Benedetta Casagrande (she/her) is an artist and educator working across photography, writing and sculpture, with a focus on regenerative practices and co-authorship with more-than-human agents. Starting from an interest in political ecology and critical studies, she develops a biocentric practice where photography is used to look-at and sit-within interspecies relationships and more-than-human life in times of extinctions, working through ecological grief, forming multi-species alliances and nurturing relationships based on principles of kinship, reciprocity and shared health. Working with darkroom chemistry made with locally foraged plants, scavenged iron and waste products, reclaiming silver from spent chemistry and applying a circular economy between the darkroom and the land through appropriate waste disposal processes, that allow for chemical waste to be composted and used as fertiliser, she approaches the practice of photography as a process of contaminations and encounters, trying to learn how to better live and die together.

Benedetta graduated with a BA in Photography from the University of Brighton (2016) and with an MA in Art History and Museum Curating with Photography from the University of Sussex (2019). In the past years she has regularly engaged with the teachings and knowledge on ecological practices shared by The Sustainable Darkroom and Curioso Lab. Currently, she is part of the cohort of the postgraduate programme Alternative Ecologies with the Institute for Postnatural Studies (2026-2027).

She is the winner of the Luigi Ghirri Award (2024) and the FE+SK Book Award (2024), and received a special mention from the jury at the 13th edition of the Francesco Fabbri Prize. Her first book, All Things Laid Dormant (Skinnerboox, 2024), is a finalist in the Arles Authors Book Award and the Singapore International Photography Festival Book Award, and has received the special mention of the Marco Bastianelli Photobook Award (2025). Her work has been exhibited in national and international institutions, including Photo Ireland (Dublin, 2019), 副本 INSTANCE (Shanghai, 2021), Fotografia Europea (Reggio Emilia, 2024), Photo Brussels (2024), PhMuseum Days (2024), the Italian Institute of Culture Stockholm (2025), Prague Photo Festival (2025), L’Imagerie Centre d’Arte (2025), Triennale (Milan, 2025) and Almanac (Turin, 2026).

Ignacio Navas (b. 1989 Tudela, lives and works in Madrid) creates computational, generative and interactive projects based on photographic image to research how dominant structures—political, economic, or social—are made present and shape our everyday affairs. With this approach, Ignacio explores the possibilities that emerging technologies, computing, and new media offer to the photographic medium.His recent work has received support from several grants and institutions, including the Visual Arts Creation Fellowship (Community of Madrid, 2024) and the Plastic and Visual Arts Fellowship (Government of Navarra, 2024). His images and interactive installations have also been part of initiatives such as Plat(t)form at Fotomuseum Winterthur (Switzerland, 2024), the Photoworks Digital Programme (UK, 2023), the Return2Ithaca Residency (Greece, 2023), and the FUTURES European Photography Platform (Netherlands, 2022).Ignacio believes that contemporary creation cannot be understood without actively engaging in its own management. This conviction drives him to lead collective initiatives such as La Embajada (2024–), a platform to showcase projects created within the Spanish territorial context in the unofficial circuit of the Rencontres d’Arles festival, or El Local (2023–), an independent space for contemporary photography in Madrid.

Michaela Nagyidaiová (b. 1996) is a Slovakian photographer based in Bratislava. Her work analyses connections between landscape, memory, identity, migration, and the topographies of Central and Eastern Europe. Interested in how ideologies and political systems influence layers of personal life – and drawing inspiration from both past events and contemporary issues – Nagyidaiová works on long-term projects that combine images with text, archival material and video. She holds an MA in Photojournalism & Documentary Photography from the London College of Communication, and is a member of Women Photograph. Her Transient Ties project was exhibited at Fotograf Festival in Prague’s National Gallery, and at a series of further shows in Czechia, Slovenia and Austria. In 2021, Nagyidaiová participated in the Wolf Suschitzky Photography Prize exhibition at the Austrian Cultural Forum in London & Fotohof in Salzburg, as well as in the British Journal of Photography’s Open Walls ’21: Then and Now exhibition at Galerie Huit in Arles.

Mirielle Rohr (b. Berlin) is a visual artist and photographer based between Paris and Berlin. She graduated from ECAL’s Master in Photography (Lausanne) in 2025. Through analogue photography, ceramics, sculpture, and AI-generated imagery, she examines the aesthetics and emotional economies of digital culture, how bodies, desire, and identity are mediated, performed, and consumed. Her works often combines tactile processes with synthetic image-making to produce psychologically charged narratives.

‍Her work has been published in the British Journal of Photography, Der Greif, Schema Magazine, SLEEK, and Fisheye Magazine, among many more. She was a finalist for the Picto Fashion Photography Award (2024) and presented her work at Paris Photo (Carte Blanche Étudiante, 2025) last year. In March 2026 she will exhibit at PhotoVogue Festival, is shortlisted for Un/Fund & Residency.

