Michael Robinson Chávez, a two-time Pulitzer Prize–winning photographer, became seduced by photography after a friend gave him a camera to take on a trip to Peru. A native Californian and half Peruvian, Robinson Chávez is currently a freelance visual journalist based in the Washington, D.C., region. He most recently was a staff photographer for 15 years at The Washington Post. Prior to that, he worked for The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe and the Associated Press. He has covered assignments in over 75 countries including the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the collapse of Venezuela, violence in Mexico, California's historic drought, the Egyptian revolution, gold mining in Peru, climate change in Siberia, life in Brazil's favelas, the 2006 Hezbollah/Israeli war and the U.S.-led invasion and occupation of Iraq.

Robinson Chávez has been named an iWitness Fellow, is a frequent lecturer and has taught photographic workshops with Leica Akademie and Foundry, among others, in over 20 countries.

Website: https://chavezphoto.com/about

Ryan M. Kelly is a freelance photojournalist based in Richmond, VA, specializing in news and sports. Kelly was a staff photographer at The Daily Progress in Charlottesville, VA, from 2013 to 2017. The Unite the Right rally Charlottesville and its aftermath marked his final assignment at the newspaper. His coverage of the deadly car attack won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize in Breaking News Photography.

Kelly discovered an interest in journalism as a reporter and editor at The Captain's Log, the student newspaper at Christopher Newport University. Developing a passion for photojournalism, he interned at the Daily Press and freelanced for newspapers around Virginia before joining the Progress. He has been recognized with awards from World Press Photo, Pictures of the Year International, National Press Photographers Association, College Photographer of the Year, and the Virginia News Photographers Association.

Website: http://ryanmkelly.com/about

Kirsten Luce is an independent photojournalist based in Brooklyn, NY. She is a regular contributor to The New York Times and National Geographic. She is best known for her documentation of immigration and law enforcement on the U.S./Mexico border and a cover story for National Geographic looking at the dark side of wildlife tourism.

She began her career at the American newspapers The Monitor in McAllen, TX, and The Birmingham News in Alabama and remains a huge proponent of community-based journalism. 

Luce was an adjunct assistant professor of photojournalism at Columbia University from 2013 to 2017 and has taught photojournalism at Foundry Photojournalism Workshops and National Geographic Photo Camps around the world.

Website: https://www.kirstenluce.com/about

Sanjay Suchak is a practitioner fellow in democracy at UVA's Karsh Institute of Democracy and an independent documentary and commercial photographer based in Charlottesville, VA. For the past decade he has served as the senior photographer for the University of Virginia as well as the photographer for the Dave Matthews Band. In addition to his work at UVA, he has extensively covered issues surrounding race, equity, white supremacy, and representation across the Commonwealth and the country for publications such as The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, VQR, and Politico. His other work has appeared in the Washington Post, National Geographic, CNN, Los Angeles Times, Architectural Digest, USA Today, and others.

His project “Take Them Down” has given Virginians an inside look at the process of dismantling Confederate iconography across the Commonwealth. The next step of this project aims to answer the question of “what's next” for these relics of the Jim Crow era. A short documentary was filmed about his work on this project.

Suchak is a proud member of Diversify Photo, a community of BIPOC and non-Western photographers and editors working to break through the predominantly colonial and patriarchal eye through which history and media have traditionally operated. His work is represented by the Monroe Gallery of Photography in Santa Fe, NM.