Ammar was born in 1990 in Aleppo, Syria. After finishing his Bachelor's degree, he had worked in fashion design and clothing manufacturing. At the beginning of the Syrian uprising, he has started taking pictures to document the events, and soon went on to collaborate with Reuters. Ammar has taken part in a number of group exhibitions in Syria.

Born in 1986, a Palestinian citizen. Started his career as a radio journalist, then worked as an operator for a French TV network. Eventually took up documentary photography; cooperated with Associated Press, AFP, APAimages, and the Al Ittihad and Al-bayan newspapers. The central theme of his work is events in the Gaza Strip in the Middle East.

Born in 1989 in Russia. He was a staff photographer for Komsomolskaya pravda newspaper. His photos have been published in Gazeta.ru, Russian Reporter (Russky Reporter), Takie dela, Meduza, Ugopolis, Kommersant, The New Times, Smart News, Uga.ru, ITAR-TASS. Nikolai works for Rossiya Segodnya. As a photographer, he is interested in socially important issues and contemporary problems of modern society. He worked on projects in North Caucasus, Russia and covered the war in Ukraine.

Born in 1985 in Russia. Graduated from Photofaculty of Yuri Galperin, a professional course for photo correspondents, awarded with a Gold mark for the best graduation project about the uprising in Maidan, Ukraine. His work has appeared in National Geographic Russia, Vokrug sveta, Lenta.ru, Сolta.ru, Meduza, Nevskoe vremya, Lenswork, Wall Street International Magazine, Vice UK/US. He collaborates as a stringer with Rossiya Segodnya, Kommersant, Getty Images. He has won awards in a number of Russian and international photo contests.

Born in 1986 in Slovenia. A freelance photographer, working regularly with a number of Slovenian magazines and newspapers. Concentrates on documentary photo projects. Graduated from the Ljubljana Multimedia Academy, and has recently spent a lot of time working in the Gaza Strip. For him, photography is a powerful tool for showing and spreading the truth. In his work he pays special attention to the humanitarian dimension of armed conflicts.

Balazs was born in Hungary in 1987. He worked at Hungarian daily newspaper Magyar Hirlap between 2006 and 2010. Since August 2010, he has been working at Barikad weekly magazine and alfahir.hu news portal. Balazs won the MUOSZ Grand Prize at the 2014 Hungarian Press Photo contest.

Born in 1987 in Russia. He bought his first camera while at a concert tour of his music band. He collaborates with Rossiya Segodnya, Kommersant, ITAR-TASS. His work has also been published in LensNYT, ChicagoTr, Berlingske, LeMonde. Vadim considers photography as another tool to exlore the world. In his work, he tries not to maniulate the events.

Born in 1985 in Russia. Graduated from Photofaculty of Yuri Galperin, a professional course for photo correspondents, awarded with a Gold mark for the best graduation project about the uprising in Maidan, Ukraine. His work has appeared in National Geographic Russia, Vokrug sveta, Lenta.ru, Сolta.ru, Meduza, Nevskoe vremya, Lenswork, Wall Street International Magazine, Vice UK/US. He collaborates as a stringer with Rossiya Segodnya, Kommersant, Getty Images. He has won awards in a number of Russian and international photo contests.

Born in 1984 in Milan. Graduated at Fine Art School, started with photography covering the news on Milan.
 Over the years he has focused his attention on Middle East and conflict areas. He prefers long-term projects where he can develop his personal language. His work has been published in national and international daily newspapers and magazines such as New York Times, New Yorker, Newsweek, Wall Street Journal, Espresso, Repubblica, Internazionale, and Corriere Della Sera.

Born in 1986 in Slovenia. A freelance photographer, working regularly with a number of Slovenian magazines and newspapers. Concentrates on documentary photo projects. Graduated from the Ljubljana Multimedia Academy, and has recently spent a lot of time working in the Gaza Strip. For him, photography is a powerful tool for showing and spreading the truth. In his work he pays special attention to the humanitarian dimension of armed conflicts.

