Elizabeth M. Claffey is an Assistant Professor of Photography at Indiana University in Bloomington and a 2019-20 Research Fellow at The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction. She has an MFA in Studio Art from Texas Woman's University, where she also earned a Graduate Certificate in Women's Studies. In 2012, she was awarded a William J. Fulbright Fellowship. Elizabeth's work focuses on identity, kinship, isolation, issues of the body, family history, and cultural/institutional practices. Among others, her work has been recognized by PDN Magazine, Center Santa Fe, The Eddie Adams Workshop, and Don't Take Pictures Magazine.

Matt Eich is a photographic essayist working on long-form projects related to memory, family, community, and the American condition.Matt’s projects have received grant support from an Aaron Siskind Fellowship, a VMFA Fellowship and two Getty Images Grants for Editorial Photography. His work has been exhibited in 20 solo shows, in addition to numerous festivals and group exhibitions. Matt’s prints and books are held in the permanent collections of The Portland Art Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, The New York Public Library, Chrysler Museum of Art and others. He was an Artist-in-Residence at Light Work in 2013, and at a Robert Rauschenberg Residency in 2019.Eich holds a BS in photojournalism from Ohio University and an MFA in Photography from Hartford Art School’s International Limited-Residency Program. He is the author of four monographs and self-publishes work under the imprint Little Oak Press. Matt is an Assistant Professor of Photojournalism at Corcoran School of Art and Design in Washington, D.C. and resides in Charlottesville, Virginia with his family.

Jenn Ackerman and Tim Gruber are a husband and wife team based in Minneapolis, MN. Simply put they’re storytellers. They enjoy the collaborative nature of being a tight-knit team and pushing each other to create images that sing. Their goal on every assignment is simple - evoke emotion and authenticity in every image they make. They believe you can’t forget what you feel and they try to make images that make you feel something. They take an authentic approach to their work and specialize in providing images of real people to advertising, corporate and editorial clients. They pride themselves in being storytellers and love establishing a rapport with everyone they photograph. When you don’t find them behind a camera you’ll find them walking through their neighborhood or on their bikes scheming up their next big idea or most likely just talking about what they should make for dinner. Their work has been honored by the Communication Arts Photography Annual and Advertising Annual 2009, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2019, American Photography 28, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, PDN Photo Annual, CENTER Project Competition, Photolucida’s Critical Mass, Inge Morath Award, Magnum Expression Award, POYi, and many others. Their most recent documentary film won an Emmy and they were named a McKnight Fellow and to PDN's 30 Photographers to Watch.For their aerial work, they are FAA 107 certified pilots and fully insured.

Bryan Derballa is a NYC-based photographer. He grew up in Western North Carolina, skateboarding his way through his teens. He moved to Berkeley, CA for college and the world opened up, introducing him to culture, art, and travel. After school and moving to Brooklyn, he got serious about photography. He started landing metro assignments for the newspaper and began picking up magazine and commercial clients. Nowadays he tiptoes through all three shooting about equal parts magazine editorial, commercial jobs, and newspaper portraits. At least before COVID. During the pandemic, he’s been in Upstate NY working on a house inspired by his personal work of his friends camping and swimming in nature. Works been slowly picking up, but he’s in no rush.

Phil Sharp was born in London in 1979 but really grew up in the new city of Milton Keynes. Originally he wanted to get into filmmaking but ended up on a photography course and stuck with it. Phil lived in New York for a couple of years in my 20's but made my way back to live in London where he's been for the past 11 years.He mostly make portraits in his studio in Tottenham, but his personal work is often more varied.Phil lives with his wife, Rebekah, a pianist. And his three-year-old daughter Grey, who's into Trolls, Peppa Pig and Lego.

Annie Tritt is a storyteller whose work seeks to facilitate connections between peoples and within our internal landscapes. When we connect, transformation follows. Formerly a public school teacher and stay-at-home parent, Annie began their career in photojournalism in 2006 and has worked worldwide since then. Annie’s long-term project, ‘Transcending Self,’ brings visibility to the complex issues facing transgender and nonbinary youth. Nearly half of transgender youth will attempt suicide before their 20th birthday. Annie is committed to changing this statistic. Using photography as a narrative medium, the project challenges existing notions on identity, gender, and selfhood. In 2020 they became a Catchlight Fellow. In 2019, the project received a Women Photograph grant, Photolucida’s Michael Reichmann Project grant, was accepted into Critical mass top 50.What does it mean to not cause harm? What does it mean to be a refuge for others? What does it look like, to tell the truth? These are the questions driving their work in 2021.

Preston Gannaway is a Pulitzer Prize-winning documentary photographer and artist. For nearly 20 years, she has focused on intimate stories about American families and marginalized communities while addressing themes such as gender identity, class and our relationship to the landscape. Gannaway is best known for her long-term projects like Remember Me, which was awarded the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography.In 2014 she released her first book, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea, about the changing character of a seaside neighborhood in Virginia. She was a Light Work artist in residence in 2018 and a Pollner Distinguished Professor at the University of Montana in 2019.In addition to long-term projects, she does editorial commissions for publications such as The New Yorker, California Sunday Magazine, Mother Jones and ESPN. Her photographs are held in both public and private collections and have been exhibited around the world. She is a regular lecturer and serves on the Board of Directors of Women Photograph. Born and raised in North Carolina, she is based in Sonoma County, California.

Michael Robinson Chávez, a Pulitzer Prize winning photojournalist, became seduced by photography after a friend gave him a camera to take on a three-month trip to Peru in 1988. A native Californian and half Peruvian, Robinson Chávez is currently on his second tour as a staff photographer at The Washington Post. Prior to that, he worked for The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe and the Associated Press. He has covered assignments in over 70 countries including the collapse of Venezuela, violence in Mexico, California's historic drought, the Egyptian revolution, gold mining in Peru, life in India and Brazil's slums, the 2006 Hezbollah/Israeli war and the US led invasion and occupation of Iraq.Robinson Chávez was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 2020 as part of a staff entry from The Washington Post covering climate change. He is also a three-time winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award for Photojournalism and was named International Photographer of the Year in 2020 by Pictures of the Year International. He also won second place Photographer of the Year honors by Pictures of the Year International in 2010 and 2014, Photographer of the Year by the Northern Short Course in 2020 the Ben Bradlee Award for Courage in Journalism and the Scripps Howard Journalism Award. His work has been exhibited at museums and festivals around the world.He is a member of Metro Collective, a frequent lecturer and has taught photographic workshops in over 20 countries.

Stephen Voss is a photographer based in Washington, DC. He grew up in New Jersey, moved out west after college and then to DC where he covers those in power and those seeking to be so.His clients include TIME, Politico, AARP, Salesforce and Audi. His work is in the collection of the Library of Congress. He has an abiding love of bonsai trees, gardening and going for nighttime runs.

Melissa Golden is an American photographer and visual storyteller whose work often focuses on the convergences of politics, economics, climate change, gender, public health, criminal justice and entertainment. In the past few years her work more deliberately acknowledges the long shadow of history over those subjects and their permutations as well as the fallout of flawed policy and institutional structures in the lives of ordinary people.Over her diverse and unlikely career, she has toured with rock stars, explored the hidden political sausage factories of DC, gone to prison multiple times, hitched a ride through a flooded trailer park in a monster truck, and once found herself in a chihuahua stampede. Most of the time her actual job seems to be drinking tea, solving problems, and listening intently. Melissa’s work has been awarded, published, and exhibited internationally owing to her keen eye for offbeat humor and earnest humanity. She lives in Atlanta, GA with a talking dog she found in a parking lot.