Raena Abella specializes in analog photography techniques including wet plate collodion and silver gelatin print. Her work has been exhibited at galleries and art fairs in the Philippines and Singapore. She studied Fine Arts, Major in Painting at the University of the Philippines and pursued further studies in Black and White Photography at the International Center for Photography in New York, Platinum Printing at the Penumbra Foundation in New York, and Wet Plate Collodion at Gallery 44 in Toronto. Recently, Abella completed an overland trip throughout the Philippine archipelago, documenting people and places using various equipment using a portable darkroom. She regularly makes commissioned ambrotype portraits using an antique, large format camera. Her fine art explorations expand and dissolve the boundaries of the medium through digital and alternative photographic processes.

Geloy Concepcion intimately documents his new life as an immigrant living in California. His pictures tell stories of “the underdogs, the unrecognized, and the unheard”. His work is often an exploration of the streets, which showed him that change plays a part in wanting to remain. Concepcion began with making editorial cartoons, but it was his later discovery of street art, painting murals around the city, that encouraged him to delve deeper into the lives of ordinary people he met along the way. His most notable project, "Things You Wanted To Say But Never Did," gained international recognition. His works have been exhibited in the United States, Europe, Japan, Singapore, India, Australia, Kosovo, Indonesia and the Philippines. Concepcion currently resides and works in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Geric Cruz is a photographer and cinematographer. His long-term projects often reveal the immaterial — in his work, memory and spirituality are central to how places and people are seen. Cruz's work has been exhibited in Australia, Germany, the U.S. and throughout Asia. He is a regular contributor to Bloomberg and his photography has been published in The Fader, Pulitzer Center, Wallpaper, Zeit, and Vogue Philippines, among others. He has won multiple awards, and has worked with various international brands and humanitarian organizations.

Tom Epperson grew up in California, lived in Australia for ten years, and has been based in the Philippines since 1985. In 1989, he established his first photography studio in Manila, focusing on editorials, portraits, and ad campaigns, before transitioning to architecture and fine art. In addition to his commercial career, Epperson's exceptional talent as a fine art photographer has been showcased in numerous prestigious exhibitions. His debut exhibit, "One Light," featured 55 portraits and was a historic event as the first photo exhibit hosted at the Ayala Museum. His creative vision was further evident in the "Frozen" series, inspired by a monthlong journey in Mongolia. In 2009, Epperson was the first Manila-based photographer to be invited for an exhibit at the Tyler Rollins Gallery in New York. He continues to exhibit his fine art prints alongside commercial work for hotels and other businesses.

Maya Muñoz is an artist based in the Bicol region. Primarily a painter, she recently expanded into experimental printmaking, combining a screenprint process with painting and photography. Simply using an iPhone, she captures prosaic scenes—landscapes and communities that she encounters every day. She manipulates these snapshots in her studio darkroom using hand-applied emulsion and a self-made exposure unit, then prints them on paper with oil and cold wax medium. This unique mixed treatment is a result of years of ceaseless experimentation, trials harnessing controlled accidents. Through virtuosity of material, technique becomes poetry; erasures and multiple layers articulate “passing moments that amble along, impossible to hold still”. Resolute on vernacular methods commonly utilized by makers of t-shirts and posters, she conjures the elusive and the transient, generating mood and a sense of vastness in atmospheric storytelling.

Neal Oshima is a celebrated commercial, editorial and fine art photographer. He began his photographic career as a laboratory and field photographer at the Bishop Museum in Hawaii and as a fine art photographer in San Francisco, CA. His editorial work includes books such as Dreamweavers, a documentation of the T'nalak weavers of the T'boli tribe in Lake Sebu, Mindanao; Treasures of the Philippine National Museum; Philippine Ancestral Houses by Dr. Fernando Zialcita; Subli: Isang Sayaw sa Apat na Tinig; and Images of Sheer Realities: Clothing and Power in 19^th Century Philippines.

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He has worked extensively with traditional silver-based print techniques. His platinum prints are part of major corporate and private collections in Europe, Asia, and the United States, including the J. Paul Getty Museum’s Department of Photographs.

Gio Panlilio is a curator, photo editor, and artist working in the medium of photography. As a founding member of FotomotoPH, he is involved in organizing exhibitions and other programmes dedicated to developing the photography scene across the Philippines. In 2017, he co-founded Tarzeer Pictures, a gallery and creative production group that produces editorial and documentary content for brands across food, fashion, art, performance, tech, design and social enterprise. The gallery and website are dedicated to the development and presentation of new photography and video works. Panlilio has exhibited his personal photographic work in the Philippines and Japan.

Jason Quibilan is a professional photographer who has seasoned editorial work with prominent local publications such as Esquire, Vogue, Tatler, and Entrepreneur Magazine; as well as with international publications Monocle, Tatler Hongkong, and Forbes Magazine. He photographed (and produced through his company, Stills MNL) the Department of Tourism and Tourism Board of the Philippines’ 2022 advertising campaign: “Go Where Your Mind’s Been Wandering Campaign”. In 2016, he began close collaborations with the late National Artist Arturo Luz on a series of photographs and prints. This collaboration led to the founding of Silver, a fine art and print production company based out of Quibilan’s home studio in Quezon City, Shutterspace Studios. During the 2020 Pandemic Lockdown, he established Shelter Fund, a print drive initiative that sold close to 2000 prints and benefitted over 300 artists and photographers. He has exhibited personal work beginning in 2015 with his first show, “Aurals” at the Crucible Gallery. In the same year, he photographed and produced a privately commissioned photobook “Bataan: Impressions of Everyday Valor”. Since then, he has exhibited work annually at Art Fair Philippines and at various other shows at galleries and museums around the Philippines.

Dianne Rosario is a young photographer and artist drawn to places bound by life, death, and memories. In her work Death by Drowning, she photographs Laguna de Bay as a stage for birth, death, and rebirth. Exploring the relationship between nature and the community, the lake’s water reflects the city’s central contradiction: that what gives and protects may also take and asphyxiate. In Black Matter, she faces the true cost of black sand mining in her hometown, with equal parts criticism and compassion. In I Came Like Water and Like Wind I Go, still life images become portraiture—Rosario examines the lives of her relatives, both here and gone, in search of words unspoken.

Veejay Villafranca started out in journalism as a staff photographer for the national news magazine Philippines Graphic. After becoming a freelancer in 2006, he worked with several international news wire agencies before pursuing the personal projects that later paved the way to his career as a full-time documentary photographer. He has tackled issues such as changing Filipino cultural and religious practices, the transformation of Filipino gang members, climate displacement, and other environmental issues. In 2008, he was awarded the Ian Parry Scholarship and a residency at Visa Pour l’Image, and in 2013 attended the prestigious Joop Swart Masterclass program of the World Press Photo Foundation. His first book co-published with MAPA Books, SIGNOS, garnered the 2018 Invisible Photographer Asia first photo book award. In addition, Villafranca has mounted over a hundred print shows since 2006 in exhibition spaces in New York, France, Netherlands, Rome, Portugal, Japan, and Singapore. His work is collected by institutions and private collectors in Asia, Europe and the U.S. Villafranca continues to work around the Asian region and collaborate with different prestigious photo festivals and organizations to engage a wider audience.