Born in 1989 in Russia. Elene holds a Master's degree in Journalism from Kuban State University. As a photocorrespondent, she collaborates with newspapers Novorossiyskie vesti, Vecherka. Vecherniy Novorossiysk and Official Novorossiysk. She has received awards from a number of regional photo contests. Focusing on news reporing, she tries to cover soсial problems and everyday life. Elena believes that there should be a story behind each photo.

Md Rafayat Haque Khan was born in 1983 in Sylhet, Bangladesh. He is a Bachelor of science with Honours in Botany. His photographic career started after finishing a basic photography program at the Pathshala South Asian Media Institute, Dhaka. He has got several National and International awards and recognitions. He collaborates with Demotix UK and Zuma Press on news reporting and documentary photography. In his work, he explores human relationships, daily life; he also interested in interconnection of different cultures.

Born in 1988 in Russia. Studied at the Far East State Technical University majoring in machine building, but at a certain point decided to become a photojournalist. Sergey works for various regional print and online media outlets, contributes with Rossiyskaya gazeta and Rossiya Segodnya. He focuses on news reporting, and often goes hiking in order to shoot wilderness landscapes. He has won awards at a number of high-profile contests, including The Andrei Stenin International Press Photo Contest in Current issues nomination and The Best of Russia.

Luis Tato is a Spanish-born photojournalist based in Nairobi, Kenya. He currently combines his work as a stringer photographer covering East Africa with his own photojournalism projects, given his passion for sociology and traveling.

Born in 1988 in Russia. He has a degree in public relations. He prefers documentary photography and news reporting. In his work, Dimitrie tries to show diversity of cultures, ethnicities and traditions of different peoples and their way of life and interaction. He has received awards at a number of photography contests, has taken part in various group exhibitions. His work has appeared in Russian and foriegn press.

Born in 1984 in Bangladesh. In his youth, Md Shahnewaz Khan dreamt of being a writer but photography instead became his mode of expression. Son of a freedom fighter, Khan is a Documentary Photographer and Managing Director of VOHH Institute, based in Chittagong, Bangladesh. He has own over 30 International Awards, including prestigious Ian Parry Scholarship and Alexia Student Grant, has participated three times in Joop Swart Masterclass organized by World Press Photo. His projects has been published in The Sunday Times, CNN, P3, EBS, Eye of Photography, EyesOpen, Smithsonian, Phosmag, Lensculture, Lucie Foundation and exhibited in UK, USA, Italy, Turkey, France, Japan.

Born in 1987 in Russia. Graduated from Photofaculty of Yuri Galperin, a professional course for photo correspondents. He has won awards in a number of high-profile phtography contests. Pavel takes interest in projects related to social problems of Russian society. He is an author of several documentary projects about youth subcultures (football hooligans, fight clubs, street fighters), he also covered the events in Maidan, Crimea, and the south-east of Ukraine as well. His photos have been published in The Yew York Times lens blog, International New York Times, Der Spiegel, Washington Post, Harpers Magazine, Rolling Stones New York. He is a photojournalist for the Izvestia newspaper.

Born in 1986 in Novosibirsk, citizen of Russia. Anton holds a Master's degree in Physics of Materials and Biological System. He had spent a long time on science in one of Russian research institutes. When acquiring his Phd, Anton has left his thesis unfinished and dived into photography. Member of the Russian Union of Photo Artists. Winner of several international and national awards in photojournalism, including Pictures of the year International (POYi) and Young photographers of Russia. He prefers news reporting and documentary photography. Anton's favorite quote: "Anyone can make a great shot, not anyone can recognize it".

Yelena was born in 1983 in Russia. She holds a master’s degree in world economics. Before becoming a photographer Yelena worked as a graphic designer. She is a student at the documentary photography workshop of Alexander Radchenko Moscow Photography and Multimedia School. Yelena has won awards in a number of prestigious photography contests. She concentrates on news reporting and documentary photography. She explores human relations in her work, the relationship between humans and nature, and the interconnection of various cultures.

