Our Teachers

Anja Hitzenberger is a photographer, filmmaker, consultant, and educator. She is the founder of StrudelmediaLive, an educational platform that offers live online photography classes and more to people around the world. Anja studied in the Creative Practice full-time program at the International Center of Photography (ICP) in New York City, and has been on the faculty there since 2009. She is dedicated to working with people from different cultures across the globe.

Her work has been exhibited in solo and group shows, film festivals, and on theater stages throughout Europe, the United States, South America, and Asia. Her photography has been published internationally and is a part of both private and institutional collections, including the International Center of Photography. She has received numerous artistic grants and has been awarded residencies in Rome, Paris, Warsaw, Beijing, and Tainan (Taiwan). A focus of her activities has been working with live performance, including producing a multimedia piece that toured in New York City, Austria, and Korea.

Anja has been teaching live online photography classes since 2015, as well as in-person workshops at organizations in New York, Europe, China, and Taiwan, including C/O Berlin, Three Shadows (Beijing), and FJUM (Forum for Journalism and Media – Vienna). Originally from Salzburg, Austria, she divides her time between New York and Vienna.

Katherine Akey is a San Francisco-based artist and public historian whose work explores themes of tenderness, love, and memory. Her practice spans photography, fiber arts, sound, video, and creative writing, with an emphasis on materiality and storytelling. She engages with archives, objects, and personal histories to create multilayered narratives that explore the passage of experience from lived to remembered, memorialized, and forgotten. She holds an MFA from the International Center of Photography (ICP) and is currently Acting Director of the Harvey Milk Photo Center in San Francisco. 

Her work as a historian and storyteller centers on the First World War and the transformation of collective memory. A Fellow with the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, she produced the official U.S. World War One Centennial Commission podcast for three years, bringing the war’s history and legacy to a national audience.

Marco Antonio Bello is an award-winning Reuters photojournalist, based in Caracas (Venezuela) and Miami. He originally studied business and worked as an IT consultant, but the political and social changes in Venezuela after the death of President Chavez in 2013 inspired him to become a photojournalist, eventually working for Reuters in Venezuela. In 2016 he attended the ICP Masterclass “Visual Storytelling in the Digital Age” in Turin, Italy, and in 2017 he was accepted to the Eddie Adams Workshop in New York. Along with photojournalism, he also teaches photography workshops in some of the main photography schools in Venezuela.

He has received awards from Le Prix de la Photographie de Paris (2018), 75th Picture of the Year International (POYI) Award of Excellence (2018), American Photography 34 Chosen Winner (2018); NPPA’s Best of Photojournalism (2018), PDN Photo Annual (2018), International Photography Awards (2017), Honorable Mention; Latin American Fotografia 6 Winner (2017), and National Award of Journalism (2015).

Samantha Box is a Jamaican-born, Bronx-based photographer. In her studio-based practice, she uses self-portraiture, sound, and installation to articulate her personal diasporic/Caribbean experience. This work has been exhibited at the Houston Center of Photography (2019), and the Andrew Freedman House (2020). In Spring 2021, Box will join the Bronx Museum of the Arts’ AIM Fellowship program.

Her previous documentary work focused on New York City's community of LGBTQ youth of color, and was widely recognized, notably with a NYFA Fellowship (2010), and shown, most prominently, as part of the ICP Museum’s Perpetual Revolution exhibition (2017). This work is part of the permanent collections of the Open Society Foundation, EN FOCO, and Light Work.

Samantha holds a certificate in Photojournalism and Documentary Studies from the International Center of Photography (2006). She also holds an MFA in Advanced Photographic Studies from the International Center of Photographer/Bard College (2019).

Daura Campos is an artist and educator based in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Through experimental techniques, her work investigates the dynamics of perception, interpretation, and memory, treating photographic film and paper as active collaborators in image-making.

