Brian Pfister

Brian Pfister is an artist and curator. He’s a graduate of the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design (MIAD). His art practice explores topics of social practice and personal identity in the form of photography, installation, and performance. He is currently co-leading Swim Team, a curatorial collective creating a platform for emerging artists throughout Milwaukee in galleries, museums, and alternative spaces. He is also a co-founder of ISO Photography Club at MIAD, expanding the photographic education outside of the classroom via lectures, workshops, field trips, and exhibitions. 

His work has been exhibited in Milwaukee, Chicago, Washington D.C. and published in Photography Forum’s Best of High School & College Photography in 2014 and Best of Photography in 2014. He is currently working to integrate emerging artist communities in Milwaukee through his personal and collective-practices. 

Elifete Paz

Elifete Paz is a writer and editor based in Brooklyn, New York. He is a former Los Angeles Review of Books Publishing Fellow, a Stevan A. Baron Work Scholar at Aperture Foundation, and was an Artist in Residence at the Center for Photography at Woodstock. His writing has been featured by the Los Angeles Times, Hyperallergic, VICE, Remezcla, Aperture. He is one of the authors of Los Sumergidos (published by Alejandro Cartagena y Carlos Loret de Mola, 2019), shortlisted by PHotoESPAÑA 2019.

Roula Seikaly

Roula Seikaly is an independent art writer and curator based in Berkeley, and Senior Editor at Humble Arts Foundation. She is a contributor to BOMB, Photograph, and Hyperallergic, and has curated exhibitions at SF Camerawork, SOMArts, Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, and the Utah Museum of Fine Arts.

Jen Everett

Jen Everett is an artist from Southfield, Michigan, currently working in Saint Louis, Missouri. Her undergraduate training in architecture informs her approach to research and making. Jen’s work considers the relationship between rupture and Black interiority through an investigation of the materials we collect, the information we hold in our bodies and where the two may converge. Her work has evolved from an image based practice to one that includes installation, time based media and writing.

Jen received an MFA from Washington University in Saint Louis where she was a Chancellor’s Graduate Fellow in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts. Jen has shown at arts spaces including Leo Model Gallery at Hampshire College, Vox Populi in Philadelphia and Gallery 102 in Washington DC. She has presented her work during lectures at the Saint Louis Art Museum and Harvard University and her work has been published in Transition and SPOOK magazines. She has been an artist in residence at the Vermont Studio Center, Atlantic Center for the Arts and ACRE.

Jamil Hellu

Jamil Hellu is a visual artist based in San Francisco, working primarily with photography and video installation. His projects revolve around representations of identity, particularly engaged in exploring interpretations of queer sexuality.

His work has been featured in publications such as The New York Times, The Guardian, The Advocate, and VICE. He is the recipient of the Fleishhacker Foundation's 2018 Eureka Fellowship Award. Hellu received the Kala Art Institute Fellowship and was selected for the Artist-in-Residence Program at Recology San Francisco. He was awarded the Graduate Fellowship at Headlands Center for the Arts and was granted a six-month residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris.

Hellu holds a Masters in Fine Arts in Art Practice from Stanford University and a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Photography from the San Francisco Art Institute.

He teaches photography in the Department of Art & Art History at Stanford University.

Giancarlo Montes Santangelo

Giancarlo Montes Santangelo was born and raised between Bethesda, Maryland and Washington D.C., He received a BFA in Photography from SUNY Purchase in 2018. His work teases out the relationships between queerness Since then he has joined the Peace Corps in South Africa and has been teaching English, Creative Arts and facilitating a photography club in a primary school in rural KZN. He is interested in facilitating a relationship between communities and art, whether through art making, collaborative-participatory projects, analysis of art works, and/or primary experiential learning.

Jessica Baran

Jessica Baran is a poet, curator, critic. The author of three poetry collections, she is the former art writer for the Riverfront Times (2008-2012), Assistant Director of White Flag Projects (2008-2011), Director of fort gondo compound for the arts (2012-2016) and Director of Curatorial and Program Development at Barrett Barrett Projects (2017-2021). Her art writing has appeared in Art in America, Artforum, Art Papers, BOMB, Flash Art and the Village Voice, among other publications. She has also taught at the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Art and St. Louis University’s Prison Arts & Education program. In 2020, the Andy Warhol Foundation awarded her an Arts Writers Grant for her short-form criticism. She holds a B.A. in visual art from Columbia University, NY and an MFA in poetry from Washington University in St. Louis – where she lives with poet Nathaniel Farrell and their dog Tina.

Juan Madrid

Juan Madrid is a photographer and book artist based in New York. He has worked for editorial clients including Time, VICE, Bloomberg Businessweek, Society Magazine, Topic, and Planned Parenthood. He was an artist in residence at Eyes On Main Street in Wilson, NC. Publishing is integral to his artistic output, and he has self-published his and other artists' work and teaches workshops based around zine and book making. He is one of the authors of Los Sumergidos, a collaborative photo-text book that was shortlisted at Les Rencontres d'Arles and PHotoESPAÑA 2019.

Aaron Turner

Aaron Turner is a photographer and educator currently based in the Hudson Valley working as Technical Director in the Film and Electronic Arts Department at Bard College, also as an Adjunct Professor at Bard College at Simon's Rock. He uses photography to pursue personal stories of people of color, in two main areas of the U.S., the Arkansas and Mississippi Deltas. Aaron has a strong interest in the role that documentary photography plays in both the art and journalism worlds, and the crossover this creates in contemporary photography. 

