Kathy Ryan is the photo editor of The New York Times Magazine. She has pioneered combining fine art photography with journalism, commissioning photographers including Nan Goldin, Lee Friedlander, Taryn Simon, Ryan McGinley, Lauren Greenfield, Gregory Crewdson, Massimo Vitali, Thomas Struth, Paolo Pellegrin, Lynsey Addario, Gilles Peress, Eugene Richards, and Dan Winters. The photography in The Times Magazine has been recognized by numerous photography awards. Ryan has received a lifetime achievement award from the Griffin Museum, the Picture Editor of the Year award at the Visa Pour l’ Image photojournalism festival in Perpignan, and the Lucie award for Picture Editor of the Year. She has participated in many photo workshops, lectured widely, and mentored photography students. Through her commitment to blurring the boundaries between the photographic genres, she has championed an artistic and interpretive approach to documentary photography and expanded the language of editorial imagery.

Martin Parr is a member of Magnum Photos and a world-exhibited photographer. He was born in Epsom, Surrey in 1952. As a boy, his grandfather encouraged his interest in photography, which Parr went on to study at Manchester Polytechnic. He has since worked on numerous photographic projects that flaunt his provocative photographic style, humorously defined by the moral atrophy and preposterousness of modern times. He was the featured curator of the 2004 edition of Les Rencontres d’Arles. His monograph Martin Parr was published in 2002, accompanying a large retrospective of his work initiated by the Barbican Art Gallery in London. It has since been shown in the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid, the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris, and the Deichtorhallen in Hamburg. In recent years, Parr has developed an interest in filmmaking, and has started to use his photography in different contexts like fashion and advertising.

Lesley A. Martin is the publisher of the book program at the Aperture Foundation. In between stints at Aperture, where she has worked on and off for the past decade, Martin served as the Senior Editor and Production Director of Umbrage Editions. She has edited over fifty photography books, including: Reflex: A Vik Muniz Primer; An-My Lê: Small Wars; Tim Davis: My Life in Politics; Fandomania with photographs by Elena Dorfman; and Christian Marclay: Shuffle. Martin is also the coauthor of two volumes on design, Graphicscape: Tokyo; and Graphicscape: New York; and a contributing author and editor of Full Vinyl: The Subversive Art of Designer Toys.

Tim Barber is a photographer, curator, publisher, designer, and former photo editor for Vice magazine. Originally from Amherst, Massachusetts, Barber studied photography in Vancouver before relocating to New York City. He currently runs the online gallery tinyvices.com, which has featured the work of artists like Richard Kern, Peter Sutherland, Ryan McGinley, and Boogie. Its corresponding physical show, tinyvices, has toured all over the world, from Proyectos Monclova in Mexico City to colette in Paris, and continues to be an innovative showcase for new work.