Phil Scalia:  former locomotive engineer, has been a professional photographer for almost 40 years. His work has been published in the New Yorker, Elle Decor, Architectural Digest, Atlantic Monthly, Harpers, Vogue, National Geographic Traveler, Washington Post, New York Times, The Guardian and many others.  Since 2014 he has authored four publications: Studies in Racial Senescence (book, Bokeh Press, 2015), Collecting Scalps with Paul Bley  (interview, letterpress, Cherry Valley Editions, 2017), Scratch — Off Nation  (self-published book maquette, 2017), and  Little Falls But A Lot Goes Down  (Oblong Box, magazine, 2018).

Eero Ruuttila:  sometimes is a farmer, photographer, poet, and educator. Recent photos are posted on Allison Cekala’s online exhibition of post-Trump election sentiment: www.thisisrevolting.land. The NRCS Science & Training Library hosts Eero’s Cover Crop Management in Vegetable Systems webinar (www.conservationwebinars.net). Eero is speaking at the Southeast Alaska Farmer’s Summit late winter in Sitka, Alaska. He has a show of new photos at the Press Room in Somerville, Massachusetts early spring 2019.

Nicole Peyrafitte:  a pluridisciplinary artist born and raised in the Pyrenees.  Her processes include visuals, texts, live action, paintings, film, and cooking.  Latest projects include Things Fall Where They Lie, a 55 minute film with Yoko Otomo, Steve Dalachinsky, Eric Sarner, and Katalin Pataki and LandScape, a collection of text and photographs (Editions Plaine Page).  She resides in Brooklyn with her husband and often-times collaborator Pierre Joris.  More info at: www.nicolepeyrafitte.com

Beth Leonard:  co-owner, with Gary Lawless, of the Gulf of Maine bookstore in Brunswick, Maine. She spent the fall of 2017 in Venice, Italy taking pictures of the stones that came to Venice.