Maria Siorba, is a visual artist based in Athens. She studied Communication (Panteion University), Graphic Design (AKTO), and Fine Arts (Athens School of Fine Arts). Her photographic work, deeply inspired by personal experiences and shaped by existential and psychological approaches, places particular emphasis on the management of atmosphere throughout the entire process of artistic creation. With a passion for poetic and symbolic language, she explores themes such as human communication, the complex issue of expression, and the multiple perspectives of reality and truth. She is also a free-lance photographer and retoucher. Recent exhibitions: Circulations Festival (FR), PhMuseum Days (IT), Athens Photo Festival (GR), PEP (BE, DE). She is part of Futures Photography since ’23, nominated by Void.

Marcel Top is a visual artist living and working between Belgium and London. After studying photography at Narafi (Brussels), he went on to take a master in photojournalism and documentary photography at the London College of Communication. Top researches the topics of mass surveillance, privacy, data collection.In his practice, he layers a traditional approach to documentary research with a more experimental use of new technologies (such as facial recognition, movement analysis, and deepfakes). The artist uses these technologies to visualise and examine scenarios in which people can protect themselves and their rights by gaining knowledge and reclaiming control of surveillance tools. Top has recently exhibited work in occasion of .tiff at FoMu (BE), Fotofestiwal (PL), La Mediatine (BE), Utopias Photofestival Lahti (FI), Der Greif 15th anniversary past and present (DE), Openwalls Arles at Gallerie Huit (FR), Archipel_0 at Contretype (BE), 3865Km to the West Mechelen (BE), PhEST (IT), PhMuseumdays (IT) and Photo OpenUp (IT),. His works are part of the collections of the University of the Arts London and the Institut pour la photographie Lille.

Ilias Lois pursued his education at the Department of Photography & Audiovisual Arts at the UniWA and furthered his studies at the School of Fine Arts in Venice. His artistic endeavours have garnered international recognition, with his works featured in institutions, festivals, and prominent photography publications. In addition to his artistic pursuits, Lois serves as editor of the photography magazine Velvet Eyes. He is also a regular contributor to the Athens Photo Festival, where he recently curated the exhibition Good Advice & Other Recipes at the Benaki Museum. His projects are inspired by the systematic observation of communication between people, the human manipulation of materials and technology and the body language. The artist’s approach pays close attention to the practices of transferring a three-dimensional world onto a two-dimensional surface, as well as to the reverse process that follows. In 2024, he received the Futures' Artist honour at the nomination of the publishing house Void.