The Exchange Retreat

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTORS


JIM GOLDBERG
Born in Connecticut in 1953, Jim Goldberg takes an innovative and multidisciplinary approach to documentary that has made him a landmark photographer and social practitioner of our times. His work often examines the lives of neglected, ignored, or otherwise outside-the-mainstream populations. Through long-term, in-depth collaborations, his work investigates the nature of universal myths about class, power, and happiness.

Goldberg’s work is in numerous private and public collections, including New York’s Museum of Modern Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the J. Paul Getty Museum, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including three National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, a Guggenheim Fellowship (1985), the Henri Cartier-Bresson Award (2007) and the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize (2011). Goldberg has been a member of Magnum Photos since 2006 and is Professor Emeritus at the California College of the Arts.


ALESSANDRA SANGUINETTI
Alessandra Sanguinetti is known for her lyrical, softly drawn photography that explores themes of memory, place, and the psychological transitions of youth.

Sanguinetti was born in New York in 1968 and brought up in Argentina where she lived from 1970 until 2003. Her interest in photography began aged 9 when she poured over her mother’s collection of books by Michael Lesy, Dorothea Lange and others. She studied Anthropology at the University of Buenos Aires and General Studies at the International Center of Photography.

Sanguinetti is a recipient of a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship and a Hasselblad Foundation grant. Her photographs are included in public and private collections, such as the Museum of Modern Art (NY), the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She has photographed for the The New York Times Magazine, LIFE, Newsweek, and New York magazine and is currently based in San Francisco. Sanguinetti has been a member Magnum since 2007. She is currently based in California.


HOLLY ROUSSELL
Holly Roussell 容思玉 (b. 1989) is an American/Swiss curator, researcher, author, and museologist, specializing in photography and contemporary art from East Asia. She has organized numerous group and solo exhibitions for museums, biennales, and festivals around the world, including at the Folkwang Museum (DE), MUCEM (Marseille), NGV (Melbourne), and the MMCA—Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul. Currently based in Paris and China, Roussell serves as curator at the UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing since 2021. Prior to this, she worked as an independent curator in China and Switzerland, and spent five years at Photo Élysée in Lausanne. In 2022, Roussell was guest curator of Paris Photo’s “Curiosa” sector for emerging artists.

Recent projects include “Slide/Show: Light Images in Chinese Contemporary Art” (2023-2026); “Feng Li: White Nights in Wonderland” (Fotografiska Shanghai/Stockholm/Berlin, 2023–2025); “Riar Rizaldi: A Phantom Ride of the Sunda Plate” (Centre de la photographie Genève, 2024); the major touring exhibition and publication “Civilization: The Way We Live Now” (co-curated with William A. Ewing, 2018–present); and “Mo Yi: Me in My Landscape” (Rencontres d’Arles/UCCA, 2024). In 2026, Roussell will co-author one of the first English-language survey books on Korean photography for Thames & Hudson, UK. (Photo credit: Kourtney Roy)



BRAD FEUERHELM
Brad Feuerhelm is an artist, curator, publisher, and writer on photography and the photobook. He has published nine books of his work and has written for different magazines both in print and on-line. He is the Managing Editor and director of American Suburb X, an on-line platform devoted to photography reviews and interviews. In 2020 he launched the Nearest Truth Podcast. Nearest Truth Workshops and Nearest Truth Editions, begun in 2021 and 2023 respectively, are the workshop and publishing arm of Nearest Truth.

MARILENA STAFYLIDOU
Marilena Stafylidou is a photographer, curator, and educator with a long and multifaceted career in the field of artistic and cultural photography. Since 2020, she has been directing The Palm Tree Workshops Space in Santorini, a creative venue that hosts international workshops and residencies, focusing on creative exchange and in-depth artistic research. Since 1993, she has been an active member of Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders), working as a photographer and previously serving on its Board of Directors. In this capacity, she has travelled to regions in Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and the former Soviet Union, documenting human experience in crisis environments.