Juliette Mills is a British documentary and fine art photographer based in the south west of England. She is a nature and animal lover, a linguist and also works with horses - a great passion of hers. She is fascinated by the relationship between people and animals, wild and domestic and the therapeutic powers of one over the other. Her work is personal and poetic, and she seeks above all else to portray the emotion and feeling of a moment, or a question in her imagery.

She is currently working on a long-term project looking at how neuro-diverse minds cope with emotional trauma, stress and the general struggle with the human condition; in particular how nature and animals can be crucial in the healing process, at times subliminally or by chance.

She lives in the depths of Dartmoor National Park with her partner, sculptor Dominic Welch, and their four children, dogs, cats and chickens.

Israeli photographer Alexander Bronfer is a true citizen of the world. He was born in Ukraine and study in Saint Peterburg, Russia. After arriving in Israel, Alexander lived in a kibbutz in South Israel where he fell in love with the Dead Sea region and desert.

Alexander is talented and creative artist with a unique concept of street photography. He focuses on the connection between street and fine art photography, where he finds that reality is not what he is trying to capture but his personal feeling of the scene is. Alexander was a finalist of multiple international and Israeli photography festivals. Recently he spent his time on personal projects mainly about environmental issues in Israel and our interaction with nature.

Carolina Rapezzi is an Italian freelance photographer and journalist based in London, focusing on migration, social, humanitarian, and environmental issues. She splits her time between international assignments and local projects, and has worked in Italy, UK, France, Romania, Ghana, Myanmar, Ukraine, Israel and the West Bank.

Her work has been featured in The Guardian, openDemocracy, DieZeit, Elle, Tortoise, DeStandaard, Internazionale, abcNEWS, The Post Internazionale, Equal Times, VoxEurop, Rai1, Altraeconomia, Water Science Policy, among others.

She was in the World Press Photo 6x6 Global Talent Award Europe in 2019 and her work has also been recognised by awards such as SIPA, World Water Day Photo Contest, LensCulture Art Photography Award, Sony, Flash Forward. Carolina collaborates with charities and NGOs, and she is a member of Women Photograph.

Marc De Tollenaere is a freelance photographer living in Venice, born in Tripoli in Libya in 1969.

Since 2006, he has actively collaborated on several photographic books concerning Venice and the territory of the Veneto Region with the Biblos publishing house, in particular the series From Veneto to Veneto and three monographs: Venice on the edge of light in 2007, Gondole in 2009 and One, no one and fifty thousand in 2022. In 2008 he exhibited his photos at the Photokina in Cologne, where he was invited to give two lectures on his work, and he was Distinguished Photographer in the Italian Professional Prize for a report on the Treviso Christian Center. In 2010, he exhibited his personal exhibition Passion and Drama at the Photoshow in Rome.

From 2014, he joined the small group of teachers at the prestigious Leica Akademie Italy. He has also been a Leica Ambassador since 2014. In 2020, his images were selected for the book Inspiration Leica Akademie and exhibited at Leica headquarters in Wetzlar, Germany. In April 2021, the Italian National television, Rai3 Geo, devoted a report to him, filming him photographing in the houses of Venetians, entitled The last Venetians.

Marc De Tollenaere constantly photographs all the historical and cultural aspects inherent in the life and traditions of Venice.

Landscape photographer Isabella Tabacchi is based in the north of Italy. She’s one of the best landscape photographers of her time for her evocative and iconic style. Landscape photographer Isabella Tabacchi and studied the boundless sceneries in the Alps, with a special regard to the Italian Dolomites. Her need to visit and discover new places and unknown environments brought her to the Far East of Russia, in the Kamchatka peninsula, where, together with two local guides, she ventured into pristine and dangerous nature of those territories, among forests and volcanoes. Other destinations visited by Isabella include Lofoten Islands, Azores Islands, Canary Islands, Iceland and Namibia. Since 2016 Isabella won many international competitions including Monochrome Awards, International Photographer of the Year awards (IPOTY), Outdoor Photographer of the Year (OPOTY), Fine Art Photography Awards, Moscow International Photo Awards, Epson International Pano Awards (Highest scoring Gigapixel Image), ND Awards, Tokyo Foto Awards, Creative Siena Photo Awards.

