HANNAH WHITAKER is an artist and Triple Canopy contributing editor based in New York. She holds a BA from Yale University and an MFA from ICP/Bard College. Recent exhibitions include solo shows at M+B Gallery in Los Angeles, Galerie Christophe Gaillard in Paris, and Locust Projects in Miami. She recently published her first book, Peer to Peer, with Mörel Books. In 2012, she was nominated for the Rencontres d’Arles Discovery Prize. 

http://hwhitaker.com/

Bay Area photographer JOHN CHIARA captures cityscapes in a process that incorporates a hybrid of photographic media. He creates one-of-a-kind photographs in a variety of hand-built cameras, the largest of which is a 50” x 80” field camera transported by the artist on a flatbed trailer. Once a location is selected, he situates and then physically enters the camera, maneuvering in near total darkness positive color photographic paper on the camera’s back wall. Throughout the exposure, he controls how the light enters the lens by using his hands to burn and dodge in the image. These large-scale photographs are developed by hand in a spinning drum process that agitates the chemistry over the photographic paper that lines the interior of the drum – a process that often leaves behind traces on the resulting image.

http://www.johnchiara.com/

SHARON HARPER's work explores technology and perception in relation to the natural world. She is the recipient of a John S. Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in Photography and has been awarded residencies at the Headlands Center for the Arts, the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, Ucross Foundation, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Vermont Studio Center and the Monastery of Halsnøy, Norway. Her work is in permanent collections at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, the Harvard Art Museums, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art in Santa Barbara, California, the Nelson-Atkins Museum in Kansas City, Missouri, and The New York Public Library among other collections. She received an MFA in photography and related media from the School of Visual Art in New York. She is currently Professor of Visual Art, Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University.

http://www.sharonharper.org/

Born in London and based in New York, LUCY HELTON received her master’s degree in fine art photography from Hartford Art School, CT, in 2014. Her first book "Actions of Consequence" was nominated for the MACK First Book Award 2014, shortlisted for the Kassel Dummy Award 2015, and The Anamorphosis Prize 2015. "Actions of Consequence" was also included in the 2015 Best Photo Book selection by the Humble Arts Foundation. Her most recent book "Transmission" (Silas Finch, 2015) is a communication from our future to our recent past and it was shortlisted for the Paris Photo-Aperture First Book Award 2015. Helton is immersed in photo book making and has participated in various book fairs and festivals in New York, L.A., London, Germany and France.

http://www.lucyhelton.com/

JOHN CYR (b. 1981) is a New York based photographer and Assistant Professor of Photographic Imaging at Suffolk County Community College. Cyr earned his MFA from the School of Visual Arts in 2010 and his work has been featured in various publications including the New York Times, BBC News, ARTnews, TIME, NPR, Popular Photography, the Telegraph and Photo District News and is the author of the powerHouse published monograph, Developer Trays. Cyr's photography is represented in many notable public and private collections including: George Eastman House International Museum of Photography, Rochester, New York; The Photographic History Collection at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, Washington D.C.; and The New York Public Library, New York, New York. John Cyr is represented by Catherine Edelman Gallery in Chicago. 

http://www.johncyrphotography.com/

VICTOR SIRA is a Venezuela-born photographer/artist whose work has been the recipient of numerous fellowships, including the Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, the Andrea Frank Foundation Fellowship and the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship. Sira is a faculty member at the ICP–Bard MFA Program in Advanced Photographic Studies, where he teaches the course The Book: Imaginary Studio, A Non Stop Process. In 2011, he co-founded, with Shiori Kawasaki, Bookdummypress (bdp), a publishing company, studio, and bookstore that specializes in artist publications.

http://victorsira.com/

At age thirteen, CHRIS McCAW’s mom forced him to take a photo course at the community center.  He got hooked instantly. Concurrently, McCaw spent his youth in the punk and skateboarding scenes, taking the “DIY” motto of those cultures and applying it to photography. The first camera he built in 1995 was a 7x17” view camera to make contact negatives for platinum prints. Over the ensuing decades—and particularly with his Sunburn project—McCaw has used photographic materials, especially expired gelatin silver paper, in groundbreaking ways.  His work is held in numerous public collections, and in 2012 a monograph Sunburn was published by Candela Books. His second solo exhibition at Yossi Milo Gallery will be opening on March 4th. 2016.

http://www.chrismccaw.com/