Dutch born photographer Gijs van der Most is based in Los Angeles. Since he switched Amsterdam for Los Angeles about two years ago, he's been quickly becoming a favorite in the downtown Los Angeles photography scene. Gijs’ photography is direct, personal, and sometimes with a little wink. He's fascinated by people, their behavior and their environment. His documentary projects include “Used Car Salesmen”, “Yard Sales”, “Sign Jugglers”, and his most recent project " I ♥ Runyon Canyon". Even though Van der Most works are displayed in series, he doesn't waste a single image. Gijs has co-created the blog “van der THIS! “, with his comedian/writer wife Michelle Buteau fusing the photography and comedy world into a miniseries that is eye catching as well as entertaining. His passion for great imagery hasn’t been unnoticed by the popular style, culture, and design blog www.kaufmann-mercantile.com. Where he currently is working as photo editor.

Eleonora Orlandi is passionate about feeling the beauty of spaces. She is interested in inspiring and stimulating people to deeply resonate inside dimentions/atmospheres/ambiences/places. Architecture creates spaces in which we live our lives, often without even being conscious of it and she wants spaces to affect and move people. Born in Milano, in Italy, Eleonora Orlandi is a designer architect currently based in Los Angeles. She holds a Bachelor degree in Architecture from Polytechnic of Milano and received her Master degree in Architecture from the M.Arch II program at SCI-Arc, her master thesis won the SCI-Arc Thesis Award . She has international study experiences in liberal arts at Stanford Univeristy in California, Brown University in Rhode Island and at Central Saint Martins in London, furthermore she was selected for the exchange program at UMPRUM in Prague. Her work has been exhibited in Hauser & Wirth, Milano Design Week, and Venice Biennale. Her working experience crosses over architecture, stage design and event design. Eleonora is currently working for Greg Lynn as a Junior Architect at Greg Lynn Form office in Los Angeles, California.

Director - Designer - Animator - Thinker - Maker - Lover - Do'er ~ Marc William Smith. New Zealand born, New York sharpened, Los Angeles based. His 20 year career has spanned being trained by ~ and then leading ~ many of the world’s most respected names in visual storytelling craft. The last decade has seen Marc helm Creative Director + Head of Design roles for Oscar, Emmy, and D&AD winning global production studios. Currently serving as freelance Creative Director to the highest bidder.

Matthew Brandt (b. 1982, Los Angeles) received his BFA from Cooper Union in 2004 and MFA from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2008. Interested in physicality, process and landscape, Brandt’s ability to stretch the readings of an image, multiplying them both physically and conceptually, speaks directly to his interest in how images loom and meanings shift within a shared visual history. His work is the clever manifestation of a photographic alchemist, satisfying the urge for the tangible, and grounding us in the present. Brandt’s precocious talent has landed him in the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), the Armand Hammer Museum (Los Angeles) and the Elton John Collection. He currently lives and works in Los Angeles.

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