Anna Gage Norton received her MFA in photography from Tyler School of Art, and exhibits throughout the US. Norton’s work deals with her relationship to place and centers around questions of historical and geological time, the animate and inanimate, permanence and transience. A native of South Georgia, she now lives in Western North Carolina where she continues her photography and videography for her personal fine art as well as commissions.

Casey Visco is an American photographer based in Asheville, NC. Casey first explored photography while attending the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, MA. Over the years he continued to take occasional photographs, but it wasn’t until the Covid-19 pandemic forced him—along with the rest of the world—to slow down, that he began a deeper practice of making photographs. He’s drawn to the very small and very common things in nature that most people wouldn’t give a second look.

Eric William Carroll’s work on photography, science, and nature explores the differences in how we experience, represent, and organize the world. Through his photographs, installations, and performances, Carroll creates visual and emotional connections that span enormous distances in space and time. At the heart of his practice is a genuine sense of curiosity that questions traditional binary relationships.

Erik Mace is a experimental visual artist who uses photography, graphic design, and book arts as his tools of inquiry. He is deeply curious about the power of photography and adjacent media and how to take advantage of their limitations. His work is connected by a sense of restlessness and joy in expressly matching visual and language-based tools to subject matter. Erik received his BFA in Visual Communications from Washington University in St. Louis and is an alumnus of the Contemporary Photography program at the ICP in New York.

Frances Bukovsky (they/them) makes images about the relationships between selfhood, other beings and places, and medical experiences in the context of chronic illness, disability, and queerness. They work in self portraiture, documentary photography, and alternative processes combined with an active research practice to create photography books and other projects that tie systemic issues into personal lives. They currently live in Marshall, North Carolina.

Jon Stuart is a photo-based artist working and living in Ottawa on the unceded territories of the Anishinaabe Algonquin Nation. Jon uses photography to collect and process delicate evidence to reveal meaning and sublimity in the apparently mundane. His images are rich portrayals of events that played out before the photographer arrived. Each scene contains clues to existence, presence, and place, not merely documenting physical locations but scenes charged with significance. His detailed photographs seek to draw the viewer’s eye from object to subject, shifting their view from a “space on the ground” to a “place in the mind.

Kaye Savage teaches Environmental Studies at Wofford College in Spartanburg, SC. She is also director of Wofford's Goodall Environmental Studies Center, and manages its Long Term Environmental Reflection creative residency program. Her past research in environmental geochemistry, and her current art practice, are explorations of chemical, physical, and biological interactions across multiple scales of time and space.

Mike Belleme is a freelance photographer based in Asheville, North Carolina. His work ranges from long-form documentary, to assignment-based editorial, photojournalism, and portraiture. His practice involves photographing from a space of emotional availability and vulnerability and exploring themes involving connection and disconnection from that space. Belleme is a regular contributor to The New York Times and other clients.

Melanie Carvalho’s enthusiasm for photography was sparked at the age of 13 in a small darkroom at Camp Martin Johnson in Irons, Michigan. The gratification she received from shooting, developing and printing photographs profoundly remains with her to this day. Careers at Smithsonian Magazine, The Image Bank/Getty Images, New York Foundation For The Arts and The Maui Film Office allowed her to observe, learn and engage with original art and artists from all over the world. These foundational encounters cultivated her passion and lifelong devotion to the study and craft of photography.

Raymond Thompson Jr, is an artist, educator and visual journalist based in Austin, TX. He currently works as an Assistant Professor of Photojournalism at University of Texas at Austin. He has received a MFA in Photography from West Virginia University and a MA in Journalism from the University of Texas at Austin. He also graduated from the University of Mary Washington with a BA in American Studies. He has worked as a freelance photographer for The New York Times, The Intercept, NBC News, NPR, Politico, Propublica, The Nature Conservancy, ACLU, WBEZ, Google, Merrell and the Associated Press.

Susan Alta Martin is a photo-based artist and art educator with a background in anthropology and an MFA in photography from the San Francisco Art Institute. Working in both two and three dimensions, Susan’s core interest is understanding the ways in which rural landscapes reveal socioeconomic relations. She has shown regionally, nationally, and internationally, and is a recipient of the North Carolina Arts Council Fellowship. Susan currently teaches in the School of Art and Design at Western Carolina University.

Susan Patrice is a documentary photographer and citizen artist. Her photography and public installations focus primarily on the southern landscape and its people and feature intimate images that touch deeply into questions of place and belonging. She lives in Marshall, NC where she is the director of Makers Circle, a non-profit photography workshop and residency center.

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