Jen Bekman owns an eponymous gallery, writes a blog called Personism and is the founder of the international photo competition, Hey, Hot Shot! . Her latest endeavor is 20x200 which offers limited-edition prints and photos at ridiculously affordable prices. Jen Bekman Projects, the gallery and its exhibitions, and Jen herself have been featured in dozens of publications including: The New York Times, Domino (RIP), the Houston Chronicle, GQ, Harper's, Art in America, Foam, Businessweek, Dwell, Der Spiegel and Le Monde. Jen has been a guest lecturer at The School of Visual Arts and the Photographic Resource Center at Boston University. She has served (or will soon be serving) as a reviewer for the Hyeres Festival in France, American Photography's 25, Center for Photography at Woodstock's Photography Now Competition, Center's Review Santa Fe, Houston's Fotofest, The New York Foundation for the Arts and Photo España's Descubrimientos PHE. She frequently participates on panels about art, technology, media and marketing. Appearances for 2009 include: IgniteNYC, Dot Dot Dot, South by Southwest in Austin and O'Reilly Media's Web 2.0 Conference. Appearances in 2008 also included South by Southwest and O'Reilly Media's Web 2.O conference, in addition to The New York Photo Festival . She was named an Innovator of the Year by American Photo in 2006 and was honored with the Rising Star Award at Griffin Museum of Photography's annual Focus Awards in 2008. She has served on benefit auction committees for Blind Spot and BAMart. Her writing has appeared in GOOD Magazine and photo-eye Booklist.

Born and raised in New York City, Christine Collins is a fine art photographer and educator currently based in Boston. Her work has been exhibited at Jen Bekman Gallery, where she is represented, The Griffin Museum of Photography, The Tang Museum, and was published in Adbusters.

Christine has a BA in literature from Skidmore College and a MFA in photography from Massachusetts College of Art + Design. She has been a guest lecturer at University of New Hampshire, Emerson College and Parsons/The New School of Design. Christine has taught at Massachusetts College of Art, is on the summer faculty of the Maine Photographic Workshops and is a member of the adjunct faculty at the Art Institute of Boston, where she teaches photography and art history.

Dana Faconti was born in New York City and studied photography and graphic design at Parsons School of Design where she received her BFA in 1998. In 1999, she began working with Blind Spot magazine where she is now the editor and publisher, as well as the executive director of Photo-Based Art, the non-profit publisher of the journal. She has presided over the design, production, and publication of several highly acclaimed book projects including: Chronologies and On The Beach by Richard Misrach, Wave Music by Clifford Ross, Guest by Christopher Bucklow, and Yours in Food by John Baldessari. Dana has also worked at the Aperture Foundation and with the Time Life Picture Collection.

Caterina Fake was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, attended Choate Rosemary Hall, Smith College, and graduated from Vassar College in 1991. After working at an investment bank, as a painter's assistant, on a crew shooting interstitials for Seinfeld and in a dive shop in Arkansas, she moved to San Francisco in 1994, where she started working in the nascent Web industry. In 2001, she moved to Vancouver, BC.

She is the co-founder of Flickr, a photo-sharing service developed by Ludicorp in Vancouver and acquired by Yahoo! in 2005. Flickr ushered in the so-called Web 2.0, integrating features such as social networking, community open APIs, tagging, and algorithms that surfaced the best, or more interesting content. Prior to founding Ludicorp, she was an art director at Salon.com and heavily involved in the development of online community, social software and personal publishing.

She has won many awards, including BusinessWeek's Best Leaders, Fast Company's Fast 50 and Red Herring's 20 Entrepreneurs under 35. In 2006, she was named to the Time 100, Time Magazine's list of the world's 100 most influential people, and appeared on the cover of Newsweek that same year. She sits on the board of Etsy, and advises many start-ups and new businesses. At Yahoo! she ran the technology development group, known for its Hack Yahoo! program, a stimulus to innovation and creativity, and Brickhouse, a rapid development environment for new products. Most recently, she co-founded Hunch.com.

