Jury
For each exhibition, the jury is composed by Bénédicte Blondeau, founder and curator of PEP, together with the curator(s) from the partner organization and invited artists. For the SEDIMENTATIONS exhibition, jury members include Anne Immelé (Mulhouse Photography Bienniale) and Bénédicte Blondeau (PEP), among other members soon to be confirmed.
Anne Immelé
Anne Immelé holds a PhD in art and is a photographer, photography professor, and exhibition curator.
Her work explores the interplay between memory, territory, and hospitality. In her latest series, Melita, Refuge, she weaves a visual narrative connecting the ancient Phoenician routes with contemporary migratory paths, capturing historically charged sites in Malta, Sicily, and Tunisia. Her poetic and politically engaged images question notions of refuge and displacement.
Founder of the Mulhouse Photography Biennial (BPM), she teaches at the Haute école des arts du Rhin (HEAR) and conducts curatorial research on photographic exhibition formats.
Anne Immelé’s photographs explore our relationship to territory in its many dimensions—geographical, human, social, but also memorial and poetic. Through editing and exhibition design, her images engage in dialogue, creating a space of confrontation. She experiments with juxtapositions, simultaneously presenting portraits and views of places imbued with individual or collective memory. In doing so, she renews a reflection on living together and sharing a common experience.
She is the author of several books, including WIR (with philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy, Filigrane Editions), Oublie Oublie, and Jardins du Riesthal (2020 and 2022). Her photographic work is regularly exhibited, including a solo show at the Fernet-Branca Foundation (Saint-Louis) in 2019, and at Galerie Made during Parcours Paris Photo x Elles in 2022.
Her most recent project, Melita, Refuge, explores the contemporary migratory condition in the Mediterranean, linking it to the ancestral search for refuge. Supported by the CNAP Documentary Photography Grant, this project came to fruition in 2024 through exhibitions at the Malta Biennale of Contemporary Art, in Palermo (as part of CNAP’s SUITES program), during the Jaou Festival in Tunis, and at Stimultania, the lead partner in Strasbourg.
In 2013, she co-founded the BPM – Biennale de la photographie de Mulhouse, where she serves as artistic director and curator of selected exhibitions. The sixth edition, Impossible Worlds, featured 13 exhibitions in 2024.
Her curatorial approach often stems from a spatial understanding of exhibition sites and from associations between images. Her curatorial research originated from her doctoral thesis, Constellations photographiques, defended at the University of Strasbourg in 2007 and published by Médiapop Éditions in 2015. Her interest in the challenges of exhibiting contemporary photography is also reflected in articles published in Art Press. As a professor at HEAR, she coordinates the Master’s program in Art.
Bénédicte Blondeau
Bénédicte Blondeau was born in La Louvière, Belgium. She studied photography in Ghent and Lisbon, and holds a Master's degree in Applied Communication from IHECS in Brussels. Her work has been featured in numerous exhibitions across Europe and published in various international magazines.
In 2019, her first photobook Ce qu’il reste was published by the Portuguese publisher XYZ Books. The book was a finalist for the PhotoEspaña Best Photography Book Award (international category), received an honorable mention at the DGLab Book Design Awards, and was shortlisted for both the ADAGP MAD Revelation Artist Book Award and the Stiftung Buchkunst award.
In 2021, her first solo exhibition was held at Photoforum Pasquart in Switzerland.
The following year, her work was shown at the Mulhouse Photography Biennial (Musée des Beaux-Arts) and at Valletta Contemporary Gallery in Malta. Evolving versions of her ongoing project Ondes were presented in solo and group exhibitions in Berlin and at Contretype in Brussels in 2023.
This same series became the subject of her second photobook, Ondes, published by XYZ Books in the summer of 2024, and exhibited at the Mulhouse Photo Biennial (2024), at the festival Itinéraires des Photographes Voyageurs in Bordeaux (2025), and at SCAN Tarragona (2025), among other events and festivals. The book Ondes was among the winners of the 2025 Photobook Prize at the Belfast Photo Festival and the 2025 Photobook Prize at the Photometria Festival, was shortlisted for the 2024 Fotofabrica Prize at the Diecixdieci Festival, and received a publishing grant from the Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles in 2023.
In addition to her photographic practice, Bénédicte Blondeau has worked as a documentary filmmaker and is currently active as a photography curator for PEP - Photographic Exploration Project - which she founded in Berlin in 2019.
Former jury members are:
Rüdiger Lange
Rüdiger Lange is the artistic director of the Berlin based gallery for contemporary art, Loop – Raum für aktuelle Kunst. He is currently curating B-Part Exhibition.
Norbert Wiesneth
Norbert Wiesneth, born in Munich in 1972, has lived in Berlin since 1997. He studied art, photography and multimedia in Italy and Spain until he completed his studies at the University of the Arts in Berlin with Rebecca Horn in 2000.
Numerous exhibitions in Germany and abroad attest to his artistic activities, which deal primarily with the transformation of places. He showed his works at Kunstverein Tiergarten - Berlin, La condition publique - Lille (F), Kunstbureau - Paris (F), Northern University - Ohio (US) NCCA- Kaliningrad (RUS), Galerie C-Keller - Weimar, The Brno House of Arts - Brno (CZ), Goethe Institute - Milan (I), among others,
In 2007 he received the IBB prize for photography.
He is a founding member of the Axel Obiger Gallery.
In 2009 he was appointed a member of the German Photographic Academy.
