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.

Rebecca Chace is the award-winning author of Leaving Rock Harbor (novel); Capture the Flag (novel); Chautauqua Summer (memoir); June Sparrow and The Million Dollar Penny (middle readers). Her fifth book, Talking to the Wolf (novel), is forthcoming from Red Hen Press. “Beka,14” a multi-media performance, received a development/collaborative artist fellowship at Catwalk Artist Residency. She has written for the New York Times, NYT Magazine, NYT Sunday Book Review, the Huffington Post, The LA Review of Books, and other publications. She has been awarded numerous fellowships and residencies including the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, MacDowell, Yaddo; Dora Maar House, the American Academy in Rome (visiting artist) and many others. She is a faculty associate and program manager at the Institute for Writing and Thinking at Bard College. Photo credit: Marco-Giugliarelli-for-Civitella-Ranieri-Foundation

Stéphanie Bonvicini is a French journalist, writer and artist. She is a graduate of the Institut National de l’Audiovisuel (INA). For France Culture, she produced the program Le Sens des Choses and episodes of A Voix Nue. On the Public Senat TV channel, she hosted the interview Conversation d’Avenirs with the french economist Jacques Attali. She is the author of the acclaimed biography Louis Vuitton, une Saga française and three books in collaboration with Jacques Attali. In the field of children’s literature, she has published different books and a philosophical fairy tale, La Petite Taiseuse, illustrated by Marianne Ratier, nominated at several literary festivals and awarded the prestigious Prix Sorcières at the Paris Book Fair.

Ben Sabey writes music that has been described by Gramophone as revealing, “a brilliant technique and a keen ear for sound, timbre and arc.” Ensembles with which he has worked include the Arditti Quartet, Mivos Quartet, Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, Le Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, and the New York New Music Ensemble. His music has been featured at the Ultrschall Festival in Berlin and the SoundOn and NWEAMO festivals in San Diego. The Bacchetto/Sabey Duo, in which Ben performs with pianist Nick Bacchetto on a custom analog synthesizer, tours throughout the US and the world. He also works regularly with performers of Korean instruments including the Seoul based Ensemble PHASE and haegeum virtuoso Eunah Noh, who recently premiered a new work at Carnegie Hall. Based in the San Francisco Bay area, Ben heads the theory, composition and electronic music programs at San Francisco State University. He holds a PhD from the University of California, San Diego. © photo Hailey June

Isabelle Laban-Dal Canto oversees a network of museums in rural departments of France, housing a variety of collections: prehistoric and Roman archaeology, painting, contemporary art, fossils, ethnological objects. As a specialist in modern art, she is also an independent researcher interested in the margins of art, including geographical, where artists choose to live in remote areas. In this context she met art dealer Lucien Henry. A native of the village in which he set up his business, he sold, frequented and loved a great many artists between the 1950s and his death in 1988. He was able to gather around him some well-known figures (Bernard Buffet, Henri Cartier-Bresson) but above all artists with original backgrounds, often self-taught, always committed to a singular creative path. Isabelle Laban-Dal Canto’s research into this atypical figure brings her to the heart of her subject: creation far from the norm.