Todd Antony is originally from New Zealand, but moved to London 13 years ago, where he is a commercial advertising photographer.

Erdem Summak grew up in Izmir and has been storytelling ever since childhood. He moved to Istanbul to study engineering in his early 20s. While he was studying his engineering degree he did not give up his big passion of photography.

Bill Miles is a commercial photographer and director shooting lifestyle and portraiture, primarily for advertising clients. For the last 13 years, Miles has been living in the Catskill mountains outside New York City.

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.