Chair of the Society Awards Committee, Cheryl Newman FRPS is an artist and independent curator of photography living in London. Her personal practice looks at the fallibility of memory. Cheryl is the 2019 Curatorial Director of PondyPHOTO a public arts festival in Pondicherry, Tamil Nadu, India and a nominator for the Deutsche Borse Photography prize. For more than fifteen years she was the Photography Director of the Telegraph Magazine where she raised the profile of the magazine commissioning intelligent and inventive photography worldwide.