Matjaz Krivic is a documentary photographer capturing long-term stories of people and places. For 25 years he has covered the face of the earth in his intense, personal and aesthetically moving style, portraying poor parts of the world characterised by traditions, social unrest and religious devotion. In recent years he has been focusing on conservation and environmental issues and acting as an advocate for a greener future through his work.

His work and multimedia projects were exhibited in galleries, museums, open-air exhibitions in Slovenia and across the world, at international photo festivals like La Gacilly Photo, Les Rencontres d’Arles and Visa pour l’image, and were widely published around the world by numerous national and international media outlets including National Geographic, BBC, Wired, Boston Globe, Geo, Guardian, Stern, Spiegel, Le Figaro, Le Monde, Newsweek, GQ, Internationale, D-La Repubblica, Wall Street Journal, Forbes and many others. Krivic has won several prestigious awards, including World Press Photo, Picture of the Year International, and Lens Culture.

He has been judging several international photo competitions, occasionally giving out photography workshops around the world and has co-created a first Bolivian photo festival FotoFestival Manzana1 where he is a creative director.

Catalina Martin-Chico, a franco-spanish photographer, lives in Paris. She trained at the International Center of Photography (ICP) in New York, where she lived for many years.

Her work is part of the tradition of humanistic photography, of documentary and investigative photojournalism. She is one of the rare photojournalists to work regularly in Yemen, where she has been working since 2007, for reports published in Le Monde among others.

She won the ICRC’s 2011 Humanitarian Visa and the work was exhibited at the International Visa for Image Festival the same year, for her involment in covering the yemeni revolution. She is the winner of the 2017 Canon Women’s Photojournalist Award for her project on FARC ex-fighters in Colombia. Produced over a whole year, her work is exhibited in the 2018 edition of the Visa pour l’Image Festival.

Catalina Martin-Chico leads as much as she can long-term projects that she publishes in the French and foreign press (Le Monde, Geo, Der Spiegel, New York Times, Le Figaro Magazine, L ‘Obs, VSD, Marie-Claire, ELLE …) and exhibits in several countries as Paris, Bruxels, New York, Canada, Madrid, Rome, Milan, among others.

Nicoló Filippo Rosso (b.1985) is an Italian documentary photographer living between South, Central, and North America. After graduating with a degree in Literature at the Università Degli Studi Di Torino in Italy, he moved to Latin America, living mainly in Colombia for the past ten years.

Witnessing stories of trauma, inequality, and injustices that have shattered the region for generations, he chose to tell stories of abandoned communities, mass migration crises, conflict, and climate change.

Since 2018, he has documented the migration movements across the continent for his project Exodus.

Other works include Forgotten in Dust, a project about desertification, coal exploitation, child mortality, and malnutrition among the indigenous Wayuu of La Guajira in Colombia.

In 2021, he received the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Award for Humanistic Photography. Recognitions to his work include the Getty Editorial Grant, World Press Photo, Pictures of the Year International, Best of Photojournalism (NPPA), International Photography Award, World Report Award, Premio Ponchielli, Prix ANI-PixTrack, Romano Cagnoni Award.

Rosso is a regular contributor at Bloomberg News, The Washington Post, and The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR).

He has given lectures about photography and journalism in universities in Colombia, Europe, and the United States.

He is fluent in Italian, English, Spanish, French.