Tudor Rhys Etchells uses the photograph to challenge fictions created by legal systems. Working within such a bureaucracy in his previous role as a human rights lawyer inspires his closeness to the document and the brutally mundane. For him, the photographic medium, with its own cumbersome structures of viewing and representing, appears the best match for understanding processes that construct the imagined norms of our society. Embracing photography’s performative element, he deconstructs our conceptions of visual knowledge.

He achieved a Distinction in MA Documentary Photography at the University of South Wales during which he was awarded the Reginald Salisbury grant. Recently he was awarded an Arts Council of Wales Research and Development grant to fund a residency and his first solo exhibition at BayArt, Cardiff.

His work has been featured in the British Journal of Photography and the Financial Times Weekend Magazine.

He has spoken and performed at institutions around the world including, the British Council Paris, ISSP Riga, Ayn Istanbul.

He is a lecturer at the University of Gloucestershire and University of South Wales.

He is based in Cardiff and an associate artist and curator of BayArt gallery.

Eleni Onasoglou was born in Syros Island (Greece), where she lived during her early years. In 2008 she graduated with a scholarship from ESP school of photography.

Today she lives and works as a photographer in Athens. Her work has been published in magazines from Greece and abroad, and presented in photography group exhibitions.

Yu Shuk Pui Bobby is an artist, filmmaker, and researcher based between Hong Kong and Oslo. Working across moving image, installation, performance, and text, her practice explores the fragile intersections between body, memory, family history, and cultural translation.

Her work often begins from intimate and bodily experiences — illness, shame, inherited silence, food, language, and care — and expands them into layered narrative spaces where personal and collective histories meet. Moving between humour, vulnerability, and speculative imagination, Bobby treats the body as a site where trauma, desire, and repair are continuously negotiated.

Her solo exhibition The Piles We Carry at UKS, Oslo, marked an ongoing shift in her practice towards relational methodologies and embodied research. Through speculative repair rituals, paper-built environments, and video works, the project examined bodily and emotional debts inherited within family systems.

Bobby holds a BA from Hong Kong Baptist University and an MFA from the Oslo National Academy of Fine Art. Her work has been exhibited internationally at The Shophouse, Hong Kong Museum of Medical Sciences, Para Site, UKS, VI VII, Podium, K4 Gallery, Kunstnernes Hus, and other institutions and residencies across Asia, Europe, and North America. In 2023, she was awarded Best Director at the 17th Fresh Wave International Short Film Festival in Hong Kong.

Hiền Hoàng (b. 1991, Vietnam) is a visual artist currently living in Hamburg, Germany. Her work is a combination of photography, installation and performance. As an Asian living in Europe, Hien is interested in the concept of clichés, stereotypes, discrimination and sexualization of the Asian. She creates scenarios with textiles, screens, found objects, food and images with Asian references, often also with cut-outs of herself. This can be seen well in her current project 'Asia Bistro'. These scenarios are the playground for her extended installations and performances, where she experiments with different materials and arrangements of video and sound, especially in 'Made in Rice'. In this way, she wants to create an immersive space where our habitual ways of seeing and observing can be provoked and hopefully changed.‍

Laure Winants is a researcher and field-based visual artist (BE, FR). Winants set up her artist’s studio in the heart of the Arctic ice pack. Embarked on a four-month polar expedition, she joined a team of multidisciplinary researchers to understand the evolution of this vast territory, where man is only a tiny part of life. Immersed in this white desert, she uses techniques developed specifically to capture the optical and luminous phenomena unique to the region. Using environmental sensors, the interaction of matter itself has become the creator of the work, putting human intervention to one side. Laure Winants makes this data tangible and emotionally perceptible, highlighting the interdependence of ecosystems and creating encounters in more-than-human temporalities. In this way, the artist creates a dialogue between art, the natural sciences, and technology.

Laure has exhibited her work internationally in Berlin (DE), Reykjavik (IS), Brussels (BE), Paris (FR), and soon in Stockholm (SE), Luxembourg (LU), and Osaka (JP). Her work has entered the collection of several foundations, such as the Fondation des Arts du Luxembourg and the Palais de Liège (BE).

Julius Thissen (1993, the Netherlands) lives and works in Arnhem, NL. Their work investigates themes of community and representation, masculinity, sports, and competition. Originating from their background as a performance artist, Thissen's photographic practice aims to create narratives that explore the fine line between performing and failing. These themes are closely tied to contemporary performance-driven culture and the influence of societal expectations on behavior. Their work is deeply rooted in personal experiences as a genderqueer and transmasculine individual. Thissen strongly opposes the restrictive and often binary narratives imposed on transgender and queer individuals. Thissen has been nominated for the Hendrik Valk Prize, Arnhemse Nieuwe, and the Warsteiner Blooom Awards. In 2023, they received the Artist Basis Fund and, more recently, a Mondriaan Fund Artist Project Grant for their new project Bones of Graphene, Skin of Kevlar.

