For 25 years, Lalo de Almeida worked for Folha de São Paulo in his native Brazil. He has won honors from World Press Photo, POY Latam, and the W. Eugene Smith Fund. In 2021, de Almeida was awarded Ibero-American photographer of the year by POY Latam. He is represented by Panos Pictures.

Dario De Dominicis began publishing in newspapers in 1993, turning to personal projects in 1999. He published the books “A Cuban Story” and “Rubber Soldiers.” He taught at the Roberto Rossellini State Institute for Cinema and Television in Rome before moving to Rio de Janeiro in 2009. He has presented at the international photography festival Paraty em Foco.

Kimberly dela Cruz co-produced “Si Kian,” which won a National Children’s Book Award, while covering the war on drugs in the Philippines. Dela Cruz was selected as an IWMF Fellow and shortlisted for the Alexia Foundation Grant and Inge Morath Award. Her work has appeared in the Washington Post, the Guardian, TIME, Al Jazeera, Nikkei Asian Review, and exhibits across the globe.

Born in Caracas in 1991, Fabiola Ferrero participated in the Joop Swart Masterclass, the Eddie Adams Workshop, the World Press Photo 6×6 Talent Program, and is a Magnum Foundation Fellow as well as a Ruda Collective member. Her work has been featured in TIME, the New York Times, National Geographic, Le Monde, the Wall Street Journal, NPR, BBC, and VQR.

Now based in Washington, D.C., Melissa Lyttle began her career working for nearly 15 years at Florida newspapers. An Emmy winner and two-time IWMF Fellow, Lyttle’s work has also been recognized by UNICEF, POYi, NPPA’s Best of Photojournalism, the Casey Medals for Meritorious Journalism, and the Alexia Foundation. Lyttle served for two years as president of the National Press Photographers Association.

Zed Nelson’s first project Gun Nation was awarded five major photography prizes, and his second, Love Me, was nominated for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize and was short-listed for the Leica European Publishers Award. Nelson was awarded the Photoworks’ Senior Research Fellowship at the British School at Rome. His most recent book, “A Portrait of Hackney,” was the basis of his feature-length documentary.

Cristopher Rogel Blanquet, born in Mexico City in 1984, works with Getty Images and Cuestione. He has published in the New York Times, Milenio, El Universal, Vice, and has collaborated with Médecins Sans Frontières and NCD Alliance. His projects have been honored with the Ortega y Gasset Prize, by the International Documentary Photography Competition, and the Mexican Endowment for Culture and Arts.

An Italian documentary photographer based in Colombia, Nicoló Filippo Rosso has been documenting the Venezuelan migration to Colombia since 2018. In 2021, he traveled to Central America and Mexico to document the crossing of migrants into the United States. Besides his personal and editorial work, he often lectures about photography and journalism in universities in Colombia, Europe, and the United States.

Although based in Istanbul, Danielle Villasana’s work focuses on Latin America. She’s a National Geographic Explorer, Magnum Foundation awardee, Women Photograph grantee, IWMF Fellow, and member of Ayün Fotógrafas. Her work has appeared in National Geographic, the Washington Post, and the New York Times. Villasana champions inclusivity with We, Women, Authority Collective, The Everyday Projects, and as a Photo Bill of Rights co-author. FotoEvidence published her book “A Light Inside.”