The international jury
RomePhotoLab is an International Photography Festival supported by five major international hubs, which are also involved in the selection process, alongside RRoma Street, the organization responsible for coordinating the entire Festival: Street Avengers, Street Badass, Street Macadam, Street Photography Brazil, and Postal 5.6.
For the Single Shot – Streets of the World category, a preliminary jury panel will be composed of Gwen Julia (Street Avengers), Alonso Diaz de Anda (Postal 5.6), Citlali Medal (Founder of MX Street Photo Fest / Street Photography Brazil), Catherine Auzuret (Street Badass), and Serkan Tekin.
This pre-jury panel will then hand over to the final jury, composed of Mark Fearneley, Hersley Ven Casero (Street Macadam), and Nina Kling, who will be responsible for selecting the finalist photographs.
For the Series category, the jury responsible for selecting the finalists will consist of Jonathan Jasberg, Ximena Echague, and Ana Chicovitz (Street Macadam).
Finally, for the Rome category, the judging panel will include Vanessa Pallotta, a Rome-based photographer, and Pia Parolin.
The full regulations of the RomePhotoLab contest are available at the following link:
https://www.romephotolab.it/contest/
Alonso Díaz de Anda
Alonso Díaz de Anda is a Mexican street photographer and cultural manager. His work has garnered international recognition, including first place in the Trazos de Tradición competition (Düsseldorf, Germany, 2024) and participation as an exhibitor at festivals such as the Street Photo Fest (Athens, Greece, 2025) and the Buenos Aires Street Photo Festival (Argentina, 2025). His work has been published in specialized media outlets such as Eye Shot (Italy, 2024) and Docu Magazine (Finland, 2024), and exhibited in venues such as the Soumaya Museum (Mexico City, 2025). He is the founder of Postal 5.6, an international community dedicated to street photography, through which he promotes exhibition and outreach projects internationally.
Catherine Auzuret
Catherine Auzuret is a passionate street photographer who lives and breathes Paris. Her art stems from an intimate quest for the moment, where every street and every glance reveals a unique story. For her, the city is an inexhaustible field of exploration, a vibrant space where chance encounters the precision of her trained eye. What sets her work apart is her ability to deeply feel the changing atmosphere of Paris – its moods, rhythms, and many faces – and to transcribe them with elegance and authenticity. Her unique and spontaneous approach, combining meditation, energy, and a touch of adrenaline, gives each of her images an intimate and lively dimension. For Catherine, photography is not only about capturing moments, it is also about accepting the missed and the unrealized possibilities, which feed her unquenchable thirst for renewal. Each shot then becomes a reflection of a sincere connection with the city, where the unexpected is transformed into ephemeral yet enduring beauty when captured. Her photographs have been exhibited in photo salons, international festivals, and galleries. Her work has been published several times in french and international magazines and newspapers.
Ana Cichowicz
Ana Cichowicz is a Brazilian artist and social anthropologist based in Germany. Her work emerges at the intersection of art, philosophy, and anthropology, exploring world-making practices, nature and environment, and the poetics of everyday street life. Working across performative, documentary, and street photography, her practice investigates the ontological condition of the image. For Ana, photography is not about portraying reality but about bringing things into being, a poetic and political gesture that opens fissures in the real and allows new worlds to emerge. Her photographs have received awards at international festivals and have been exhibited in galleries and biennials worldwide.
Ximena Echagüe
Ximena Echagüe is a Belgian-Argentinian photographer whose street and documentary work has been exhibited in more than 20 countries, including solo exhibitions at the European Parliament in Brussels and the United Nations in New York. Her photobook Trapped (Daylight Books, 2024) received the Award of the Federation of European Professional Photographers. She regularly serves internationally as a juror, mentor, and portfolio reviewer.
Mark Fearnley
Mark Fearnley is a London-based fine art street photographer whose work blends structure, atmosphere, and abstraction. Moving between monochrome and colour, he explores geometry, textures, and patterns within the urban landscape, most often punctuating his images with a human presence. His photographs transform everyday city scenes into graphic, poetic compositions, revealing both rhythm and stillness in the built environment. Through his lens, Fearnley invites viewers to see the familiar streets around them in unexpected and imaginative ways.
Gwen Julia
I’m a street and documentary photographer based in Atlanta, Georgia, with a background in French and political science. I found my way to photography through travel — those moments on the road where life unfolds before you, and all you want to do is hold on to them. Every shoot teaches me something new about patience, perspective, and the quiet art of paying attention. I aim to capture candid, authentic moments that reflect the depth of human emotion and experience. Photography, for me, is a lot like meditation. When I’m out with my camera, everything else falls away. I’m present, watching, waiting for that one moment that says everything without a single word. A look between strangers, the way light hits a subject, a moment of joy or grief playing out in real time —that’s what I’m chasing. My camera goes with me everywhere because I’ve learned that the most honest and human moments happen when I’m not expecting them. Through my lens, I want to tell stories that celebrate the beauty and complexity of everyday life.