Olena Morozova is a visual artist from Kyiv, Ukraine. She is interested in themes of spirituality, sexuality, gender identity, stereotypes, psychological and mental disorder, family relationships. "Photography is my passion, lifestyle, philosophy, way of thinking, seeing, understanding the world around me and my inner world, searching for my reflections, feelings and emotions, self-development and movement forward” - she explains. Olena has been engaged in photography since 2015. Her teachers were: Alexander Yakimchuk, Dimitri Bogachuk, Vladimir Seleznev, Viktoria Sorochinski, Sergey Melnichenko and others. Her works were presented in Finnish Museum of Photography (2022), Odesa Photo Days (2021), Photo Kiev Fair (2019, 2020).

Tim Rod, born 1992, is a Swiss artist based in Bern, Switzerland. He studied photography at CEPV – Vevey School of Photography (ES diploma, 2021) and holds a Master in Contemporary Arts Practice HKB – Bern University of Applied Sciences. His work often explores issues related to exile and habitat, rootlessness and rootedness, as well as memory, identity, belonging and travelling. His own roots and family history are one of the central elements of his practice and his research, alongside collective visual culture. While his practice remains strongly rooted in photography, his works often expand into site-specific multimedia installations.

Thana Faroq is a Yemeni photographer and educator based in the Netherlands. She works with photography, texts, sound, and the physicality of the image itself, as a way to respond to the changes that have been shaping and defining her life, and sense of belonging both in Yemen and the Netherlands. Thana's positioning as a photographer is informed by her reflections on her subject matter, tuning in to other people’s lived experiences with which she continually grows familiar. She also increasingly seeks her own story in the frame. Thana was a recipient of the 2018 inaugural Open Society Foundation Fellowship Grant and Exhibition and the 2019 Arab Documentary Fund supported by the Prince Claus Fund and Magnum Foundation and Zenith magazine reporting grant. In 2020, she published her first book, I don't Recognize Me in the Shadows The book was shortlisted for the Lucie Photobook Prize 2021, and it has also been listed as one of the Interesting Artist & Photographic Books for 2021 by the PhotoBook Journal. Thana received her BA in Government and International Relations from Clark University, and an MA in Photography and Society at The Royal Academy of Art, The Hague.

Michal Sita (1985) is a photographer and curator. Graduate of photography at the ITF in Opava and anthropology at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, where he is concluding doctoral research on social uses of the past in contemporary Poland. Interested in social memory and research strategies of photography. Curator of an interdisciplinary analysis of Wiesław Rakowski’s interwar zoological photographs, curator and producer of a series of exhibitions (including Małgorzata Lebda and Rafał Siderski, Mayumi Suzuki, Jan Kurek, Martin Parr and Rimaldas Vikšraitis, Sputnik Photos, among others), and photobook festivals. Co-author of “Củ Chi Tunnels Restoration Report” (Photographic Publication of the Year 2020 – Łódź, PL), a book relating to the activities of the Polish-Vietnamese architectural heritage conservation mission. Author of “History of Poland” vol. 1 and 2 — publications commenting on anthropological research carried out in Murowana Goślina among volunteers staging a large-scale historical pageant. Author of critical texts on photography. Lecturer at the Magdalena Abakanowicz University of Arts in Poznań.

Ugo Woatzi, Nominated by FOMU (Fotomuseum Antwerpen) is an artist, researcher and educator whose work centres on photography, moving images, text and installation. Drawing inspiration from memory, territory and queer theory, their practice explores the construction of imaginaries through poetic and speculative gestures. Moving between different media and modes of presentation, their work aims to foster alternative forms of kinship, belonging and world-making.

In 2025, Ugo was a resident at WIELS, Centre for Contemporary Art in Brussels. That same year, they were among the laureates of the Belgian contemporary art prize Art Contest. In 2026, they were commissioned by FOMU (Antwerp PhotoMuseum) to create a series of stereoscopic photographs exploring chosen family for its Kaiserpanorama. At the Queer Vision Film Festival in Ireland, their film Alzou was awarded Best Overall Production.

Ugo is an alumni of the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology from the University of Toulouse, studied at the Market Photo Workshop in Johannesburg, and earned a Master’s degree in Visual Arts from LUCA School of Arts in Brussels.

Valeria Cherchi (b.1986) is an Italian photographer. She was born and raised in Sardinia, Italy. Her practice focuses on projects regarding social and cultural issues. Her research is driven by the need of exploring topics such as time, memories and history connected to her personal experience. She is interested in true and tangible character-driven stories, often told by combining photography and text. In 2018, Valeria was one the named in ‘British Journal of Photography’s Ones to Watch.