Tariq Zaidi is a freelance photographer based out of London, England. Zaidi’s photography focuses on inequality, social change and endangered communities.

Russ Bishop is a California-based landscape and travel photographer with an affinity for the high and wild places. Photography became the natural conduit for expressing his vision.

Emma Lewis is one of the five judges in the Professional Competition of the 2019 Sony World Photography Awards, Assistant Curator at Tate and a writer specialising in photography.

Yagazie Emezi is a documentary photographer from Aba, Nigeria, but mainly living in Lagos when she can. Emezi started her photography journey in early 2015 and since then it has been a never-ending series of challenges, growth and dare, and enlightenment, she says.

Stephanie Gengotti comes from a family of travellers. Since she was very little she had the chance to follow her parents in their journeys.

Silvia Bigi has always loved photography. Her father was very into photography when she was a young child and therefore she grew up with a camera around her neck.

We take a look at the winners ofTHE FENCE,a large-scale traveling photography exhibition reaching over 8 million visitors annually through open-air exhibitions in 8 cities across North America.

Bertus Hanekom is a self-taught landscape photographer from beautiful South Africa. He enjoys capturing artistic images of nature, with a fondness for long exposures and the ocean.

Noémi Szécsi went to a summer camp at the age of 11, where she developed her films and photos and she fell in love the the whole process. Szécsi explains that it was kind of magic for her.

Snezhana von Büdingen was shortlisted with her series "Khrushchevka" in the Professional Competition of the 2017 Sony World Photography Awards. Her series “Permer frost’ was shortlisted in the 2018 ZEISS Photography Award.