Cinthya Santos Briones

Cinthya Santos Briones is a visual artist and educator with Nahua roots based in New York. She grew up in Tulancingo, a town nestled among mountains and valleys surrounded by Nahua, Otomi, and Tepehua Indigenous communities in Mexico. She studied Ethnohistory and Anthropology, and for ten years, she conducted research on Indigenous migration, codices, textiles, and traditional medicine at the National Institute of Anthropology and History in Mexico.

As an artist, her work focuses on a multidisciplinary social practice that combines participatory art and the construction of collective narratives. Through various non-linear narrative media, she juxtaposes photography with historical archives, writing, ethnography, drawings, collage, embroidery, and popular education and activism. She holds an MFA focus in Creative Writing and Photography from Ithaca-Cornell University, as well as a certificate in Documentary Practice and Visual Journalism from the International Center of Photography (ICP). She is currently an adjunct professor at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism.

She has received fellowships and grants from the Magnum Foundation, En Foco, National Geographic Research and Exploration, We Woman, City Artist Corps, Wave Hill House Winter Residency, and BricLab Contemporary Art, among others, and was a Mellon Artist Fellow at the Hemispheric Institute at NYU. Her work has been published in The New York Times, California Sunday Magazine, Vogue, Open Society Foundations, Buzzfeed, The Intercept, The New Yorker, and Hyperallergic, among others.

Jasmin Chang

Jasmin Chang is a Taiwanese-American artist and organizer who grew up in California and has called New York City home since 2011. Her practice explores photography, storytelling and art-making as portals to connect people. She spearheaded Photoville’s education and community initiatives for its first ten years. She is a member of Friends of Commodore Barry Park and the Fort Greene Park Conservancy.

Gabriella Demczuk

Gabriella Demczuk is a Lebanese-American photographer, printmaker, and journalist based between Washington, D.C., and Baltimore, Maryland. Born in Sweden but raised in Luxembourg, Belgium, and later the United States, she studied fine arts and journalism at George Washington University, and photography at Parsons School of Art and Design in Paris.

Gabriella has been recognized by the White House News Photographers Association, American Photography, as a Presidential Scholar in the Arts, POLITICO Playbook’s Power List, and by Pictures of the Year International (POYi). Gabriella was named a finalist for the Inge Morath award from the Magnum Foundation, she was selected as an Emerging Talent by Getty Images Reportage, and as one of PDN’s 30 Emerging Photographers of 2018. She was recently selected as the British Journal of Photography’s Ones to Watch for 2019.

Hannah Price

Raised in Fort Collins, Colorado, Hannah Price (b. 1986) is a photographic artist and filmmaker primarily interested in documenting relationships, race politics, and misperception. Price is internationally known for her project City of Brotherly Love (2009-2012), a series of photographs of the men who catcalled her on the streets of Philadelphia. In 2014, Price graduated from Yale School of Art’s MFA photography program, receiving the Richard Benson Prize for Excellence in Photography. Over the past nine years, Price’s photos have been displayed in several cities across the United States with a few residing in the permanent collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Price became a Magnum nominee member in 2020 and currently lives and works in Philadelphia, PA.

Karen Miranda-Rivadeneira

Karen Miranda-Rivadeneira is an Ecuadorian-American photographer currently living between New Mexico and New York. She graduated from the School of Visual Arts in 2005. During that time, she focused on performance art, and trance states. In pursuit of these interests, she has collaborated with indigenous communities and members of her family to create photo-based projects.

From the Mam to the Mandaeans, she has spent more than a decade living between the Amazon, the Andean highlands, and New York City.
Karen has been exhibited widely, in places like the National Portrait Gallery at the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, D.C., and the Musée du Quai Branly biennial, where she received an artist-in-residence fellowship in 2017. She has had solo shows in New York City, and her book Other Stories/Historia Bravas was published in 2018 by Autograph ABP, about her collaborative photographic project with her family.

Women Photograph

Women Photograph is a nonprofit that launched in 2017 to elevate the voices of women and nonbinary visual journalists. The private database includes more than 1,400 independent documentary photographers based in 125+ countries and is available privately to any commissioning editor or organization. Women Photograph also operates an annual series of project grants, a year-long mentorship program, an annual skills-building workshop, and collects data on hiring and publishing statistics in the visual media industry. Our mission is to shift the makeup of the photojournalism community and ensure that our industry’s chief storytellers are as diverse as the communities they hope to represent.