Richard Hay visually explores the dynamics between people and the environments that they create and inhabit. Reflecting his interests and training in sociology, architecture, photography and design, Hay views built and natural environments as cultural manifestations of people and their societies. Working across several decades, in both analog and digital processes, encourages his contemplation of change, permanence and impermanence. Richard Hay has exhibited in several group shows including those at thedi Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, the Los Angeles Center of Photography, PhotoPlace Gallery and the Center for Photographic Art in Carmel. He has a Ph.D. in sociology from Northwestern University and studied photography there. He lives and works in the San Francisco Bay area.

Emmanuel Iduma (b.1989) is a Nigerian writer and art critic. He studied law at Obafemi Awolowo University in Ile-Ife, and also has an MFA in Art Criticism and Writing from the School of Visual Arts, New York City.Iduma is the author of A Stranger's Pose (2018) and Farad (2012), republished in North America as The Sound of Things to Come . He was awarded the inaugural Irving Sandler Award for New Voices in Art Criticism by the Association Internationale des Critiques d'Art, USA. Iduma teaches in the MFA Art Writing Program at the School of Visual Arts, New York City.