"In the framework of the Portfolio-Review, photographers and photo artists from Berlin can present their work to experts from galleries, museums, picture editors and publishers. In intensive 20-minute one-to-one discussions they have the opportunity to make new professional contacts and to receive valuable feedback. The Portfolio-Review will conclude with the so-called Portfolio-Walk, to which the general public is invited to review the works of the participating photographers. The programme is funded by the European Social Fund (ESF) and the State of Berlin. Therefore only photographers from Berlin can participate."

Benita Suchodrev is a Russian-American portrait and documentary photographer concerned primarily with depicting the human subject in a sociocultural context. She works intuitively with great regard for authenticity, spontaneity and "the decisive moment". Her work has been published in Of Lions and Lambs (Kehrer 2019), 48 Hours Blackpool (Kehrer 2018), Nachtleben Berlin: 1974 bis heute (Metrolit 2013) and Berlin Now (teNeues 2009). It has been exhibited nationally and internationally and has been widely covered by television, radio and print media. Benita’s photographs are part of the Rafael Tous Foundation for Contemporary Art in Barcelona, the Michael Horbach Stiftung in Cologne as well as private collections in Moscow, Berlin and New York.