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Anton Koslov Mayr
is an artist and author known for his photo installations and film projects. He studied film and philosophy at NYU and Harvard, holds a PhD from EHESS, and has exhibited internationally. He is the founder
of Artout, a Berlin-based company that hires out artists as escorts.
www.political-photography.net

Mark Boswell
is a New-York-based filmmaker whose experimental media art works have been screened at museums, biennials, and media art festivals worldwide, including recent exhibitions at the Hammer Museum (Los Angeles), Transmediale (Berlin), the Courtauld Institute (London), and Oxford University.

Salena Godden
has two books out this year, Under The Pier and Yellow. She hosts and produces The Book Club Boutique, performs at festivals and literary events around the world, and is lyricist and lead singer of eclectic ska-break band SaltPeter. She is a regular on BBC shows The Verb, Bespoken Word, and Saturday Live.
www.thebookclubboutique.com

John Angerson
John Angerson’s work is concerned with changing cultural landscapes and addresses definitions of community, focusing on how specific communities form, shift and develop. He has been exhibited at major art institutions and has worked on commissions for a variety of international publications.
www.johnangerson.com

Lucy Caldwell
was born in Belfast in 1981. Her novels are Where They Were Missed and The Meeting Point, and her plays include Leaves, Guardians and Notes to Future Self. Awards include the George Devine Award, the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, the Stewart Parker Award, the Imison Award and the PMA Award for Most Promising Playwright.
www.lucycaldwell.com

Amy Stein
is a photographer and teacher based in New York City. Her work explores our evolving isolation from community, culture and the environment.
www.amysteinphoto.com

Amber Marks
is a writer of poetry, fiction, journalism and academic research. Her book Headspace is a mixture of all four. She is a regular performer at literary festivals and won the first London Literary Death Match. Her articles have appeared in The Guardian, Time Out, The Sunday Times and The Register.

Anna Hughes
is an artist who works primarily in paint and collage. She has exhibited at solo and group shows internationally. Born in London, she now lives and works in Berlin.
www.anna-hughes.com

Thomas Thwaites
is a designer of a more speculative sort, whose work examines how technology, science and economics interact with trends, fictions and beliefs, to shape our present society, and possible futures.
www.thomasthwaites.com

Bronwen Parker-Rhodes
has directed two series of 3 Minute Wonders for Channel 4, and made films for Vivienne Westwood, Rihanna, Current TV and Spine TV. Her films and photography have been exhibited internationally in group and solo exhibitions. Her first book, At Home, was published this year by Oodee.
www.bronfilms.com

Miriam Elia
is a visual artist and comedian. Her work includes radio comedy sketches, films, live stand-up, collage, prints, photography, animation and installations. She has her own Sony-nominated BBC Radio 4 sketch show, A Series of Psychotic Episodes, and has written for the likes of Arthur Smith, and Mitchell and Webb.
www.miriamelia.co.uk

José Navarro
José Navarro’s photography focuses on people’s interaction with their natural surroundings and often demands travelling in remote environments. He is a course leader on the BA (Hons) Photography degree at The Open College of the Arts and is currently working on the dissertation for his MA in Environmental Anthropology.
www.josenavarro.co.uk

Niven Govinden
is the author of novels We Are The New Romantics and Graffiti My Soul. His short stories have appeared in numerous publications including Five Dials, Pen Pusher, Time Out, Stimulus Respond, Butt, and on BBC Radio 3.

Flavie Guerrand
is a French photographer based in Berlin. Her work began in, and is inspired by, the underground party scene in France in the 1990s, in which she was a dedicated conspirator.
www.flavieguerrand.com

Lee Scrivner
is an American poet, composer and critic known for his satirical manifestos, anachronistic verse dramas, and for being the Interim Margrave of the avant-garde sleeper cell The Insomnauts. He is currently Lecturer in Humanities at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul.
www.leescrivner.com
http://insomnauts.org

Julia Hayes
is based in London where she studies painting at the Royal College of Art. The main focus of her work is folk culture and she seeks to represent celebratory and transgressive aspects of collective community behaviour and ritual.
http://hayesjulia.wordpress.com

Crispin Dowler
is a freelance journalist and writer from London.

Thomas Rees
is an ex-jockey and was for twenty years a horse coper. He has written for The Times, The Guardian, The Spectator, etc, from Iraq, Bosnia, Europe and the US. He is now working on a film.

Seamus Murphy
has worked extensively in the Middle East, Asia, Africa, Latin America, and most recently in America on an ongoing project during what he calls “a nervous and auspicious time.” His accolades include six World Press Photo Awards.
www.viiphoto.com

Charles Trotter
a commercial photographer, was based in Nairobi in the 1950s.
www.imagesofempire.com

Kyna Gourley
studied photography at Westminster University before completing a Masters in Visual Anthropology at Goldsmiths. She has worked on socially-engaged projects for over ten years and now combines the roles of photographer, filmmaker and ethnographer.
www.kynagourley.com

Joe Dilworth
studied fine art at St Martins and Goldsmiths. He has worked as a photographer for music papers and record companies and played drums in various bands. He now lives in Berlin.
www.joedilworth.com
www.parasztolimpia.com

Damien Poulain
is a French graphic designer and art director based in London. Specialising in print-based projects including books, small-run publications and record sleeves, he also creates posters and other communication imagery for art galleries, fashion designers and music labels.
www.damienpoulain.com

Will Carruthers
is best known for playing bass in Spacemen 3, Spiritualized and The Brian Jonestown Massacre. He has worked as a waiter, a cook, a gardener, a roadie, and on building sites. He is currently compiling a book of his poetry and short stories and playing music. Sometimes.

Nina Mangalanayagam
graduated with a Masters in Photography from the Royal College of Art in 2009. Half Swedish, half Tamil she uses her own experience to explore the relationships between identities and societies, families and environments. ‘The folds …’ brings together images and experiences of her family in Sweden and Paris.
www.ninamanga.com