Selected / invited Photographers for 2026 edition
Moses Adeleke
Moses Samuel Adeleke, professionally known as MSA, is a Nigerian photographer and documentary filmmaker based in Abuja, Nigeria. His visual journey began in 2013, developing from a personal exploration of photography into a broader practice centred on documenting people, places, culture, and everyday life. Working across documentary, portrait, travel, cultural, and commissioned photography, MSA's practice is rooted in observation and visual storytelling. He is particularly interested in...
MOUANDA Baudouin
Baudouin Mouanda est un photographe congolais, membre d’Afrique in visu. Après quelque années passées à étudier le droit à l’université de Brazzaville, il débute sa carrière 1993 en chroniquant la vie brazzaviloise pour les journaux et se fait surnommer « photouin » Baudouin Mouanda s’attache particulièrement à l’histoire de son pays, aux sujets qui interrogent et aux séquelles des guerres à répétition qui ont endeuillé le Congo. Récompensé aux jeux de la francophonie à Niamey (Niger) en...
Maëv Benaiche
Maëva Benaiche was born in Toulouse, France, in 1996. After earning a two-year degree in Physical Measurements at Paul Sabatier University in Toulouse and pursuing engineering studies, she joined ETPA, a photography school in Toulouse, in 2018, where she was awarded the Grand Prix Photo in 2021. Her photographic work allows her to express feelings she would be unable to convey through words alone. Photography has become a way for her to explore and understand herself, playing an essential...
Harrison Black
Harrison Black is a photographer based in Montgomery, Alabama, whose work encompasses street, nature, industrial, architectural, travel, and event photography. His interest in photography began at an early age with an Exa IIb originally purchased by his father at Foto Radtke in Barnstorf, Germany—a camera he continues to own. Today, Black photographs primarily with a Canon EOS R5, while still maintaining his EOS-1D Mark II N and EOS-1D Mark II as backup cameras. His favorite lens is a Canon...
FATOMA COULIBALY
Né le 1er /Avril/1992 à Kanassako cercle de Niono dans la région de Ségou. Après avoir eu le DEF dans son village natal, il est venu à Bamako pour suivre son étude au lycée ; mais le destin lui a poussé vers la photographie à travers de sa grande sœur qui lui a recommandé pour être un assistant d’un photographe au nom de « Photo Zou ». A côté de son travail photo il a pu suivre également une formation en Transite commerciale, diplômes-en poche-t-il sait consacrer sur le domaine de la...
Shannon Crum
My name is Shannon Crum and I’m from Selma, AL. I love art and got a camera last year.
Allan Dransfield
Allan Dransfield (b. 1981, Yorkshire) is a photographer, designer and visual artist based in Łódź, Poland. Working across Europe and China for over a decade with brands such as Fiat, Volvo and Renault Trucks, his background in automotive design runs alongside a broader exploration of what connects life around the planet. Collecting fragments of the world—images, sounds, objects and responses—he reworks them into new narratives, revealing patterns in everyday life, celebrating the overlooked...
Austin Horne
I am a photographer, filmmaker, musician and journalist exploring how image, sound and story connect. Rooted in Alabama, I am drawn to the people, performances and creative communities around me, especially moments that might otherwise pass unnoticed. Attention is at the center of my practice: light across a face, a performer’s movement, the feeling in a room before something important happens or an expression that says more than words. I respond to what is already there, creating work that...
BENNECIB Jeannine
Jeannine Bennecib is a French photographer, based in Paris. Her years spent traveling and living abroad nurtured, early on, an intimate relationship with photography as a way of reaching out to others and bearing witness to the world. She trained in photography at the SPEOS school in Paris and at the ICP in New York, specializing in portraiture and documentary photography, which she further developed through training in alternative photographic processes. She works on long-term projects on...
Shannon McCollum
Self taught photojournalist I’ve documented hip hop for 35 years I’ve been a delta airlines photographer I’ve been George Lopez personal photographer. I call myself the Gordon Parks of Hip Hop.
Jenn Meeûs
Graduating with a degree in Graphic Arts from ESAG Penninghen in 2010, Jenn Meeûs went on to work as an art director and filmmaker for an audiovisual production company based in the Paris region, where she wrote and directed television and web commercials. Alongside her professional work, she directed fiction short films and developed documentary photography series abroad, including in Italy, Portugal, and Cuba. In 2019, she decided to settle in the Morvan region of France, where she...
