Prior to completing a BA and MA at Edinburgh College of Art, Andy Moxon completed a technical apprenticeship in Radar, Satellite Radio and Telecommunications working as a Marine Technical Officer onboard merchant shipping. His work in photojournalism has been published in Time, The Guardian, amongst other publications. In 2015, Moxon stopped using traditional camaras and developed his own techniques to record starlight. His current research, The Materiality of Light, concerns itself with the visual representation of ‘deep time’ by exploring recorded ancient light written on the print surface and questions how photography records ‘events’ not just immediately, but over the longer time. He is Senior lecturer in Photojournalism at the University of Gloucestershire.
Taiye Selasi is an American writer and photographer of Nigerian and Ghanian origin, she describes herself as a “local” of Accra, Berlin, New York and Rome. In 2005, Selasi published “Bye-Bye, Babar (Or: What is an Afropolitan?)“, her seminal text on Afropolitans. Her novel, Ghana Must Go, was published by Penguin in 2013. Selected as one of the 10 Best Books of 2013 by The Wall Street Journal and The Economist, the novel has been sold in 22 countries. Selasi graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa with a BA degree in American Studies from yale, and earned her MPhil in international relations from Nuffield College, Oxford. She is the author of the children’s book Anansi and the Golden Pot, published in 2022.
David Gilbert is an artist and photographer currently living in Los Angeles; he was born in New York. He has had solo exhibitions at Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, New York; Chris Sharp Gallery, Los Angeles; Rebecca Camacho Presents, San Francisco; 12.26, Dallas; and The Finley, Los Angeles. His work is in the permanent collection of LACMA, and he has been an artist-in-residence at Yaddo, Lighthouse Works, and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. In 2015, he presented Duets (a performance with Pau Pescador) as part of Performa15 in New York. His work has been written about in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Art in America, XTRA Magazine, BOMB, and Art Review. In the February 2019 issue of Artforum, Wayne Koestenbaum wrote Gilbert is “a photographer whose beat is the afterlife as it takes place now, in this studio, this room, among these bedclothes and paint stains and wigs and strings.”
Alice Miceli is a Brazilian artist from Rio de Janeiro. Using photography and video, Miceli applies formal experimentation, investigative travel, and archival research to chart manifestations of trauma inflicted on social and natural landscapes.
LaMont Hamilton is an autodidact interdisciplinary artist based in Chicago. Hamilton works primarily in photography, film and performance.