Her work has been exhibited at the Czong Institute for Contemporary Art (CICA Museum), Rotterdam Photo, MK Gallery, Pinakothek der Moderne, Open Eye Gallery, Gallery 44, Museo de Arte de Pereira, and Experimental Photo Festival. She has been recognized by the 2025 Tokyo International Foto Awards (TIFA), the 2024-2025 International Photography Awards (IPA), and the 2024-2025 Analog Sparks International Film Photography Awards.

She has led courses, workshops, and lectures at various cultural organizations, including the Museu da Imagem e do Som (MIS), Festival de Arte Analógica de São Paulo (FAASP), Espaço Força e Luz, StrudelmediaLive, Santa Fe Workshops, Alternative Processes, and The Alternative Art School.

Campos is the Communications and Digital Media Manager of the Women Photographers International Archive (WOPHA) and holds a Bachelor of Social Communication, Film and Media from PUC Minas.

Elizabeth Castaldo is an artist, printmaker, and bookbinder based in Peekskill, NY and New York City. She has completed residencies at the Center for Book Arts (New York City) and Printmaker's Open Forum (Oxford, PA). Castaldo received her MFA from Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) Atlanta where she was a Dean's Fellow in Printmaking, and her BFA from the School of Visual Arts. In November 2020, her solo exhibition, Proximate Magic, was presented at Saint Joseph's College in Patchogue, NY. Her work was included in the traveling exhibition, Freed Formats: The Book Reconsidered and she organized the exchange portfolio Earth/Mother for the SGCI 2020 conference "Puertografico." She teaches printmaking and book arts at Parsons School of Design, Nassau Community College, and the Center for Book Arts. Her work is held in many private and institutional collections including SCAD, Yale University, The University of Alberta, and Carnegie Melon University.

Gianni Cipriano is a Sicilian-born independent photographer based in Napoli, Italy. His work focuses on contemporary social, political, and economic issues. Gianni regularly works for The New York Times and has been documenting the ongoing upheaval in Italian politics for L’Espresso weekly magazine since 2013. His editorial work has also appeared in Time, Wired, The Wall Street Journal, Le Monde Magazine, The Guardian Weekend Magazine, among others.

He graduated from the Documentary Photography and Photojournalism Program at the International Center of Photography in New York in 2008. He has received recognition and awards from POYI (Picture of the Year International), American Photography, New York Photo Awards, International Photography Awards, and the Ian Parry Scholarship.

Gianni’s work has been showcased in group exhibitions in venues such as the Rencontres d’Arles, FOLI Lima Biennale of Photography, MOPLA, Lumix Festival for Young Photojournalism and at the MAXXI museum in Rome.

Claudia Kaatziza Cortínez is an Argentine/Chilean/American artist and educator. She has exhibited her work, curated exhibitions, and organized educational projects in the US and Latin America for over a decade. Her studio practice combines printmaking, sculptural, and photographic techniques that depict urban and domestic architecture as sites of reflection and transformation. Central to her work is experimenting with materials such as paper pulp and light sensitive chemistry to capture imprints of spaces and objects, and how the residue of these imprints can communicate a larger socio-political narrative. Claudia is co-founder of LAZO, an art collective that brings together Latinx artists to create participatory projects and exhibitions. Claudia received her BFA from Rhodes Island School of Design (RISD) and MFA from Yale. Recent awards and residencies include the Yale Norfolk Teaching Fellowship, Silver Art Projects Residency, Rema Hort Mann Grant, Center for Book Arts Residency, Lower East Side Printshop Residency, and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) Community Engagement Grant among others. She is currently an artist in residence with her collective LAZO at The Clemente in New York City.

Born in Mexico City and now living in Brooklyn, Carlos works in bookmaking, portraiture, unique chromogenic prints, poetry, and street photography. Carlos earned a BA in psychology at the Universidad Autónoma de México, before transitioning to photography and studying at different institutions in Berlin, New York City, Oaxaca, and Mexico City, where he worked as a printer and production assistant for Cristina Kahlo for over 7 years. He completed his Creative Practices certificate at the International Center of Photography (ICP) in New York City in 2021. His work has been exhibited at venues including Centro Fotográfico Manuel Alvarez Bravo and Centro de las Artes de San Agustín in Oaxaca, Mexico; Imago Fotokunst (Berlin); and ICP (New York City).

