Mona Chalabi is an award-winning writer and illustrator who uses data as the foundation for her work. 

By translating complex statistics, Mona has earned a Pulitzer Prize, a fellowship at the British Science Association, an Emmy nomination and recognition from the Royal Statistical Society. 

In recent years, her art has been exhibited at the Smithsonian Design Museum, the Tate, the Brooklyn Museum, and the Design Museum. Her writing and illustrations have been featured in The New York Times, The New Yorker and The Guardian where she is currently the data editor. Her work can also be found at The New Yorker, The Guardian, Netflix, NPR, the BBC and National Geographic.

Mona is currently writing a book about the ways we talk about money. She is also the executive producer and creative director of an animated TV show with Ramy Youssef, A24 and Amazon Studios. She studied international relations in Paris and Arabic in Jordan.

Giles Price’s work looks at situations of exception and extremity by exploring the boundaries of documentary practice (experimental documentary). This includes using different types of machine vision and other lens based technologies.

Price has BA Hons in Photographic Studies from the University of Derby, UK and has had his work exhibited at The Photographers Gallery, London, UK, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK, Imperial War Museum, London, UK, Australian War Memorial, Canberra, Australia, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, New Zealand, The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China, The International Center of Photography, New York, USA, Mucem, Marseille, France; Musei San Domenico, Forli, Italy and Saatchi Gallery, London, UK.

His photographs are held in permanent collections at the National Portrait Gallery and Imperial War Museum in London.

Price is a contributor to numerous international publications including National Geographic, The New York Times Magazine, Bloomberg Markets, FT Weekend Magazine, Guardian Weekend Magazine, The Sydney Morning Herald and Telegraph Magazine among others.

He currently lectures at London College of Communication on the MA Photojournalism and Documentary Photography course.

Price has BA Hons in Photographic Studies from the University of Derby, UK and has had his work exhibited at The Photographers Gallery, London, UK, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK, Imperial War Museum, London, UK, Australian War Memorial, Canberra, Australia, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, New Zealand, The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China, The International Center of Photography, New York, USA, Mucem, Marseille, France; Musei San Domenico, Forli, Italy and Saatchi Gallery, London, UK.

His photographs are held in permanent collections at the National Portrait Gallery and Imperial War Museum in London.

Price is a contributor to numerous international publications including National Geographic, The New York Times Magazine, Bloomberg Markets, FT Weekend Magazine, Guardian Weekend Magazine, The Sydney Morning Herald and Telegraph Magazine among others.

He currently lectures at London College of Communication on the MA Photojournalism and Documentary Photography course.

Jo Webster is the Global Managing Editor for Visuals at Reuters. She creates and executes strategy for the pictures and video teams, driving distinctive visual journalism which has been recognised with a raft of awards, including a Pulitzer Prize and Royal Television Society accolades. Prior to this role she was Managing Editor for Strategy and Operations with EMEA. Jo joined Reuters in 2009 as a senior producer for Insider Financial TV. In 2015 she launched Reuters TV – a flagship consumer TV product. Jo is a trustee and deputy chair for the National Council for the Training of Journalists in the UK.

David Birkin is a visual artist and writer. He is a Senior Lecturer teaching on both the BA and MA in Photojournalism and Documentary Photography at London College of Communication.

David is the co-founder of Visible Justice, a transdisciplinary research platform for artists, activists, journalists, photographers, and human rights lawyers working at the intersection of visual culture and social justice.

He studied at Oxford University and the Slade School of Fine Art, and was a fellow of the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program and the Art & Law Program in New York. He is currently a PhD candidate in the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths College, University of London.

Combining conceptual and archival photographic practices with large scale interventions into public space, much of David's work reflects on the legacies of imperialism, representations of war, and the apparatus of state power: its mythology, iconography, and the language and legal frameworks that underpin it. At its core is a concern for censorship and the edges of visibility, often focusing on omissions, redactions, glitches, or slips in the smooth surface of a political system to disclose a deeper ideological drive.

He has exhibited internationally including at The Mosaic Rooms, London; MOSTYN, Wales; the Benaki Museum, Athens; MUDAM Museum of Modern Art, Luxembourg; Fotomuseum, Antwerp; Société d’Électricité, Brussels; the Kunstihoone, Tallinn; Photomonth, Krakow; FotoFest, Houston; and the Whitney Museum ISP, New York.

