Cali M. Banks is an interdisciplinary artist based in upstate NY. She holds an MFA in Interdisciplinary Media Arts Practices from the University of Colorado Boulder, and a BA in Art and Technology and Global Health Studies from Allegheny College. Banks' work explores personal and collective histories, relational intimacies, and the expansion of narrow, flattened definitions of indigenous art. She is interested in the idea of image-making as a time or record-keeper, and being able to manipulate that to recreate memories, history, and methods of healing. Cali manages communications and outreach for Light Work and is an Adjunct Professor of Photography and Filmmaking for Syracuse University. Cali was a 2024 En Foco Photography Fellow, a 2024 Penumbra Foundation Workspace Resident, a 2025 Aurora PhotoCenter Workspace Resident, and is an upcoming resident at Vermont Studio Center. Banks has exhibited work during Art Basel Miami and Every Woman Biennial London, and other notable venues, including a solo exhibition at the Everson Museum of Art. Her work has also been published on Der Greif, Lomography, Lenscratch, and Rolling Stone France

Leah DeVun is a Brooklyn-based photographer and scholar. Publications presenting DeVun’s work include Artforum, BOMB, People, Hyperallergic, Musée, British Journal of Photography, Out, Art Papers, Feature Shoot, Redbook, Slate, & others. DeVun’s artwork has been exhibited at galleries internationally, and museum exhibitions include the Blanton Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Leslie-Lohman Museum, ONE Archives Gallery and Museum at USC, and Tang Teaching Museum. Her work has been selected for the New York Portfolio Review, Photolucida's Critical Mass Top 50, and a 2025 NYFA/ NYSCA Fellowship in Photography. A professor at Rutgers University, DeVun is the author of two award-winning books with Columbia University Press, and she is currently the George William Cottrell Jr. Member at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.

William Camargo is a lens-based artist and educator raised in Anaheim, California. He is a lecturer in photography at Pasadena City College and Cal State Fullerton. William is the founder and curator of Latinx Diaspora Archives, an archive Instagram page that elevates communities of color through family photos. His work focuses on gentrification, police violence, and Chicanx/Latinx histories and comments on the hegemonic history of photography through archival research and performative interventions that live as photographs. William has held residencies at the Latinx Project at NYU, Light Work in Syracuse, NY, TILT Institute in Philadelphia, Center for Photography at Woodstock, Penumbra Foundation in NYC, Aurora Photo Center in Indianapolis, and Satisfactory Casa in San Jose, Costa Rica. William’s works are in several public and private collections, including S.F MOMA Library, Huntington Library, Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Harvard Library, MSU Broad Art Museum, LACMA, and the J Paul Getty Museum.

Francesca Hummler is a German-American artist, curator, and educator, founder of Apparently in America, and funder of this open call. She is currently undertaking curatorial work for the German Embassy. Based in San Diego, she has been Community Manager and Program Curator at Der Greif since 2022, where she leads curation, partnerships, and public programming, including projects at Les Rencontres d’Arles and Paris Photo. She holds an MA in Photography with distinction from the Royal College of Art (2022). Alongside her work at Der Greif, she has taught and developed photography programs in London and internationally. Her artistic practice centers on identity, drawing from her experience as the daughter of German immigrants in the United States, using photography to explore the archive, intimacy, and generational memory.