Tom Rankin

Director of the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. A photographer, filmmaker, and folklorist, Tom Rankin has been documenting and interpreting American culture for nearly twenty years. His books include Sacred Space: Photographs from the Mississippi Delta (1993), which received the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Photography, 'Deaf Maggie Lee Sayre': Photographs of a River Life (1995), Faulkner's World: The Photographs of Martin J. Dain (1997), and Local Heroes Changing America: Indivisible (2000).

Michelle Dunn Marsh

Michelle Dunn Marsh is an independent book designer and the director of Aperture West, a regional program of the Aperture Foundation. She has worked with Aperture since 1997, designing over thirty books, collateral materials, magazine issues, and exhibitions featuring a wide range of photography. An educator and advocate for photography and design, she serves on the advisory board to the Masters in Publishing program at Pace University in NYC.

Sylvia Plachy

Sylvia Plachy's books include Unguided Tour, for which she won an International Center of Photography Infinity Award; Red Light, and Signs and Relics. Plachy has had one-person shows at the Whitney Museum at Philip Morris, the Queens Museum, and the Minneapolis Institute of Fine Arts among other venues in the United States, as well as in Budapest, Manchester, Tokyo, Berlin, Vancouver, and Pingyau, China. She has received a Guggenheim fellowship and is regularly published in The New Yorker, The New York Times, the Smithsonian, GEO and The Village Voice, where she was on staff for over 20 years.