Daria Tuminas (she/her/hers) is an independent curator and a co-founder of the Growing Pains—an Amsterdam based foundation working on the crossroads of visual arts, publishing, conversation, education and human connection. Since September 2025, she is the program leader of Curatorial Practices in Photography at the International Center of Photography in New York. Since 2019, she has been curating regularly for FOTODOK, Utrecht, as well as developing exhibitions at the likes of Foam Museum Amsterdam, Les Rencontres d’Arles, BredaPhoto Festival, WORM etc. She regularly writes for multiple media, having contributed to: Foam Magazine; Trigger (FOMU); YET; The Photobook Review (Aperture); doc! photography magazine; Unseen Platform; Unseen Magazine; LensCulture; Belgian Platform for Photobooks; Archivo Platform; EXTRA; and more. Between 2017 and 2019, Tuminas headed Unseen Book Market at Unseen Amsterdam, and has contributed to multiple photobook-related reflections as a writer, an editor or a curator. She co-curated the symposium The Moving Page for Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum, 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 a number of exhibitions in connection to printed matter.

Portrait by Florian Braakman.