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 Kate Peters, born Coventry, England in 1980, gained a BA (Hons) in Photography at Falmouth College of Arts, Cornwall in 2002 before moving to London where she is currently based.
Her work has been exhibited worldwide and can regularly be seen in publications including Monocle, Exit, Guardian Weekend, The Independent New Review and The Telegraph.
Her portrait of Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks was featured on the cover of TIME magazine in December 2010 and will be included in the Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize exhibition in November 2011. Kate’s first solo exhibition ‘Stranger than Fiction’ was at the hpgrp Gallery in New York in February 2011. She has participated in numerous group shows including the Format Photography Festival in Derby, UK and the Darmstadter Tage der Fotografie in Germany. Several of her portraits form part of the permanent collection at the National Portrait Gallery in London.
Kate received the Magenta Foundation Flash Forward Award in 2007 and a recipient of the Metro Imaging bursary in 2002. Her project 'Holy Land' received best in book in Creative Review’s photography annual in 2009. Focusing on exploring the environments we, as humans inhabit on both physical and psychological levels, Kate’s most recent body of work ‘Yes, Mistress’ explores one of the more alternative sides of human existence, the world of the professional dominatrix.
 Yann Gross, born 1981, was born and currently lives in Switzerland. He graduated from ECAL (École Cantonale d'Art de Lausanne) in 2007. His work mostly focuses on identity issues and visual storytelling. In 2008, Yann was awarded with the "Photo Espana Descubrimientos" Prize and nominated as one of the 13 emerging artists of the year by American Photo magazine.
His most recent solo shows include "Horizonville" (exhibited in Winterthur, Madrid, and Vilnius in 2009 and Arles in 2011), "Lavina" (exhibited in Budapest in 2008) and Kitintale (exhibited in Biel and Breda in 2010 and Paris in 2011).
Yann is the 2010 recipient of the International Fashion & Photography Festival of Hyères (France) and in the same year, received a Swiss Federal Art Grants.
Yann Gross is a member of the artists network Piece of Cake.
His two recently published projects explore subcultures informed or influenced by fantasies of American culture. "Horizonville" focuses on the often incongruous Western-themed delights of the Rhone Valley in Switzerland, while "Kitintale" builds a picture of the community that gathers around east Africa's only skate park in a working class suburb of Kampala.
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