John Saponara is the Founder of Picture Black Friday, and a New York-based photographer whose work often documents his family and daily life. Over the last year his work was featured in the Humble Art Foundation's Collector's Guide to Emerging Art Photography and on Rob Haggart's APhotoEditor blog.

Jake Stangel is a photographer and the founder/editor of the photo site too much chocolate. When not shooting or spending time outdoors, he works on projects that focus on the betterment of the online/offline photo community. Jake lives in Portland, OR.

Dr. Jörg M. Colberg was born in Germany in 1968. After studying physics/astrophysics, he moved to the US in early 2000. He is the editor of the blog 'Conscientious', one of the most widely read and popular blogs dedicated to contemporary fine-art photography.

Brian Ulrich is a photographer who has been examining consumerism and shopping culture in his project Copia since 2001. He has had solo exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art; the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; the Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago; the Julie Saul Gallery; and the Robert Koch Gallery. In 2009 he received a Guggenheim fellowship to continue his Copia project.

Stephen Frailey is a photographer that has had exhibitions at 303 Gallery, Julie Saul Gallery, The Museum of Modern Art, & the ICP. He is co-founder of the Art+Commerce Festival and is the Editor-in-Chief of Dear Dave. His writings have appeared in Artforum, Print, and Art on Paper. He has been the Chair of the Photo Dept. at the School of Visual Arts in NYC since 1998.  In 2003, he founded the Auction for Photographic Education in Afghanistan to create a photography department at Kabul University.

Amy Stein is a photographer and teacher based in New York City. Her work explores our evolving isolation from community, culture and the environment. She has been exhibited nationally and internationally and her work is featured in many private and public collections such as the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Photography, the Nevada Museum of Art, SMoCA and the West Collection.

Jon Feinstein is a photographer and curator based in NYC, and the co-founder and curatorial director of Humble Arts Foundation. He has organized numerous exhibitions throughout New York and recently oversaw the curation of Humble's publication "The Collector's Guide To Emerging Art Photography." For his own photography, he was a recent winner of Magenta Foundation's 2009 publication "Flash Forward".