Eva Alcántara (they/them/theirs) born in 1997, is a Dominican transgender artist working with images and text. Their work attempts to illuminate the gaps between objects and the words we use to describe them in order to find limitations in language. They love to create worlds through images and tell poignant stories about themselves and their friends.

Roberta Dorsett is an African-American photographer from the South Bronx. She earned her B.A. in Studio Art at The City College of New York with a concentration in photography. Roberta currently works as a Photography Laboratory Technician at City College. In her project Intimate Moments, she documents her family, countering the reductive representation of black people showcased in mass media. Dead Horse Bay Brooklyn investigates the abandoned bay and the environmental damage caused by industrialization from the 1850s. Frameless is a collaboration with photographer Clarissa B. Aponte that focuses on abstraction using film in non-traditional ways. Roberta’s recent work, Sleepwalking, is influenced by horror and slasher films, both of which combine an idyllic setting and possible danger. Roberta is a 2020 recipient of the En Foco Photography Fellowship, and 2023 recipient of the A.I.R. Gallery Fellowship. Recent group shows include En Foco Photography Fellowship Exhibition: Reflection, This Memory, NY, and Analog Film Photography Association Group Exhibition: Monochrome: Angst, Ambiance, Abstraction, FL.

Manal Abu-Shaheen (b. 1982, Beirut) is a Lebanese-American photographer currently living and working in the Bronx, NY. Her recent solo exhibitions include Beirut, The Artist Room by Taymour Grahne Projects, London, UK (2022), Mapping Utopia, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR (2021), 2d Skin, Soloway, Brooklyn, NY (2019), Theater of Dreams, Bernstein Gallery, Princeton University, NJ (2018) and Beta World City, LORD LUDD, Philadelphia, PA (2017). Her work has been included in group exhibitions nationally and internationally. She is a recipient of the Bronx Recognizes Its Own (BRIO) award (2022), Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship (2019), NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship in Photography (2019), Aaron Siskind Foundation Individual Photographer’s Fellowship Grant (2017), Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace Residency (2016), A.I.R Gallery Fellowship (2016), and Artist in the Marketplace Residency at the Bronx Museum of the Arts (2015).