Maria Daniel Balcazar is a documentary and fine art photographer who specializes in long term photographic essays. Most of her projects focus on migrations and the vitality of traditions and their continuous remaking of identity. She attempts to transmit the cultural interweaving as the result of the common human experience of migration, because of economic and political challenges, hardship, and violence. But her work also highlights the individual threads that are the cultural legacy that allows people to survive and thrive.

She has studied fine arts, languages, journalism, and photography. Her work has been exhibited in universities, galleries, international festivals, and museums in different cities in the United States, Bolivia, Brazil, Peru, Puerto Rico, Argentina, and Chile.

She has published three books: Kilombo is a tribute to Afro-Brazilians and their capacity to tap into their roots and overcome adversity. The Heirs of Dawn / Herederos del Alba, illustrates from pre-colonial times to the present, adapted through the experience of colonialism, legends, history, and popular social commentary that come together as the most important festivity in Bolivia, Carnaval de Oruro. Nuances of your gaze / Matices de tu mirada is a visual narrative honoring the poetry of Julia de Burgos, an Afro-Caribbean civil rights activist from the early 20th Century.

She is currently working on the publication of “Invisible Custodians”, a book which documents the cultural patrimony in twelve different communities in the Amazon and River Plate basins in Bolivia.

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.

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).

Sofia Yala is an Angolan/Portuguese photographer born in 1994 with a talent for blending archival material with unexpected experiences to create multi-layered stories that explore the complexities of identity as a transatlantic body. The artist holds two Master's degrees - one in Anthropology and another in Film & Photography. Yalas's work has been recognised on a global stage, including a presentation at the Bamako Encounters African Biennale of Photography in 2022. She was also recently selected as one of the participating artists for the prestigious NESR Art Foundation residency program in Luanda, which offers a creative hub for artists to conduct research and develop their work.

In addition to her artistic practice, Sofia has been active in the art education field as a workshop lead artist and has been working recently as a portfolio reviewer for young artists.

Alessio Mamo is a Sicilian photographer based in Catania, Italy and a regular contributor for The Guardian.

In 2008, he began his career in photojournalism, focusing on contemporary social, political and economic issues. Mamo covers issues related to refugee displacement and migration starting in Sicily, then extending to countries in the Middle East and most recently in the Balkans.He is also a contributing photographer with Médecins Sans Frontières and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).

Two-time World Press Photo winner (2018-2020) in the last year has covered for The Guardian the conflict in Ukraine.

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.

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.

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.

Irina Werning is a freelance photojournalist who focuses on personal long-term projects. She is based in Buenos Aires, Argentina.Werning has a bachelor's degree in economics, a master's degree in history (Buenos Aires) and a master's in photojournalism (London).

She won the Ian Parry Scholarship (The Sunday Times Magazine and Getty) in 2006, the Emerging Photographer Fund - Burn Magazine (Magnum Foundation) in 2012, and a first-place Sony World Photography Award for portraiture in 2012.

Werning was chosen by Time Magazine as one of the nine Argentinian photographers you need to follow in 2015 and her book Back to the Future was chosen by Time Magazine as one of the best photobooks of 2014. In 2020, she was awarded the Emergency Covid Grant (National Geographic) and a Pulitzer Reporting Grant in 2021. In 2022 she won the WORLD Press Photo Story category.

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.

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.

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”.

Lori Hawkins is an American photographer known for her impactful, arresting work in documentary photography. Her recent work on maternal mortality won several awards, as well as the Center Sante Fe grant.

After several years of working at IBM, Lori picked up her camera and, in 2001, established herself as a professional documentary photographer. She worked at Kodak and VII Photo, which served as a training ground with some of the world’s most talented and compassionate photographers.

Today, Lori is drawn to issues at the intersection of human rights, post-conflict development and the empowerment of women in marginalized societies. Her recent work has covered Liberia’s ongoing transition to democracy, following the civil war and the Ebola epidemic, and capturing the work of doctors in rural Kenya battling high rates of maternal deaths during childbirth. Her photography aims to find the middle ground between news and documentary, where the viewer will be both informed and challenged into action.

When Lori is not traveling, she calls the East End of Long Island home, where she enjoys freelancing with the award-winning Express News Group, reporting on local news stories that make up the community.

Born 1984, Francesco currently lives in Milan. He graduated at The International Center of Photography in NYC, receiving the New York Times Foundation Scholarship. In 2012 he started a long term documentation about the consequences of the Greek economical crisis, that led him to receive the Chris Hondros Fellowship Fund in 2013 and the Visura Grant for Outstanding Personal Project in 2016. His work has since then focused on social issues and ongoing changes involving border areas in the Western society, from Europe to the United States of America. He has been an Oskar Barnack Award finalist twice (2014/2019) and has been awarded the 2019 Visa D’or in Perpignan. Francesco’s work has been published and exhibited internationally.

Pia Kintrup, a German artist (b.1988), graduated at Folkwang University of Arts in Germany with a Bachelor of Arts Degree, specifically in photography. She then went to study M.A. Photography studies and practice in the same university in 2017, graduating with a Master of Arts. She has been awarded the 2019 13th International Arte Laguna Prize, winner of special prize, “Photolux Festival” in Venice, Italy, and the 2019 Excellence Award, International Artist Award at Art Next Expo in Hong Kong. She has held countless exhibitions around Europe, and also a few in Asia, Canada, and the USA. Pia Kintrup’s research investigates new media and materials, ranging from photography to sculpture. Transformational processes, value, emptiness and abundance, and photographic steps of transition are essential for her artwork. She is represented by Galerie Ricarda Fox, based in Germany.

David resides in Los Angeles after receiving a Master of Arts degree from the University of Texas at Austin. Before that, he found his footing in beach photography growing up in South Florida. Much of his work is isolated subjects in a sea of muted blues and off-whites. The photos contain a calming sense of longing for solitude with an inherited acceptance of the paradise around them. His work has been featured in galleries around the world and publications such as Elle Decor, Esquire, and Communication Arts.

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.