W. SCOTT OLSEN
Born in Kansas City, W. Scott Olsen grew up in the north suburbs of Chicago. A pilot, traveler, adventure writer, photographer and professor of English at Concordia College, Moorhead, MN, Olsen is the author of eleven books of narrative nonfiction, editor of several anthologies, and former editor of the national literary magazine, Ascent. He currently writes book reviews and hosts the podcasts for FRAMES Magazine and is author of the Reading Frames series which is part of the FRAMES Magazine Digital Companion. His photographs have appeared in many group and solo gallery shows as well in many national and international online and print magazines.
ADRIANA BENETTI LONGHINI
Adriana Benetti Longhini was born in Arusha, Tanzania in Africa below the slopes of Mount Meru and her majestic neighbour Kilimanjaro. Her school years where spent at Arusha School and then at the International School Moshi.
She studied Fine Arts in Durban, Kwazulu Natal where she ventured into the world of photography, loving the hours in the darkroom developing predominately black and white photos.
In recent years she has gone back to live in Asiago, northern Italy where her ancestors originated, a beautiful but diverse and difficult country, perhaps more so than Africa. She has a huge love for Europe and the diverse beauty she offers, and this continues to inspire her to use the magic of light and capture what her eye sees and share it with the rest of the world.
JUSTYNA NERYNG
Justyna Neryng is a Polish born, self-taught photographic artist, with a background in fashion and painting. She works with analog and digital cameras with a particular interest in portraiture and the human body. She was introduced to photography at a very young age by her Father,who taught her the physics of photography. Justyna spent most of her childhood taking pictures with him and developing them in the darkroom at home , while roaming the forests of the small village she grew up in. As an adult, a mother and an immigrant to Britain, her photography has flourished into a substantial body of portraiture. Perhaps the most evocative of her works are her exquisitely emotive self-portraits that seem to carry the dark spirit of the forest from her childhood as well as potentially bearing the scars of modern womanhood. She has won several awards and had her work exhibited and recognised by the Royal Photographic Society. She lives and works in the United Kingdom.
PETER FREED
Peter Freed is a New York based advertising photographer and commercial director best known for his character-capturing portraits. Drawing on his 27 year career as a photographer of CD’s, billboards, movie posters as well as major magazines and advertising, Peter has broadened his storytelling skills to include film. He has worked on assignments for Newsweek, Forbes, The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, Self, Departures, Business Week, and Premier. His advertising clients include FedEx, Cadillac, CBS, NBC, Texaco, KitchenAid, Merrill Lynch, Atlantic Bell, and the U.S. Army. Peter is sought after by art directors and clients for his easygoing, highly creative, shooting style. He has taught photography at Pratt Institute, Maine Photographic Workshop, Santa Fe photographic Workshop, International Center of Photography, and international Photo Expos.
KIMBERLY SCHNEIDER
Kimberly Schneider is a Visual Artist, Master Printer, and Educator, who has been dedicated to the art of the handmade (darkroom) print for the past 20+ years. She not only prints all of her own work by hand, but also teaches (both privately and via Penumbra Foundation), as well as prints for other film-based artists and enthusiasts. Specializing in true infrared film, spiritual landscapes, and experimental photograms, she holds a BFA in photography (and minor in philosophy) from Colorado State University; while both are deeply intertwined, she identifies as a Printer more than anything else. She began making (experimental) photograms in June 2020, due to having an unfinished darkroom at the time of the shutdown. Despite having a fully functional darkroom a few months later, she spent the bulk of the past two years refining and perfecting her techniques, while creating what has since become a trilogy of cameraless work.
ROBIN HUDSON
Robin Hudson was born in Middlesbrough in 1959 and has always lived in Yorkshire. He didn’t start to take photography seriously until the advent of digital cameras in the late 1990’s when he bought a Sony DSC1. He immediately realised the potential of this new, ‘instant gratification’ technology and thereafter regularly upgraded his kit. In 2009 he was fortunate enough to get the opportunity to take an extended break from work so having dropped a few hints with his colleagues, he received as a leaving present a copy of Charlie Waite’s ‘The Making of Landscape Photographs’. From that point on he was hooked and so began his long, slow struggle to succeed in landscape photography. He soon discovered that it’s not as easy as it looks but in 2014 he was lucky enough to have his image ‘Winskill Tree’ included in Landscape Photographer of the Year competition book and published as one of 9 images from the book selected for inclusion in the Sunday Times Magazine.
JENS MATHIASSON
Jens Mathiasson is 45 years old and works in the process industry. He lives in the archipelago in Sweden on an island called Tjörn with his family (whom most have been seen in his images). He picked up photography around 2010, but fell in love with portraits in around 2018. In the beginning he would take images of just about anything. And did so for a number of years, leaning more and more towards landscape photography. But he sort of fell out of love with it. Jens thinks he realized he wasn’t really any good at landscapes. Plus the images people took at the time were absolutely stunning and his were not. He almost quit. But took it up in 2017 again when he bought a new mirrorless camera. And then and there is where his portrait journey started.
ROBERT CLARK
Robert Clark is a fine art nature and landscape photographer. Born in North Carolina, he is a graduate of the University of Georgia and Georgia Institute of Technology. His love for photography began with his first camera, a Yashica Rangefinder, a present from his parents while in the 8th grade. A graphic designer, architect, landscape photographer, workshop leader and teacher, he works as a media designer, photographer, and manager for the National Park Service. Though the primary focus of his work is landscape, Robert is an accomplished architectural photographer and loves to explore the relationships between the built environment and the landscape.
BOB WEIL
Bob Weil’s award-winning photography has been exhibited around the world. His live presentations and workshops have proven wildly popular. He is a practicing mixed media digital pictorialist, teacher and writer living in Omaha, Nebraska. He has presented workshops to the Santa Barbara Photography Club, at the Los Angeles Festival of Photography and at the Santa Monica Apple store. His most recent book-length publication is The Art of iPhone Photography, published by Rocky Nook with co-author Nicki Fitz-Gerald.
CYNTHIA GLADIS
New Jersey, US based photographer whose work reflects, and is informed by, both a long career in graphic design and a passion for fine art. Cynthia’s work is varied but has a common thread – an often humorous, sometimes ironic, view of her surroundings.
PAUL SANDERS
Fine art photographer from the United Kingdom. Sought-after workshop leader, speaker
and photography mentor, passionate about the benefits of photography to mental health
and wellness.
