Donna DeCesare works as a freelance photographer and videographer, and teaches documentary photography and video at the University of Texas. Her photographs have been published and exhibited widely, and she has earned top awards for her work for the Crimes of War website and on U.S. and Latin American gang violence. She is the recipient of the Dorothea Lange prize, the Alicia Patterson fellowship, the Mother Jones International Photo Fund grant, and the Soros Individual Project fellowship. In 2003, she was named a fellow of the Dart Society for the Study of Journalism and Trauma, and in 2005, she completed a Fulbright Fellowship in Colombia.

Fred Ritchin is the director of PixelPress, which creates websites, books, and exhibitions that investigate new documentary and promote human rights, and an associate professor of Photography and Communications at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. He is the author of Reinventing Photography (forthcoming) and In Our Own Image: The Coming Revolution in Photography, and has co-authored several other publications. He is the former picture editor of the New York Times Magazine, former executive editor at Camera Arts, and founding director of the photojournalism and documentary photography program at the International Center of Photography.

Ellen Tolmie has directed UNICEF’s global photography operations since 1992. She is responsible for contracting photographers worldwide to cover the situation of children and UNICEF’s response; promoting the use of images that advocate for children; creating guidelines for the photographing of children that correspond with human rights; collaborating on photo-related projects with media partners; and directing the development of an online image guidelines and database. Prior to working at UNICEF, Tolmie was an independent documentary and editorial photographer in Canada and Colombia. She has contributed to several books, exhibitions, and academic fora.