Inga Schneider studied Cultural Sciences in Hildesheim (DE). Since 2006, she has been based in Cologne. She worked for PRISKA PASQUER Gallery and ran the V8 Gallery, which focused on photographic projects from Eastern Europe. As a freelance curator she has realised projects for Krakow Photomonth, the Warsaw Art Photography Festival, Environmental Photography Festival ‘horizonte zingst,’ International Fotobookfestival Kassel, KOLGA Tbilisi Photo Festival, and the Museum Folkwang in Essen. Since 2013, she has been on the management board of Internationale Photoszene Köln, and in charge of programming for the Artist Meets Archive. She is one of the founders of the NEXT! Festival der Jungen Photoszene, a nationwide photo festival for children and young people.

Magdalena Ujma is an art critic, art historian, and curator of exhibitions of contemporary art. Since 2018, she has worked with the Centre for the Documentation of the Art of Tadeusz Kantor CRICOTEKA in Krakow, providing curatorial care for its collection; and, since 2021, she has been involved with the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, where she oversees the periodicals Restart and Elements and conducts educational activities. She is the president of the Polish chapter of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA). She lives in Krakow.

Iñaki Domingo is a visual artist, a university lecturer, and a professional photographer. His artistic practice is focused in the field of Expanded Photography, with ongoing research on the existing contradictions between the gaze and the representation of reality. His work has been shown in numerous exhibitions, has received several awards, and is part of private and public collections. He also collaborates with public and private institutions and companies developing educational, editorial, and curatorial projects.

Katarzyna Kozyra is the creator of performances, films, video installations, and artistic actions. In 2011, she received a doctoral degree from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. She is the recipient of Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage and Polityka ‘Passport’ awards (2011, 1997), and has been awarded grants from the DAAD in Berlin and the Kościuszko Foundation in New York (2003, 2000). She received an honorary mention at the 48th Venice Biennale for the video installation The Men’s Bathhouse, presented at the Polish Pavilion. Named one of the ten most important artists of the new millennium by The Huffington Post, Kozyra has through her practice contributed to the development of critical art, impacting the shape of contemporary culture.

Lola Paprocka is a self-taught photographer with a practice centring on documentary imagery. Her focus is on creating work with sentimental narratives that are authentic and honest in their representation of the subject whilst retaining a personal aesthetic that is clean and unfussy. Many of her projects focus on the theme of adolescence and the interactions of friendship groups among youths, especially those from marginalised communities and subcultures. She is a curator, founder, and creative director of Palm* Studios, a London-based publisher and online platform focusing on photography. Lola’s work has been exhibited worldwide, including in galleries in London, Melbourne, New York, Warsaw, and Paris.

Clare Strand is a British artist working with and against the photographic medium. Over the past two decades she has worked with found imagery, kinetic machinery, web programmes, fairground attractions, and, most recently, large-scale paintings. She often rejects the subject-based qualities and immediate demand of information so often associated with the photographic image, instead unapologetically adopting and welcoming a subtle, slow-burn approach. Her work is held in collections including those of MoMA NY, SFMOMA, the V&A, Centre Pompidou, and the NY Public Library. She has produced three publications: Clare Strand Monograph (Steidl, 2009), Skirts (GOST, 2014), and Girl Plays with Snake (Mack, 2017). She is also one half of the collaborative partnership MacDonaldStrand and Head of the Intangible for The Institute of Unnecessary Research.