Clare Hewitt (b. 1983) is a photographic artist based in Birmingham, UK. After completing a degree in Law at Oxford Brooks University, she went on to study Commercial Photography at Arts University Bournemouth. Her work has been exhibited at venues including Landskrona Foto Festival, the National Portrait Gallery, Open Eye Gallery, and the Royal Photographic Society, amongst others. In 2019, Hewitt was the recipient of the GRAIN Bursary Award. Her clients include New Yorker, Guardian, Photoworks, Oxfam, New Statesman, and The Wire. Hewitt also works as an Archivist and a Senior Lecturer in Photography at University of the West of England, Bristol. https://clarehewitt.co.uk

For 30 years she has worked with people who don’t consider themselves artists, building skills, confidence and connection. Her focus on natural materials nurtures curiosity and wonder to better care for ourselves and the natural world.

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Danielle is a multidisciplinary artist and workshop facilitator based in Birmingham, working across paper making, printmaking, and animation. Over the past four years, she has developed skills in paper-making, repurposing both organic and paper waste material through independent and collaborative methods. Her process is rooted in traditional handmade techniques enhanced by contemporary materials and tools, allowing for the creation of bespoke artist papers. https://linktr.ee/paper_print_motion Image: © Megan Reddi

Emily Macaulay is the founder of Stanley James Press, a small design company specialising in the design and production of printed goods. The majority of her work involves helping artists, photographers and organisations design printed materials, bespoke books and exhibition spaces. She is passionate about the more unusual and complicated forms of print, creating work that engages audiences and experiments with different ways to produce things. She is also trying to find ways to be more sustainable and is constantly trying to understand the processes involved in the outcomes she produces in order to advise her clients of ways to produce more environmentally considered products. www.stanleyjamespress.com

Amak Mahmoodian (b.1980, Shiraz, Iran) is a multidisciplinary artist and educator. She began her career as a research-based photographer in Iran in 2003 at the Art University of Tehran. Since 2010, she has been living in the UK, unable to return to Iran. She practices as a visual artist at the intersection of conceptual image-making and documentary photography, working with photographs, text, video, drawing, archives and sound. Her practice explores the presentation of gender, identity and displacement, bridging a space between personal and political across platforms and formats including installation, books and films.

Mahmoodian’s work has been shown internationally, including the Carnegie Museum of Art. Pittsburgh; Fototeca Latinoamericana, Buenos Aires; the Benaki Museum, Athens; Arnolfini, Bristol; Rencontres d’Arles, Arles; and Peckham 24, London. Her works are held in collections such as the Tate, and the British Library in London. She has published two books, Shenasnameh (RRB- ICV Lab, 2016), and Zanjir (RRB, 2019) which was the winner of The Best Photo Text Book award at Rencontres Arles, 2020. Her work appears in key titles on photography such as Photography – A Feminist History (Tate Publishing, 2021), Photography Now: Fifty Pioneers Defining Photography for the Twenty-First Century (Octopus Publishing, 2021), and How We See: Photobooks by Women (10x10 Photobooks, 2019)

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