Michael Ackerman was born in Tel Aviv, Israel, in 1967. At the age of 7 his family emigrated to New York City, where he grew up and began photographing at the age of 18. He has exhibited internationally and published 5 books, including End Time City, by Robert Delpire, which won the Prix Nadar, 1999. His work is in the permanent collection of The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Brooklyn Museum, The Biliothèque National, France among others, as well as in many private collections. He currently lives in Berlin and is represented by Galerie Camera Obscura, Paris, Spot Home Gallery, Naples, MC2 Gallery, Milan.

Jenia Fridlyand (Moscow, 1975) is a photographer and educator based in New York City and the Hudson Valley. Her photographs and books have been exhibited in the United States and abroad. Fridlyand’s artist’s book Entrance to Our Valley was shortlisted for the Paris Photo - Aperture First Photobook Award, and trade editions were published by TIS Books. She is represented by Galerie Wouter van Leeuwen, Amsterdam. Fridlyand is a co-founder of Image Threads Collective and is the chair of the Long Term Photobook Program at Penumbra Foundation in New York. She studied photography at Centre Iris and Université Paris VIII, and holds an MFA from the University of Hartford’s International Limited-Residency program.

Baldwin Lee studied photography with Minor White at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, receiving a Bachelor of Science degree in 1972. Lee then continued his education at Yale University, where he studied with Walker Evans. He received a Master of Fine Arts in 1975. After school, Lee began teaching photography at the Massachusetts College of Art and then at Yale, while creating his own photographs, which at the time were rooted in the exploration of the contemporary built environment. Lee's later work from the early to mid-1980s entitled, Black Americans in the South is a compelling and empathic portrait that represents its subjects within their rural environments, expressing the joys of childhood, the gravity of adult life, and the places in between. This work was featured in Aperture Magazine, Issue 115, New Southern Photography: Between Myth and Reality. Lee's work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Chrysler Museum, and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia. His photographs are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the University of Michigan Museum of Art, the University of Kentucky Art Museum, the Yale University Art Gallery, and the Museum of the City of New York. He has been honored with fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation (1984) and the National Endowment for the Arts (1984 and 1990).

Kristine Potter (1977) is an artist based in Nashville, Tennessee, whose work often explores masculine archetypes, the American landscape, and cultural tendencies toward mythologizing the past. Her first monograph Manifest was published by TBW Books in 2018. Potter was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2018 and the Grand Prix Image Vevey for 2019-2020. Potter’s work is in numerous public and private collections including The High Museum of Art, The Georgia Museum of Art, 601 Artspace, The Do Good Foundation, the Swiss Camera Museum, and Foundation Vevey. Potter is an Assistant Professor of Photography at Middle Tennessee State University and is represented by Sasha Wolf Projects.

Awoiska van der Molen (1972) is a Dutch artist working with the medium of photography. Her black and white analogue images that she makes of nature represent for her a psychological and spiritual space. She studied and did not finish Architecture & Design but then she found her freedom to express in photography while studying at Minerva Art Academy Groningen and at Hunter City University in New York. She graduated with a MFA in Photography at the Dutch St. Joost Academy, Breda in 2003. Van der Molen was shortlisted for the Prix Pictet Award in 2019. In 2017 her exhibition ‘Blanco’ was shortlisted for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize and was she the recipient of the Larry Sultan Photography Award in San Francisco. She was awarded the Japanese Hariban Award in 2014 and was finalist at the Hyères Festival International de Mode et de Photographie in France in 2011. Her first monograph ‘Sequester’ was nominated for the Paris Photo / Aperture First Book Prize in 2014. In 2017 and 2020 her books ‘Blanco’ and ‘The Living Mountain’ were published, all by Fw:Books. Solo exhibitions have taken place at Museum Kranenburgh in Bergen NH; Casemore Kirkeby Gallery in San Francisco; FOAM Museum Amsterdam and Kousei-Inn in Kyoto. She has participated in numerous group exhibitions including Pier24 Photography in San Francisco; Les Rencontres d'Arles festival in France; Victoria & Albert Museum in London; The Photographers’ Gallery in London and Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.

