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[ feltus brothers ] feltusfeltus.com

FeltusFeltus, Tobias and Joseph Feltus, were born in Washington DC in 1979 and 1982. They later moved to Assisi, Italy, in 1987. The sons of figurative painters Alan Feltus and Lani Irwin, they have collaborated in traditional photography on film since 1997. Both with a BA(Hons) and Masters degree from the Edinburgh College of Art, they began exhibiting with two solo exhibitions in northern Italy in 2006. They have won numerous international awards for their widely acclaimed short stop-motion film 'Solo Duets', and for their photography. In February of 2009 they presented their most recent work in a show titled "Domestic Zirkus" in London's Whitecross Gallery, which then toured to Glasgow, and had a featured article in Arte Mondadori, and Vogue.com.

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[ cornelia hediger ] corneliahediger.com

Born in Switzerland, Cornelia Hediger lives and works in NYC. She earned both her BFA and MFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. In 2009, she was awarded a coveted PDN’s 30. Her images have been exhibited at Klompching Gallery in Brooklyn, NY, The Center For Photography at Woodstock, NY, Wall Space Gallery in Seattle, Voies Off 2008 in Arles, France, PS122 Gallery in NYC, Gallery Del Mese-Fischer in Switzerland, and Limlight9 in Canada. Her work has been featured in HotShoe Issue#161 August/September 2009, Visura Magazine, New York Magazine (Art Candy), Narte Espacio Movistar (Spanish online review), CPW’s PHOTOGRAPHY Quarterly Magazine, Vision Magazine China, and Contemporary.

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[ aaron hobson ] aaronhobson.com

A relative neophyte to photography Hobson has quickly found solo shows in NYC, Los Angeles, and London, and a growing list of collectors from around the world. Articles and reviews of his work have appeared in over 15 languages in over 24 countries from every major continent, except the one covered in ice. He was a featured photographer in the 2008 photo issue of Juxtapoz Magazine, the subject of an eight page article in Urban Salir Magazine (Spain) as well as a 7 page spread in the first Azart Photo Annual (France). Cinemascapes were nominated for Best Fine Art series at the inaugural NYC Photo Festival and an Honorable mention in Fine Art and Deeper Perspectives categories at the International Photography Awards (IPA | Lucie Awards). Most recently his cinemascape series was awarded 1st place book at the 2009 Prix de la Photographie (PX3) Paris.

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[ russell joslin ] russelljoslin.com

Perhaps best-known in photography circles as the Editor and Publisher of the independent, reader supported SHOTS Magazine, Russell Joslin has worked almost exclusively in self-portraiture for the last decade. His work is concerned with dreams, combines introspection with dark humor, and explores complex emotion through discovered environments. He has exhibited his photographs in numerous group shows throughout the US and in solo exhibitions at Louisiana Tech University, FotoCircle Gallery (Seattle) and Umber Studios (Minneapolis). His work has been featured in many publications, including PRIVATE (Italy), Fotophile, and The Sun. Russell has also acted as a juror for several exhibitions and international competitions, and serves as a perennial reviewer at Fotofest, Photolucida and PhotoNOLA. He lives and works in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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[ susanne junker ] susannejunker.com

Susanne Junker is cathartic, humorous and violent in effect. Her trajectory is one wherein the role of subject/object, identity and transfiguration of medium revolve, intertwine and are re-cast in a conscious manner. Unfortunately, while the pivotal device of oscillating to and from established or fixed visual iconography-which she has sought to challenge- of women, embodying the same formal vocabulary in her staged self-portraiture, one might evaluate that rather than a rupture with the perversion and vulgarity of the portrayal or women by mass-media and the "victimization" of the fashion world in real terms on both the physical and psychological landscape of women, conversely, her work is somewhere testament to the legacy of that sphere upon contemporary photographic art.

Text: R.A Suri

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[ kate pollard ] katepollard.com

Kate Pollard studied photography at the Pennsylvania State University and went on to earn her masters degree in photography from the Edinburgh College of Art in the United Kingdom. Pollard’s work is focused around her personal relationships, her reconciliation of external expectations, and the issues surrounding a sense of self. Her latest series, Passing, is a project she began after the sudden loss of her father in 2007. The images are portraits of herself and her family as they come to terms with her father’s departure. Pollard’s mentor and friend, photographer Larry Fink, gave her his Rolleicord camera in 2008 and it was this tool that would help Pollard to ignite and shape this very personal series.

Pollard exhibits worldwide, with solo exhibitions in San Francisco, Edinburgh and Hamburg as well as group exhibitions across the United States and Europe. Her work has been featured in such publications as American Photo (Images of the Year 2008), Portfolio Catalogue (UK) and DayFour (Germany). She lives and works in Philadelphia, PA.