Seen Before, Seen Again Jury
Ha Dao
Ha Dao is an artist working with photography and moving image based in Hanoi. Inspired by the quiet drama of everyday life, her work explores how personal fates intersect with larger histories and reflects on the notion of distance, with the camera as both witness and intermediary. Her lens-based works have been showcased at various spaces and programs such as Manzi Art Space (Vietnam), Xie Zilong Photography Museum (China), Lange Nacht der Bilder (Germany), Videoex (Switzerland), among others. She is the recipient of the Seed Award by the Prince Claus Fund, the Higashikawa Award, and the Dogma Prize.
Apart from her personal practice, Ha co-runs Matca, an independent initiative dedicated to opening conversations around photography in Vietnam, actively building its public programs, exhibitions, and publications.
Tom White - Parallax Asia
Tom has spent the last twenty years working in the fields of art, media and academia. He is a visual communications educator, as well as a photographer in the journalism, editorial, advocacy and commercial spaces. He designed and delivered the Photojournalism & Documentary curriculum for Yale-NUS College in Singapore, and has also taught at the International Center of Photography and Columbia University in New York, in addition to instructing and facilitating various workshops and community-based social programs. Tom’s current research includes a focus on the potential of immersive and interactive documentary methods, and the continued importance of visual and media literacy. He’s been based in Singapore since 2011.
Kang Jeauk
Kang Jeauk is a curator and visual artist whose practice navigates the intersection of art, society, and history through a critical and interdisciplinary lens. As the Curatorial Director of the 4th Jeju Biennale and the Founder & Director of the Suwon International Photo Festival, he has played a pivotal role in fostering transnational artistic dialogue and cultural exchange.
His curatorial approach centers on the entangled narratives of social memory, environmental crises, and historical consciousness, shaping exhibitions that interrogate urgent contemporary issues. With an extensive portfolio of international projects and jury engagements, he has established a dynamic platform for cross-cultural discourse, particularly in reframing global challenges such as climate change and disaster through the language of art. His work seeks to bridge disciplines, reconfigure exhibition spaces as sites of inquiry, and cultivate new perspectives within the evolving landscape of contemporary art.
Angel Velasco Shaw
Angel Velasco Shaw is a visual and media artist, curator, cultural organizer and educator residing in Manila and New York. Her experimental documentaries—Inherited Memories, When Absence Becomes Presence, Motherload (co-producer Josephine Turalba), The Momentary Enemy, Umbilical Cord, Asian Boys, and Nailed have screened in the U.S., Asia and Europe in festivals, museums, and educational institutions. Her films are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museums of Art in New York and Manila, Cinematheque Suisse Schweizer Filmarchiv and Casa Asia in Barcelona. Shaw’s photography and video installations have been exhibited in the 58th Carnegie International, the Manila Biennale, Gwangju Biennale, the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manila, the Jim Thompson Museum in Bangkok, The Substation in Singapore and several independent galleries in New York and Los Angeles. Shaw has curated numerous contemporary art and film exhibitions and produced cross-cultural exchange and multidisciplinary projects in New York and the Philippines. Her teaching career spans over 31-years. She has taught Asian American, Gender, Media, Cultural and Postcolonial Studies, Fine Arts, and Communication Arts courses at The New School, Hunter College, Columbia University, Pratt Institute, New York University, Philippine Women’s University and most recently, Princeton University. She was a recipient of a 100 Most Influential Filipina Women in the U.S. "Innovators & Thought Leaders" award by Filipina Women's Network in 2011.
Sandra Palomar
Chair of the Foundation University Fine Arts program, Sandra Palomar established Palomar Fine Arts Services (PFAS) in 2010 to provide logistical solutions for art projects and collections of studios and cultural institutions. She previously served the Metropolitan Museum of Manila as the Director from 2012-2015. She also co-founded Arts and Design Collective Dumaguete, Inc. (ADCDI) which envisions a community of creatives that strive for excellence through training and mentoring.
Neal Oshima
Neal Masao Oshima is a commercial, editorial, and fine art photographer based in Manila, Philippines. He began his photographic career as a laboratory and field photographer at the Bishop Museum in Hawaii and fine art photographer in San Francisco, CA. His editorial work includes books such as Dreamweavers, a documentation of the T’nalak weavers of the T’boli tribe in Lake Sebu, Mindanao; Treasures of the Philippine National Museum published by Bookmark; Philippine Ancestral Houses by Dr. Fernando Zialcita. Other published work includes Flavors of the Philippines by Glenda Barretto, Beyond Rice and Bamboo by Maria Elena Paterno, and Philippine Forests by Karla Prieto Delgado; Museum Exhibitions of Mr. Oshima’s work include Personal Visions: A Survey of Contemporary Photography at the Ayala Museum in 1999; Barot, a solo exhibit of photograms of traditional Philippine garments that opened the Sepia International Gallery in Soho, NYC; and Lovelock, an exhibit of hair landscapes at the Alliance Francaise, Manila in 2001. He has worked extensively with traditional silver-based print techniques. His platinum prints are part of major corporate and private collections in Europe, Asia, and the United States. Two of his large photograms sold at auction at Sotheby’s HK.
Photo by Royal Pineda.
Gio Panlilio
Gio Panlilio (b. 1994) is a curator, photo editor, and artist working in the medium of photography.