Marco Bucchieri (Rome, 1952) is a writer, lecturer and multidisciplinary artist whose practice includes mixed media, photography, installation, symbolism and allegory. Active since the 1970s, his artistic work focuses on visual poetry and literary narrative between image and writing, placing himself at the intersection of time, place and memory through the creation of exhibitions, installations, conceptual images and books.
His photographic works are in many public and private collections in Italy, Denmark, UK, USA and Turkey, in the collection of the Academy of Fine Arts of Milano, in the Modern Art Gallery of Cento and in the MUSINF in Senigallia, and in the permanent collection of Museo Spazio Pubblico.
Marco is a Senior Advisor for City Space Architecture and a Resident Artist at Museo Spazio Pubblico in Bologna.
Ashraf Talaat (Cairo, 1967) is a documentary photographer and filmmaker. With over three decades of experience in the field, he has produced diverse works, including photo essays for numerous magazines such as National Geographic Arabia, Egypt Today, Business, Le Revue, Travel Today, Carnival, and Creative Images in India.
He has also worked on several projects with the United Nations.
His photographs have been showcased in international exhibitions across numerous countries and he has also authored four books from 1999 to 2022. He is an adjunct photography professor at Future University in Cairo and he has been the head of the European Union Photography Jury in Egypt since 2010.
Ashraf was awarded the Royal Society of Great Britain fellowship in Documentary and Visual Journalism (2017), and was the recipient of
Photographer of the Year award at the Venice International Photo Contest (2005) and the Maulana Azad Gold Medals for his humanitarian and cultural projects in India (2008, 2016).
In 2018 he was nominated as the Goodwill Ambassador for Photography in Africa.