Kristen Welles Bartley is a photographer, collector and educator based in Brooklyn, NY. Drawing upon the subjects of mortality, human connection and notion of home, her images navigate the space between the internal and external. As a collector, Kristen maintains a growing archive of thousands of vernacular 20th century photographs. From this archive, book projects emerge as stories that connect her to lives of the past as vessels for nostalgia and processing identity. She received her BS in Communication from the University of Miami. In 2020, Kristen was a full scholarship recipient of the Advanced Track Program at the International Center of Photography. She currently manages the education and visitor services programs at the Alice Austen House Museum.

Erik Mace is a visual artist who uses photography, graphic design, and book arts as his tools of inquiry. As an experimental visual thinker, he is deeply curious about the power of photography and adjacent media and how to take advantage of their limitations. His work is connected by a sense of restlessness where he seeks out messy processes, delighting in how visual and language-based tools can be expressly matched to subject matter, causing a body of work to rise from the chaos. Many of his projects germinate from specific personal memories and grow into deeper discussions of place and identity, while other bodies of work are born from a general sense of wonder. Erik received his BFA in Visual Communications from Washington University in St. Louis and is an alumnus of the Contemporary Photography program at the ICP in New York. He currently holds a leadership position with the Kinship Photography Collective, leading workshops on photography, sequencing, and bookmaking.

Frances Bukovsky makes images exploring the relationships between bodies, environments, and identity within the context of chronic illness, disability, and queerness. Bukovsky is interested in applying interdisciplinary research to create projects that connect personal experiences to broader systemic issues. Raised in rural New York, Bukovsky earned a BFA in Photography and Imaging from Ringling College of Art and Design in 2018 and spent 8 years in south Florida. Since then, their work has been shown in venues such as the United Nations Headquarters in NYC, The Bascom: A Center for the Arts, and the Dyer Arts Center at RIT. Bukovsky’s debut monograph, “Vessel,” was published by Fifth Wheel Press in 2020. They are a co-founding member of Kinship Photography Collective and currently reside in Marshall, North Carolina.

Olga Ginzburg is a Belarusian-American photographer and filmmaker residing on Staten Island, NY. With an interest in narrative open-endedness and its potential for subtle and layered meaning, her work explores notions of place, identity, home, biculturalism and community. What does community mean for the individual, and in which ways can a person both belong to and stand apart from it, is something that preoccupies her inquiries. As does her pursuit of a kind of magic that exists in ordinary daily living. A graduate of the City College of New York, the work she has been making on Staten Island was included in the 2nd and 3rd Triennials of Photography at the Alice Austen House Museum. The work has also been exhibited as part of the Photoville Festival. She works as a freelance editorial photographer, and is currently working on her first documentary film, to be released later this year.