Tommy Kha (b. Memphis, TN) is a photographer currently based in Brooklyn, New York. Kha holds an MFA in Photography from Yale University, where he currently teaches. He is a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow. He is previously a recipient of the Hayes Prize, Next Step Award, and Foam Talent, and NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow. He has had solo shows at Higher Pictures, Baxter St. at the Camera Club of New York, and Blue Sky Gallery. Kha’s work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Aperture, the New Yorker, among other publications. Currently, Kha studies kung fu under Sifu Ken Lo. He joined Higher Pictures in 2022. His first major publication, Half, Full, Quarter was published by Aperture in February 2023.  His first solo museum show opened at the Addison Gallery of American Art in September 2025. 

S. Billie Mandle is an artist and professor of photography at Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Her projects have been supported by fellowships from Light Work, Yaddo, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and a research grant from the University of California Los Angeles Archives. Her books include Reconciliation (Kehrer Verlag, 2020), Stellar Skytron (Dust Collective, 2020), Circumference (Dust Collective, 2024), and Asunder (TBW, forthcoming 2025). She was nominated for the Foam Paul Huf Award and the Prix Pictet. Her photographs are held in collections, including the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Addison Gallery of American Art, and the Museum of Fine Arts Houston. She previously taught at Hampshire College and has an MFA from MassArt and a BA in biology from Williams College.