Robert Rieger is an editorial photographer based in Berlin. Rieger currently works as a art director at Freunde von Freunden, where among other projects, he is the photographer and photo editor for collaborations with MINI, Siemens, SONOS, 25h Hotels and USM. In his position at Freunde von Freunden, he liaises with international photographers on a daily basis and is responsible for the visual storytelling of the portraits produced.

Photographer, graphic designer based in Montreal, Canada

Mauro d'Agati began working as a professional photographer in 1996, from the outset covering many Sicilian jazz festivals, art manifestations and theatrical events. He has always been motivated by the exploration of Sicilian, especially Palermitan, social phenomena. He has undertaken work for numerous italian and International publications including Geo, Stern, Suddeutsche Zeitung, Das Magazin, Vision China, El Pais Semanal, Le Monde, GQ, L'Espresso and Internazionale. In 1999 he published his first book Softly walking, consisting of Black and white images illustrating the everyday life of Massimo and Gino, a gay Palermitan couple. In may 2009 he published the book Palermo Unsung, in july 2010 Alamar and Napule Shot published by Steidl Verlag. Follow Sit Lux et Lux Fuit, Steidl 2012, and Marzia's Famliy, steidl 2014.

Photographer - London

Interior designer in Brooklyn, NY

Liliana Castro, born and raised in Porto, Portugal, launched FES Agency - a PR agency for startups and tech projects - and SoftLanding Porto - a one-stop shop for startups setting up office in Porto/Portugal. Liliana is a dedicated do-er of things, with a special ability to get it all done even when working on multiple projects. Highly connected to Portugal’s startup scene, she also launched Portuguese Women in Tech, a community that showcases the awesome things Portuguese women are doing in the tech industry.

Carson Davis Brown is an artist and photographer currently living in Los Angeles, CA. Brown also serves as the documentarian for Cabin-Time, a roaming artist residency to remote places.

ALINA GRASMANN was born in Munich, Germany, in may of 1989, where she studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in the class of Karin Kneffel. From 2012 to 2013 she was based in Vienna, studying at the University of Applied Arts in the class of Gabriele Rothemann. In 2016 she attended a master class led by Karin Kneffel and got her diploma of the fine arts in Feburary 2017. From 2017 to 2018 Alina was based in New York City, where she took part in the artist-in-residence program of the NARS Foundation in Brooklyn. The artist lives and works in Munich.

Mattia Casalegno is an installation artist and live media performer exploring issues of perception, intimacy and synaestetic performativity. His work, ranging from (a)sensorial devices, interactive environments, audiovisual live sets and public installations, is been extensively exhibited around the world. He's represented by the belgian Cimatics agency and writes regularly about art and digital technologies on the online magazine Digicult.

Chris Ballantyne’s work focuses on vernacular architecture and observation of the American landscape.  Banal features of suburban and industrial zones are sources for paintings that highlight the quirky and absurd.  Ballantyne states that, “Growing up in a military family and moving to different parts of the country, there was a certain familiarity to the kinds of houses and neighborhoods. They were a series of suburban developments built in separate regions of the country, always on the outskirts of larger cities, at the exit ramps of interstate highways, and all very similar in age and design.  My own notions of space developed out of this cultural landscape which was striving for an indidvidual sense of personal space,  consciously economic, and somewhere between urban and rural.” Dysfunctional structures are flawless in their strangeness, made beautiful through symmetry, simplified lines and flat, subdued colors. Ballantyne eliminates detail to emphasize the subtleties of the way we experience space and our attempts at containment. He extends these concepts further by expanding the imagery of his paintings beyond the picture plane and onto the surrounding walls. “Most of my works involve combinations of various places, drawn from memory. As well, my own interests in skateboarding and surfing altered how I saw  the use of these structures ranging from empty pools, sidewalk curbs, to ocean jetties in a way that tied in to my sense of this larger push and pull between culture and nature.” With shrewd restraint, Ballantyne accentuates the antisocial effects of our built environment with a hint of humor and plenty of ambiguity. A curious emptiness permeates the work of Chris Ballantyne. Graphically rendered buildings, pools, parking lots, and fences take on new meanings and amplified significance, isolated on flat fields of color.

Design Director at The Chase, formally at Pentagram

Kristin Rosch is a graphic designer and art director currently based in Kiel, Germany with a special passion for Editorial Design and Typography. She is interested in printed and digital projects, especially within field of culture and art.

Lettering designer based in Berlin

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Russian-American film director from New York, currently working in film in sunny LA.