Jolanda Drukker Murray is a contemporary sculptor and textile artist based in Utrecht (The Netherlands). She studied art history at Leiden University and attended a program at Artibus Art School Utrecht with a focus on ceramics and bronze. She began collecting fabrics and creating wall hangings which were exhibited in several shows. She also created a “Circle of Life in 10 Kimonos” for the Kröller-Müller Museum. Jolanda specializes in “documentary embroidery”: telling stories using embroidery as well as mixed media techniques on photos and pictures from magazines. Her latest textile installation Stonehenge is a combination of photo embroidery, embroidery. and stitch work. She is currently working on Dialogue between Photography and Embroidery, an artbook in which she is embroidering on photos by the Dutch photographer Milja Markies.

Dortje Fink is an art and photography historian, educator, cultural organizer and podcaster based in Berlin. With academic training at Humboldt University in Berlin and Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen, her research interests involve photographic archives, exhibition histories, lens-based media art, visual culture, biases of canonization, and decentering the history of photography. Her deep engagement with works of Carrie Mae Weems, Philip Kwame Apagya, Boris Mikhailov, Martin Chambi, Nickolas Muray, and Manfred Paul has inspired her writing, which has been published in exhibition catalogues and magazines. Since 2014, she has been working with C/O Berlin — an exhibition space dedicated to photography and visual media. She hosts, along with Julia Wolf, the German podcast "rein theoretisch – Fotografisches mit Fink&Wolf" about photographs whose visibility is restricted for a variety of reasons.

Allen Frame is an artist, writer, curator, and educator based in New York, where his work is represented by Gitterman Gallery. In 2025, his solo exhibition Amalfi was presented at College of Charleston and his photographs exhibited at Kupper-Modern in Zurich and at the Tang Teaching Museum at Skidmore College. He has released four books of photography, including Whereupon (Palermo Publishing, 2023); Innamorato (Meteoro Editions, 2023); Fever (Matte Editions, 2021); and Detour (Kehrer, 2001). He has also been the curator of many exhibitions, including Luxe, Calme, Volupte, co-curated with Sergio Bessa at Candice Madey Gallery, New York, in 2023, and Love and Jump Back, the Photography of Charles Henri Ford, at Mitchell Algus Gallery, New York, 2020-21. He received the Rome Prize from the American Academy in 2017/18. He teaches photography at Pratt Institute, School of Visual Arts, International Center of Photography, and for Strudelmedialive.com

Stefan Frank is a photographer and writer, working from Heidelberg, Germany. Way before he came to photography, he studied mathematics and philosophy at Ruhr Universität Bochum and worked as an IT specialist. He studied at Atelier Smedsby with JH Engström and Margot Wallard in Paris in 2017, before he eventually began studying photography at Ostkreuzschule, Berlin, with Peter Bialobrzeski. He graduated in 2023 with the work Irgendwo ("Anywhere"), a project dealing with politically motivated crime and the terror-spree of the far right in Germany. He has been teaching with StrudelmediaLive since 2020, giving courses on surrealism, poetics of space, gestalt theory for photographers, and more. His work has been exhibited in Heidelberg, Frankfurt, and Berlin.

Peter Garfield is an interdisciplinary artist, currently working in photography, video, drawing, and installation. He graduated from Dartmouth College, pursued his graduate studies at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-arts (Paris), and is on the faculty at Parsons School of Design and School of Visual Arts (SVA).

