Fiona Shields has over twenty years’ picture-editing experience across a range of newspaper titles and has served as picture editor of The Guardian for the last nine. She recently took up the role of Head of Photography for the Guardian News and Media Group. Throughout her career, she has been involved in the coverage of some of the most historic news stories of our time: 9/11, conflicts around the world, the Arab Spring and much more. Besides her work at the newspaper, she’s delivered talks at photo festivals and to students of photojournalism. She has judged the Sony World Photography Awards, the UK Picture Editors Guild Awards, and the Renaissance Photography Prize among others. Most recently she served as a nominator for the Prix Pictet and joined the jury of the highly regarded Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize.

Matt Stuart is a British street photographer, and a member of the UP street photography collective. As well as making his personal work, he works as a commercial photographer and leads street photography workshops.

Stuart's book of street photography, “All That Life Can Afford” (2016/20) includes photographs made in London from 2002 to 2015. His second book, “Into the Fire” (2020) explores living off-the-grid in Slab City, California.

Matt’s work has been published in a number of survey publications on street photography including the 2010 book and traveling show “Street Photography Now” and the seminal street photography bible “Bystander” by Joel Meyerowitz and Colin Westerbeck. Matt has recently published his own best selling book, “Think Like a Street Photographer” which explains his thoughts, ideas and process on the subject. Matt’s work has been exhibited in solo exhibitions in Europe and the US, as well as included in group exhibitions in France (Arles), Britain (including at the Museum of London, which acquired his work for its permanent collection, and which travelled to the Museum of the City of New York), France, Bangkok and Stockholm.

Eslah Attar is a visual storyteller from the suburbs of Ohio where she studied photojournalism and documented immigration in her community. Prior to joining The New York Times as a photo editing fellow, she worked at National Geographic as an associate photo editor. Before then, she worked at National Public Radio as a photo editor and photographer.

Dewi Lewis Publishing is a partnership owned and run by Caroline Warhurst and Dewi Lewis. Founded in 1994, its photography list has an international reputation and has included books by leading British and international photographers such as Laia Abril, William Klein, Martin Parr, Simon Norfolk, Fay Godwin, Tom Wood, Sergio Larrain, Frank Horvat, John Blakemore, Paolo Pelegrin, Simon Roberts and Bruce Gilden. Dewi Lewis was appointed an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society in 2004 and in November 2009 he was awarded the inaugural Royal Photographic Society Award for Outstanding Services to Photography. He was awarded the Kraszna-Krausz Foundation Award for Outstanding Contribution to Publishing at the World Photography Awards in April 2012.

Currently serving as the Creative Director of United Photo Industries, Sam Barzilay is also the co-founder of Photoville, a photographic gathering that has rapidly become one of the largest and best-attended photography events in North America. Sam is also one of the founding producers of the T3 Photo Festival in Tokyo, Japan.

Sam holds a Master in Photojournalism from the University of Westminster (UK), where his studies focused on curatorial and photo-editing practices. Over the past decade, he has worked alongside some of the best and brightest minds in the global photographic community in pursuit of developing new audiences for photography. He is interested in devising methods of presentation that further amplify the power of photographic storytelling to help increase public awareness and bring about social change.

Samantha Clark is a photo editor at National Geographic, where she commissions and produces photography for the print and digital editions of the magazine. Prior, she worked at NPR, KQED, and Pier 24 Photography. She also features and writes about photography for NPR’s The Picture Show. She holds a masters in journalism from UC Berkeley.

Jim Casper is the editor-in-chief of LensCulture, one of the leading online destinations to discover new contemporary photography from around the world. As an active member in the contemporary photography world, Casper loves to meet with photographers and talk about photography. He curates art exhibitions, publishes books, conducts workshops, serves as an international juror, nominates photographers for key awards, and is an advisor to arts and education organizations.

Melissa O’Shaughnessy is a photographer based in New York City. Her work has been featured in numerous international exhibitions and publications, and is also included in the book “Bystander: A History of Street Photography” and the recently published “Women Street Photographers”.

She is a member of UP Photographers, a collective of 25 international street photographers.

Her first monograph, “Perfect Strangers: New York City Street Photographs”, was published by Aperture in October, 2020.