Michael Christopher Brown / MCB became known for his pioneering use of the phone camera as a primary reporting device in conflict zones, including the Libyan Revolution. This documentation led to the seminal book Libyan Sugar, which won the Paris Photo / Aperture First PhotoBook Award and the ICP Infinity Award for Artist’s Book. A former associate at Magnum Photos, MCB spent much of his career as a photographer working on assignment, including for publications like The New York Times Magazine and National Geographic Magazine, where he has been a photographer since 2004. A main character and cinematographer for Michael Mann’s HBO documentary Witness: Libya, his film work has featured in other conflict based documentaries including Hondros, Which way is the Front Line from Here? The Life and Time of Tim Hetherington, The Prosecutors, and This is Congo. In 2023, MCB released the novel and controversial AI reportage illlustration work 90 Miles. He lives in Los Angeles.

Katerina Tsakiri was born in Athens in 1991 and she has been living in Gothenburg for the last four years. She studied Photography and Audiovisual Arts in Athens and has a MFA on Photography from the University of Gothenburg. Since 2015 she has been working part time on her personal projects and part time as a commercial photographer. The last four years she has been devoting her time on her artistic practice and has been experimenting with other visual mediums like video, gifs and sculptures.
In her last photographic series she uses documentary photography to share the journey of her breast cancer treatment and to deal with her body’s transformations.

Constance Jaeggi is a Swiss photographic artist based in Fort Worth, TX. Jaeggi moved to Texas from her native Switzerland in 2009 to pursue her degree from TCU and begin her competitive cutting horse-riding career. Jaeggi has studied at the New York Film Academy and most recently completed a Master of Art History and Art World Practice at Christie’s in London.

Jaeggi’s work focuses on the relationship between horse and human, in particular women. She uses horses as a backdrop for exploring themes of intimacy and identity, connection, and power dynamics.

Her work has been internationally exhibited and published. In 2021, she was shortlisted for the Critical Mass Awards. She has had two solo shows at the National Cowgirl Museum in Fort Worth, TX and has been exhibited internationally in Rome and Venice, Italy and Zurich, Switzerland, and has been published notably by The Guardian and The Washington Post.

Karina Bikbulatova was born in Russia in 1995. She graduated from the University of Culture and Art in Moscow for a photography course. I also studied at the Academy of fine arts in Florence. I am also a finalist and winner of many international photography competitions and awards. For me, photography is a convenient and universal language. There are things I don’t want to talk about, because I find it difficult to find words in Russian, Tatar, English, Italian, and the plastic language comes to the rescue, the language of photography, which I know better than others.

Kostis Karampinas is a self-taught photographer with a deep appreciation for the authenticity and beauty of provincial Greece, focusing on exploring and capturing the enchanting landscapes that illuminate untold stories. Engaging with the process and nuances of film photography, he finds joy in unveiling the unique charm of rural areas, showcasing their genuine character and evoking emotions tied to their poignant history of solitude.

Miranda Papadopoulou began her involvement with photography in 2014, attending workshops in Thessaloniki, where I currently reside. She has participated in group exhibitions and published the photographic book “Youth on Hold.” Through photography, she observes the world and narrates stories. She discovers the value of objects and situations, giving them her own significance. She seeks light, allowing the photos to speak for her.

Exhibitions:
2023 – Group exhibition “Holon” (with Dimitra Andreou & Sylvia Arapidou), Bordde L’Eau, Thessaloniki
2017 – 2022 – Participation in the annual group exhibitions of Stereosis

PhotographyClasses:
2014 – 2016 – Photography classes with Tasos Schizas
2017 – 2022 – Photography classes & completion of the 5-course series, Stereosis School of Photography
2021 – Short Photography Seminar with Stratos Kalafatis

Photographic Book – Self-published:
“Youth on Hold”

Mouneb Taim, born in 2001 in Damascus, Syria. He worked on covering news stories with a focus on social issues. He is working freelance photojournalism with international agencies began his career in 2014, where he covered life under siege in different areas of Syria until early 2022, and documented massacres, destruction and life with people under caused air strikes and bombing almost daily, during the ten years he lived under siege in his city. Arrested and tortured by Islamic organizations for his journalistic activism, he won many international awards

Rocío Bueno Royo is a visual creator, photographer and economist. She works on issues related to women and their current construction, inheritance, fragility of memory and the barely perceptible. She is interested in relating photography to other visual arts. Her works have been recognized on several occasions, highlighting the Honorable Mention at Encontros da Imagem, Braga, and the first prize at Festival Baffest de Baracaldo, both in 2021, or the honorable mention at Lumínic Festival in 2023. She has exhibited in museums, festivals and art spaces in Spain, France, Chile and Portugal, including Matadero de Madrid, the Museum of Photography in Huete, the Les Rencontres d’Arlés International Photography Festival, the ArtsLibris fair ARCOmadrid or the Valparaíso International Photography Festival. She has self-published three photobooks, “Hilo” in 2019, acquired by the MOMA Library in New York, for the author’s book collection; “Renascense”, finalist of the PhotoEspaña 2022 Festival; and “You, me, them, us” in 2023.

StreetMax21 was born in Scotland, he works mainly in London and Norfolk, UK.
His street photography has been shown in various festivals and group shows internationally. Having been selected as the Juror’s Pick in the LensCulture Street Photography Awards in 2017, he has gone on to win several awards including series winner at PHOS Athens, Best Series award at Streetfoto, San Francisco in 2017, street category winner of the Neutral Density Awards and series winner in the 13th Pollux Awards street category in 2019. He has shown also in a number of galleries in the United Kingdom, United States, Hungary, Greece, Turkey, Italy, France and Spain. In 2020, he became a member of the street photography collective iN-PUBLIC, and was included in its first online exhibition The Square Mile. He was a top 50 photographer in Photolucida Critical Mass 2023, and was selected as a Talent in Fresh Eyes 2024.

Thekla Malamou is a photographer and documentary filmmaker. Her film work has been awarded at international festivals, including Thessaloniki International Documentary Film Festival, Festival International du Film d’Environnement in Paris, Documentarist International Film Festival in Istanbul, Finisterra Film Festival in Portugal, Krakow Film Festival, Korean Green Film Festival and the Ecofest in Romania. She has traveled and worked as a freelance photographer in several assignments in countries such as Israel, Turkey, Morocco, Cape Verde, Thailand and Sicily. Her photographic work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions in Greece and abroad, including the Benaki Museum, the State Museum of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki, the 18th International Photography Festival – PHOTOSYNKYRIA and she representated Greece at the 12th Biennale of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean in Naples of Italy (-awarded prize for ‘Voyeurisms-Mental Spaces’). In 2010, Thekla co-founded with Stratis Vogiatzis the ‘Caravan Project’, an initiative which was funded by Stavros Niarchos foundation. ‘Caravan Project’ is a nomadic body; a collective, which is driving documentary filmmaking, photography and other forms of storytelling, through the development of participatory practices.