Hoda Afshar, born in Iran in 1983, is a visual artist whose practice focuses on the intricate relationships between politics and aesthetics, knowledge and representation, visibility and violence. She is interested in the ways that image-making can either reinforce or challenge our common sense, and the forces that shape perception. Her works invite audiences to reflect on and to rethink how and what we see.
Afshar’s artistic practice embraces a variety of media and approaches – primarily using photography and video, though her recent projects have involved working with archival images.
Afshar’s work has been widely exhibited, published and is part of numerous private and public collections. Throughout her career, she has also received numerous prestigious art awards and prizes.

Martina Bacigalupo is a photographer, photo editor, and curator whose practice unfolds at the crossroads of image-making and cultural dialogue. Based in Burundi for over a decade, she has developed a body of work cantered on the visual dynamics between Africa and the West, exploring shifting perspectives, circulation of images and questions of representation.
Her work is held in major international collections. A member of Agence VU’ in Paris, Martina is deeply committed to mentorship and to fostering South–South dialogues within the photographic community. Alongside her artistic and curatorial practice, she regularly contributes to international juries. After many years shaping visual narratives as photo editor for “XXI” and “6 Mois”, she now works with “Le Monde”.

Salome Erni, born in Switzerland in 2001 and based in the Netherlands, is a research-based visual artist who explores narratives and collective narrations. Conversations, collaborations and research intertwine in her work that takes shape in (video) essays, books and exhibitions. Often, she takes found imagery as a starting point to investigate how the individual relates to larger socio-political power relations and hegemonic narrations. Thereby, she understands her work as explicitly political.

Next to her art practice she works as a curator for an artist-run space. Earlier professional experiences include multiple years of journalistic work and project coordination for a museum.

With a practice that embraces both research and the active use of archives, Manuela Nebuloni structures her investigation of Ghana as a process of learning and inquiry. Since 2020, she has been working on the construction of a physical archive of postcards and ephemera from the sixties as a tool for critically reflecting on the present, with a particular interest in amateur artistic production as a space for experimentation. She is the founder and a member of Postbox Ghana, a project exploring collective memory through material culture.

Joachim Schmid is an artist who has been working with found photographs and texts since the early eighties. His research questions, with a skeptical approach, the role of authorship and artistic intention in relation to the final outcome. A systematic collection of photographs without scientific or cataloguing purposes, but driven solely by the desire to reveal the vast hidden potential carried by images produced outside the artistic sphere.He published numerous artist books. His work has been exhibited internationally and is included in numerous collections. He lives in a populated place in Brandenburg, Germany.