Born in London, UK 1987, and having grown up in Dubai U.A.E, Sara Naim is of Syrian origin. She moved back to study at Chelsea College of Art and Design and completed her BA Photography from London College of Communication (2010). Directly after, Sara moved to New York to intern for Ryan McGinley, and since, has worked with photographers Peter Funch, Diana Scheunemann and Lyndsy Welgos. Sara Naim has been in exhibitions in London, Dubai, Germany, New York City, and Guernsey, and has been featured on Vice, Dazed Digital, Dossier Journal, FFFFound, The Guardian, and Fast Company.  Sara currently lives and works in Dubai.

Artist / Designer

Katja Mater is a visual artist and filmmaker, interested in revealing a different or alternative (experience of) reality through capturing the areas where optical media hardly behave like the human eye, recording events that simultaneously can and cannot be – holding midway between information and interpretation. Next to her artist practice Mater is editor and art director for Girls Like Us Magazine; An independent magazine turning the spotlight on an international expanding community of lesbians and queers within arts, culture and activism. Through personal stories, essays and vanguard visuals Girls Like Us unfolds feminist legacies in arts, design and writing. Mixing politics with pleasure, the magazine maps collaborative routes towards a non-patriarchal future.

Portuguese graphic artist and architect based in New York.

Artist The observation and visualization of local determined characteristics of cities, the spaces between them, and the resulting global transformability run through Wolfgang Lehrner’s works. Cosmopolitan in his investigations, the artist responds to the change and the importance of seemingly insignificant similarities, as well as the opposition of urban areas, cities and their networking in the cultural, socio-economic, historical and metaphysical sense. In his way of working Lehrner consciously uses coincidence to determine the direction of aimless drifting, headed by the respective routes, squares, streets and places. The resulting cinematic portraits of everyday urban life are essentially results of the search for the particular.