Alexei was born in 1985 in Russia. Graduated from Omsk State pedagogical university. He has develop his interest in photography since childhood. The main theme in Alexei's work is Russian provincial life. He worked for "Tarskoe Priirtishye", and also collaborated with RIA Novosti, ITAR-TASS, Reuters, AFP, BBC. Alexei works as a staff photo correspondent for Rossiya Segodnya in Omsk region. He has taken part in a various documentary and art photo contests and exibitions.

Gehad was born in 1994 in Egypt. She studies languages and translation in Cairo. Before becoming a professional photojournalist, she was interested in documenting Egyptian revolution that began on 25 January 2011. She has won awards in a number of national photography contests, including Egypt Press Photo in 2016. She concentrates on news reporting, sports, documentary and daily life photography. In her work, she explores human relations, interconnection of different cultures.

Rajendra Mohan Pandey is a Kolkata based documentary and street photographer. He has been a practicing visual storyteller for the past six years. His work features images of street life and people from various socioeconomic backgrounds focusing on their life in a more intimate form.

Darya was born in 1987 in Moscow. She graduated from the Faculty of Journalism, after which she defended her diploma in the course "Photojournalism" at Lomonosov Moscow State University. For more than ten years he has been working as a photojournalist in federal sports publications in Russia. Now she is a staff member of the Sport-Express newspaper. In photography, she appreciates an unconventional approach and irony.

Born in 1984 in Yekaterinburg, citizen of Russia. Graduated from the Ural State University of Economics, but soon has reviewed her career and decided to become a documentary photoprapher. As a result, in 2014 she graduated from the Alexander Radchenko Moscow Photography and Multimedia School. Since 2010 she has been working on a long-term project called "Theory of Big Game" that explores Russian identity through research of the changes in the city of Sochi where the 2014 Winter Olympic Games were hosted. Julia has taken part in a number of group exhibitions in Moscow, Yekaterinburg, Perm, Krasnoyarsk, and also in Austria and China.

Alexei was born in 1985 in Baku. He graduated from Moscow State Technical University of Civil Aviation with a degree in engineering. Simultaneously, he studied photojournalism at Moscow State University. Alexei completed an internship at Kommersant Publishing House, collaborated with the Tribuna newspaper and worked for ITAR-TASS agency for several years. Since 2011, he has been a staff photojournalist at RIA Novosti.

Konstantin was born in 1990 in Russia. He graduated from Novgorod State University. Konstantin took up photography at the age of 17. He has worked for RIA Novosti, ITAR-TASS, and Reuters. In 2011, he joined RIA Novosti as a photographer in Veliky Novgorod, and stayed with the news agency when it was transformed into Rossiya Segodnya. Konstantin concentrates on exhibition projects, since he believes the printed image is the final destination for a photographer. For him, a photo exhibit provides an opportunity to show a beautiful and complex story in images accompanied by various visual and audio effects.

Born in 1984 in Russia. Graduated from medical school as a paramedic. He also holds a degree in clinical psycology from Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry. Vladimir took up photography in high school. As a photo correspondent, worked for Russian news agencies ITAR-TASS and RIA Novosti. He is a special correspondent for Russiya Segodnya. Winner of numerous awards, including The Best of Russia, Silver camera and Energy of Victories. Vladimir prefers news reporting and sports photography. In his work, he tries to combine a news component and esthetics.

Mikhail Domozhilov was born in 1982 in Russia. He works in documentary, sports and portrait photography. His work has appeared in various media outlets in Russia and abroad. Mikhail has taken part in a number of exhibitions, including in The Netherlands, Canada, Malaysia, Georgia, Poland, and China. He has won awards in a number of professional competitions. The key subjects of his work are nationalism and nationalists, soccer, unconventional sports, the Ukraine conflict, and heroes. Mikhail also teaches a documentary photography class.

Alexei was born in 1985 in Russia. Graduated from Omsk State pedagogical university. He has develop his interest in photography since childhood. The main theme in Alexei's work is Russian provincial life. He worked for "Tarskoe Priirtishye", and also collaborated with RIA Novosti, ITAR-TASS, Reuters, AFP, BBC. Alexei works as a staff photo correspondent for Rossiya Segodnya in Omsk region. He has taken part in a various documentary and art photo contests and exibitions.

