Photographer,photo editor,photo director,photography professor, associate professor at the Communication, Media and Design College of the Higher School of Economics, member of the Association of the Photo Artists of Russia, former chairman of the panel of judges of “The Most Beautiful Country” contest by the Russian Geographical Society, former head of the “TASS photo chronicles” service, photographer, photo editor of the Moscow office of France-Press (1990-1992) and of Reuters news agency (1992-1997). In 1997 he moved to France to work for the Russian edition of “Geo” magazine. Participated in Arles and Perpignan photo festivals. In 1997-1998 headed the photography department of the Russian edition of “Paris Match” magazine, and, thereafter, of the Russian edition of “Vogue” magazine. In 1998 – 2008 managed his own photo agency “Best Pictures”.

Best known and eminent Russian photo journalist, special photo correspondent of “Russia Today” agency, photography professor. He has innumerable students. In 2004 he became an academician of the International Guild of Mass Media Photographers. He worked as photo reporter in war zones like Nicaragua, Afghanistan, and Chechnya. He has six awards of World Press Photo contest. Three times he sat on the international jury panel of the contest. Award winner of many Russian and international professional contests.

Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, associate professor of MAI, HSE and RUT MIIT teaches courses on “Artificial Intelligence” and “Functional and Logical Programming”. For 16 years he worked as a senior expert on AI and automated learning in Microsoft, currently holds the positions of technical head of the Laboratory of Generative AI of HSE Design School and consultant of Yandex Cloud. Dmitry is interested in technological art. His works in the area of Science Art were displayed in Krasnokholmskaya Gallery at the Non-Fiction Exhibition, in Electronic Museum, and in the Museum of Russian Impressionism.

Lecturer, curator and translator, over 20 years has an organizer of International Photography Festival in Pingyao (PRC) in collaboration with renown curators, photographers and professors from various countries, setting up international exhibitions in five continents. She was also initiator of several important academic events, including International Education Forum in Photography, September open classes and presentations. In 2021 she edited and published the book “Dialogues on education in the field of photography”. Besides PIP Festival she curated international exhibitions for other photographic events in China: Industrial Photography Festival in Liaoning (Liaoning province, 2016, 2018) and Photo Baohe (Hefei city in Anhui province, 2018, 2019) as well as 2nd International Image Biennale in Quanzhou Huaguan (2023). She was invited to sit on the panel of judges at Photoville (New-York, 2013), Photography Festival in Auckland (2015), Photovisa (Krasnodar, 2018, 2020) and ARGUS (Sochi, 2023). In 2024 she assembled the Chinese group to participate in the “Big City” photo exhibition in Moscow.

Niyatee Shinde is an independent researcher, curator, art and photography article author. Formerly a research fellow at NMAH, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC. Her research has been focused on interdisciplinary access to photographic collections of the Smithsonian Institute. She also served as the director and curator at the Academy of Arts and Culture at Birla, Mumbai.
Having over 30 years of experience she has made a significant contribution in this area of knowledge as one of the founders and editors of the Times of Photography magazine, the Times of India. She was invited as a nominator to several high profile international prize awards, including Leopold Godowsky Jr. photography prize, Robert Gardner prize and Hasselblad Award (2000, 2006, 2017). She was also member of the panel of judges at Hasselblad Award in 2022. She is frequently invited to international photographer institutes as portfolio reviewer.
Niyatee is a co-founder of TurmericEarth Art Projects Pvt Ltd, an organization involved in the development of artistic interaction by means of exhibitions, consultations and research.
Her multiple awards include Honoris Causa in Arts by the Rod Island University for the contribution to art and photography. In 2023 she received a prestigious award RPS for photography curatorship from the Royal Photographic Society. She received Northbrook scholarship, Paul Getty grant (2004) and Goethe Institute scholarship (1994) for the research in photography.

Landscape and TimeLapse photographer as well as camera director of timelapse shooting for documentary films. Roman was born in Feodosia, Crimea. He is the author of “Crimea – a Different World” project, also director and cameraman of the documentary film “Beyond the Time” (2017), camera director of “Celestial Crimea” film (director Sergey Debijev, 2020) and “Holy Archipelago” (director Sergey Debijev, 2022). He held his personal exhibitions in the Crimean Republic and Krasnodar region. More than once he has been the prize winner and finalist of various high profile contest, including “The Most Beautiful Country” (photo contest by the Russian Geographical Society, 2016, 2018); “Wild Nature of Russia” (National Geographic photo contest, 2016), prize winner at “Top 100 Landscape Photographers” according to the international photo site 35AWARDS (2016-2018); «Shores» (2019). Since 2015 he’s been a member of the creative association CREATIVE UNION PHOTOART, People’s Photoclub «Seagull» (Feodosia). As a speaker and expert he took part in educational forums “Taurian Breeze” (2018), “Crimea Media” (2017-2018). His works are published in such periodic publications as “Treasure Peninsula”, “Crimean Journal”, Aeroflot inflight magazine, different internet media related to photography. Roman is a traveler and organizer of photo tours in Russia.