Gina Le Vay
Tunnel Miners, New York 2004 Gina LeVay (b.1978, USA) holds an MFA in Photography and related Media from the School of Visual Arts. LeVay  is based in New York  and works both in the U.S. and abroad, on independent and commissioned projects. Her award-winning work “The Sandhog Project,” was exhibited as a large-scale photo and video installation at New York’s Grand Central Terminal in 2006. LeVay has been a grant recipient of The Andrew Rhodes Fund for

Matt Slaby
Motel, Jeffrey Road Wyoming Matt Slaby (b. 1979, USA) is a photographer based in Denver, Colorado. Before turning his attention to photography, he traveled the western United States as a wild-land firefighter with the U.S. Forest Service Hotshots also working winters as an EMT with a metropolitan ambulance service. Slaby interned at U.S. News & World Report covering the 2006 congressional elections and the Washington, D.C. political circuit, including the White House and U.S. Capitol. He has a background in writing an

Phillip Toledano
From the series “Days with my Father” Phillip Toledano (1977, England) was born to a French Moroccan mother, and an American father. He believes that photographs should be like unfinished sentences. There should always be space for questions. Phillip’s work is primarily socio-political, and varies in medium, from photography, to installation. His first book, entitled “Bankrupt” (Photographs of recently vacated offices) was pub

Eoin O Conaill
Derry, Northern Ireland, 2008 Eoin O Conaill (b.1979, Ireland) completed a B.A. in Documentary Photography at University of Wales, Newport in 2003.  Much of his work has been concerned with the idea of place and identity and his current project Common Place is a visual exploration of Ireland during the recent period of rapid cultural and economic change. He has exhibited his work in solo and group exhibitions throughout Ireland and Europe, most recently in

Ross Taylor
Dressed as Cinderella for Halloween, 2008 Ross Taylor (b.1980, USA) is a recently hired staff photographer for The Virginian-Pilot. He graduated from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and was last employed at the Hartford Courant newspaper. Taylor was named the 2007 Region one (New England) Photographer of the Year and is a two-time Photographer of the Year (North Carolina) whose work has appeared on the cover of the National Press Photographers “B