Susannah Ray works on long form documentary projects that explore the relationship of people and landscape and how public space offers opportunities for escape, leisure, and transcendence. Many of her projects have occurred at the intersection of city and water, describing how New Yorkers’ lives are shaped by the waters that ring the city. Amidst the challenges of access, infrastructure, history, and climate change, Susannah Ray finds what is possible, the unexpectedly beautiful, and the resilience of both people and place. Susannah Ray has had solo exhibitions at The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Benrubi Gallery, Fordham University, and Governor’s Island. Her photographs have been published as the monographs New York Waterways and Right Coast and have appeared in numerous publications, including The New York Times, The New Yorker, and The British Journal of Photography. Her work appears in the collection of the Museum of the City of New York, Princeton University, The Bronx Museum of the arts, as well as in corporate, state, and private collections. Born in Washington D.C., she has an MFA from the School of Visual Arts and a BA from Princeton University and is a longtime photographic educator.

Maureen Drennan is a photographer born and based in New York City. She has been honored to have work included in exhibitions at the Museum of the City of New York, National Portrait Gallery, Tacoma Art Museum, Art Museum of South Texas, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Dorsky Museum, Ackland Museum of Art, Aperture, Mrs. Gallery, Transmitter Gallery, Field Projects, Partners and Son, Center for Photography at Woodstock, and Houston Center for Photography. Her images have been featured in The Atlantic, The New Yorker, The New York Times, California Sunday Magazine, Photograph Magazine, Huffington Post, Art 21 Magazine, UK Telegraph, Refinery 29, Narratively, and the Economic Hardship Reporting Project. She teaches photography at LaGuardia Community College in Queens, New York.