Daria Tuminas (1984, based in Amsterdam, she/her) is a Program Leader of Curatorial Practices in Photography at the International Center of Photography (ICP) in New York. She is an independent curator and co-founder of Growing Pains, a foundation operating at the intersection of visual arts, publishing, education, conversation, and human connection. Since 2019, Tuminas has curated regularly for FOTODOK in Utrecht, and has developed exhibitions with institutions and festivals including Foam Amsterdam, Les Rencontres d’Arles, EXPOSED Torino Foto Festival, ORGAN VIDA, BredaPhoto Festival, WORM, and GALLERI IMAGE.  From January to June 2026, she was a temporary curator of visual arts at Stroom Den Haag.

Alongside her curatorial practice, Tuminas writes regularly on photography, visual culture, and publishing. Her texts have appeared in publications including Foam Magazine, Trigger (FOMU), YET, The PhotoBook Review (Aperture), doc! photography magazine, LensCulture, Unseen Magazine, and others. Between 2017 and 2019, she headed the Unseen Book Market at Unseen Amsterdam and has contributed to numerous photobook-related projects as a writer, editor, and curator. She co-curated the symposium The Moving Page at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, contributed a chapter to How We See: Photobooks by Women (10×10 Photobooks, 2018), guest-edited The PhotoBook Review #12 (Aperture, 2017), and has curated multiple exhibitions dedicated to photography books and printed matter.

Portrait by Florian Braakman.