Filippo Venturi is a documentary photographer and a visual artist based in Italy. He produces personal projects concerning identity and the human condition. He has documented totalitarian dictatorships in Asia, highlighting in his work the artificiality with which these countries display and narrate themselves to the world, and has witnessed neo-fascist currents in Europe and the movements that, in response, fight to protect minority rights and democracy.

His works have been published in leading international magazines, such as National Geographic, The Washington Post, The Guardian, Financial Times, Vanity Fair, Marie Claire, Newsweek, Geo, Der Spiegel, Die Zeit, Stern, Internazionale, La Repubblica, Il Corriere della Sera and La Stampa. For the past years he has been engaged in a project on the Korean peninsula, earning him the Sony World Photography award, the LensCulture Emerging Talent Award, the Il Reportage Award, the Voglino Award and the Portfolio Italia – Grand Prix Hasselblad.

His works have been exhibited in Italy and abroad in exhibition spaces and festivals like Foro Boario in Modena as "New Talent" of the Modena Photography Foundation, MACRO - Museum of Contemporary Art in Rome, Somerset House in London, U Space in Beijing, Willy Brandt Haus in Berlin, Sony Square in New York City, Copenhagen Photo Festival, Kaunas Photo Festival, Voies Off Awards at Les Rencontres d'Arles, Photolux in Lucca, SI Fest in Savignano sul Rubicone, Riaperture Photofestival in Ferrara, PhMuseum Days Photo Festival in Bologna and Festival of Ethical Photography in Lodi. He teaches photojournalism and documentary photography.

Warun Siriprachai aka Bearly. Being a film director is her childhood dream. She’s interested in art and drawing. However, she couldn’t fulfill her dream and because her family was bankrupt.she did a project about shooting Bangkok during the lockdown situation. The photos of Bangkok look like an abandoned city. She posted them on her social media platform, and became virality. Many publicities shared her content and the audiences around Thailand have learnt that the Thai government cannot solve this situation. At this point, she’s aware that shooting photos is another way to tell the truth and help society. She has a passion to make a better society via her photos, so she started to do a personal project and become a journalist. She believes that a journalist can bring her to the places where no one can and bring the truth to the society and make a better world.

Diogo Baptista is a freelance photographer and visual storyteller whose work merges photojournalism, event photography, and fine art. With a solid background in Creative Management in New Media and Audiovisual Communication from ESMAD IPP/Porto, Diogo has honed a distinctive visual style that combines technical precision with a compelling narrative depth.

His photography has received widespread acclaim, including being shortlisted in a prestigious global photography competition in 2020, in the Professional category and the Discovery category. Diogo also earned second place in an international photography awards event for a series focused on cultural traditions, and placed third in a renowned black-and-white photography competition, specifically in the photojournalism category, that same year.

Currently, Diogo collaborates with national and international newspapers and photo agencies, specializing in photojournalism, documentary, and travel photography. His diverse portfolio documents the human experience worldwide, bringing untold stories to life through his lens. In addition to his photography practice, Diogo is passionate about education, offering training sessions for both budding enthusiasts and seasoned professionals. His lessons span a variety of topics, from the history of photography and technical composition to advanced editing techniques and narrative-building. Through these sessions, Diogo empowers his students with the tools to create meaningful visual stories, fostering strong communication skills in the process.

A staunch advocate for knowledge-sharing, Diogo believes photography is more than technical expertise—it's about forming a deep connection with the world and communicating its essence through imagery.

Alessandra Bello hails from Friuli, graduating in Restoration and Conservation at the Experimental Art Institute of Udine. Later, in Venice, she earned an Architecture Sciences degree from IUAV while immersing herself in Architectural and Landscape Photography under Guido Guidi and Alessandra Chemollo. During her Venetian years, she attended seminars with notable photographers like John Davies, Giovanni Chiaramonte, and Leonard Sussman, delving into modern landscape analysis. In 2009, she founded [ab] Alessandra Bello Photography, freelancing in Architectural and Landscape photography while pursuing personal projects.

Her work has been featured in renowned publications like Casabella, Domus, and Bauwelt, and exhibited globally, including at the Venice Architecture Biennale and Milan Triennale. In 2015, her project "Sight's Blue Sense" received international acclaim, ranking second at the Sony World Photography Awards. She lectures on peripheral vision and architecture-photography relationships, collaborating with universities and institutions. Thanks to her research on Fascist-era Great War memorials, she partnered with the Veneto Region, exploring the Veneto landscape and its wartime history. Since 2016, she's focused on the Dolomite landscape and the Great War in her project "Inaccessible Dolomites," endorsed by Dolomiti Unesco and Italia Nostra Bolzano. Today, she balances freelance work with personal exploration, shaping her distinct style.