Solo exhibitions include Wexner Center for the Arts, Musée Historique de Vevey (Switzerland), Art & Public (Geneva), Feigen Contemporary, Kapinos Galerie (Berlin), and Queens Museum. A selection of two-person and group exhibitions include Mass MoCA, Centre Georges Pompidou, Brooklyn Museum, San Francisco Camerawork, Whitney Museum of American Art, and International Film Festival Rotterdam. His artist book Harsh Reality is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York. His work has been published internationally and is a part of numerous collections, including FRAC Bourgogne, (Dijon, France), Los Angeles County Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, International Center of Photography, MIT List Visual Arts Center, and Berkshire Museum.

Awards include National Endowment for the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, Wexner Center for the Arts, and Edward F. Albee Foundation.

Olga Ginzburg is a Belarusian-American photographer based in New York City. With an interest in open-ended narrative and its potential for subtle and layered meaning, her work explores notions of place, identity, home, community, and biculturalism. Olga graduated from the City College of New York, and her work has twice been included in the Triennial of Staten Island Photography at the Alice Austen House Museum. Currently, her work can be seen at the Staten Island Museum’s Triennial, Here You Are, on display though the fall of 2026. Since 2019, Olga’s work has appeared regularly in The New York Times and other leading news outlets, has been featured on ABC’s Eyewitness News 7 in New York City, as well as Dear NY, a monumental photo installation by Humans of NY in Grand Central Terminal.

Helena Goñi is an artist driven by analog processes in photography and is a photobook enthusiast. Helena is from Bilbao, Spain, and is currently based in Brooklyn, where she moved in 2021 thanks to a Fulbright Scholarship to attend the International Center of Photography.
 
She holds an MFA in Photography from Central Saint Martins (London) and a BA in Fine Arts from the University of the Basque Country. She has been an artist-in-residence at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, BilbaoArte Foundation, Cité des Arts (Paris), and Koganecho AIR (Japan). Her work has been exhibited at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, the International Center of Photography, 3331 Arts Chiyoda (Tokyo), PhotoMuseum Zarautz (Spain), Aldama Fabre Gallery and others. She is also the founder of Caleidoscopio, a photography educational platform for youth in the Basque Country.

Tom Griggs is a photographer, editor, educator, writer, and curator living between Colombia and Mexico since 2010. He has exhibited his photographs internationally including exhibitions in New York, Berlin, London, Arles, Madrid, and Belfast, and his work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery, Centro de la Imagen in Mexico City, Stanford University, Harvard University, and La Biblioteca Pública Piloto in Medellín, among others.

Tom holds a master’s degree in photography from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. His last photobook, A Creature Obeys a Creature That Wants, was published by Mesa Estándar in 2023.

Lavonne Hall is a native New Yorker with over 27 years in the photography and film industries. She is a distinguished fine art photographer, educator, consultant, and social butterfly. She teaches at the International Center of Photography and the Penumbra Foundation and collaborates with the School of Visual Arts, where she received her Masters in Digital Photography (and for whom she developed two iPad apps). She presents Lightroom and Photoshop demos for Adobe and Wacom, has worked with FujiFilm, B&H, KelbyOne, and Adorama among other creative companies and is currently an Adobe Community Expert. She enjoys connecting people through photography and helping them explore their creative potential.

Marianne Holm Hansen is a Danish artist based in London. She studied at the Fynske Academy of Fine Arts (Denmark), International Center of Photography (New York), and completed an MA in Interactive Media: Critical Theory and Practice, at Goldsmiths, University of London. She has worked internationally as an editorial photographer, photography lecturer and educator, and today collaborates continuously with institutions such as Tate Modern and the Royal Institute of British Architects (London) to deliver workshops and projects that invite participants to engage critically and creatively across media and themes.

Marianne's work is shown internationally through exhibitions, publications, and live events. She has received awards from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation (New York) and Arts Council England, amongst others, and held research and production residencies in the UK, USA, France, Finland, and Serbia. Her most recent book, Void As (A) – A Proposition, collates photographs with texts to propose a series of prompts for thinking differently about language, time and space.

