but, cannot talk about it. He can draw and sculpt beautifully. While modelling, he is hugely concentrated. His charisma is touching.
Andy Hens (DEU/BEL)
“Making the deep nature of human beings visible with photographs is the highest art of photography. Usually people just look AFTER a photograph. Rarely does one look into it.
“MQEP – Master Qualified European Photographer. Belgian photographer who lives and works in Germany. Experienced judge for the QEP and Master QEP qualifications of the Federation of European Professional Photographers. Lecturer in photography at the Handwerkskammer in Dortmund. Experienced cgi artist (cumputergenerated imagery).
Carla Kogelman (NLD)
Carla Kogelman was one of our 2019 Lens on Man guest photographers. Her series HET BAD was exhibited in the cafeteria of the former swimming pool Dommelslag.
Carla Kogelman (1961, Raalte) has worked in theatre for over 25 years and graduated from the Fotoacademie in Amsterdam at the end of 2011, specialising in reportage, documentary and portrait.
Her black-and-white portraits are an illustration of everyday life and deal with growing up, emotion and how people are in life. She likes to make series about people’s resilience.
Her portrait series have won several awards at World Press Photo and the Silver Camera, among others.
www.carlakogelman.nl | www.debeeldunie.nl | www.schiltpublishing.com
About her series Sleeping in 033
For the exhibition Sleep! at Kunsthal Kade in 2024, Kogelman created the series Sleep in 033. Sleeping behaviour is very personal; we make ourselves as comfortable as possible, preferably with as few disturbing factors as possible. Documenting sleep rituals is an intimate process, inevitably close to the other and yet also far away, when sleep has set in. Kogelman went out to sleep in her own hometown. She followed rituals that lower the heart rate before going to bed such as brushing teeth and
reading aloud. And also documented the rituals at a sleepover at her home. Kogelman portrayed a couple who, due to sleep apnoea, both sleep with an aid and followed another couple who – as soon as possible – sleep together outdoors. We see afternoon naps and family sleepers.
Sleeping in 033 is a combination of special encounters and intimate moments, and for Kogelman is the beginning of a series on Sleeping worldwide.
Thanks to: Thomas, Sally & Kees, Leila, Joost, Luc & Boaz, Cees & Monica, Sara & Evi
Kunsthal KAdE
Museum Flehite
Jim Lowe (GBR)
Jim Lowe, MA, FBIPP, has been a professional photographer for many years. After graduating from Swansea College of Art, he was employed as a corporate photographer with the Ministry of Defence in London, then worked for six years in the photographic
department at Portsmouth Polytechnic and became head of department.
He then joined the Westinghouse Brake and Signal engineering company, part of the Hawker Siddeley Engineering Corporation, as chief photographer, which involved assignments in Hong Kong, Zimbabwe and America.
In 1985, he and his wife Sue started their own business in commercial/advertising photography. Over the last 25 years, he specialised in architectural photography and became a recognised expert in architectural photography. Photographers Institute Press, an English publisher, commissioned him to write a book Architectural Photography, Inside & Out, which sold out worldwide within 3 years. Jim is also known for his large analogue black-and-white landscapes for which he uses traditional film and prints them by hand at exhibition quality. These have been purchased by collectors as far away as Japan, India, South Africa, Canada, Ireland and the UK. Jim has had exhibitions of his black-and-white landscapes and architectural photography throughout Europe, London, Moscow, Bath, Wiltshire and Cornwall.
The majority of his photographs are now captured using digital technology.From 2007 to 2018, in addition to his other activities, Jim was head lecturer at Falmouth University in Cornwall for the Marine and Natural History Photography Course, becoming head of the course in September 2012. While teaching at Falmouth University, he obtained a Master’s Degree in Education and Creative Academic Practice and became a Senior Fellow of the British Higher Education Academy. He is also currently an online lecturer in Architectural Photography for the British company Learning with Experts and has taught students worldwide. Jim was president of the British Institute of Professional Photography – BIPP (1999/2000) and director for several years.
He was vice-president of the FEP – Federation of European Photographers from 2000 to 2010. He has been judging for the FEP for 24 years and is currently chairman of the FEP Qualifications Jury and chairman of the FEP Young Photographer Award. He has also served as a jury member for many European photographic organisations and competitions.
Carol Olerud (NLD/AUS)
Carol is a Fellow of the RPS (Royal Photographic Society) since 2021. Previously she had attained her Associate Distinction in 2018.
She is the Organiser of the Benelux Chapter since 2020. Members and Friends of the Chapter come together to work towards gaining their distinctions, discussing photography, they hold workshops and other events. They meet every month, in a Zoom or in person in Rotterdam.
In 2024 Carol was awarded the Fenton Medal, one of four handed out each year, for her excellent or notable contribution to the work of the Society.
Carol was born in Australia and now lives in The Netherlands.
Her main focus is documentary/contemporary photography. She likes to take photos of people in any situation. Storytelling and street photography are main themes for her.
Carol is ‘huisfotograaf’ for theatre DE KOM in Nieuwegein.
With the Royal Dutch Fotobond, Carol is the co-ordinator, since 2018, of the National Group Documentary Photography which meets at least four times per year with people from all over The Netherlands. They present their printed photos and discuss them with each other. Carol is currently candidate BMK (Bonds Meester Klasse of the Fotobond).
On a more local level Carol is the Chair of the Photographers’ Collective Visie+ and she is also a member of Fwg-De Verbeelding.
To see more about Carol please check her website: www.carololerud.com
www.rps.org | https://rps.org/chapters/benelux/ | www.fotobond.nl
Nooshin Vafadar (IRN)
Nooshin Vafadar is an Iranian freelance photographer from Mashhad.
Photography and teaching are her great passion. She teaches photography classes to both adults and young people from all walks of life.
Nooshin has a long experience as a judge at numerous photography competitions and festivals in her home country. She participated in numerous photography exhibitions and also acted as curator of exhibitions by her students on several occasions.
Still during her photography studies, she was accepted into the film department of the Iranian Ministry of Culture and Islam guidance in 1991 and moved to Tehran. After her studies, she returned to Mashhad and started teaching photography in various institutes there. To better pass on her experience to others, she started her own website and held exhibitions.
With the Iranian Society of Photography, she organised dozens of photography courses and workshops. Her particular focus is on workshops and photography outings for young people.
She also collaborated on several book publications on her photography trips with young people and other subjects, among others. Numerous articles about her have appeared in the Iranian press and she has been a guest on Iranian TV on several occasions.
Nooshin is associated with the Iranian Youth Cinema Society (iycs.ir) as the person in charge of the Mashhad region.
You can find more about her impressive career in this very comprehensive biography.