Kai Yokoyama is a photographer based in Tokyo, Japan. Starting out as an architecture student at Saitama University, he switched his major to photography and completed his studies at Tokyo College of Photography.

He has traveled the world photographing refugees, children with disabilities, and victims of terrorism. In recent years, having lived abroad, he has been photographing foreigners living in Japan. His works have been published such as The Washington Post, Marie Claire Italy, and Foam Magazine. In 2020, he won first place in the LensCulture/Journeys series category. In 2021, Yokoyama's work has been awarded Helsinki Photo Festival and shortlisted at Kolga Tbilisi Photo, Encontros da Imagem Discovery Award, and Portrait of Humanity. Also, he receives Carolyn Drake’s mentorship program in Magnum Photos in 2021. Recently, he has been shortlisted for the 2020 Emerging Artist Scholarship in Lucie Foundation, he was selected for Photo Vogue Festival 2021 and awarded LensCulture Critics’ Choice 2021.

He was a juror for the ADC 101st Annual Awards in the Photography category. He is a member of Native Agency and Diversify Photo. Currently he has been working on a photo book of his work.

Annick Donkers is a photographer and visual artist living in Antwerp, Belgium and Mexico City. After obtaining a Masters’ degree in Psychology at the K.U. Leuven, she worked as a project leader in market research while studying photography in evening school.

She travelled to Mexico in 2008 in order to work on her own photo reportage with the help of a grant from the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The same year she participated at the Seminar on Contemporary Photography at the Centro de la Imagen in Mexico City. In 2016 her photo series on hardcore Mexican Wrestling won an award at the Sony Awards in United Kingdom. The series draw worldwide attention and was published widely. In 2023 she published her first photobook; a result of the photobook incubator program at the art platform Hydra in Mexico City and in collaboration with mentor Ana Casas and other experts like Ramon Pez, Yumi Goto, Erik Kessels, Bruno Ceschel and Juan Valbuena. The photo book Un-identified was shown during several Art Fairs; Rencontres d’Arles in France, Printed Matter LA Art Book Fair in Los Angeles, Vienna Art Book Fair in Austria, Polycopies Paris in France, Zona Maco in Mexico City and received an award at Px3 Prix de la Photo in Paris and IPA Awards in USA. The series was presented at Athens Photofestival in Greece, at Africa Foto Fair in Ivory Coast and during the Night of the Year at the Rencontres d’Arles. It was also selected at PHmuseum in Italy, nominated at International Photography Grant in USA and C/O Berlin in Germany and was a Finalist at the Critical Mass Photolucida in Portland, USA.

Richard Ansett is a fine art, social documentary portrait photographer with a distinctive and prolific personal and commercial practice spanning over 30 years. Richard is a passionate, vocal advocate of the medium as an art form, talking and writing candidly about the realities of a life in photography. Richard is increasingly focused on enabling a new generation and those from marginalised communities to develop a relationship to photography.

His portrait of an autistic boy in a flower garden in the Donbas region of Ukraine from the series Boys in a City Park won the overall prize for photography at the Arte Laguna Prize 2013 and his project Mother and Child, Donbas, Ukraine 2011 exhibited at UNICEF “What is Your Name?”, Arsenal, Kiev 2016 as a metaphor for the trauma of enforced internal dislocation and migration due to conflict and exhibited in the British Parliament as part of the exhibition 1001 Critical Days.

His portrait of Danel, 9 from series Children of Grenfell was selected as the People’s Choice at the Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize 2018 and his images have been selected 13 times for the National Portrait Gallery, London portrait prize exhibition.

‘BIRTH – A Portrait of Grayson Perry’ was awarded first prize at the Sony World Photography Awards 2019 and the previously unpublished archive of his 10 year relationship with the artist ‘MUSE- A Portrait of Grayson Perry’ was published by ACC Art Books in 2023 to critical acclaim and showed at the Bing gallery, Sotheby’s, London.