Emile Kees is a photographer, darkroom printer, educator, and writer living in Edinburgh, Scotland. He graduated from the International Center of Photography in 2023 and has since exhibited across the United States, Europe, and the UK. While operating mainly from his home-built studio darkroom, he continues to host workshops and classes both online and in-person.

He has taught and assisted at the Cyprus College of Art; the University of Cambridge and Yale through the International Summer Schools of Scotland; International Center of Photography (ICP); the European Capital of Culture; and now StrudelmediaLive. Kees is a member of Small Table, an international collective, and Peer Matters, an artist development group initiated by Photoworks.

Joanna Lehan is a New York-based teacher, editor, writer, and curator. She co-organized several international survey exhibitions at the International Center of Photography (ICP), including three triennial exhibitions: Strangers (2003); Ecotopia (2006), and A Different Kind of Order (2013), as well as 2017’s Perpetual Revolution. She edited monographs by Susan Meiselas, Trevor Paglen, Hank Willis Thomas, and Thomas Ruff and for Aperture Foundation, as well as several projects for the Walther Collection. She has written for Aperture magazine, Photograph, PDN, Time’s “Lightbox”, and Contact Sheet, and contributed essays to several books. She teaches Survey of Contemporary Photography at ICP-Bard and at Barnard College.

Kai McBride is a photographer, musician, teacher, and avid cyclist who recently uprooted from Brooklyn to sunny Santa Fe, New Mexico. He spent the last ten years teaching photography and managing the photo facilities at Columbia University, his alma mater, where he received an MFA in 2008.

Born on the island of Kauai in 1972, by his 18th birthday Kai had lived in California, Oregon, Mississippi, Wisconsin, Texas, Oahu, North Carolina, and Massachusetts. He sharpened his powers of observation while adjusting to life between suburban ranch-style homes, cabins with no running water, and a 20-foot teepee in the field of a commune.

His photographs have been exhibited in museum and gallery exhibitions, and are held in public and private collections. His first monograph, About Face: Picturing Tampa, was published by SPQR Editions in Fall 2016.

Martha Naranjo Sandoval is a Brooklyn-based artist, publisher, cataloguer, and bookseller from Mexico City. She holds a degree in film from Centro de Diseño, Cine y Televisión in Mexico City, and an MFA from the International Center of Photography and Bard College. She is the co-founder of the editorial project Matarile Ediciones, which publishes work by artists who are immigrants or part of a recent diaspora. She published her book Sangre de mi Sangre (edited by Justine Kurland) in 2021 and Dashwood Books published her book Como Agua para Ajolote a year later. Miriam Gallery (Brooklyn) presented The Stench of Orange Blossoms, a solo exhibition of her work, from January to March 2023.

In 2014 she won the Conacyt-FONCA scholarship (awarded by the Mexican Government) for studies abroad and in 2017 was part of the Flux Factory Artist in Residence, for which she organized the community project Día de Muertos. Along with artist-curator groana melendez, she organizes platforms to showcase artists and promote critical conversations, including a rapid-talk event with Celebrate Mexico Now and the Camera Club of New York, and the Apartment Series Issue of the Nueva Luz Magazine.

Duff Norris is a Pittsburgh-based interdisciplinary artist, curator, and writer working in performance and visual art, currently focusing on photography and performance-for-documentation, using the mythos of objects and iconography within his work. His experience growing up in the American West has informed his aesthetics, evidenced in projects like RH Desert, and Freshly Wedded Queer. More broadly, his practice centers on themes of intimacy, masculinity, and direct address audienceship. Using personal narrative and portraiture as an entry point, he is interested in how impenetrable or porous boundaries are between an artists and audience. He asks questions about what narratives we are telling ourselves, what our relationship is to each other are, and if it is possible to be known and understood.