Stephen Failey studied at the San Francisco Art Institute and received his BA from Bennington College. He has had solo exhibitions at 303 Gallery and the Julie Saul Gallery and group exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, the International Center for Photography, and the National Museum of American Art in Washington, DC. Stephen’s work has been reviewed in The New York Times, Arts Magazine, ARTnews, Artforum, The Village Voice, and The New Yorker, his portfolios have appeared in Artforum and The Paris Review. His work is in the collections of the Museum of Fine Art, Houston, the International Center for Photography, New York, and the Princeton University Art Museum.

Stephen has received two MacDowell Colony Fellowships, a National Endowment for the Arts Grant and an Aaron Siskind Foundation Grant. He has been a visiting artist at the Donald Judd Foundation and twice been nominated for a Louis Comfort Tiffany Grant. His critical writing on photography has appeared in Artforum, Print, and Art on Paper. He was the chair of the graduate photography program at Bard College from 1998 to 2004, and has been the chair of the photography department at the School of Visual Arts in New York since 1998.

In 2003, he founded the Auction for Photographic Education in Afghanistan to create a photography department at Kabul University. He is a co-founder of the Art+Commerce Festival, and was named one of the 100 most important people in photography by American Photo magazine in 2005. Stephen founded the twice yearly magazine of photography and writing, DEAR DAVE, in 2007 and is its editor in chief.

Raul Gutierrez has enjoyed an eclectic career in the visual arts. After receiving an art history degree from Princeton University, Gutierrez worked in Hollywood for producer Scott Rudin on both major motion pictures and Broadway plays. He moved on to become a well known web producer and consultant, working primarily with film and television properties. All along, Gutierrez has been a serious photographer whose work has been featured in many group shows; he was a Spring 2006 Hot Shot). Later that year, he opened a solo show titled Travels Without Maps at the Nelson Hancock Gallery. Gutierrez also authors the popular photography-themed blog Heading East. Last year, Gutierrez began working with Jen Bekman Projects, where he leads the technical team. His technical and production skills, his artist's sensibility and his unique understanding of the online photography community, have been made him an invaluable contributor to 20x200's launch and subsequent success. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and two rambunctious young boys.

Darius Himes is a founding member of Radius Books, a non-profit, Santa Fe-based organization created in 2007 that publishes books on the visual arts, where he works as an acquiring editor. Prior to that he was the founding editor of photo-eye Booklist, a quarterly magazine devoted to photography books, from 2002-2007. He is also a lecturer, consultant, educator and writer, having contributed to Aperture, Blind Spot, Bookforum, BOMB, PDN, and American Photo. He earned his BFA in photography from Arizona State University and a Master of Arts in liberal arts from St. John’s College and actively pursues his own photographic image-making. In 2008, he was named by PDN as one of fifteen of the most influential people in photo book publishing.

Jenni, the daughter of two artists, spent her childhood in studios, galleries, museums and art fairs. She got her BS in business marketing, and began working as an ad exec in Chicago. In 1990, however, she merged her birth-right passion for art with her career ambitions, taking an entry-level position at the Edwynn Houk Gallery.  Three years later, she was transferred to New York City, where her education in photography was nurtured under the wing of one of the medium's most prestigious gallerists. With Houk, she helped create and support markets for vintage twentieth-century photographers, as well as various contemporary artists - exclusively handling Sally Mann. She was the director of the gallery from 1998 until the day before her daughter was born in 2003, when she left the city to raise her family in France. Since then, Jenni has worked freelance for Galerie Karsten Greve (Paris) and Hans P. Kraus Jr. (NYC), as an art advisor to private collectors and emerging artists, and as a contributing editor to the anthology Fotolog.Book (Thames & Hudson, 2006).  In 2006, she and her French baby-daddy welcomed a son into the family. Les enfants terribles keep her busy, but with the help of the Internet, art fairs and frequent trips to New York, she manages to keep one eye on the art world at all times.