Daniel Arnold's work is deeply human, with a sense of intrigue and humor that breathes fresh air into an age of extreme curation and perfectionism. With a dynamic and versatile voice, he has covered everything from home births to high fashion, from the Met Gala to the 2016 campaign trail and multiple inaugurations. Arnold began his career documenting the streets of New York City with an innate curiosity and a wry smile that quickly gained him a cult following and frequent collaborations with the New York Times and Vogue. In 2022, he was profiled by the New Yorker in conjunction with the release of "Pickpocket," an unconventional monograph compiled by the Safdie Brothers' Elara Press. Per that New Yorker profile, “Walking the streets, in his hoodie and dark mustache, with a camera or two around his neck, [Arnold] himself has become one of the city’s characters, a recognizable N.Y.C. figure.” His odd, enduring photos can be found in art galleries around the world - he can usually be found out wandering.

Amanda Boe is a photographer and photo editor who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She is a contributing photo editor at The New York Times, where she has commissioned, edited, and researched photography for over a dozen sections of the newsroom since 2015. Boe is a 2017 recipient of the Aaron Siskind Foundation Individual Photographer’s Fellowship. She has exhibited her work in group exhibitions across the United States, including shows at SF Camerawork, SFO Museum, and SFMOMA Artists Gallery. Her photographs have been published in Begin Anywhere: Paths of Mentorship and Collaboration (2017) and Der Greif - A Process (2014), along with various print and online features.

Ben Brody is an independent photographer, educator, and picture editor working on long-form projects related to the American wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and their aftermath. He is the Director of Photography for The GroundTruth Project and Report for America, and a co-founder of Mass Books. His first book, Attention Servicemember, was shortlisted for the 2019 Aperture - Paris Photo First Book Award and is now in its second edition. Ben holds an MFA from Hartford Art School's International Low-Residency Photography program. He resides in western Massachusetts.

Tim Carpenter (Illinois, 1968) is a photographer and writer who works in Brooklyn and central Illinois. He is the author of several photobooks, among them Christmas Day, Bucks Pond Road (The Ice Plant); Local objects (The Ice Plant); township (collaboration with Raymond Meeks, Adrianna Ault, and Brad Zellar; TIS/dumbsaint); Bement grain (TIS/dumbsaint); Still feel gone (collaboration with Nathan Pearce; Deadbeat Club Press); Illinois Central (Kris Graves Projects); The king of the birds (TIS books); and A house and a tree (TIS books). Local objects was included in the 2018 exhibition “American Surfaces and the Photobook” at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and was listed for the Kassel Photobook Award 2018. Tim received an MFA in Photography from the Hartford Art School in 2012, and in 2015 co-founded TIS books, an independent photobook publisher.

Julie Casemore established Camsemore Gallery in 2015 with the commitment to a unique program concentrated on new methods of photography. The gallery draws upon an investigation of contemporary photographic methods to incite a conversation regarding the future of the medium including annual thematic group exhibitions that stretch the definition of photography. With a specific interest in reasserting underrecognized historical work from artists in the San Francisco Bay Area, the gallery has exhibited reexaminations of several bodies of work including Raymond Saunders, Steve Kahn (Berkeley, CA, 1943-2018), Sonya Rapoport (Berkeley, CA 1923-2015), and Larry Sultan (1946-2009) and Mike Mandel's 'Newsroom' project circa 1983. Participation in Paris Photo and Frieze New York is part of the gallery's annual schedule.

Lucas Foglia (b. 1983) is a fine art photographer engaged in environmental activism. His photographs of people in nature are hyperreal, lyrical, and often inexplicable. He received his BFA from Brown University in 2005 and MFA from Yale University in 2010. He has numerous international publications, including four monographs: A Natural Order, Frontcountry, Human Nature, and Summer After. Foglia has had over 30 solo exhibitions at galleries, festivals, and museums, including Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam, Les Rencontres d’Arles, Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, and Museum of Contemporary Photography Chicago. His prints and public installations are represented by Fredericks & Freiser Gallery in New York, Micamera in Milan, and Michael Hoppen Gallery in London.

