Stephanie Bauer holds an MFA in Photography at SCAD (in progress), and a BA in communication arts-films & television from Loyola University Chicago. She is currently a Professor of Practice at Principia College in Mass Communication, Visual Media.  Stephanie has extensive professional experience in her field as a photographer, videographer, executive producer, producer, writer, and director that includes Head of Television at Saatchi & Saatchi, New Zealand and Executive Producer at Exposure International, New Zealand. She has two published works of poetry, a published short story, and has produced multiple award-winning TV commercials.
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Brianna Dowd is an NC based artist whose background is in fine art photography and graphic design. She works in portraiture, event photography, photo documentary, and in 19th-century processes combined with digital technology. Brianna is a 2017 graduate from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro obtaining a Bachelors of Fine Art degree, and is currently pursuing a Masters of Fine Art at the Savannah College of Art & Design.

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Marcie Kindred is an artist and educator based in Nashville, TN with over 20 years of experience in the professional world of corporate and commercial photography, Marcie celebrates the natural world through her personal work. Her contemporary take on landscape photography unites multiple experiences of a single place, yielding a fractured picture plane that echos the resolve that on the edge of brokenness true beauty can begin to grow. https://www.marciekindred.com/

Christina Leslie is an artist based in Toronto, Canada. Much of her photographic practice revolves around the themes of identity, immigration, issues of marginalization, history, memory, race, and her West Indian heritage. She often utilizes text and alternative and historical photographic processes to produce her photographs. Her photographs have been featured in numerous publications; most recently in the UK magazine MURZE in issues Four, Ten, and Twelve (2019 and 2020) and in Divide Art Magazine (2021). https://www.christinaleslie.com/

Cat is a studio portrait and fine art photographer in the Washington D.C area. Her process consists of multiple steps of destroying the old photographs and rebuilding them into a new one using the damaged materials. Her work authors a transformative story as new realizations of memory are achieved, ones filled with fresh possibilities and beautiful beginnings. http://www.catmacstudios.com/

Mara Magyarosi-Laytner is an artist, educator, and curator in the Detroit area. A graduate of both College for Creative Studies and Savannah College of Art and Design, she has experience across photography, education, and arts administration, culminating in her MA in Arts Administration and her MFA in Photography. Her work pairs experimental photography methods to explore identity through a symbolic and poetic lens. The artist and her work have been shown in many spaces across the United States and internationally, including the ScotiaBank CONTACT Photography Festival in Toronto, Canada, and exhibitions in Italy, France, and Hungary. https://www.maramagyarosilaytner.com/