Baudouin MOUANDA
Baudouin Mouanda est un photographe congolais, membre d’Afrique in visu. Après quelque années passées à étudier le droit à l’université de Brazzaville, il débute sa carrière 1993 en chroniquant la vie brazzaviloise pour les journaux et se fait surnommer « photouin » Baudouin Mouanda s’attache particulièrement à l’histoire de son pays, aux sujets qui interrogent et aux séquelles des guerres à répétition qui ont endeuillé le Congo. Récompensé aux jeux de la francophonie à Niamey (Niger) en...
Rashidi Nadhir
Rashidi Nadhir Mrindoko is a Tanzanian photographer and cultural entrepreneur based in Arusha. He has over ten years of experience working across photography, visual storytelling, cultural projects, festivals, and creative communication. His photography focuses on people, identity, culture, everyday life, and social realities, with a particular interest in stories that reflect contemporary African communities and changing cultural landscapes. He approaches photography as a way of documenting...
AL Noman
Al Noman is a Bangladeshi photographer and undergraduate student of Television, Film & Photography at the University of Dhaka. His photographic practice focuses primarily on street, documentary, environmental, and architectural photography, with a strong interest in visual storytelling and everyday human experiences. Through his work, Noman explores people, places, and the quiet narratives embedded in ordinary life. His photographs have been recognized in several national and international...
Didimos Johnson Pulikkottil
Didimos Johnson Pulikkottil, originally from Kerala, India, is a self-taught photographer and a Chemistry PhD candidate at Auburn University. His interest in photography began while spending time at a neighbor’s photo lab, where he enjoyed both taking pictures and learning the science behind them. His photography projects often begin with a simple question. When telling these stories, he likes to think about how he would explain them to his niece, keeping them simple and easy to understand...
Wojciech Rozynski
Associated with the Gallery of Action since the 1990s, the artist works across the expanded field of visual arts, encompassing photography, film, video art, and installation. Their artistic practice has been presented in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Poland and internationally. Alongside their creative work, they develop and lead original educational workshops for teenagers and adults, fostering dialogue through contemporary artistic practice
Amy Sacka
Amy Sacka is a Detroit-based photographer, writer, and National Geographic Explorer drawn to the stories that challenge what we think we know about people and places. Her long-form documentary work explores the unexpected connections, contradictions, and quiet complexities of everyday life, revealing how individual experiences intersect with larger cultural and social forces. Her photography and storytelling have appeared in National Geographic, The Guardian, The Washington Post, Fisheye...
Tanmay Shah
Tanmay Shah is a filmmaker, photographer and painter based in Ahmedabad, India. He has worked across documentary film, photography and painting for more than a decade, and founded the production company FridayFictionFilms in 2014. His photographs have been shown in two solo exhibitions at Amdavad ni Gufa, Ahmedabad: Concoct (2017), and Borrowed Earth (31 March to 6 April 2026), where his photographs and paintings were shown together to 1,515 visitors. In August 2026 he presented Borrowed...
Ali Sharifzade
Ali Sharifzadeh is an Iranian journalist, documentary and sports photographer based in Tehran. With more than a decade of experience in sports photography and photojournalism, his work explores the intersection of sport, society, identity, and everyday life in Iran. He began his professional career in news photography and has worked with Iranian news agencies and sports media, covering major sporting events, international competitions, and stories beyond the field of play. His photographic...
Ria and Tom Shibayama Sibley
Ria Shibayama and Tom Sibley are artists whose shared appreciation of architecture and design has culminated in an ever-growing, multi-year project photographing subjectively-selected examples of modern architecture from its origins to the present. Their work has a strong focus on the especially fecund period between the two world wars. Together, they scour archives and travel the planet in search of arresting architecture, then shooting from a uniquely elevated perspective with...
Andrea Stallworth
Andrea C. Stallworth is a photographer, author, educator, and multidisciplinary artist whose creative work explores memory, identity, healing, cultural heritage, and the relationship between people and place. Originally from Boston, Massachusetts, and now based in Alabama, she brings a Northern perspective and a deep connection to her Southern family roots. A graduate of Tuskegee University and the University of Southern Mississippi, Andrea has spent much of her professional career in...
Steve WEst
I started out in print design, and I loved it. Type on a grid, tight layouts, a little Swiss influence—real clean, real nerdy. I wasn’t trying to make “cool” stuff. I wanted to make work that worked—books, posters, branding—something you could hold in your hands. Then came web design, and I kind of hated it. Designing for screens never gave me the same satisfaction as making something physical. I like a finished product that exists in the real world. A thing you can touch. By 2009, I needed...
Reagan Wood
Reagan Wood is from Andalusia, Alabama and currently going to Troy University and will graduate in December 2026.