-Amelia Bookstein Kyazze

A.B. Kyazze has been a photographer and humanitarian worker since 1996. The main theme of her photographs has always been humanity and landscapes. As a student in Nepal during an instable political period, she became fascinated by the communicative power of graffiti and by the country’s strong landscapes.

The relationship between dramatic reality and human relations became the central theme of her work (see the site entitled Humanity in the Landscape, abkyazze.co.uk). As a photographer, writer and political analyst, she is constantly inspired by language, gestures and landscapes. Her travels to over 40 countries, many suffering disaster or conflict, are always informed by the paradoxes of the human condition and particularly by the contrast between the barbarism of war and the tenderness between mother and child.

Many of her strongest photographs are portraits of conversations – the direct relationship between subject and photographer. She has always brought her political analysis to these personal conversations, but being respectful of human dignity. Despite the fact that many of her most surprising photographs were taken during times of war or during natural disasters, the images rarely convey sufferance.

Her works depict the severity of war, but at the same time, the contribution and resilience of the community in reconstructing a bridge, a market where people shuck colored beans and where refugee children dance. In recent years she has begun exploring urban landscapes and models of abstract nature. The artist lives in London with her husband and son.

-Nadia Villa

Nadia Villa was born in Italy from a Russian mother and an Italian father. Since she was a little girl Nadia has always cultivated a love for travel, that deepened with time to become a love for different cultures. She began to travel after high school, first in Europe and then to southern parts of the world, where she learned to appreciate new places and above all new people.

For this reason, Nadia performs volunteer work during her travels. She collaborates with several local associations that address particularly sensitive social themes.

Her degree in "Social sciences for development cooperation, and relations among people" helped her develop a more objective and critical vision of places and people, a vision that she found needed to be expressed and communicated more and more.

Photography therefore become the tool used by Nadia to express her experiences, her emotions, and to capture both memorable places and the people who inhabit them. Her photographs are a ticket to an immobile and silent journey.

-Andrea Basile

Andrea Basile was born in Milan in 1982. He originally studied law, but then decided to concentrate on graphic art, training with Giuseppe Basile. Starting in 2002, Andrea began to work as a graphic designer at "gb studio" in Milan. Among other recent works produced in this field, we wish to cite the catalogue "Brasil.it" and "Senza Stile: Lorenzo Damiani allo Studio Museo Achille Castiglioni" ("Style-less: Lorenzo Damiani at the Achille Castiglioni Studio Museum").

In 2007 he began a personal photography research project and in a short time his work was published in famous architecture and design magazines, including Domus. He has taken part in numerous collective exhibits including "Festa del dialogo" at the Teatro Filodrammatici in Milan (May 2010) and “I Volti dell'Acqua” during the Milan 2012 Furniture Show, curated by Peppa Buzzi, and shown at the Provincial Building. In 2011 he collaborated with the Fondazione Milano per Expo 2015 in creating the art and graphic art auction catalogue for the Comic Art Museum in Milan.