Jonathan Jasberg
Jonathan Jasberg is an American street photographer who has lived nomadically outside the United States since 2010. Working internationally, he moves through cities with a focus on observation, drawn to subtle gestures, light, and the unpredictability of public space. His photographs explore how beauty reveals itself in the mundane. He serves as an ambassador for the Xiaomi x Leica partnership, using their co-engineered devices to document life across Mongolia, Kyrgyzstan, Mexico, Japan, India, and beyond during extended global assignments. His work has been published in National Geographic Traveler, New York Magazine, LFI, and GEO, and exhibited internationally in solo and group exhibitions. He is the recipient of over 40 international photography awards and teaches intensive workshops worldwide.
Citlali Medal
Mexican photographer and graphic designer with a Master’s degree in Corporate Communication. Co-founder of the MX Street Photo Fest, jury member of the Paris International Street Photo Awards (PISPA) 2025, and curator for Street Photography Brazil and Visions of Art. Her work has been featured in international platforms and communities, including publications in Eyeshot Magazine (Issue #12, dedicated to Mexico) and Docu Magazine, where she published her zine Colores de Cuba. She has participated in collective exhibitions in Mexico, Russia, Australia, France, the United Arab Emirates, Argentina, and Portugal, and in 2025 received the “Women Leader” award in the cultural field in Mexico. Her photography explores color in dialogue with light and shadow, portraying human figures as anonymous silhouettes and capturing fragments of movement that preserve mystery and presence.
Vanessa Pallotta
Vanessa Pallotta is an Italian photographer working between portraiture and street photography. Her work focuses on people and the relationship between figure and space, with a direct and observational approach. Her images emerge from real, unconstructed situations, yet are defined by a strong formal control. She works extensively with geometry, surfaces, and color, using space as an active element within the image. Figures often appear isolated, suspended, or partially concealed, within environments that become integral to the narrative. Color plays a central role: bold, deliberate, and never decorative. It is used to create visual tension and guide the viewer’s eye, alongside a rigorous compositional structure that shapes each scene. Over time, she has developed projects across various regions, from South America to Southeast Asia and North Africa, using travel as a tool for research. Engaging with diverse contexts has helped shape a consistent visual language, balanced between documentation and constructed imagery. Raised between Umbria and Rome, her work reflects a dual influence: attention to detail and sensitivity to space, combined with an interest in urban dynamics and human presence within the city. Her photographs have been published in international magazines such as Vogue, Vanity Fair, and L’Officiel, and exhibited in exhibitions and festivals dedicated to contemporary photography. Her work is distinguished by a constant tension between reality and staging, where images remain grounded in reality yet are constructed with precision.
Pia Parolin
Raised in Milan, I turned to photography after an international career in science. I completed a PhD in Tropical Biology between Germany and Brazil, and for the past twenty years I have been based primarily on the French Riviera. A passionate self-taught photographer, since 2016 I have focused on street photography, developing a humanist, poetic, and at times abstract perspective. I teach at the Leica Akademie Germany and am a member of the German Photographic Society (DGPh) as well as the Street Déclic collective in Nice. I have published several books on photography in German and French (dpunkt.verlag, Éditions Baie des Anges), bringing together practice, perception, and psychology. My work centers on street scenes, Mediterranean light, color, and human interactions. I also explore the theme of water, both scientifically and photographically. My photographs are regularly exhibited in France, Germany, Italy, and Brazil, and I take part in photography and science festivals and conferences. I enjoy combining writing, sensitive observation, and visual engagement to tell the story of the world with authenticity.
Hersley-Ven Casero
Hersley-Ven Casero is a multidisciplinary visual artist and street and documentary photographer from Dumaguete City, Philippines, with more than 20 years of photographic practice. His work examines everyday life through long-term observation and the relationships between people, space, and chance, articulated through his ongoing Catch A Moment series. Casero is a graduate of Foundation University, where he earned a Bachelor of Science in Commerce major in Marketing and was awarded Artist of the Year. He was the first Filipino artist to receive a sponsored residency at the Chalk Hill Artist Residency in California, USA. He is also the author of the photobook All in Good Time. His work has received significant international recognition through major street photography awards and has been widely exhibited and published across Europe, the United States, and Asia. Beyond his personal practice, Casero is actively involved in workshops and community-based art initiatives that encourage creative freedom and shared imagination.
Nina Welch-Kling
Nina Welch-Kling is a New York City based, German-American conceptual street photographer. Her background in architecture (Master of Architecture, UCLA) and design (B.F.A.School of the Art Institute of Chicago) combined with her love of roaming city streets, informs her often mysterious photographic depictions of everyday life. Welch-Kling has been the recipient of numerous LensCulture Awards (2020 and 2025 Street Photography Competition Finalist, 2020 Critic’s Choice Award). Her work has been featured in many international photography exhibitions, as well as numerous magazines and online publications, including The Guardian, The Eye of the Photographer, British Journal of Photography, Dazed, Musée Magazine, and TheModernMet.com. In 2021, she was one of eight women named a Hasselblad Heroine. Welch-Kling’s first monograph, Duologues, was published by Kehrer Verlag in late 2022. In 2024, Duologues was solo exhibited at the Kunsthalle/Kunstsalong Schweinfurt, Germany and in 2025, at the VHS Gallery in Stuttgart.