essa Forrest is a New-York based art director and graphic designer known for her innovative work at Atmos Magazine, as well as her personal project, Subliming. Atmos is a non profit biannual publication focused on the cross-pollination of climate and culture, delivering award-winning journalism and creative storytelling. In 2021, Forrest designed a collection with Barcelona based label Gimaguas. At the intersection of fashion and culture, wellness and spirituality, Forrest creates visually compelling narratives that resonate deeply with contemporary issues.

Runa Anzai is a director and creative at kontakt, a multidisciplinary creative agency founded in Tokyo in 2015 with additional bases in London and Paris. The agency operates across a broad spectrum of industries, including fashion, beauty, and art. With a distinctly multicultural approach, kontakt brings together creatives from around the world. Specialising in creative direction, branding, promotion strategy, and communication planning, kontakt has built a strong foundation of editing and storytelling, creating original and long-lasting content. With extensive experience collaborating with both established and emerging photographers, along with her background in Fashion Photography, Runa has developed a deep knowledge of the field. Currently based in London, she is also leading the launch of Remember, a sibling company dedicated to photographic projects, editing and publishing.

Giorgia Basch (Italy, 1992) is a creative director, curator, publisher and critic. She is the founding director of BilderAtlas, a space for visual practice engaged in curation, publishing and cultural research from a feminist, interdisciplinary perspective. BilderAtlas delivers the editorial collection Eight poems by, dedicated to the visual researches of contemporary women artists. Traversing the borders of disciplines, in her practice Giorgia explores relationships among visual language, fashion and women’s politics. In her ten-year career in the luxury fashion field she held senior positions for the likes of Jil Sander and i-D, staging a wide number of projects with established photographers and artists, among others Larry Fink, Lina Scheynius and Ute Mahler. Lens-based media are the focus of her collaborations with arts and culture institutions and publishers as well, among which stand Kunstverein München, Fondazione Ica, Art Paper Editions, and others. She is a member of Libreria delle donne di Milano, a historical site of feminism founded in 1975, where she is also a consultant for the photographic archive. In the academic field, she has obtained an MA Summa Cum Laude with Distinction in Visual Cultures and Curatorial Practices from Brera Academy of Fine Arts. She is currently Lecturer at Istituto Marangoni in Milan.

Abdulhamid Kircher (b.1996) is an artist from Queens, New York. He was born in Belgium to German and Turkish parents, and immigrated with his mother to the United States at the age of eight. His work is a living archive of place and people, as it is also a dedication to the language of photography, the mechanics and aesthetic possibilities of the form. Through his devotion to classical forms of image making and the radical experimentation required for each of his subjects, his process bridges the idea between document and narrative. He received his BA in Culture and Media from The New School in 2018 and his MFA in Visual Arts from the University of California San Diego in 2022. Abdul currently lives and works between Berlin and Los Angeles.

Paul Kooiker is a renowned Dutch photographer who operates at the intersection of fashion and art, creating a distinctive style that has garnered international acclaim. His work often blurs the lines between staged and spontaneous moments, capturing the interplay between the human form and its surroundings. Kooiker’s surreal visual language evokes icons of photography and art history and through his innovative approach, challenges traditional notions of beauty and identity. Notable publications like “Eden,” “Beverly Hills” and “Fashion” published in 2023 along with exhibitions at prestigious venues, have solidified his place in contemporary photography.