Allie Haeusslein is the Director of Pier 24 Photography in San Francisco, the largest space dedicated to photography in North America. She oversees the organization’s publishing programming, from short-run artist books to exhibition catalogues. She conceived and edited the publication Photographers Looking at Photographs: 75 Pictures from the Pilara Foundation Collection (2019). Her writing has appeared in the British Journal of Photography, ART21 Magazine, and Foam Magazine, among others. She has curated exhibitions for organizations including the Center for Photographic Arts, Carmel, Filter Photo, Chicago, and PHOTOFAIRS, San Francisco, in addition to her curatorial projects at Pier 24 Photography.

Todd Hido is a San Francisco Bay Area-based artist whose work has been featured in Artforum, The New York Times Magazine, Eyemazing, Wired, Elephant, FOAM, and Vanity Fair. His photographs are in the permanent collections of the Getty, the Whitney Museum of Art, the Guggenheim Museum, New York, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the de Young, the Smithsonian, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and Pier 24 Photography, as well as in many other public and private collections. He has over a dozen published books; his most recent monograph titled Excerpts from Silver Meadows was released in 2013, along with an innovative b-sides box set designed to function as a companion piece to his award-winning monograph in 2014. Aperture will publish his mid-career survey in 2016.

Shana Lopes, PhD, is an Assistant Curator of Photography, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Over the past fifteen years, she has gained curatorial experience at the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, Arizona, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. She has organized exhibitions on cyanotypes, Eikoh Hosoe, Atget, Helen Levitt, and Wright Morris. Recently, she has curated or co-curated exhibitions, including Constellations: Photographs in Dialogue, Sightlines: Photographs from the Collection, and A Living for Us All: Artists and the WPA. Her work has been published in the periodical History of Photography and is forthcoming in Art Journal.

Christopher McCall is a museum director and curator specializing in photography. He is the founding director of Pier 24 Photography, one of the largest spaces in the world devoted to photography. McCall received his MFA in Photography from the California College of the Arts (CCA) in 2003. At CCA, he studied alongside Larry Sultan and Jim Goldberg, both of whom he considers significant influences. Sultan recommended that Andrew Pilara, Pier 24 Photography's founder, speak with McCall as he was conceptualizing the organization and space. Prior to his work at Pier 24, McCall taught photography, film, and visual literacy at The Urban School of San Francisco.

Clint Woodside is a photographer born in Buffalo, NY. He has published over ten books including Let Me Die In My Footsteps (2013), Build Us A Path (2014) Undercover Cars (2016) and Vineland (2017). His work has been widely exhibited and published in the United States and overseas, including New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, London, Tokyo, Sweden, China, Seoul, and Australia. Woodside is also known for his extensive work as a curator and as creator of Deadbeat Club - a publisher and distributor of small books and publications with a diverse roster of photographers. He currently resides in Los Angeles, CA.

After running the New York photography gallery, Sasha Wolf Gallery, for 10 years, Sasha transitioned to a private/pop-up model in 2017. Sasha represents 14 photographic artists, working to place their prints in museum and university collections, private and corporate collections and in individual homes. Sasha advises and collaborates with her artists on book projects, grant proposals and career goals. Sasha also works with an extended group of artists as a book and project editor and on other professional practices. Sasha reviews and judges work for leading art institutions, universities and fairs numerous times a year and lectures and conducts artist’s workshops around the country on professional practices and project development. Sasha’s book, PhotoWork: Forty Photographers on Process and Practice, was published by Aperture in the Fall of 2019. Prior to her work in the fine art photography world, Sasha was a writer, director and producer in the film and television industries and an award winning short filmmaker. Her last short film, Joe, was nominated for the Palme d’Or du court métrage at Cannes and has screened all over the world.

