Michèle Vicat

Michèle Vicat has a broad history in the arts. She worked on the restoration of Islamic manuscripts in Iran and Egypt, after which she taught art history at the American University in Cairo, and then launched an online magazine on contemporary Chinese art while working for galleries dealing with contemporary art in Geneva and New York. She is currently on the board of CCJ (Collaborative Cataloging Japan) which is dedicated to documenting and preserving experimental films produced in postwar Japan.

William Dowell

William Dowell reported for both NBC News and ABC News before signing on as a Middle East correspondent for TIME Magazine, based in Cairo, Egypt and the Southeast Asia bureau chief for TIME, based in Hong Kong. He has reported from five continents—most notably the War in Vietnam, the Revolution in Iran, Civil War in Beirut, Afghanistan and Operation Desert Storm in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Iraq. He currently edits books and is handling international news as foreign editor for Who.What.Why. a not-for-profit news site based in New York. 

Jade Alderman

Jade Alderman is a studio artist working in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Alderman graduated from Tyler School of Art & Architecture with a BFA in Photography with Entrepreneurial Studies in 2023. She has worked in a variety of museums and institutes in Philadelphia including the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Fabric Workshop and Museum, Temple Contemporary, and Tyler School of Art & Architecture, as well as leading educational workshops, founding clubs, and directing photography in magazine publications. She explores themes in her work including identity, the figure, and femininity. Her process includes a combination of photography, screenprinting, risograph, bookbinding, and fiber.

2 histoire S

2 histoire S uses both photography and written text to explore vision, insights and culture as visualized and interpreted by different personalities. It is based on the idea that two people can look at the same thing and draw radically different conclusions about what it is that they are seeing.  Understanding, in short, is influenced both by one’s cultural foundation and by experience. While a photograph may be worth a thousand words, those words may clarify what the photograph was originally intended to say. As the project progresses, it will expand to invite a younger generation interested in photography and visual imagery to expand our reach.