In 2012 he founded PhotoWerkBerlin.
Since 2014 he has been working as a curator at Kommunale Galerie Berlin.
In addition to his work as director of PhotoWerkBerlin, he gives courses at BBK-Berlin, Bauhaus University in Weimar, Vermont College of Fine Art.
Matthieu Litt
Matthieu Litt is a Belgian visual artist and photographer living and working in Liège, Belgium.
He is represented by Hangar Gallery.
Ghazaleh Mirahmadian
Ghazaleh Mirahmadian, born in Tehran and based in Liège. She is an interior architect with a master’s degree in architectural heritage from Saint-Luc Liège. For the past five years, she has been part of the organization of La Nature Festival in the Belgian Ardennes, where she curates multidisciplinary program, manages artistic project calls, and designs signature structures.
Siméon Grégoire
Siméon, born in 1997, is a Belgian multidisciplinary artist. He studied graphic design, industrial design, and interior design in Liège before moving to Brussels in 2022.
Member of NoName since 2019 (La Nature Festival, Hors-Piste Festival, etc.), he now leads visual design and communication for the collective. Alongside this role, Siméon works as a freelance designer and art director, continuously evolving in his creative practice.
Gretar Gunnlaugsson, Rebecca Cuglietta and Manon Anglade
Gretar Gunnlaugsson, Rebecca Cuglietta and Manon Anglade participated to the PEP jury for the "New Talents 2022" and '[PEP] PHOTOGRAPHIC EXPLORATIONS °01' exhibitions as members of 254forest.
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Antonio Rodriguez
Antonio Rodriguez (Guatemala) is a photographer based in Berlin.
With a wide experience working as a photographer in America, Europe and Africa, Antonio has always focus his practice into story telling. His projects explore social issues such as migration and territory through the activation of archive imagery.
Liesl Pfeffer
Liesl Pfeffer is a visual artist from Brisbane, Australia, living and working in Berlin. She has a Bachelor of Photography from the Queensland College of Art (2005) and a Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours) from Monash University (2017). Her work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions in Australia and internationally since 2005, including at Jarvis Dooney Galerie and Lite-Haus in Berlin, and Ortega y Gasset, Wassaic Project, Trestle Projects and Chashama in New York.
Jeroen De Wandel
Jeroen De Wandel (°1980, Ronse, lives and works in Ghent) studied photography at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent. He uses photography as a starting point to create new images from all sorts of material (photographic or otherwise) from his personal image archives, which tie in with his themes and interests, often with a social slant.
Main themes are manipulation (in all its aspects), our brain/memory, time and the use of the medium photography, whether or not in relation to painting. His work is a cross-pollination between photography, mixed media and installation; in recent years the focus of his work has shifted from photography more towards collage, installation and sculptural work.
His work has been shown at FoMu in Antwerp and the Rietveld Pavilion in Amersfoort, among other places. He was selected for Futures (European program for young artists) and Festival Circulations 2020 (FR).
Valérie Leray
Valérie Leray, born in 1975, lives and works as an independent photographer in Orléans and Berlin. She graduated as a Master in Photography and Multimedia at the Paris 8 University. The main topic of her work is the question of presence/ absence of History in contemporary photography. In 2008, her project “Nomads” was awarded the label of “The European Year for Intercultural Dialog”. It also got a contribution by the Delegation of Foreign Affairs and a purchase by the Centre France Region (1% artistic). Her works was exhibited in different venues like the Europäischer Monat der Fotografie (Berlin), Fotoseptiembre (Mexico D.F), Pyngyao International Photography festival in Paris, Berlin, Orléans, among others.
Since 1999, Valérie Leray is the Artistic Director of La Mire (ex Lumen) in Orléans (FR), a non-profit organization aimed at promoting photography and video. With the same organization she founded the AIR Program called A ROOF ABOVE YOUR HEAD set up in Berlin.
Erwan Quaegebeur
Born in Lille in 1984, Erwan Quaegebeur had adopted Brussels as its home since 2016. After 10 years of experience in international trade, he co-founded Modern Blocks, an online platform dedicated to contemporary photography. Avid and curious of novelty in the image, his priority is to make contemporary photography more accessible but also to offer better visibility to talented photographers throughout a new space of exhibition.
Ali Kanaan
Ali Kanaan, born 1988 in Lebanon, is a Berlin based photographer with a passion for documentary photography, street photography and portrait photography mainly within the music and film industry.
Together with his brother Mo Kanaan he runs the film & photo production company Kanaan Brothers.
Lynn Klemmer
Lynn Klemmer is a multimedia artist working with video, sound, textiles and digital tools. She studied Fine Art (Media) & Visual Culture at the National College of Art and Design, Dubin (2017). Her practice attempts to approach the margins defining and differentiating concepts, media and atmospheres, and to tentatively push beyond them. Lines become blurred and new perspectives arise; clear demarcations pass into intricate networks, in which no single point can exist without reference to its relations. Lingering at this crossing, the artist seeks to create an audiovisual space for thinking and sensing the possibility of hybrid realities.
Joseph Warren
Joseph is a British born artist whose interest in the performative and sculptural qualities of photography guides his practice. Hugely inspired by experimentation, he uses the photographic medium as a tool of intrigue; allowing him to inspect and investigate the complex relationship between subject and object. As a graduate of Photographic Arts from the University of Westminster, London, he now lives and works in Berlin.