Alyssa Schukar [she/her] is a Washington, D.C.-based photographer and writer. Her work is rooted in an interest in and love of people, and it's propelled by a desire to study and name the larger forces that affect people's lives. Alyssa works on assignment for national publications and is a contract storyteller at the nonprofit Feeding America.

She believes photojournalists advance and improve the industry by supporting each other. In 2019, Alyssa and two colleagues launched Prism Photo Workshop, which provides aid, education and advocacy for young photographers of diverse backgrounds. She is a returning faculty member at the Missouri Photo Workshop and has taught at several universities. She has also led photography workshops in New York City and at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago.

Alyssa is a native of the Great Plains and a proud graduate of the University of Nebraska.

TAY Kay Chin (aka Kay-Chin TAY to most of his American friends) is a Singaporean photographer who works mainly in the documentary and photojournalistic genres.

In 2003, he was named one of 12 Hasselblad Masters of the world, in recognition of his work Panoramic Singapore. The same year, he co-founded, together with Objectifs – Centre For Photography & Filmmaking, one of Southeast Asia’s first photography workshops, Shooting Home. From 2009 to 2015, he anchored the photojournalism modules at the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication & Information at Nanyang Technological University. In this capacity, he worked with many emerging photojournalists and documentary photographers on long-term visual storytelling projects.

In 2010, he co-founded PLATFORM, a photography collective to promote photojournalism and documentary work in Singapore through regular talks, panels and presentations at Sinema and the National Museum of Singapore. As a run-up to the 50th anniversary of Singapore attaining political independence, Kay Chin and the PLATFORM team launched the TwentyFifteen.sg initiative to publish 20 books, containing 15 images each, by 20 Singaporean photographers. From 2013, TwentyFifteen.sg published almost one book every month, culminating in an exhibition featuring all 20 books at Jendela (Visual Arts Space) at Esplanade–Theatres by the Bay in 2015.

In 2021, he co-founded Pictures of the Year Asia (POY Asia). Tay Kay Chin graduated from the University of Missouri School of Journalism in 1992.

Kim Komenich heads the photojournalism sequence in the Department of Journalism at San Francisco State University. In 2016 he published “Revolution Revisited: A Look Back at the 1986 Philippine People Power Revolution,” which is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning images he took for the San Francisco Examiner.

After graduating from San Jose State University in 1979, Komenich worked as a staff photographer for the Contra Costa Times. He went on to work as a photographer and editor for the San Francisco Examiner (1982-2000) and the San Francisco Chronicle (2000-2009). Komenich has photographed the ramifications of conflict in the Philippines, Vietnam, Guyana, El Salvador, the former Soviet Union and Iraq, where photos from his three trips to the Sunni Triangle in 2005 earned him the Military Reporters and Editors’ Association’s 2006 Photography Award.

He is a recipient of the national Distinguished Service Award from the Society of Professional Journalists, the 1983 World Press Photo News Picture Story Award and three National Headliner Awards. He is a 2005 recipient of the National Press Photographers Association’s Clifton C. Edom Education Award, and the 2010 recipient of the NPPA Humanitarian Award.

He was a 1993-94 John S. Knight Fellow at Stanford and a fall 2001 teaching fellow at the Center for Documentary Studies at U.C. Berkeley. In 2006 he was named a Dart Ochberg Fellow, working with the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma at Columbia University, curating photo exhibitions and giving presentations to journalists about the human toll of covering traumatic events.