Having spent her career in the world of visual communications and graphic arts, Julia is always looking – looking at art, photography, film and the world around her. In 2008, after a long tenure as EVP/Creative Director for the American fashion company kate spade, she started her own business, Chance Studio, which develops, launches, and guides creatively-driven brands. Before joining kate spade in 1996, Julia led the team that launched one of the earliest and most successful publishing websites, papermag.com. The early years of her career were spent at Chiat/Day Advertising where she initially worked with Jay Chiat, managing his contemporary art collection, then taking on the responsibility of overseeing the virtual office build-out projects and handling all creative resources. Julia has a growing art collection of drawings and photographs that includes a favorite image of a deer captured by Jen Bekman Gallery artist, Dana Miller.

Nion McEvoy is chairman and CEO of Chronicle Books, LLC and of The McEvoy Group, LLC. Chronicle Books, based in San Francisco, California, is known for its excellence in design and production, and for the strong popular appeal of its titles. In addition, Chronicle Books creates note cards, calendars and stationery.

Mr. McEvoy joined Chronicle Books in 1986, serving as editor-in-chief of the adult trade division until he acquired the company through The McEvoy Group in February 2000. The McEvoy Group has since acquired becker&mayer! LLC, a dynamic book packager in Bellevue, Washington, and New York-based Spin magazine. The McEvoy Group is also a majority partner in San Francisco's Hartle Media, publishers of 7x7 magazine and California Home & Design magazine.

Mr. McEvoy worked previously in the business affairs departments of the William Morris Agency in Beverly Hills and of Wescom Productions. He is a graduate of the University of California at Santa Cruz and Hastings College of the Law. He is a commissioner for the Smithsonian American Art Museum and currently serves on the boards of the UCSC Foundation and the Photography Accessions Subcommittee of SFMOMA.

Lesley A. Martin is publisher of the book program at the Aperture Foundation. She has edited over sixty books of photography, including: Reflex: A Vik Muniz Primer; An-My Lê: Small Wars; My Life in Politics: Tim Davis; Istanbul: City of a Hundred Names by Alex Webb; Christian Marclay: Shuffle; Richard Misrach: On the Beach; Beate Gütschow: LS/S; and Paris-New York -Shanghai by Hans Eijkelboom. Martin is also the coauthor of two volumes on design, Graphicscape: Tokyo and Graphicscape: New York, and a contributing editor to Full Vinyl: The Subversive Art of Designer Toys.

In 2000, Kent Rogowski received his MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design where he is now a visiting critic. His first monograph, Bears, was published by PowerHouse books in 2007. In June 2007, he had his debut solo exhibition of the same name at Foley Gallery in New York City. In the summer of 2008, Rogowski's show, Love = Love, was exhibited at Jen Bekman Gallery. Rogowski's works are often provocative and whimsical manipulations of objects and images that surround us in our daily lives. From teddy bears, to jigsaw puzzles, to self help books, he uses and alters mass-produced consumer products as a vehicle for self expression. By transforming the generic into something personal, Rogowski questions what these products communicate and also what role they play in our culture.

Stefan Ruiz is a Brooklyn-based photographer. His work has been featured in numerous magazines, including: Colors (he also served as Creative Director in 2003), The New York Times Magazine, L'uomo Vogue, French Vogue and Rolling Stone. His photographs have been exhibited at the Havana Biennale (Cuba, 2003), Palais Tokyo (Paris 2003), Open Eye Gallery (Liverpool 2005), Centre Culturel Mexicain (Paris 2005), Impressions Gallery (UK, 2005), and Les Rencontres d'Arles (France, 2005). At Les Rencontres d'Arles he was nominated for the Prix Dialogue de l'Humanité.  In 2006, a monograph of his work, People, was published by Chris Boot LTD.  He is currently working on his second book about Mexican telenovelas.