Yelena was born in 1983 in Russia. She holds a master’s degree in world economics. Before becoming a photographer Yelena worked as a graphic designer. She is a student at the documentary photography workshop of Alexander Radchenko Moscow Photography and Multimedia School. Yelena has won awards in a number of prestigious photography contests. She concentrates on news reporting and documentary photography. She explores human relations in her work, the relationship between humans and nature, and the interconnection of various cultures.

Chaoyue was born in 1988 in Shanghai, China. He holds a bachelor's degree in Broadcasting Journalism, and was an exchange student majoring Communication Science in Ghent University, Belgium. He was assigned with Xinhua News Agency as a staff photographer based in Cairo, covering stories in Middle East and Northern Africa since 2013 till 2016. He is currently working as a photo editor at headquarters of Xinhua in Beijing, meanwhile he explores ways of telling stories by multimedia including video clips and photos taken by mobile devices. He has received awards at a number of national and international contests.

Artem Onoprienko was born in 1988 in Uralsk, Kazakhstan. He works as a business analyst in the IT sector and manages a photography club at the National Research University in Samara. He has won a number of professional national and regional photo contests, including the Young Russian Photographers international festival.

Alessandro was born in 1988. He holds a Master's degree in Photojournalism from the University of Westminster in London. Member of the National Union of Journalists of UK. As a photographer, he specializes in news reporting. Since 2013, Alessandro has been combining periods of travel to areas of crisis and conflict (Afghanistan, Iraqi Kurdistan, Iran, Lebanon, Somalia, South-Sudan, Turkey, Kenya, Indonesia, Zambia and Tanzania) with commercial work for clients such as Alitalia, Emergency, Strongbow. Alessandro has collaborated with VanityFair, Der Spiegel, Corriere della Sera, Newsweek, National Geographic, Monocle magazine. His work has been exhibited in UK, Italy, Germany and Australia.

Born in Nizhny Tagil, Russia in 1986, Fyodor Telkov is a photographer, a project supervisor and since 2008, a member of the Russian Union of Photo Artists. He graduated from the Artistic Graphics Department of the Nizhny Tagil State Social and Pedagogical Academy. He is currently based in Yekaterinburg.

Mikhail Domozhilov was born in 1982 in Russia. He works in documentary, sports and portrait photography. His work has appeared in various media outlets in Russia and abroad. Mikhail has taken part in a number of exhibitions, including in The Netherlands, Canada, Malaysia, Georgia, Poland, and China. He has won awards in a number of professional competitions. The key subjects of his work are nationalism and nationalists, soccer, unconventional sports, the Ukraine conflict, and heroes. Mikhail also teaches a documentary photography class.

Oleg was born in 1988 in Russia. Graduated from Photofaculty of Yuri Galperin, a professional course for photo correspondents; he also studied photography at Segei Maksimishin course at Tsekh school. As a freelance photographer, Oleg collaborates with such magazines as Bird in flight, Featureshoot, LensCulture, Neon, National Geographic. He has taken part in a number of international photo contests and festivals. His work is in the permanent collections of Russian museum in St.Petersburg and Museum of Russian photography in Kolomna.

Вorn in 1984 in China. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in diplomacy. He started his career in photography working for Xinhua News Agency. From 2013 to 2015 he was assigned as a photo correspondent to Jerusalem Bureau of Xinhua News Agency. During that time he covered major events, including the funeral of former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, Israel's military operation Protective Edge in Gaza, parliamentary election of 2015, and attacks in the ongoing wave of violence in Israel and Palestinian territories. His work won the bronze prize in the category of War and Conflict News at the 12th China International Press Photo Contest.

Alexei was born in 1985 in Russia. Graduated from Omsk State pedagogical university. He has develop his interest in photography since childhood. The main theme in Alexei's work is Russian provincial life. He worked for "Tarskoe Priirtishye", and also collaborated with RIA Novosti, ITAR-TASS, Reuters, AFP, BBC. Alexei works as a staff photo correspondent for Rossiya Segodnya in Omsk region. He has taken part in a various documentary and art photo contests and exibitions.

