Zoraida Lopez-Diago is a photographer, curator, and environmental activist who is committed to centering the voices of people from the global majority. Zoraida has exhibited at institutions throughout the Americas and has lectured about her work at institutions including Harvard University, the Tate Modern, and La Universidad de Antioquia (Colombia), among others. In 2022, she co-curated “Picturing Black Girlhood,” an exhibition exploring Black girlhood that included more than 80 Black women, girls, and genderqueer artists working in photography and film. In 2023, Zoraida co-curated, “Picturing Black Girlhood: Black Utopia” an exhibition examined connections between Black girlhood, open space, and the natural world. In 2016, Zoraida co-founded Women Picturing Revolution and, through this project, co-edited Black Matrilineage, Photography and Representation: Another Way of Knowing, published by Leuven University Press (UK), and distributed by Cornell University Press. 

Zoraida is an environmental activist and is the co-founder of Conservationists of Color, a national affinity group for people of color working to protect land and water; she currently serves as Vice President of Communications and Development at Glynwood Center for Regional Food and Farming, one of the only food and agriculture nonprofits in the country working at a regional scale to transform our food system. Prior to this, Zoraida was the River Cities Director at Scenic Hudson, a NY-based environmental organization credited with launching the modern grassroots environmental movement.

Samantha Box is a Jamaican-born, Bronx-based photographer. She holds an MFA in Advanced Photographic Studies from the ICP-Bard College and a certificate in Photojournalism and Documentary Studies from the International Center of Photography. Her work has been exhibited, most notably, at the Houston Center of Photography, the DePaul Art Museum, the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, Light Work, the Open Society Foundation, the ICP Museum and at Le Rencontres d’Arles. Box has been an artist-in-residence at the Center of Photography at Woodstock, the Visual Studies Workshop and at Light Work, and was a Bronx Museum AIM fellow. She has been awarded a NYFA/NYSCA Fellowship in Photography twice: in 2010 and in 2022, an En Foco Fellowship, and a Silver Eye Fellowship. In 2023, she was shortlisted for the Aperture Portfolio Prize, the Louis Roederer Discovery Award, and the Prix De La Photo Madame Figaro. Her work is in the collections of the Museum of Fine Art, Houston and the Harvard Art Museums.

Sheida Soleimani’s work explores intersections of art and activism, melding sculpture, performance, film and photography to highlight critical perspectives on events across the Middle East, unpicking the complex power dynamics between the region and western nations. Soleimani’s work interrogates the dissemination of information in digital contexts, adapting found images from press and social media leaks to exist within alternative scenarios. Her photographs document constructed sets within her studio, in which repeating images carve out trompe l’oeil perspectives in a visual metaphor for the competing political narratives relayed by her source materials.