Sarah Eckinger is a photo editor on the International Desk at The New York Times. Before joining The New York Times in 2018, Sarah was a photo editor at Hearst, working on several of their magazines including Elle, Esquire, Cosmopolitan and Town & Country. Sarah graduated from Yale University in 2015 with a BA in Visual Art, and in the History of Science, Medicine, and Public Health. She is from Birmingham, Alabama, and currently resides in London.

Dr. Felipe Bonow Soares is a Senior Lecturer in Social Analytics for the Communications and Media Programme at London College of Communication. Felipe earned his PhD in Communication and Information from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil in 2020. In his doctoral research, he focused on the emergence of the public sphere on social media, particularly looking at problematic dynamics such as polarization, disinformation and intolerance.

Before joining LCC, Felipe was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Social Media Lab (Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada). Felipe has been working on multi-year initiatives in the area of anti-social behaviour and misinformation on social media with an international team of researchers. Broadly, his research interests include online discourse, political communication, social media, disinformation, and online anti-social behaviour. His work has appeared in highly regarded scholarly journals such as Social Media + Society, International Journal of Communication, Social Network Analysis and Mining, and the Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review.

Maya Baylis is a London-Based Canadian multimedia journalist with a background in social work. Drawing on her experience in mental health care and child welfare, she brings critical investigative skills and a keen interested in underreported voices. Now pursuing a Master’s in Social Justice Journalism at UAL, she’s focuses on video journalism covering systemic inequality, current events, politics, and human resilience.

Dr. Jennifer Good is a writer and an academic at the London College of Communication, where she is a Senior Lecturer on BA (Hons) Photojournalism and Documentary Photography and MA Photojournalism and Documentary Photography.

Jennifer originally trained as a printmaker and textile artist before completing her PhD in Visual Culture Studies at the University of Nottingham. She has also worked as a researcher for the UK Government Art Collection and as a faculty member at the Foundation for International Education, London. She has been teaching at LCC since 2009.

Jenny has written and contributed to a number of books on photography and conflict and writes regularly for photography magazines and journals. As research co-ordinator at LCC, she has organised a range of research events, and is regularly invited to speak about her work at galleries and conferences across the UK.

Her research interests include photography and conflict; history and memory; trauma theory and psychoanalysis, and media representations of the War on Terror, as well as pedagogies of reading and writing.

In 2017 she published Understanding Photojournalism (co-authored with Dr. Paul Lowe), and continues to develop her interest in pedagogic theory, focusing on issues of power, gender and engagement in Higher Education.

Crofton Black is a writer and investigator specialising in technology and security topics. He is a senior reporter and editor with the collaborative investigative newsroom Lighthouse Reports. He has an academic background in the history of philosophy, which he studied at the Warburg Institute in London. He then worked as an open source investigator at the NGO Reprieve, uncovering the logistics network behind the CIA rendition and secret detention programme. He currently works principally on the surveillance technology industry. He has produced two forensic art books with Edmund Clark, Negative Publicity (2016) and Cosmopolemos (coming soon).

Marija Ristic is a Manager in the Amnesty Internation Crisis Response Programme, running the Digital Verification Corps. She is an investigative journalist with experience in media development, war crimes reporting, open-source research and emerging technologies. She has taught open-source research and evidence at Bard College Berlin. Before joining Amnesty, Marija was an award-winning journalist and led an investigative media non-profit focused on Southeast and Central Europe.

Dr Samaneh Moafi is Forensic Architecture’s Assistant Director of Research where she provides conceptual and methodological oversight across projects. Since joining in 2015, Samaneh has overseen the Centre for Contemporary Nature (2019-2022), and led high-profile investigations, including Grenfell Tower Fire: Situated Testimonies (2018-2024),  Ecocide in Gaza (2023-2024) and The Killing of Hind Rajab (2024 – 2025)

Samaneh’s PhD thesis, titled Home Rebellion, examined spatial practices of struggle and resistance with a particular focus on gender and class relations in Iran.

Before joining FA, Samaneh practiced as an architect in Australia, taught BA Architecture at the University of Technology, Sydney, MArch Urban Design at the Bartlett School, University College, London, and led a number of short courses at the Royal College of Arts and the AA.

Dr Edmund Clark is an artist interested in linking history, politics and representation. His research based work combines a range of references and forms including bookmaking, installations, photography, video, documents, text and found images and material. Recurring themes are visualising state power and experiences, spaces and processes of control in contemporary conflict and other contexts. Clark spent five years as artist-in-residence in HM Prison Grendon, Europe’s only wholly therapeutic prison for violent and sexually violent offenders. He has a PhD by Published Work and is Reader in the Political Image at the London College of Communication, University of the Arts London.