Svetlana born in 1991 in Russia. She holds a Master's degree in Religious studies. Graduated from the Photofaculty of Yuri Galperin, a professional course for photo correspondents. Currently she is student at the Academy of Photojournalism and Documentary Photography in Saint Petersburg. Svetlana prefers working on long-term documentary projects that cover social issues.

Miguel was born in 1985 in Spain. He is a documentary photographer specializing in long-term projects on humanitarian and social issues in the Southern Asia region. He focuses on issues that are sometimes ignored such as minorities discrimination, gender discrimination, human trafficking, and poverty. He also documents cultures and traditions from an anthropology perspective, and report on environment issues. Miguel has collaborated with numerous international and local NGOs, as well as The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). He has won awards in a number of prestigious photography contests. His work has been featured in Al Jazeera, The Wall Street Journal, El País, CNN, Asian Geographic, Spiegel, South China Morning Post (SCMP), Grupo Vocento, The Diplomat, Deutsche Welle (DW), among others.

Berta was born in 1986 in Lithuania. Lithuanian multimedia journalist. Her visual stories from different parts of the world focus on social issues, human rights, environment and interconnections between humans and nature. She is a co-founder of first Lithuanian multimedia platform for documentary projects Nanook. Her photo and video stories have been published in various media outlets around the world and have won awards in international contests and festivals.

Born in 1986 in Slovenia. A freelance photographer, working regularly with a number of Slovenian magazines and newspapers. Concentrates on documentary photo projects. Graduated from the Ljubljana Multimedia Academy, and has recently spent a lot of time working in the Gaza Strip. For him, photography is a powerful tool for showing and spreading the truth. In his work he pays special attention to the humanitarian dimension of armed conflicts.

Danilo Garcia Di Meo is an Italian documentary photographer. He currently works with several NGO and press agencies, and took part in Sky Arts Master of Photography 2019. He received the Gran Prix at the Andrei Stenin Contest, and awards at MIFA and TIFA. He has exhibited in Moscow, Rome, Cape Town, Istanbul and Shanghai.

Mikhail Domozhilov was born in 1982 in Russia. He works in documentary, sports and portrait photography. His work has appeared in various media outlets in Russia and abroad. Mikhail has taken part in a number of exhibitions, including in The Netherlands, Canada, Malaysia, Georgia, Poland, and China. He has won awards in a number of professional competitions. The key subjects of his work are nationalism and nationalists, soccer, unconventional sports, the Ukraine conflict, and heroes. Mikhail also teaches a documentary photography class.

Born in 1987 in Russia. Graduated from Photofaculty of Yuri Galperin, a professional course for photo correspondents. He has won awards in a number of high-profile phtography contests. Pavel takes interest in projects related to social problems of Russian society. He is an author of several documentary projects about youth subcultures (football hooligans, fight clubs, street fighters), he also covered the events in Maidan, Crimea, and the south-east of Ukraine as well. His photos have been published in The Yew York Times lens blog, International New York Times, Der Spiegel, Washington Post, Harpers Magazine, Rolling Stones New York. He is a photojournalist for the Izvestia newspaper.

Born in 1989 in Russia. Lives and works in Saint Petersburg. Completed Mikhail Domozhilov’s course on documentary photography in FotoDepartament. Institute. His work has appeared in several media outlets. His photo project concerning posttraumatic stress disorder has been shown to the public in an exhibition. He prefers documentary photography. In his work, Artem explores Russian national traumas through people's stories.

Robert was born in 1983 in Slovakia. He studied stage directing at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava and also in Prague. During his studies he decided to opt for photography. Graduated from the Institute of Creative Photography in Opava. He has received awards in a number of photography contests, including Slovak Press Photo and Czech Press Photo. Works as a theatre photographer and photojournalist. As a freelancer, he focuses mainly on portraits and documentary photography in a wide context.