Meet the Jury
Our jury panel is comprised of an international pool of creative industry professionals from art and creative directors, curators, publishers and other influential luminaries.
Hossein Farmani is the founder and president of the Lucie Awards in New York, Paris Photo Prize and London Creative Awards.
In 2003 he started
Farmani Gallery in Los Angeles and New York and more recently the Rooftop Gallery in Bangkok.
Hossein Farmani has helped to organize numerous Photo Festivals around North America, Europe and Asia. His passion for photography has taken
him to all corners of the world, and for the last 20 years he has been lecturing at universities and collages, sharing his appreciation of photography with the next generation.
Hossein Farmani has curated over 200 exhibitions internationally. His own collection of photography was called by Getty Museum’s curator “One
of the most important private collections of photography in America”. His collection has been featured in many global magazines including
Cartier Magazine, Entertainmant Today, Studio, 2 Magazine, Daily Bultin, Venice Magazine, Los Angeles Times, 213, and Hossein himself has
been featured on the cover of New York Times business section.
As an art envoy for the United States Embassy, Hossein has curated two major traveling Exhibitions and lectured in over 20 universities and
high schools in Thailand, Philippines and China, primarily to highlight to youth the importance of studying the arts.
Hossein Farmani feels that his biggest accomplishments, however, are his philanthropic works. He is the funder of Focus on AIDS, one of the oldest
AIDS organizations in the U.S., and the Lucie Awards, which has become the most important photography awards in the industry.
