Dana Lixenberg studied photography at the London College of Printing from 1984 to 1986, and at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam from 1987 until 1989. The series Imperial Courts 1993–2015, her most extensive body of work to date, was awarded the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize in 2017. Lixenberg has exhibited at Aperture, New York (US); Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (NL); Centre Photographique, Rouen (FR); MMK, Frankfurt (DE); The Photographer’s Gallery, London (UK); Busan Biennale (KR); Huis Marseille, Amsterdam (NL); Kunsthal, Rotterdam (NL); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (NL); FOAM, Amsterdam (NL); Frans Halsmuseum De Hallen, Haarlem (NL); and LACP, Los Angeles (US).

Bart Koetsier is a Dutch portrait and documentary photographer based in Paris. People are key in Koetsier's photographs: portraits as well as documentary images. However, he also looks for places and objects to tell his story. In all images, he creates a strong cinematic atmosphere. The use of light is decisive here; events become scenes, people become characters and the locations become their scenery.
During many years Koetsier has been working on his series ‘Taillights Fade’ ; a personal document on Europe at the beginning of the 21st Century. “Bart Koetsier follows the tradition of night street photographers in his series Taillights Fade. Walking the dark hours of cities in Europe, the work-in-progress series so far includes Amsterdam, Paris, Brussels, Marseille and Warsaw. While many street photographers rely on anonymity and distance, Koetsier says he enjoys the night-time interactions and even, in a way, uses photography as an enabler for the experiences. Capturing the blurry, bizarre, and occasionally confrontational nature of night life, the photos are a mixture of colour and black and white, yet maintain a consistent unsettling atmosphere.” - GUP Magazine
Bart Koetsier exhibited sections of ‘Taillights Fade’ in 2017 during the annual Dutch book fair with Koos Breukel and in 2016 at Paris Photo both at the Atelier Néerlandais in Paris. In between 2014 and 2018 ‘Taillights Fade’ was nominated for the Magnum Emerging Photography Fund and published by The Guardian, De Volkskrant, Burn Magazine, GUP Magazine, New damn Paper and VICE. Based in Paris Koetsier works for Le Monde, De Volkskrant, Het Parool, NGO’s such as Medecins du Monde and Premiere Urgence Internationale and The Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Bart Koetsier is represented by Hollandse Hoogte and Hans Lucas.

Stacey is an independent curator and writer based in New York City. Stacey recently published her co-authored book on artist collections, Artists Living with Art. She was previously the Director of SmartSpaces, a non-profit organization that installed contemporary art in vacant urban spaces as well as the Curatorial Director for The Station, an independent group exhibition which took place in Miami during Art Basel 2008. Prior to this, she worked in the curatorial department at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Stacey has published essays in gallery and museum catalogues, and her writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, The Sunday Times, Hamptons, Gotham, Art Basel Miami Beach Magazine, Garage and other publications. Stacey serves on the board of directors at The Drawing Center and the Princeton University Art Museum. She is a member of the Artemis Council at The New Museum of Contemporary Art and the Curatorial Committee of Madison Square Park Art. Stacey received a B.A. cum laude from Princeton University, an M.B.A at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management and an M.A. from the Christies Education Program. She lives in SoHo with her husband and three children. Photo: copyright Timothy Greenfield-Sanders.

Stefan Ruiz is based in Brooklyn, NY. He has taught art at San Quentin State Prison in California. He was the creative director for COLORS magazine. His work has appeared in magazines, including the New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker , Financial Times Magazine, Vogue and Rolling Stone. In 2016, his work appeared in the exhibition, “Public, Private, Secret” curated by Charlotte Cotton, the in augural show at the ICP museum in New York. His photographs have been exhibited at the Photographers’ Gallery, Les Rencontres d’Arles PhotoEspaña, New York Photo Festival, Havana Biennial and the Contact Photography Festival in Toronto. He has published four monographs including “The Factory of Dreams”, a book on Mexican Soap Operas, published by Apeture and “Mexican Crime Photographs” published by GOST Books in 2016. His upcoming book on Cholombianos will be published by Aperture.

