Director of the Musée des Beaux-Arts du Locle (MBAL) in Switzerland, she is a writer, curator, editor and lecturer specialising in photography and literature. Her next exhibition at MBAL is entitled The Pleasure of the Text and will open at the end of March 2023. Through her platform Photocaptionist she collaborates with international institutions such as Jeu de Paume, Aperture and Foam. She holds a PhD in ‘Photo-Texts: Critical Intersections in History’, from London’s University of Westminster, which she has transformed into the educational project Word and Image Workshop (WIW) and a touring exhibition entitled The Pleasure of the Text, which will open at the end of March 2023 at MBAL. Previous curatorial projects include ‘Looking On: New Italian Photography’ at the Ravenna Art Museum (2019), the late Lorenzo Tricoli’s retrospective show ‘The Archive You Deserve’, for Fotografia Europea (2018), the festival Jaipur Photo on ‘Wanderlust’ in India (2017) and the exhibitions ‘Invisible Stratum’ for Tokyo International Photography Festival (2017). She has won a number of residencies (Fondation Michalski, Cité internationale des arts), awards (Kraszna-Krausz Best Photography Book, Vienna Photo Book Dummy) and in 2016 she was included among the ‘16 female curators shaking things up’ by Artnet after her shows ‘Feminine Masculine’ at the London Art Fair (2016), ‘Peter Henry Emerson: Presented by the Author’, while she was Art Fund Curatorial Fellow of Photographs at the Victoria and Albert Museum (2015) and ‘Amore e Piombo: The Photography of Extremes in 1970s Italy’ at the Brighton Photo Biennial/Photoworks (2014). Through her alter ego Candida Desideri, a subversive homage to her mother, she writes more experimental stuff such as short stories and prose poems, which have been published within the book ‘Nachbilder: Eine Foto Text Anthologie’ by Spector Books, Zurich University of the Arts and Fotomuseum Winterthur (2020) and Der Greif (2015).

Davide Monteleone is a visual artist, researcher, and National Geographic Fellow whose work spans image-making, visual journalism, writing, and other disciplines. Reoccurring themes include geopolitics, geography, identity, data, and technology. Originally from Italy, Davide Monteleone spent, between 2000 and 2021, over a decade in Russia where he produced his early series and four acclaimed monographs: Dusha (2007, Postcart), Red Thistle (2012, Actes Sud), Spasibo (2013, Kehrer), The April Theses (2017, Postcart). A regular contributor to magazines such as Time, National Geographic, and The New Yorker, Davide Monteleone's work has been presented in the form of exhibitions and installations in galleries and museums, including at the Saatchi Gallery in London the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo the MEP in Paris, Palazzo Delle Esposizioni in Rome and other venues, at the Rencontres de la Photographie in Arles and at art fairs such as Paris Photo and Photo London. A selection of Monteleone's accolades includes The National Geographic Fellowship (2019), the Asia Society Fellowship (2016), the Carmignac Photojournalism Award (2013), the EPEA Award (2012), the European Publisher Award (2011), and several World Press Photo. Holding a Master in Art and Politics from the Goldsmiths University in London, Monteleone is interested in the theoretical role and use of technical images in society and the relation between images and data. He is active as a curator and educator in numerous public and private institutions. "Even though I come from the tradition of documentary photography, I have always been attracted by themes that elude immediate visual impact. In fact, I believe that the intangible themes of our time hide the essential questions of our society. If my projects are based on a pedagogical and informative approach, my goal is to build narratives that interpret a concept. In the abundance of information in which we live, I see my role as a curiosity trigger that leaves the viewer free to undertake their own research to start investigating themselves."

In his photographic work, Délio Jasse often interweaves found images with clues from past lives (found passport photos, family albums) to draw links between photography - in particular the concept of the 'latent image' - and memory. Jasse is known for experimenting with analogue photographic printing processes, including cyanotype, platinum and early printing processes. He uses analogue processes to subvert the reproducibility of the photographic medium, creating subtle variants and interventions using painting, liquid-light, gold-leafing and collage. Delio Jasse’s recent exhibitions include Bellezza e Terrore: luoghi di colonialismo e fascismo, Museo Madre, Napoli (2022); Il giardino Dell’arte. Dentro Pecci Prato (2022); Arquivo Urbano, Tiwani Contemporary, London (2019); The Other Chapter, PHotoESPAÑA (2019); An imaginary city, MAXXI, Rome (2018); La Cité dans le Jour Bleu, Dak’art Biennale (2018); Recent Histories, Walther Collection, Neu-Ulm and New York (2017); Afrotopia, Bamako Encounters, Bamako (2017) and On Ways of Travelling, the Angolan Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale (2015).

Caterina De Pietri is the director of the De Pietri Artphilein Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to contemporary art and philosophy, with a particular interest in photography. In 2013 she founded the publishing house Artphilein Editions, focused on photobooks and artists' books. In 2019 she opened the public library, Artphilein Library, in Lugano. In 2021-22 she inauguretes the exhibition spaces Focus and La Piscina. She graduated in law from the University of Zurich; from 1986 until 2005 she was a lawyer and public notary in Lugano. Today she is still active as an international legal consultant.