He has exhibited work with Culture Lab LIC (Queens), Ortega y Gasset Projects (Brooklyn), La Mama Galleria (Manhattan), On Canal (Manhattan), Experimental Sound Studio & Out of Site Chicago, Save Art Space (Los Angles), Tijuana Performa-Mexico, Walters Art Museum (Baltimore), and in Lake Ballard (Menzies, Australia). He completed an MFA from Pratt Institute and a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Erin O'Flynn is an artist born in New Mexico and based in Brooklyn, NY. They use printmaking, photography, sculpture, and video to reorient our relationship to our environment's histories and futures. Erin has exhibited at Clamp, Patient Info, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Flush Gallery, Zero Art Fair, Pratt's Photography Gallery, and Manhattan Gallery, and currently has a residency at Manhattan Graphics and an upcoming residency at Vermont Studio Center. Erin received a BA from Fordham University and an MFA from Pratt Institute, and has had their work featured in Dovetail and Hyperallergic.

Samanta Ortega is a Brazilian artist, educator, and researcher working with expanded photography, eco-conscious photochemistry, and found archive. Creating images, narrative compositions, and interventions that consider how human and non-human beings collaborate, her multidisciplinary practice merges visual, plastic, and filmic arts with handicraft and darkroom techniques. She understands experimentalism as an ethical and aesthetic commitment in which different media and processes converge, and errors, decay, destruction, and remixes are valued agents of change that keep images alive.

In 2022, she created Alquimia Fotográfica, a public pedagogy initiative that hosts her research in ecology and alternative processes in the form of essays and independent publications. As an educator, she offers classes, talks, and participates in exhibits in several Brazilian artist-led spaces, analog photography and cinema festivals, and institutions including the Brazilian National Archive, São Paulo’s Historical Archive, IMS-Rio, SESC, and SESI. As well as contributing to independent projects, seminars, and presentations as a consultant and production assistant, Samanta was part of the jury and selection committees in the Inflamável-Super 8 and 16mm Film Festival (2024), Derli Barroso Prize (2025), and Prix Photo (2024–2026).

Néstor Pérez-Molière was born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and currently resides in the Bronx, New York. His art entails a process of self-discovery; a series of confessionals revealing private conflicts; hoping towards catharsis. Through this cathartic process he hopes to connect with the viewer’s struggles and depathologize negative feelings so that they can be seen as a source for political action rather than its antithesis. Néstor exposes mental health issues like depression, dysmorphia, food addictions, and loneliness: describing their mechanisms, scrutinizing their origins, and illuminating the impossibility of fixing them. His practice mainly takes place in the realm of photography but has also incorporated performance, drawing, video, installation, and intaglio techniques into his works.

He received an MFA from Hunter College and holds a BSc in Botany. He was part of EmergeNYC 2023, Artist in the Marketplace 2017, and Creative Capital’s Taller 2019 mentorship programs, and was included in The Bronx Museum of the Arts Fourth Biennial. He has exhibited at the Museo de las Américas, the Clemente Soto Vélez, Bronx Art Space, Longwood Gallery, and the Liga de Estudiantes de Artes de San Juan, Puerto Rico. In 2023 he was a resident at Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Governors Island Arts Center and Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts residencies. Interested in becoming an educator, he teaches, and has taught, digital and darkroom photography, as well as media literacy at the International Center of Photography, Parsons School of Design, Art Academy of Cincinnati, Fairleigh Dickinson University, The Point CDC, and StrudelmediaLive.

Anita Pouchard Serra is a French-Argentine photographer based in Buenos Aires and working mostly in Latin America. Her work focuses on current societal problems involving identity, migration, empowerment, and territory, with a strong transdisciplinary approach. She considers each project a laboratory to explore her photographic practice, from drawings to performance. She is a Pulitzer Center grantee and National Geographic Emergency Fund recipient (2020); a "We, Women" grantee by Women Photograph and United Photo Industries (2019); an Open Society Foundation "Moving Walls" fellow (2018); and a multiple IWMF (International Women’s Media Foundation) grantee. Her work has been published in Time, The New York Times, Le Monde, Bloomberg, Amnesty International, Days Japan, Wired, and Geo magazine among others and has exhibited her work in Argentina, France, Uruguay, Spain, and the United States. She has taught photojournalism in Argentina, France, the United States and El Salvador.

