Xenia Nikolskaya is an award-winning Russian-Swedish photographer currently based in Cairo. A former curator of the Russian National Centre of Photography and former head of Rossiya Segodnya’s exhibition project department, she is a Fulbright Fellow with a PhD from Sunderland University, UK. She has taken part in more than forty international exhibitions and her works are preserved at the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg. She is the author of The House My Grandfather Built, which won the 2021 Swedish Photobook Award.
Heba Farid is co-founder of TINTERA, a Cairo based photography gallery with an office in London.
Omar Nagati is an architect and urban planner and co-founder of CLUSTER, an urban design and research platform also in Cairo.