Christian Witkin’s current projects include a book preparation on his 25 years of photographing celebrities titled CERTAIN PEOPLE; a massive 20-year study of the people of India titled INDIA STREET PORTRAITS; a body of work in ETHIOPIA spanning 10 years; his study of the transsexual community in Thailand titled WOMEN ONCE MEN; and a newly completed prototype for his first book titled ORDINARY BEAUTY, a culmination of 25 years of portraiture, nudes and bodily fragments on the subject of women. Witkin’s work appears in major magazines such as the New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, New York Magazine, and Vogue. His work has been used to create landmark campaigns for IBM, Nike, GAP, AMEX, RED, Kodak and Shinola. Recently he has begun directing shorts and television commercials for the magazine Dance Ink and Clinique Beauty.

Carla Williams is a writer, editor, and photographer born and raised in Los Angeles, California. She received her MFA from the University of New Mexico at Albuquerque and her BA from Princeton University and is the author of numerous essays and articles about photography and co-author of two histories of photography, including The Black Female Body: A Photographic History with Deborah Willis. Her photographic work has been widely published and exhibited. Williams currently resides in New Orleans, Louisiana and is the owner of Material Life shop February Gallery, which specializes in photography.

After completing my fellowship in Art Media Studies at Rijksakademie in Amsterdam I ultimately attended California Institute of the Arts exchange program for film and photography. As a photographer, videographer, installation artist and contributor to publications worldwide, I have captured Los Angeles and Angelinos for over two decades. Portraying intimate portraits of individuals in a continual synthetic landscape of opulence and rejuvenation. In my latest work Look At Me And Tell Me If You Have Known Me Before, exhibited in Photography Museum Amsterdam 2013 (foam.org) is composed of video, audiovisual three-screen installation and prints. The work provides an associative narrative of the ambivalent appeal of one of the world’s greatest cities: Los Angeles. In images and spoken word it brings the atmospheres of an alternative parallel world to life, the do-it‐yourself underground movement of LA bohemia. The group sustains itself with the leftovers from ‘the other world’. This disconnected individualism – in parallel with, but detached from middle class society – comes together in chance groupings and gatherings. I have always been interested in the ‘free’ or countercultural movements of the Western world and their juxtaposition with degrading capitalist societal systems. In all my works I contemplates America’s social fabric and its mistaken promise of liberation that has long turned into a nightmare. Here I am not the distanced observing artist but the involved participant of another way of life that I see as attractive, experimental and alternative.

Milou van Rossum is the editor of NRC Magazine, the monthly magazine of Dutch newspaper NRC and a former fashion editor. She saw her first Dries Van Noten show in 1995. She lives in Amsterdam.

Marie Lattorff is a dedicated International Relations and Politics student at the University of Bath. Originally from Vienna, she now divides her time between Austria and the UK, bringing a global perspective to her studies. Her passion for diplomacy and international affairs is reflected in her hands-on experience working at the United Nations in New York and a diplomatic embassy in Vienna. With a keen interest in global policy and cross-cultural relations, Marie is building a strong foundation for a future in international diplomacy.

