Jury and Selection
Jury Panel
The Evi Mono Awards jury panel is an ongoing international group of photographers, artists, editors, curators and visual culture professionals.
The panel has been created to support the award across future editions, helping to build a consistent visual standard, a clear understanding of the theme and a strong curatorial identity over time.
Submissions will be reviewed with attention to concept, photographic quality, visual clarity, response to the theme and relevance to women’s stories, presence and experience.
Patron / EVI
Evi is the patron and inspiration behind Evi Mono Awards.
Her role is connected to the vision and direction of the project: supporting an independent photography award centred around women, visual stories and monochrome expression.
She has chosen not to appear publicly, allowing the focus to remain on the artists, their work and the mission of the award.
suteishi
suteishi is a Berlin-based photographer, visual artist and trained communication designer. After graduating from the Berlin University of the Arts (formerly Hochschule der Künste Berlin), he worked for many years as an independent graphic designer before focusing increasingly on photography.
His work explores portraiture, identity, performance and contemporary culture, combining documentary observation with a cinematic and often painterly visual language.
Under the artist name "suteishi", his photographs are licensed internationally through Getty Images and have appeared in magazines, books and other visual media. His photographs have been published internationally in magazines, books, posters and editorial publications.
He lives and works in Berlin.
Eme Sofia
Eme Sofía is a self-taught Argentine photographer working across creative photography, self-portraiture, and portraiture. Her practice moves through the dark, the erotic, and the disruptive - creating images that unsettle, seduce, and challenge conventional ways of seeing and representing the body.
Driven by a constant pursuit of experimentation and creative growth, she explores not only the final image but also the processes behind its creation. Photography is her way of seeing the world, expressing herself, and experiencing freedom.
Based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, she has developed a distinctive visual language in which physicality, tension, and sensory experience become photographic material. Alongside her artistic practice, she teaches photography classes and workshops, sharing her vision and creative process with emerging and established photographers alike.
Tomasz Trzebiatowski
Tomasz Trzebiatowski is a photographer, editor, publisher, and classical pianist based in Switzerland.
He is the founder and editor of FRAMES Magazine, an international photography publication dedicated to thoughtful, beautifully produced photographic work, and also leads FujiLove Magazine, a magazine and community for Fujifilm users around the world. Through his daily newsletter PHOTOSNACK, he shares photographers whose work deserves closer attention, encouraging readers to slow down, look carefully, and discover new visual voices.
With a background in music and a deep sensitivity to rhythm, mood, and atmosphere, Tomasz approaches photography as both an artistic and human practice. His work as an editor is rooted in curiosity, care, and a belief that photography still matters deeply in an increasingly fast and image-saturated world. Through his magazines, conversations, interviews, and writing, he creates spaces where photographers can be seen, heard, and taken seriously.
Marine Foissey
Marine Foissey is a French visual artist and photographer whose work explores the narratives that shape our behaviours, desires, and perception of the world.
Through staged photography, she examines the tensions between appearance and authenticity, belonging and exclusion, individual identity and collective norms. Her series explore contemporary myths surrounding success and self-image, as well as human relationships, social roles, and our connection to the living world.
Using artifice to reveal deeply human truths, her work invites viewers to question the invisible forces that influence how we define ourselves and find our place in the world.
Marine Foissey regularly takes part in exhibitions, art fairs, and festivals in France and internationally. Her work has received recognition through several international photography awards and distinctions.
Jovana Rikalo
Jovana Rikalo is a fine art photographer from Serbia. To capture an emotion and story filled with magic and dreams is her gift. She works as a full-time photographer and content creator, helping brands to promote products and launch campaigns.
Her photos have been featured in dozens of publications around the World including Instagram, Digital SLR Magazine, Adobe, Practical Photography Magazine, Digital Photo Magazine, Beautiful Bizarre magazine, Faerie Magazine and more.
Jovana’s pictures have also been used for plenty of book covers. In 2020, she started holding workshops worldwide and helped young photographers to pursue their dreams and build their brands.
Tyler McAuley
Tyler McAuley is a Chicago-based photographer and artist working across fine art portraiture, fashion, dance and monochrome visual storytelling.
Before photography, he spent more than two decades as an actor, an influence that still shapes his work through gesture, timing, tension and the private life of a frame. His practice is rooted in black-and-white portraiture, staged imagery and emotionally direct compositions, often centred on women as complex collaborators rather than passive subjects.
McAuley’s work has appeared in numerous exhibitions and publications and has reached millions of viewers across platforms including 500px, Behance, 1x, Instagram and YellowKorner. His photographs often sit between control and accident, beauty and unease, polish and damage. He is drawn to images that feel lived-in, unresolved and difficult to explain away.
Julia Postrzech
Julia Postrzech is a furniture and interior designer based in Helsinki. Her work moves between object, space and atmosphere, with a strong focus on material presence, proportion and emotional function.
In her design practice, she collects ideas from observations and materials she works with, and explores how everyday objects can convey new character. Intrigued by human psychology, behaviour and perceptions, she tries to bring these thoughts into the physical objects and spaces.
In the jury, she brings a sensitive eye for form, composition and the relationship between body, space and object.
Ioannis Galanopoulos Papavasileiou
Dr Ioannis Galanopoulos Papavasileiou is a contemporary visual artist and university professor. His work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions in institutions in UAE, Europe, the USA, Australia, China and Japan. Most notably at Athens Photo Festival, the Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts in Japan, the Venice Biennale, the Florence Biennale, the Xposure festival in Sharjah, the Pingyao International Photography Festival in China, the Czong Institute for Contemporary Art in Korea, and the Eyes on Main Street Festival in the USA. His expanded photography work examines lyrical topographies and the relationship between ideated, geographic and virtual place. Ioannis writes on photography and film and is a regular contributor to scholarly research journals and publications such as Taylor and Francis; The Journal of Visual Practice Research and Photography and Culture, CGRNet's Journal of Communication and Media Studies and On the Image and the Canadian Review of Comparative Literature.
Fernando Rodriguez
Fernando Rodriguez is a Mexican image maker based in New York. Inspired by the complexities of the human mind and behaviour, he brings a unique perspective to his craft, using vivid colours, dynamic perspectives and innovative light sources.
His work has been featured in publications such as Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue, ELLE, Grazia, Schön!, L’Officiel, TUSH, Infringe and many others. He has also collaborated with brands such as Dior, Louis Vuitton, Adobe, Domestika and Capture One.
Fernando has been recognised for his work with awards such as the ADC 99th Annual Awards 2020 in the Fashion Photography category and the ADC 100th Annual Awards 2021 in the same category. The ADC Annual Awards is the oldest continuously running industry award show in the world.
Amadeusz Andrzejewski
Photographer & Film Editor / Poland / WEBSITEAmadeusz Andrzejewski explores the possibilities of creating unique worlds through his photography. His pictures share a cinematic approach to lighting as well as telling complex stories through a single frame. He loves working outside of a studio environment and drawing inspiration from locations and transforming them, often while pushing the technical capabilities of modern digital cameras to their limits.
Postrh.
Photographer and Founder / Ireland / WEBSITEPostrh is a photographer and visual author working between documentary observation, interiors and monochrome visual storytelling. His practice is rooted in atmosphere, restraint and the quiet architecture of human presence.
As the founder of Evi Mono Awards, he created the platform to support photography about women, seen through monochrome language, emotional clarity and strong visual discipline.
Your Place in the Next Jury
Next Evi Mono Awards Jury MemberOne of this edition’s winners will be invited to join the jury of the next Evi Mono Awards.