Remi Graves is a London based poet and drummer. A former Barbican Young Poet, Graves’s work has been featured on BBC Radio 4 at St Paul’s Cathedral and in Pan Macmillan’s She Is Fierce Anthology. Graves was a 2017 National Poetry Day Ambassador and has performed, amongst others, at Cheltenham Literature Festival and Tate Modern.

Ziad Naitaddi is a self-taught visual artist from Rabat, Morocco. Since 2013, he has devoted his time to photography through cinematic research, which he explores in the form of documentary and fiction. His work was exhibited in the Center of Contemporary Photographic Art at Villa Perochon, 13th Dakar Biennale, Rencontres Photographiques de Rabat, Dapper Foundation, Image Festival Amman, and The Beirut Image Festival.

Zakkiyyah Najeebah Dumas-O’Neal is a Chicago based visual artist, educator, independent curator, and the co-founder of Concerned Black Image Makers (CBIM): a collective driven project prioritising shared experiences and concerns by lens-based artists of the Black diaspora. Her work is most often initiated by personal and social histories related to family legacy, queerness, community-making, intimacy, and Audre Lorde’s naming of “the erotic”.

Mmakhotso Lamola is a South African artist, architect, and spatial practitioner based in Cape Town. Her work focuses on investigations in the immersive in-between spaces of disciplines. She is a graduate of the University of Cape Town and the University of Witwatersrand, where she completed her Honours in Architecture. She is a collaborative partner in the research project, Limbic Resonance, which attempts to unearth Cape Town’s untold story through a personal narrative.

Angela Burdon is an independent curator and artist based in Dayton, Ohio. She completed an MA in Curating at the University of Sunderland, UK. Taking a broad approach to cultural production, Burdon's curatorial interests lie in the social history of art, focusing on the inclusion of marginalised communities, and widening participation and engagement programming. In her artistic practice, she uses photography as a tool to examine and expand cultural narratives centring Black identity.

Alexis Rae Diggs is an artist and writer from Dayton, Ohio. She has studied classical piano and voice and is currently working towards a BA in English. Alexis spent two seasons with the Dayton Contemporary Dance Company’s second company. In 2019, she choreographed a dance work for the International Association of Blacks in Dance (IABD) Conference and collaborated with Debra Blunden-Diggs to create a work for Canton Ballet.

Amina Kadous is a visual artist whose most recent work explores memory. Born in Cairo, Egypt, she received her BFA from Tufts University and The School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Characterising herself as an explorer of ideas, Kadous is driven by the spirit of inquiry as she seeks to comprehend the meaning and hidden ambiguities of lives, not her own, through the interactive nature of the viewer, photographer, object, and environment

Asia Nichols is a nomadic writer from the Bay Area, California. She writes offbeat, fantastical stories 􏰯 exploring the intersections of gender, Black culture and mental health while drawing from childhood memories and travel experiences. Her works have been performed for Fade to Black Play Fest, Pride Films and Plays, MOJOAA Performing Arts, amongst others.

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Gordon Parks, regarded as one of the most influential photographers of the twentieth century, was not only an exceptional artist but also a committed humanitarian with a strong dedication to social justice. Through his lens, Parks captured the essence of American life and culture from the 1940s to the 2000s, with a focus on documenting issues such as race relations, poverty, civil rights, and urban life. Beyond photography, Parks was a versatile artist and filmmaker, as well as an accomplished composer and author, who engaged with some of the most prominent figures of his time.