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Professional photographer, Fujifilm ambassador from 2013 to 2016, teacher at Leica Akademie until 2021, he collaborated with EIZO Color Academy. He regularly holds intensive courses and workshops on photography and post-production. He created a fine art printing lab and he is a founding member of one of the most important education center in the field of photography, in Italy. He is represented by Valeria Bella Gallery in Milan. His dummy book “Un luogo bello” was shortlisted at Belfast Photo Festival in 2022 and at Andy Rocchelli Grant in 2021 and received a special mention at Urbanautica Institute Annual Award. He

Ciro Battiloro (Torre del Greco, 1984) is an italian photographer based in Napoli. He studied philosophy at “Federico II ” University of Napoli and after that specialized in documentary photography. His work is an overall analysis on human beings. He uses a very intimate approach and throat everyday life he discusses more general social thematics. In particular his research of the last years is focused on some urban marginalities in South Italy (Rione Sanità in Napoli, Quartiere Santa Lucia,Cosenza). In 2015 he was selected for the 2nd edition of LAB, Irregular Laboratory created by Antonio Biasiucci. His works have been

Thieu Riemen is a Dutch artist-photographer based in the South of The Netherlands. Originally he was educated as a painter at Academie voor Beeldende Vorming Tilburg (Academy of Visual Arts) and art historian at Leiden University. His photography develops from an interest in the landscapes in the South of the Netherlands. These landscapes have changed enormously in recent decades. In this respect it is important to note that Riemen is driven essentially by an emotional involvement with place and rather than by an attempt to gain some exact knowledge about changes that have occurred.

Ugo is a Portuguese self-taught photographer, based in the Netherlands. Born in 1975, in a coastal city in southern Portugal, Portimão, he is currently living in Amsterdam. His work mirrors a universe of manifold daily observations, either with more poetic tones, or more cinematographic trails. For more than a decade he worked as a bookseller but, despite the power of words, images have always been his main way of telling stories. The enormous passion for poetry that shaped him all along was the key element that would later open doors to different ways to capture and perceive the everyday commonplaces.

Mert Acar (b. 1989, Ankara) is a Turkish artist and academician currently based in Ankara. He was educated as a graphic designer then completed his MFA in painting department. The main subjects he focuses on are structures; roads, surfaces, landscapes which are based on concepts such as non-places and absence.

Alessandro Cinque is a photojournalist currently based in Lima. His work delves into mining’s devastating impact on indigenous communities and their lands. Alessandro has especially been documenting environmental contamination and public health concerns among the communities of Campesinos living along Peru’s mining corridor. In 2017, during a working trip in the Sacred Valley of the Incas, he met a 53-year old woman who told him that she got cancer because the water in her village was highly contaminated. Since then, Alessandro has committed to photographing the effects of the pollution that permeates the crops, livestock, and homes of the people

Tori Ferenc is a portrait and documentary photographer, born in Poland in 1989. In her work, Tori is focusing on the themes of identity, community, and most recently, parenthood. She is based in London. Selected clients: Adidas / AnOther/ Bloomberg / British Journal of Photography / Cardhu Whisky / FT Weekend Magazine / The Guardian / i-D Poland / It’s Nice That / New Statesman / The New York Times / PORT Magazine / Nike / PYLOT / Splash & Grab / Telegraph Magazine / Time / Trip Magazine / Tylko / Vans / VICE UK / Vogue Italia /

Martínez work address fractured communities in his native Mexico. He often works symbolically to evoke a sense of emptiness, absence, and pain suffered by those affected by organized crime in the region. He is nominee of the agency Magnum photos, the recipient of the Eugene Smith Award 2019. He won the 2nd Prize of the World Press Photo contests 2019 in the category of long-term projects. Martínez is a former fellow of the Magnum foundation. His work has been published by: The Wall Street Journal, Blomberg news, Lens NY times, Time, Vogue Italy, Vrij Nederland, Aperture. His work has been

Graduating from FSM in Florence with a degree in photography in 2007. In the same year he was selected as one of 15 finalists of the ‘Atlante Italiano 007’ Award and his work was exhibited at MAXXI,in Rome. He started his photographic research in 2005 with a project about coastal erosion that affects 1500 km of the italian coastline. This project, titled ‘Among’, aims to investigate natural processes of the landscape. This work is part of ‘Visions and Documents’, a ten-book set published by Documentary Platform. It also has been exhibited in several group shows, for example: ‘Tempi Osceni. Moments

Born in 1986 is a photographer and director based in Italy. His works are published by major magazines worldwide. He produces independently researched projects, that have been exhibited in some of the main photo festivals, such as Cortona on The Move, Athens Photo Festival, Fotografia Europea, Les Rencontres d’Arles, Photo Kathmandu, Format19, Angkor Photo Fest, Encontros da Imagem, PhotoOpenUp, as well as in galleries and museum like Triennale Milano and MUFOCO. During the years he has received several prizes and grants such as: Premio Fabbri per la Fotografia Contemporanea, Cortona On The Move – New Visions, Refocus – Italian Ministry