Dr Jeannette Baxter is Professor of Modern and Contemporary Literature at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge. She is the author and editor of five books and numerous articles. Her forthcoming book explores the intersections of British surrealist literature and anti/fascism in the 20th and 21st centuries. Jeannette is Co-Director of a Day of Welcome, an annual day of action in schools that raises awareness of refugee migration.

Dr Lucy Soutter is an artist, art historian, critic and educator. She is Reader in Photography and Course Leader of the Expanded Photography MA at the University of Westminster. She is the author of Why Art Photography? (2018), and co-editor with Duncan Wooldridge of Writer Conversations (2023) and The Routledge Companion to Global Photographies (2024).
Photo: Eugenie Shinkle

Kim Shaw, is an American artist and curator who lives and works in London. She was Director of Brixton based NPO, Photofusion from 2015- 2024, Her most recent curatorial project was The Doughnut (W)Hole, a digital pavilion, part of the 7^th edition of The Wrong Biennale. She has chaired a number of panels, including “On the Making and Materiality of Photography” at London Art Fair and “On Photography” at The Photographer’s Gallery. And she has been nominated for the Royal Photographic Society’s 100 Heroines. 

Sarah-Jane Field is a UK-based artist and writer whose practice explores contemporary art, technology, and creative research. Her writing has been published in Lexiconia (2024), Source Magazine (2023), a blog contribution for [cloud] collective. She was co-producer, and website designer for The Doughnut(W)Hole Pavilion in The Wrong Biennale. Her work was awarded as part of FORMAT Photography Festival 2022.

Philip has worked as an educator for around 25 years, specialising in photography, teaching image production across a broad range of lens media, critical thinking, and professional practices. Philip has exhibited, curated exhibitions, and co-convened four conferences for FORMAT International Photography Festival since 2019. He continues to work on a long-term photographic portrait project, UKraine Lives, working with Ukrainians now living in the UK after being displaced by the full-scale invasion of their country in 2022. He is founder/designer for Philsamps, employing an experimental, creative, and historically revisionist ethos to the design and construction of guitar valve amplification. 

Dr Gemma Marmalade is an international visual artist, academic and researcher in performatively and the image. With twenty years in photography, education, internationalisation, and creative leadership, she is Associate Director of [cloud], Trustee for DASH Arts UK and Board Director for Two Queens Gallery in Leicester, UK to support growth for communities that are inclusive, supportive and equitable. Gemma is also proudly a co-founder of [cloud] alongside Dr Jane Boyer.