ictoria Foster has been developing high profile content for over ten years for clients that include CAA, Anonymous Content, Lionsgate, Warner Music Group, Fremantle Media, Major League Baseball, Ford Motor Company, RSA, and many others. After directing and producing short films at U.S.C. that played at festivals around the country, Foster got her start in the literary department at CAA on the team that represented Oscar-winner Eric Roth, the Phillip K. Dick Estate and cult writer Neil Gaiman. She assisted in the packaging of the films Horrible Bosses and Stardust. Her passion for writing and early stage media project development led her to her job as an in-house creative at the powerhouse commercial production company, MJZ, where she served as a Director of Development, working closely with filmmaker Marcus Nispel who rebooted the Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise with Michael Bay. As an executive, she consulted on many successful films that include Priest, Pathfinder, The Ruins, Case 39, Blood Father, and Die Hard IV, and she edited the story for the Dark Horse graphic novel Pathfinder. She then teamed up with director Kevin Donovan (The Tuxedo) and Lionsgate Co-Chair Michael Burns, to package the Sundance indie comedy Shrink with Robin Williams and Kevin Spacey. With Donovan, she consulted on commercials and produced PSAs for Wild Aid starring Harrison Ford and Jackie Chan, in an award-winning campaign that is helping stop the sale of endangered animal products in Asia. In recent years she has expanded her work into digital media, serving as founding editor of Aleim.com and managing social media growth for private clients. She is a managing partner at the creative services company Underground Jam Media, which maintains an outstanding track record of helping directors and producers win lucrative career-making commercial jobs. Foster has an M.F.A. with dual concentrations in Directing and Film Business from the U.S.C. School of Cinema-Television and B.A. from Stanford University.

Clyde Mason holds a BA from Harvard University, an M.B.A. in Finance from New York University, and an MFA in Directing from The American Film Institute. He works as a creative and as a tech entrepreneur. His films have aired on BET and shown at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston as well as film festivals around the world. Clyde currently lives in Philadelphia where he runs his tech startup, Nugreen, a green infrastructure financing platform.

Andrew is endlessly inspired by the humanity and beauty of global cultures, and this passion comes through whether he’s shooting fashion, portraits, ad campaigns, documentaries, or dramatic features like his Restless City (2011), and Mother of George (2013), which won Best Cinematography at Sundance.
Andrew recently directed a Netflix Original film titled “Beauty”, produced by Lena Waithe. Following the publication of Andrew’s 2023 photography book Monograph, he was profiled in the New Yorker as a pioneer of art and fashion. Andrew’s film Where is Kyra? starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Kiefer Sutherland, premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival to rave reviews. Andrew's 2021 collaboration with ON Running, "Untethered", was a One Show Merit Award finalist and made the CLIO shortlist. At the beginning of 2024, Andrew directed the critically acclaimed film, “Born to Play”, for the NFL’s official Super Bowl film. The shoot took place in Ghana and was ranked in the top Super Bowl spots of the year by most major publications.

Yvonne is a border artist who works with photography and drawing. She grew up in a social photography studio in Tijuana, which gave her an experience and understanding about life that has to do with his interest in photography and people, as well as an existence in motion. Portraiture is the practice from which her research begins, and her practice revolves around the construction of identity, gender, communities and their territories.
She graduated from the International Center of Photography in New York and earned a master's degree in Visual Arts from the University of California, San Diego. She has exhibited in the United States, Mexico, Brazil, Spain, France, Italy, Canada, Poland and Russia and she has had individual exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art MUAC and Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Casa de América Madrid, Galeria Baxter in New York and European Photography festival in Regio Emilia, Italy as well as in the exhibition The future is not written at Marco Museum in Monterrey, MX.
Among other recognitions, she obtained the 2016 Guggenheim Fellowship to carry out her project San Pedro Garza García, and in 2020 he obtained the acquisition award from the Cuervo Foundation, the support of the Jumex Foundation for his project The Pencil of Nature, and the Grant from Fonca National System of Art Creators 2020-2023 for its Gestures of Survival (Sea of Cortez) project.
She has published five monographs of her various projects: Maria Elvia de Hank (2010), Inédito (2012), Gestus, (2015), San Pedro Garza García (2018), and The Pencil of Nature (2023) by Editorial RM and the catalog of his exhibition You will never be younger than this day, (2012), and the catalog of the exhibition Días Únicos, published by the MUAC, 2019.
Yvonne Lives and works in Mexico City.