Raymond Meeks (Ohio, 1963) has been recognized for his books and pictures centered on memory and place, the way in which a landscape can shape an individual and, in the abstract, how a place possesses you in its absence. His books have been described as a field or vertical plane for examining interior co-existences, as life moves in circles and moments and events—often years apart—unravel and overlap, informing new meanings. Raymond Meeks lives and works in the Hudson Valley (New York). His work is represented in numerous private and public collections. He is the sixth laureate of Immersion, a French-American photography commission sponsored by Fondation d’entreprise Hermès. Exhibitions from this commission are scheduled for New York (ICP September, 2023) and Paris (Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson September, 2024). The Inhabitants, a book made in collaboration with writer George Weld, will be published in August 2023 by MACK Raymond Meeks is a 2020 recipient of a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in Photography and was awarded a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in 2022.

Brad Zellar has worked as a writer and editor for daily and weekly newspapers, as well as for regional and national magazines. A former senior editor at City Pages, The Rake, and Utne Reader, Zellar is also the author of Suburban World: The Norling Photos, Conductors of the Moving World, House of Coates, and Driftless. He has frequently collaborated with the photographer Alec Soth, and together they produced seven editions of The LBM Dispatch, chronicling American community life in the twenty-first century. Zellar’s work has been featured in the New York Times Magazine, The Believer, Paris Review, Vice, Guernica, Aperture, and Russian Esquire. He spent fifteen years working in bookstores and was a co-owner of Rag & Bone Books in Minneapolis. He currently lives in Saint Paul.

Martin Amis is a British landscape and documentary photographer, living in Whitstable, Kent, United Kingdom.   He is passionate about the significance and ongoing development of the photobook medium and in 2007 founded Photobookstore.co.uk one of the leading and most respected photobook outlets.  As well as supporting many independent publishers and self-publishing photographers over the past 15 years he has released three photobooks of his own, The Gamblers (RRB 2018), This Land (Photo Editions 2021) and most recently Closed (Photo Editions 2022).    His yet untitled fourth photobook, a continuation of his long-term project documenting environmental change in his local coastal communities is scheduled to be released in 2024/25.

Barbara Bosworth is a photographer whose large-format images explore both overt and subtle relationships between humans and the rest of the natural world. She currently lives in Massachusetts, where she is a professor emeritus of photography at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston. Bosworth’s work has been widely exhibited, notably in recent retrospectives at the Denver Art Museum in Colorado, Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., and the Phoenix Art Museum in Arizona. Her publications include, The Sea (Radius Books, 2022), The Heavens (Radius Books, 2018), The Meadow (Radius Books, 2015), Natural Histories (Radius Books, 2013), Trees: National Champions (MIT Press; Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, 2005) and Chasing the Light (Nightwood Press, 2002).

Miwa Susuda (b. Tokyo, JP) is a publisher and photobook consultant at Dashwood Books for over 17 years. She had been working for Penumbra Foundation for “photo book making” since 2020. She has appeared at galleries, art fairs and museums worldwide, including Photo Book Fair at ICP (2023), Paris Photo/Aperture Best Photo Book (2022), Vertical Assembly with Lesley A. Martin (2020), CONTACT Photo 2019 with Sarah Allen (2019), Tokyo Art Book Fair at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (2019), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (2019), Twelvebooks 4th Photobook Symposium, Tokyo (2018), Toronto Library Project (2018), Photo-bookworks Symposium at the Vis-ual Studies Workshop, Rochester (2016), and an Artist Talk with contemporary Japanese photographers at Casemore Kirkeby, San Francisco (2016). Books from her publishing imprint, Session Press, have received numerous prestigious prizes and nominations, including "Red Flower” by Mao Ishikawa (Session 09), shortlisted for best book at the 2017 Fotobookfestival Kassel, shortlisted for Historical Book Award at Les Prix Du Livre FR 2017, and winner of the 2017 Best Book of the Year by Liberation, Paris; “Taratine" by Daisuke Yokota, (Session 07), winner of the 2016 Paul Hof Award and shortlisted for best book of 2016 by Aperture/Paris; and “Bible" and “Dildo" by Momo Okabe (Session 02 and 05), winners of the 2015 Paul Hof Award.