Many of his portraits have been acquired by international institutions including the National Portrait Gallery . The portrait of the film director David Lynch was acquired by the Smithsonian and his portrait of film director David Cronenberg and Professor Margaret MacMillan acquired by the National Canadian Library and Archives. The portrait of Dame Hilary Mantel was acquired by the National Portrait Gallery in 2023 on the event of her death and he was the only man whose work and testimony were included in ‘Reframing Narratives Women in Portraiture’.

Internationally renowned photographer Apratim Saha has been living his dream of travelling to various countries for his photographic assignments and workshops for the past three decades.

Apratim is a contributing photographer for National Geographic, Getty Images and Stocksy United. He is a Canon Brand Ambassador and the Global Brand Ambassador and Mentor for Datacolor, Nisi, Godox, Vanguard and Blackrapid.

He has successfully established EXPOSURE, a three-winged photography platform comprising Exposure – The School of Photography, Exposure – Travel and Photography & Exposure Magazine.

He has over 37 years of experience, from traditional film to digital photography. He is a commercial photographer specializing in people photography, portraiture, lifestyle & editorial clients. Besides commercial works, Apratim also shoots other subjects that stimulate his visual or emotional sensibilities.

Presently he has been travelling to some very remote places in various countries to reach out to the indigenous people for his book, “In The Verge of Extinction”.

Jeoffrey Guillemard is the photo editor at Gatopardo magazine, where he oversees photographic assignments throughout Latin America. Gatopardo is a Mexican magazine known for its focus on narrative journalism, culture, opinion, and lifestyle. Since its launch, it has been committed to long-form storytelling and in-depth reporting.

Emily received her BFA in Photography at Parsons the New School of Design in 2011. Upon graduating she was awarded the Tierney Fellowship in June of 2011, which aided her in the progress of a body of work entitled, Where Death Dies. Kinni has been exhibited in New York as well as internationally in both solo and group shows and her work has been featured in many published platforms including Aperture, Time, Huffington Post, CNN, and Vogue . Her work has taken her to many parts of the United States, including prisons, love hotels, cowboy churches, and drive thru wedding chapels.

Tomas Vrana is an award winning photographer born in Prague. He graduated there from the Academy of Fine Arts and his work can be found in the collections of the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague in addition to numerous private collections. His work has been exhibited internationally both at group shows and solo exhibitions at institutions such as the National Gallery Prague and DOX Centre for Contemporary Art. Tomas Vrana’s portrait photography and digital creations are driven by a passion to address the issue of loneliness in our society.

Born in Rome, after studying art history and photography, she began working in 2004 as an assistant for Paolo Pellegrin, specialising in image post-production. She then began her personal research path with a historical-documentary approach realizing several reportages then published by Italian and International magazines. In 2008 the encounter with the Finnish photographer Arno Rafael Minkkinen, representing a very meaningful exchange, leads her to the exploration of the self-portrait technique. If until that time reporting someone else’s stories was a way of telling herself, from that moment the self-portrait becomes a means for telling universally inspiring stories as “Le Donne di Picasso”. With this project the collaborative relationship with the cinema costume designer Lisangela Sabbatella is reinforced, leading to the formation of a small team of professionals to deepen the language of the so-called mise-en-scène, something that she used to prefer in the years of her early training as a photographer. Some of her works have received awards including the Emerging Photographer Fund, Sony Awards, Lensculture - Art photography, Prix de la Photographie. She is represented by the Galleria del Cembalo, Palazzo Borghese (Rome).

Jon Enoch is an award-winning advertising photographer and director with a bold, uncomplicated approach to his images. His commercial photography work sees him shooting in the advertising, lifestyle, editorial and corporate sectors for agencies or directly with brands, as well as NGOs and large enterprises. Equally at home on location or in the studio.

Nikolai Linares is a Danish photojournalist with Colombian roots based in Denmark. He studied at the Danish School of Journalism and graduated in 2012. Since then, he has worked for numerous national and international newspapers and magazines. He has always focused on finding time to work on his own stories and reportages. Many of these stories have gone on the get recognition at both national and international photo competitions. In 2016 Nikolai Linares was awarded a 1st prize in the sports category at the Sony World Photography Awards in London for his sports portraits of loosing boxers called “Second Best”. He later received a working grant from Sony and did the story “The Boys and the Bulls” about 12 year old boys in the south of Spain who dream of becoming bullfighters. That story received a 3rd Prize at the World Press Photo in the Sports Category in 2018.

Nikolai Linares lives in Humlebaek north of Copenhagen with his wife, son, daughter and dog.