Phlegm is a New Orleans born and based multidisciplinary artist who also penned the mantra "Everything You Love About New Orleans Is Because of Black People." seen on Afropunk, in Interview Magazine, on the marquee at the famous Joy Theater, shared by New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell and on countless lifestyle accessories.
"At this current point, my work serves to exist as a Ritual Drama of my personal Black universe. It serves to more firmly connect my Black spiritual concept of time. Connecting the past to the present and the present to the future. Communally sacred. Personally precious. It attempts to tie all the loose ends of Black ethos, Black influence, Black inspiration into one braid. It is at its core, an affirmation of life. My life, the life of my ancestors, and the life of my community. My work (and by extension my life) makes a production about the necessity and value of Black spiritual presence. A meditation in duality. It is serious and irreverent, heavy and heavenly, calculated and casual. It is dual consciousness."

Since her first play “The Moonlight Room” starring Brendan Sexton III was named one of the ‘Top Ten Plays of the Year’ by The New York Times, writer/producer Tristine Skyler has been commissioned by companies such as HBO, Paramount, Participant, Concordia Studios and Killer Films. She adapted Truman Capote’s lost novella “Summer Crossing” as a potential directing vehicle for Scarlett Johansson, and with renowned team Olsen and Scheffer wrote a pilot based on the non-fiction book “Barbizon” for “Game of Thrones” producer Carolyn Strauss, and actress Emilia Clarke. Passionate about adaptations, her screenplay of “The Bell Jar” led her to be featured as an expert in a BBC documentary on the book. More recently, her take on a NY Times Magazine true crime article landed her a second project with Johansson. She also found the book and executive produced the film “The Man Who Knew Infinity” starring Dev Patel and Jeremy Irons, which later screened at the Obama White House in an initiative on media representation of STEM fields. She is currently working on a new play, and developing a limited series of Leslie Jamison’s bestseller “The Empathy Exams” with Allison Williams, while also contributing writing to non-profits and NGOs. She graduated from Princeton University, and lives in New York City.

Philippine Duplat grew up in Belgium, where the surrealist tradition and its evocative symbols—especially the egg and the eye—sparked her fascination with art and culture. A recent graduate of Barnard College, she has pursued a multidisciplinary path, delving into both finance and art to explore the dynamic intersection of commerce and creativity.
Her experiences include working as a translator for the Guggenheim Museum in New York, where she contributed to projects aimed at making art accessible to diverse audiences, and an internship at Phillips Auctioneers, where she gained an insider’s perspective on the global art market. Currently, Philippine is researching the relationship between Belgian surrealism and the Congo, a theme that reflects her interest in the intersections of art, history, and postcolonial narratives.
This spring, Philippine will join the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice as an intern, deepening her engagement with art history and the enduring resonance of Modern Art.

Adam Haggiag comes from a family of film and television producers in Italy, Spain, the UK, and the US. Adam founded the production company Reframed Pictures with actress Susan Sarandon and his sister Alexandra Dean to focus on impactful stories. He specializes in motion capture production technology, having worked on Peter Jackson and Steven Spielberg's feature film Tintin and James Cameron's Avatar. Adam headed the English Language Production department of Italy's De Paulis Film Studio in Rome. His projects include the award-winning documentary Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story and Bliss, a sci-fi feature starring Owen Wilson and Salma Hayek for Amazon Studios, and he is currently collaborating with Owen Wilson to produce the feature film Acceleration. Adam graduated from the film department at NYU's Tish School of the Arts and has a degree in business from UCLA. Adam is also passionate about conservation and Indigenous rights and is involved with the charities Elephant Family, Platform Earth, and Puravita Project.

Stephanie Ittleson was born and raised in New York City. She received a BA in Comparative Literature from Brown University where she performed in several plays and short films. She went on to become an actress of stage, screen, tv and voiceovers. She has tread the boards in London, New York and Los Angeles (which she has called home for many years). She is a longtime admirer and first time contributor to Aleim Magazine.