Zuzana Pustaiová's interest in visual arts began with painting but soon switched to photography, which she studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava (Slovakia) where she completed her Ph.D in 2022. Her artwork uses role-playing as a principal tool to explore and reveal the relationships between family members, relatives, friends, and other social groups. With a sense of wit, humor and irony, she uncovers the cultural stereotypes related to gender, age, tradition, and social inclusion. In 2022, her book One Day Every Day was shortlisted for the Paris Photo – Aperture Photobook Award. She has received numerous awards in contemporary photography — including the Grand Prix at the Rovinj Photodays 2021 and Finalist for the 2017 Lucie Foundation Scholarship in Los Angeles. In 2018 she was named Slovak Photographer of the Year. She has exhibited internationally in Europe and Canada and lives and works in Levice and Bratislava.

Edward Ratliff is a multi-disciplinary artist and educator. In the visual realm, he’s a graphic designer who works in print and digital media with clients ranging from individual artists to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. His film, video, and installation work has been exhibited internationally.

As a composer and multi-instrumentalist, he’s led bands in clubs, theaters, and festivals across New York City and in Europe and Asia, and has received numerous commissions and grants for dance and theater scores. His music has been heard in shows on Netflix, HBO, Nickelodeon, Hulu, PBS, and more — everything from a biography of Dostoyevsky to Real Sex Xtra. He “is best known for making richly cinematic music that captures New York City’s momentum and diversity” (The Wall Street Journal) and has been called “a wonderfully spunky and imperturbable trumpet player” (The New York Times).

Fred Ritchin has spent the past half-century working as a writer, editor, educator, curator, and software developer. He is the dean emeritus of the School at the International Center of Photography; was professor of Photography & Imaging at New York University where he co-founded the Photography and Human Rights program in collaboration with Susan Meiselas and the Magnum Foundation; was picture editor of The New York Times Magazine and executive editor of Camera Arts magazine; and has written four books on the future of imaging, including most recently The Synthetic Eye: Photography Transformed in the Age of AI (Thames & Hudson, 2025) and Bending the Frame: Photojournalism, Documentary, and the Citizen, which was recently re-printed by Aperture.

He also curated the first mid-life retrospective of the work of Sebastião Salgado at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; conceived and edited the first non-linear online documentary, “Bosnia: Uncertain Paths to Peace,” with photographer Gilles Peress (nominated by the New York Times for the Pulitzer Prize in public service), and curated the first exhibition of contemporary Latin American photography in the United States, as well as exhibitions at the United Nations. He also created the first multimedia version of the New York Times newspaper, and conceived of the Four Corners Project, an available open-source software to increase the credibility of the photograph.

Ritchin has taught and lectured worldwide, including in Brazil, Canada, China, Denmark, England, France, Holland, Hungary, Italy, Mexico, Norway, Russia, South Africa, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, Uruguay, and the United States. He also writes a column on Substack, “Notes of a MetaPhotographer.” Ritchin lives in New York and Paris.

Scott Rossi is a photographer based in New York who is originally from Canada. His work captures the poetic nuances of daily life and the complex relationship between people and their environment. Rossi is a Documentary Practices and Visual Journalism program graduate from the International Center of Photography (ICP) and holds a BA in Psychology from the University of Victoria. Following his move to New York City in 2020, he began his project, Common Place, a visual meditation on Central Park, resulting in his first monograph. His work has been featured in or commissioned by The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, Vogue, and the British Journal of Photography, among others. He has exhibited internationally at the Rotterdam Photo Festival, The International Center of Photography, and Photo 2022 in Melbourne.

