Fortune (b.1994) is part of a new generation of photographers who are reclaiming America’s photographic history, uncovering the ways that racial injustice has acted in the past and the present to shape American visual identity. Both his editorial and his fashion work are rooted in classical social documentary photography, but he approaches this genre from a fresh perspective, pushing against some of its prevailing conventions. In place of images that spectacularise poverty and marginalisation amongst minority communities, Fortune incorporates elements of the vernacular in his practice in order to show the everyday lives of underrepresented individuals and groups.

Bieke Depoorter received a master’s degree in photography at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent in 2009. Three years later, at 25 years old, she was made a nominee of the photo cooperative Magnum Photos, where she was named a full member in 2016. 

Depoorter has won several awards and honors, including the Magnum Expression Award, The Larry Sultan award and the Prix Levallois. She has published five books: Agata, Ou Menya, I am About to Call it a Day, As it May Be, and Sète#15. She worked together with Aperture, Editions Xavier Barral, Edition Patrick Frey, Lannoo, Hannibal, and Le bec en l’air to publish these books. This year, Depoorter started her own publishing platform ‘Des Palais’, together with Tom Callemin.