Anna Skurczynska is a solicitor with extensive experience in the visual arts industry, and the understanding of commercial drivers underlying intellectual property rights. With broad transactional and multi-jurisdictional expertise, she focuses on issues arising in digital distribution of copyright works and IP and artificial intelligence (AI). She is a founder director at Open Plan Law, a specialist IP and commercial lawboutique. Anna teaches media ethics and media law on the BA Photojournalism and Documentary Photography, and the foundations of copyright and contract law at the MA in Commercial Photography courses at the London College of Communication.

Fred Ritchin is a writer, editor, educator, curator, and software developer. He is the dean emeritus of the School at the International Center of Photography; was professor of Photography & Imaging at New York University (1991-2014) where he co-founded the Photography and Human Rights program with Susan Meiselas and the Magnum Foundation; was picture editor of The New York Times Magazine (1978-82)and executive editor of Camera Arts magazine (1982-83); and has written four books on the future of imaging, including  In Our Own Image: The Coming Revolution in Photography (Aperture, 1990),  After Photography (W. W. Norton, 2009), Bending the Frame: Photojournalism, Documentary, and the Citizen (Aperture, 2013), and The Synthetic Eye:Photography Transformed in the Age of AI (Thames and Hudson, 2025).

In 1999 he co-founded and directed PixelPress, an online publication and a collaborator on human rights initiatives, including one to end polio globally with UNICEF, the World Health Organization, the Centers for Disease Control, and Rotary International, and another to advance the Millennium Development Goals with UNFPA. He also curated “An Uncertain Grace,” the first mid-life retrospective of the work of Sebastião Salgado at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, conceived and edited the first non-linear online documentary, “Bosnia: Uncertain Paths to Peace,” with photographer Gilles Peress (nominated by the New York Times in 1997 for the Pulitzer Prize in public service), curated the first exhibition of contemporary Latin American photography in the United States in 1987, and more recently co-curated two exhibitions on Ukraine soon after the Russian invasion. He also created the first multimedia version of the New York Times newspaper in 1994-5, and conceived of the Four Corners Project, an open-source software that can be used to increase the credibility of the photograph. 

Ritchin is also the co-founder of Writing With Light, an organization advocating for nonfiction photography, and is president of the Catherine Leroy Fund. He also writes a weekly column on Substack, “Notes of a MetaPhotographer.” Ritchin lives in New York and Paris.

Sophie Nicholson co-founded a global digital investigation service of 150+ people at Agence France Presse and built up and led an award-winning training and video team.

Currently Sophie works on AFP's AI initiatives - leading a team of AI ambassadors looking at AI literacy: including AI reporting, responsible newsroom adoption and synthetic-media detection. Previously Sophie worked in radio, TV and newswires, including as a foreign correspondent, mainly in Latin America and France. She started out as a local radio reporter in the UK.

Sophie's expertise includes writing, broadcasting, editing and training.She has taught at French journalism schools, in English and in French, and volunteers for Entre Les Lignes, an association aimed at bringing media literacy to school children.

Jennifer Kanis is a Principal Lawyer at the Australian Law Firm Maurice Blackburn Lawyers where she leads their dedicated social justice practice, through which much of their pro bono work is conducted. Jennifer worked on the project Exhibit Ai: The Refugee Account in which Ai images accompany 32 statements from refugees held on Manus Island, Nauru and Christmas Island. The statements were taken in the course of litigation against the Commonwealth of Australia.

Daniel Alexander is an educator, visual practitioner and researcher. Based at the London College of Communication Daniel is the  Co-Programme Director of the Photography programme and a Reader in Expanded Photographic Practice.

Daniel’s practice based research uses photography, moving image, 3D scanning and other expanded imaging technologies in the creation of long form projects, disseminated through exhibitions, short films and books.

Previous research has explored the role the image plays in commemoration and memorialisation in projects including Brains: The Mind as Matter, commissioned by and exhibited at the Wellcome Collection and When War is Over, exhibited internationally and published as a monograph by Dewi Lewis Publishing.

Scales of Resistance, a film made in collaboration ScanLab Projects and a team of surface chemists and microbiologists from the University of Nottingham developed methods for visualising scientific data gathered by different ‘seeing’ machines at the different stages of the study and prevention of antimicrobial resistance.

Daniel's current research focuses on the social, cultural and political use of the vertical perspective in photography and imaging.

