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KayLynn Deveney (http://www.kaylynndeveney.com/)
KayLynn Deveney is a North American photographer living and working in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Her work has been exhibited in the United States and Britain and is held in permanent collections including The Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago; Light Work in Syracuse, N.Y; and the Portland Art Museum in Oregon. KayLynn's first photographic book, The Day-to-Day Life of Albert Hastings, was published by Princeton Architectural Press,August 2007 and was an official selection for the Arles Contemporary Book Prize,2008; was selected by PhotoEspana to be shown in "The Best Photography Books"; and was one of 20 nominees for the New York Photo Awards "Best Photography Book." In December 2008 KayLynn received a grant from the Anonymous Was a Woman Foundation

Helen K. Garber (http://helenkgarber.com/)
Helen K. Garber is known for her night urban landscapes taken in cities such as Los Angeles, New York, Paris and Venice, Italy. Her images are exhibited internationally and are in permanent collections of museums, private and corporate collections nationwide. Helen's work has been published in a number of books and authored Venice Beach, California Carnivale in 2005. Her photo essay about life on Ocean Front Walk became the official commemorative book for the 2005 Venice Centennial. A Night View of Los Angeles was commissioned for the 2006 International Biennale of Architecture in Venice, Italy. It is a 40-foot long, 360-degree panorama of the entire city of Los Angeles that was printed on one continuous piece of silk fabric. A second print was printed on vinyl for the front entrance of Photo LA, 2007. Helen then invited the most renowned Los Angeles graffiti artists to use that print as a surface to ceremoniously tag the entire city of Los Angeles at once. A Night View Collaboration was first installed at the 2007 Venice Art Walk. It is presently on view at Gallery Skart, 2324 Michigan Ave, in Santa Monica. Helen is directing a 5 year long project entitled An Intimate View of Los Angeles where up to 50 artist/photographers of different cultures and economic backgrounds are documenting their own neighborhood in a subjective manner. The first installation is presently on view at Gallery Skart in Santa Monica.. The installation will travel throughout the region and has been invited to be part of the 2010 NY Photo Festival. Urban Noir/LA – NY is a multi-media installation and formal photo exhibit that combines Helen’s night urban landscapes with text derived from pulp fiction using the city as character and jazz music. It was first presented at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art in New Paltz, NY, in the fall of 2007. Urban Noir/LA-NY will be one of the first lectures to be presented at the Annnenberg Space for Photography. The living noir installation, with original music composed by John Beasley will be produced in late 2009, www.myspace.com/urbannoir. Helen has just created PhotoTweet – where she will be posting a photo per day on Twitter: www.twitter.com/HelenKGarber.

Jonathan Walker (http://www.jonathanwalkervenice.com/)
Jonathan Walker is a research fellow in the Department of History at the University of Sydney. He is the author of Pistols! Treason! Murder! (Johns Hopkins UP, 2009), a biography of a seventeenth-century Venetian spy, and Five Wounds, an illustrated novel (Allen & Unwin, 2010, forthcoming). He is also working on a photographic essay, Let Us Burn the Gondolas: Venice as a Modern City, a version of which can be found on his website: www.jonathanwalkervenice.com.

Dominic Rouse (http://www.dominicrouse.com)
“To take a piece of paper coated with a silver gelatin and then allow light and chemicals to caress it in such a way that they leave behind an imprint of one’s soul is an exquisite joy that no amount of criticism can diminish. I do not have ambition as such, every completed piece is an ambition achieved.”