Dina Oganova is a documentary photographer, educator and bookmaker based in her hometown,Tbilisi. Working on personal, long term projects mostly in her and post soviet countries, has focused on women’s and young girls’ rights, social and political topics. In 2011 won Kolga Tbilisi Photo special author prize and in 2012 won her first production grant from Open Society Foundation. In 2013 was selected among world 12 best young photographers to attend World Press Photo ‘s Joop Swart Masterclass. Dina was the first Georgian photographer who was ever selected and attended this event. In 2014 was selected as one of 30 best women photographers under the age of 30 and in 2015  PDN named her among the 30 best emerging photographers to watch under the age of 30 and in the same year was finalist at Wallis Annenberg Prize. In 2016 was selected as an APAD grant finalist while, in 2017, she won the European Union Prize for Journalism for the Best Documentary photo. In 2018 won a Multimedia Production Lab Grant for South Caucasian Female Photographers and a grant from Women’s Fund. In 2019 she won the “Litera Award” for the best documentary book of the year with sHEROes in collaboration with the writer Salome Benidze.

Samuele Pellecchia began working as a photojournalist after his studies in philosophy, and in 2004 he founded Prospekt Photographers agency. He has accomplished photographic projects all around the world. His long term project Close To Me has been projected at the Rencontres d’Arles, La Nuit de l’Année in 2011. In 2009 he was the producer and the author of the web-doc The Iron Curtain Diaries, shortlisted at the first edition of the France 24-RFI Web Documentary Award in Visa pour l’Image 2009, at Festival Des Quatres Ecrans in Paris, and at IDFA in Amsterdam. The documentary Murat, the geographer has been selected at the CMCA - Méditerranée Audiovisuelle in Arles. With the Politecnico di Torino and in partnership with Tsinghua University, he did a long term project about the Chinese new urbanization, which became an exhibition China Goes Urban at MAO in Turin. He is currently working on the transformation of the city of Milan and on the places left behind in the Italian territory. He is continuing to work on Close To Me.

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Igor Posner has been involved in photography for over 20 years as an author, publisher,

designer, and educator. Igor has published two books, Past Perfect Continuous, and Cargó. Both of his books are in the collection of The Museum of Modern Art, New York. He has lectured and presented his work at The School of Visual Arts in New York, The New School University, Penumbra Foundation, and many other institutions. His work has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, L’oeil de la Photographie, Esquire, and other publications. Igor has been a member of Prospekt Photographes since 2011. He is currently based in Brooklyn, New York.