Daniel is the owner and creative director of Ottoby Press and collaborates with artists, curators and photographers on the design and publication of distinctive book projects.

Ximena Borrazas is a documentary photographer born in Montevideo, Uruguay, on 20 October 1992, currently based in Barcelona since 2019.

​Ximena’s work focuses on documenting armed conflicts, migration and humanitarian crises and human rights violations. Her work has been published in some of the world's most relevant media outlets including National Geographic, The Guardian, BBC, CNN, DW, Le Monde, Al Jazeera and exhibited by organisations such as UNESCO and IOM.

Kiana Hayeri (b.1988) grew up in Tehran, Iran, and moved to Toronto as a teenager. She took up photography to bridge cultural and linguistic gaps. In 2014, she moved to Kabul, staying for eight years. Her work often explores migration, adolescence, identity, and sexuality in conflict zones.
Kiana has received numerous prestigious awards, including the Tim Hetherington Visionary Award (2020), the James Foley Award for Conflict Reporting (2020), the Robert Capa Gold Medal (2021), and the Leica Oskar Barnack Award (2022), the Carmignac Photojournalism Award (2024), and the World Press Photo Prize (2025). She was part of The New York Times team that won The Hal Boyle Award (2022) and was shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize in International Reporting.  Kiana is laureate of the 14th Carmignac Photojournalism Award. In 2024, she published a photobook “When Cages Fly” which was shortlisted for Rencontres d’Arles Author Book Award, IPA Photobook Awards, a finalist for Lucie Photobook Award and APhF Pick:24 Book Award and the winner of The Photography Book of the Year by POY (Picture Of the Year).
Kiana is a TED fellow, a National Geographic Explorer grantee, and a regular contributor to The New York Times. She is currently based in Sarajevo, covering stories from Afghanistan, Syria, the Balkans, and beyond.

Julia Kochetova is a Ukrainian photojournalist, documentary filmmaker, game-changer, troubled daughter, and sometimes punk. She is currently reporting from Ukraine.

Julia studied journalism at Taras Shevchenko National University (UA) and Mohyla School of Journalism (UA), participated in IDFA academy (NL). As a freelancer, she covered the Maidan revolution (2013-2014), the annexation of Crimea (2014), and Russia-Ukraine war (2014-now).

Julia is part of the generation of the revolution & war. Her work from the conflict zone was presented at personal and group exhibitions in UK, USA, France, Netherlands, Italy, Germany, Serbia, Portugal and all over Ukraine. In her documentaries, she researchs topics of home, post-trauma, and occupation. The main interest she has is to film the person in transition.

Since 24 Feb 2022 Julia has been writing a visual diary via Instagram – @seameer, because she really believes in firsthand storytelling. Her recent war coverage was presented by Adobe Lightroom and Fotografiska gallery. She is proud to share the story of my country via the best media outlets: Vice News, Der Spiegel, Zeit, Bloomberg, Vanity Fair, The Guardian, FP, Reuters, NBC.

Alexia Singh is a Senior Lecturer in Photojournalism and Documentary Photography at London College of Communication, University of the Arts London (UAL). She spent two decades at Reuters News Agency, where she managed picture desks in London, Paris, and Singapore, through major global events including the death of Pope John Paul II, the Iraq War, and the 2016 migrant crisis. In 2010, she was appointed Editor-in-Charge of The Wider Image, Reuters’ Emmy award–winning visual storytelling showcase. She has also worked as a picture editor and multimedia producer for Magnum Photos, WaterAid, the Disasters Emergency Committee, and Save the Children. She is the editor of In the Moment: 40 Years of Reuters Photojournalism (Thames & Hudson, 2025).

Yiel Awat is a South Sudanese refugee journalist and media information literacy educator based in Kakuma refugee camo, Kenya, where he works at the intersection of storytelling, ethics and representation amplifying community voices that are often left out.

Sahat Zia Hero is a a photographer, writer, human rights activist, and the founder of Rohingyatographer Magazine. In 2023, he received two significant recognitions for his work on this project: the Prince Claus Seeds Award and Nansen Refugee Regional Award.

 Born in 1994 in Maungdaw, Arakan, Myanmar, he was on a path to study Physics at Sittwe University, however, systematic discrimination against the Rohingya community curtailed his academic journey. Forced to flee Myanmar with his family in August 2017, he now lives in the refugee camp in Bangladesh. There, he initially served as a team leader for the Danish Refugee Council and currently balances freelance photography for NGOs and media outlets with managing the magazine project and working at the Rohingya Cultural Memory Centre.

