Jeong eun Kim
Director, The Reference Seoul/Editor-in-chief, IANNBOOKS Jeong eun Kim is editor-in-chief of IANN, the contemporary art magazine in Asia and founder of IANNBOOKS launched in 2007. Serving as chief coordinator of DAEGU PHOTO BIENNALE 2012 and curator of SEOUL PHOTO FESTIVAL 2010, she has been widely involved in curatorial activities within the field of photography. In an effort to introduce the contemporary photography scene of Asia, she continues to publish numerous art and photo books.

Soyeon Kim
Chief Manager, The Reference Seoul Soyeon Studied Visual Design at Kookmin University(Korea), got master and Ph.D. degree from Tokyo University of the Arts in faculty of Fine Arts, department of design. After her career as a graphic designer at the Ryoko Ishioka Design Office in Tokyo, she came back to Korea and taught at university. Since 2016, she runs IANNBOOKS as publishing manager, chief manager of The Reference for now.

Naoko Higashi
Editor, IMA magazine Manager, Tokyo Art Book Fair Naoko Higashi is an editor at the photography magazine IMA and project manager of TOKYO ART BOOK FAIR. After studying Editing at the Fashion information Department at Bunk a Fashion College, she majored in sociology at City, University of London. She worked as a manager at the bookstore/gallery, Nog, located in London and returned to Japan in 2005, starting work for the culture magazine TOKION. After leaving the company, Higashi worked with independent magazines such as PAPERBACK, Someone’s Garden, and Apartamento as a coordinator/writer, and has been in the editorial team of IMA magazine since 2012.

Nao Amino
CEO, torch press Editor, IMA magazine Nao Amino runs the independent publisher, torch press, while working as an editor of the photography magazine, IMA. After graduating Ochanomizu Women’s University with a major in Life Sciences, she was involved in editing artbooks at the publishers Little More and Foil, and started freelance work in 2011. She has been in the editorial team of IMA since its establishment in 2012, and in 2013, she started her own independent publishing house, torch press. Other than editing artbooks, she participates in a wide array of activities—such as artist management, organizing exhibitions and events, and writing for magazines.

Kana Kawanishi
Director and curator of KANA KAWANISHI ART OFFICE/GALLERY Kawanishi has served as the Tokyo coordinator and editor for Rizzoli New York since 2006. After working at an artist management/editorial office and an exhibition curation foundation, she founded KANA KAWANISHI ART OFFICE in 2014 and KANA KAWANISHI GALLERY in 2015. The gallery represents works by domestic and international artists who exemplify social and universal phenomena in their own form and showcase exhibitions in their two gallery spaces; KANA KAWANISHI GALLERY located in Kiyosumi Shirakawa for contemporary art, and KANA KAWANISHI PHOTOGRAPHY located in Nishiazabu dedicated to presenting photographic art.