Saleem Ahmed

Saleem Ahmed is a photographer, writer, and educator based in Philadelphia. He received his MFA in photography from the Hartford Art School, and his BA in photojournalism from Temple University. He teaches at various colleges and high schools within Philadelphia. He co-founded Vista Oculta (vistaoculta.org), a series of photography-based projects based in La Paz, Bolivia aimed at teaching visual arts to adolescents living and working in the streets. His work has been exhibited in New York, Philadelphia, Hartford, Milwaukee, Berlin, Goa, and La Paz. 

Abbey Hepner

Abbey Hepner is an artist and educator investigating the human relationship with landscape and technology. Her work explores ethical gray areas where humanity and industry collide, illuminating the increasingly common use of health as a currency. She received degrees in Art and Psychology from the University of Utah, an MFA in Art and Minor in Arts Management from the University of New Mexico. She teaches at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs and is the founder of Creative Advocacy, an organization dedicated to teaching artists professional development skills. 

Hepner’s work has been exhibited widely in such venues as the Mt. Rokko International Photography Festival (Kobe, Japan), SITE Santa Fe (Santa Fe, NM), the San Diego Art Institute (San Diego, CA), the National Museum of Nuclear Science and History (Albuquerque, NM), Institut for Alles Mögliche (Berlin, Germany), and the Newspace Center for Photography (Portland, OR).

Alyssa Chandelle

Alyssa Chandelle is a Xicana artist from El Paso, Texas who is currently based in Queens, New York. She studied Cultural Anthropology and Media Studies at Texas State University. While the primary source of her work is created through photography, she constantly explores mixed-media practices. Her most current projects analyze the ways in which childhood trauma/experiences have the ability to carry (consciously and unconsciously) far beyond the adolescent years.

Leah Grant

Leah Grant lives in Fayetteville, Arkansas, where she is currently an MFA candidate in the School of Art at the University of Arkansas. She graduated with her BFA from Henderson State University in Arkadelphia, Arkansas. Her background is in printmaking but she also utilizes photography, writing, audio, and video in her art practice. 

Kelli Connell

Kelli Connell is an artist whose work investigates sexuality, gender, identity and photographer / sitter relationships. Her work is in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Columbus Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, and Museum of Contemporary Photography, among others. Publications of her work include PhotoWork: Forty Photographers on Process and Practice (Aperture), Vitamin Ph: New Perspectives in Photography (Phaidon), Photo Art: The New World of Photography (Aperture) and the monograph Kelli Connell: Double Life (DECODE Books). Connell has received fellowships from The MacDowell Colony, PLAYA, Peaked Hill Trust, LATITUDE, Light Work, and The Center for Creative Photography. Connell is an educator at Columbia College Chicago and an editor at SKYLARK EDITIONS.

Odette England

Odette England’s photographs have been shown in more than 100 solo, two-person, and group exhibitions worldwide. For 2021 England is an Artist-in-Residence at Amherst College; a Light Work Artist in Residence; a recipient of the Silver Eye Center for Photography Fellowship; and a nominee for the Prix Pictet. England’s first edited volume Keeper of the Hearth was named a Photobook of the Year by LensCulture and American Suburb X, among others. England’s work is held in collections including the Fort Wayne Museum of Art, George Eastman Museum, Museum of Contemporary Photography, and New Mexico Museum of Art.

InHae Yap

InHae Yap is a researcher and writer. Photography is a central component of her ethnographic practice, and her work often addresses resonances between the two fields. Her writing appears in photo-eye, Elephant Magazine, Strange Fire Collective, and Critical Interventions, among other publications.

InHae holds degrees in Anthropology and Art History from Stanford University. She is currently based in New York.

Nawang Tsomo

Nawang Tsomo is an emerging writer, researcher and curator interested in photography and visual culture. She is currently an MA candidate in photography studies at The Creative School (X University) where her research engages with colonial images of Tibet. She has been involved in projects at the Royal Ontario Museum, Canadian Center for Architecture and the X Image Center. Her writing on contemporary art has appeared in Peripheral Review, Femme Art Review and Public Parking. In her spare time, Nawang enjoys reading fiction, taking pictures, and vintage shopping.

Keavy Handley-Byrne

Keavy Handley-Byrne is a photographer, writer, and researcher. Keavy’s work addresses issues of queer identity and its relationship to loss, mourning, and memorial. Their work has been exhibited across the United States and featured in numerous independent publications. Keavy currently teaches at the International Center of Photography and at RISD in the photography department. They hold a master’s degree from RISD and a bachelor’s from SUNY Purchase, both in photography. They are currently based on Lenape and Canarsie land (Brooklyn, NY).

Delaney Hoffman

Delaney Hoffman (they/she) is an artist living in Albuquerque, New Mexico on unceded Tiwa land. Their practice spans traditional darkroom printing, experimental prose, zine and book making. Delaney has a B.F.A. from the University of New Mexico, has exhibited work nationally and has worked in and around galleries and museums for the duration of their career. Her work is primarily concerned with visual expressions of cultural intersections – such as those between art/labor, performance/gender, and novelty/reality – which are explored through documentation of durational acts, found imagery and constructed still lifes. Delaney finds many ways to fuel their creative practice, including playing solitaire, watching Westerns, and looking for Bigfoot in the Sandia Mountains.