He is a recurring contributor to the Rohingya Photo Competition. His work has been showcased in venues such as the Oxford Human Rights Festival, Liberation War Museum, Cox’s Bazar Cultural Centre, Head On Photo Festival in Sydney, and the Rohingya Centre of Canada.

Ivy Lahon is a communications and content specialist with 18 years’ experience commissioning award-winning creative content for NGOs and national editorial titles. Ivy is currently head of creative content and stories at Save The Children and oversees comms for fundraising and campaigns across print, online and digital. She is passionate about innovative, authentic and ethical humanitarian storytelling and producing strategic, world-class multimedia content that amplifies brand, engages audiences and inspires them to act. She has produced large scale, long term multimedia projects worldwide and oversees a team that is linked closely to the children Save works with globally. Prior to moving to NGO’s, Ivy worked as associate picture editor at The Independent and ‘i’ paper for ten years commissioning reportage, portraiture and features photography during some of the biggest breaking global news stories of the decade. In the past she has picture edited for The Guardian and Time Out and spent 2 years working with Amnesty International on photographic projects including the first book by former Amnesty Secretary General Irene Khan and the imagery for Amnesty’s 50th anniversary in 2011. She is a visiting lecturer in Photojournalism at UK universities and is a mentor for young photographers at the London College of Communication.

Jess Crombie is thought leader and innovator in the field of ethical storytelling, with over twenty-five years' experience creating some of the most innovative and award winning content in the humanitarian sector, in roles including Global Content Director for Save the Children. Currently working as a researcher and scholar at the University of the Arts London (UAL), and the London School of Economics (LSE) and a consultant for leading humanitarian and development organisations, Jess' research focus investigates the potential for power shifts by seeking out the opinions and ideas of those with lived experience of humanitarian scenarios and co-creating story gathering actions and outcomes.  

Jess has regularly published her research, most notably the ground-breaking research reports ‘The People in the Pictures’ (2017), ‘Who Owns The Story’ (2022) and 'Rethink, Reframe, Redefine' (2024), each of which was read and embedded widely across the humanitarian sector, and which redefined the relationship between the humanitarian story producer and the idea of story 'subject'. Jess founded and now co-chairs the Bond sponsored 'Ethical Storytelling working group', with a membership of 500+ professionals from across 150 INGOs the group aims to bring about sector wide change towards more ethical practices in the creation and use of humanitarian and development stories. Jess is also a Trustee of One World Media, and a non-executive board member for the creative agency for change, Don’t Panic.Item description

Dr Vicki Thornton is Acting Co-Programme Director for Photography and Course Leader and Senior Lecturer on the BA (Hons) Photojournalism and Documentary Photography course at London College of Communication. As a visual artist and filmmaker, her work combines documentary and fiction filmmaking approaches to examine relationships between site, cultural memory, performance, and identity.

Vicki holds a PhD in Film Practice from Queen Mary University of London (2025) and an MA in Photography from the Royal College of Art, London (2011). Her doctoral research, supported by Creative Europe, the British Council in Ukraine, the House of Europe, and the Ukrainian Cultural Fund, examined the decolonisation of Ukraine’s politics of memory between 2014 and 2022 through an analysis of documentary films and artists’ moving image projects produced during and after the Maidan Revolution.

Vicki worked extensively in Ukraine between 2016-2022: directing and producing documentary film projects in Donbas, Kyiv and Lviv (2018-2021); co-directing the interdisciplinary musical film performance, Antratsyt: Perseverance Day at the Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Centre, Kyiv (2021); exhibiting at Yermilov Centre, Kharkiv (2018); developing creative work as artist-in-residence at IZOLYATSIA Platform for Cultural Initiatives, Kyiv as part of the British Council and the Liverpool Biennial’s SWAP UK/Ukraine artists’ residency scheme (2017-2018); and participating in the British Council Ukraine, Sheffield Doc/Fest and Docudays UA International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival’s DocWorks UA: UK documentary development programme (2016-2017).

Her work has been shown in gallery exhibitions, film festivals and documentary film markets worldwide, most recently at Go Short International Short Film Festival, Netherlands; PhotoIreland Festival, Dublin; When East Meets West, Trieste; Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Czech Republic; Sheffield Doc/Fest, UK and Docudays UA, Kyiv, Ukraine; PÖFF Black Nights, Tallinn, Estonia; and DOKLeipzig, Germany.