Chloe Scout Nix is an artist and performer from Waxahachie, Texas, currently living in Brooklyn. She graduated with her MFA in photography from Pratt Institute and received her BFA in visual arts, with a minor in art history, from Southern Methodist University. Her conceptual work focuses on acts of performative intimacy using various modes of performing for the camera that often result in self portraiture. She received the Dallas Museum of Art’s Clare Hart DeGolyer Memorial Fund award in 2019, and the Standard Club Award that Makes a Difference in 2018. Her 2024 thesis exhibition, sorry for the mess, curated by Jody Graf, was displayed at the Pratt Photography Gallery in Brooklyn, with a selection of images also exhibited at Clamp gallery in Chelsea (NYC) as part of the group show Everything is Something, curated by Allen Frame.

Kat Shannon is a multidisciplinary artist, curator, and educator working in photography, text, and video, currently based between São Paulo, Brazil, and Orlando, Florida. Her work examines notions of intimacy, human connection, gender, community, and culture. She holds degrees in photography from Savannah College of Art and Design (BFA) as well as Bard College (MFA).

Kat has held teaching positions at Yeshiva University, Brookdale College, Stetson University, Middlesex College, and ICP, and previously worked for three years as the head curator at an art consultancy in New York. In 2017 Kat co-founded the collaborative artist collective Memory Foam through which she curates exhibitions, publishes and collects artists' books and zines, and produces an artist interview series called "Artists Eat Ice Cream."

Maryna Shtanko is a multidisciplinary artist working primarily with photography. She has Master’s degrees in both German language and literature and in communication design and photography. Growing up in Ukraine and relocating to Germany following the Russian full-scale invasion has deeply influenced her engagement with questions of place and collective trauma. By combining analogue photographic processes with textiles, video performances, and book-making, Maryna creates works that resist fixity, emphasizing vulnerability, resilience, and the porous boundary between image, matter, and lived experience. Maryna has been awarded several grants and scholarships, and her work has been exhibited in Ukraine, Germany, Austria, Lithuania, Switzerland, and Slovenia.

Marina Thomé is a photographer and documentary filmmaker based in Portugal and Brazil. Marina works as a director, researcher, and editor for multimedia platforms and experiments with portraits, archives, and soundscapes. Her films have been presented in festivals in France, USA, Portugal, Spain, Germany, Colombia, and elsewhere, including the Margaret Mead Film Festival in New York and Festival Biarritz Latin America in France. She is the co-founder of Estúdio CRUA, an award-winning production company that connects new media and social impact. They produced the Hackathon Webdoc Project, involving over 100 participants in workshops on creating collaborative multi-platform documentaries. Marina holds masters degrees in Creative Documentary (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) and in Communication, Art & Technology (Centro Universitário Belas Artes de São Paulo). She studied photojournalism and storytelling at the International Center of Photography (New York) and has taught multiplatform storytelling at art institutions in Brazil, Portugal, and Spain.

From 2023 to 2025 she led Arché, a creative development hub for Ibero-American film professionals, hosted at the Doclisboa and Porto/Post/Doc Festivals. Currently serving as Head of Industry and Development at DocLisboa, she was also on the jury of the 2025 IDA Documentary Awards and showcased video installations in museums across Brazil, Spain, and Portugal, including Lisbon’s Museum of Natural History, Arquipélago Contemporary Arts Centre (Azores) and the Museum of the University of Alicante (Spain).

Bryan Whitney is a photographer and artist in New York City whose work often involves experimental imaging techniques, such as x-rays, 3D imagery, virtual reality, and other alternative processes. Whitney holds an MFA in Photography from the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia and a BA in the Psychology of Art from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He has taught photography at Rutgers University and currently teaches at the International  Center of Photography in New York City. A recipient of a Fulbright Grant for lectures on American Photography in Eastern Europe, he has exhibited across the United States and internationally. He has  traveled the globe for special projects, including archeological expeditions in Sudan and in the Republic of Georgia. His work has appeared in magazines such as Harpers Bazaar, Fortune, the New York Times, and in books, posters and advertising campaigns worldwide.