Joanne Coates is a working class photographer, based in rural North England. She is interested in rurality, hidden histories and class. Joanne’s practice is as much about process, participation and working with communities as it is the still image. Joanne is Director of Lens Think, an arts organisation with the aims of fighting for class equality and a more creative industries through participation and radical community arts. She is the awardee of the Jerwood / Photoworks Prize (2021), and winner of the Portrait of Britain: British Journal of Photography (2020). Coates’ work has featured in The Guardian, BBC, Financial Times, The Telegraph and The British Journal of Photography. Selected exhibitions include Daughters of the Soil, Vane Gallery, Gateshead and The Gymnasium Gallery, Berwick-upon-Tweed (2022) and The Unseen Beautiful, Crown Street Gallery, Darlington (2019). (Image © Piotr Sell) www.joannecoates.co.uk

Amara Eno is a photographer from London, UK. Her work focuses predominantly within the areas of documentary, portraiture, and reportage. Amara's work aims to initiate important dialogue between audiences and to empower those who often feel marginalised by mainstream narratives. Most notably, Amara has been recognised for her long-term documentary work-in-progress, The 25 Percent, which explores the multi-faceted landscape of single-parenthood in the UK. A selection of her work was on show at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in 2022 as part of the 'Counted | Scotland's Census 2022' exhibition. Selected clients and publications include The New York Times, GuardianLabs, The British Red Cross, The Financial Times, Monocle and Global Citizen. www.amaraeno.com

Ciara Leeming is a photographer, writer and former journalist based in Manchester. She spent four years collaborating with Roma families and members of the Traveller community to produce documentary work about their lives. This year she has worked with people from a Chester mental health centre and a Wigan homeless charity on socially engaged projects centred around the high street. www.ciaraleeming.co.uk

Maryam Wahid is an artist who uses photography to convey her identity as a British Pakistani Muslim woman. Her photographs explore womanhood, memory, migration and the notion of home and belonging. She has won many prestigious awards, including accolades from Format Festival, Photoworks and The Magenta Foundation, and was recently awarded ‘Portrait of Britain 2021’ by British Journal of Photography for her photograph, ‘Halima Jabeen in her front garden’. Wahid’s work has been commissioned by The Guardian, The Financial Times, Wellcome Collection, The Telegraph and Digital Photographer Magazine. (Image: © John Boaz) https://www.maryamwahid.com