Nina Berman (@nina_berman, www.ninaberman.com) is a documentary photographer and filmmaker whose work examines the militarization of American life and the aftermath of war and trauma. Exhibitions include: the Whitney Museum of American Art 2010 Biennial, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Portland Art Museum, the Wellcome Collection (UK), Dublin Contemporary and the Musée de la Photographie in Belgium. She is the author of Purple Hearts – Back from Iraq (Trolley, 2004), Homeland (Trolley, 2008), and An Autobiography of Miss Wish (Kehrer, 2017) which was shortlisted for the Rencontres d’Arles PhotoText and Paris Photo/Aperture book awards. Fellowships and grants include the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, the Aftermath Project grant, Hasselblad, the Open Society Foundation and the War and Peace initiative at Columbia University. 

Jennifer Karady (@jennifer_karady, www.jenniferkarady.com) is an award-winning artist who works primarily in photography, film, and video and sound installation. Her acclaimed project, Soldiers’ Stories from Iraq and Afghanistan, has been exhibited widely, including at the Palm Springs Art Museum, MASS MoCA, the University of Michigan, Berman Museum of Art, SF Camerawork, and University of Denver. Her work has been featured on PBS NewsHour and National Public Radio, in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, Kunstbeeld, Polka, reviewed in Frieze, and published in books such as Suffering from Realness, Art and Agenda and Bending the Frame. Public collections include LACMA, San Francisco MOMA, The Albright Knox Gallery, Palm Springs Art Museum, and Smith College Museum of Art. Karady’s numerous residencies and awards include the Roman J. Witt Residency at the University of Michigan, the Francis Greenburger Fellowship for Mitigating Ethnic and Religious Conflict at Art Omi, MacDowell, Yaddo, The Headlands, and grants from New York State Council for the Arts, Compton Foundation, and Getty Images. Most recently, her short documentary film, Soldiers’ Stories from Iraq and Afghanistan: The Artist’s Process won the Humanitarian Award at the Fine Arts Film Festival, Honorable Mention at the International Fine Arts Film Festival and Karady was nominated for Best First-time Filmmaker at the GI Film Festival. 

Debi Cornwall (@debicornwall, www.debicornwall.com) is a conceptual documentary artist who returned to visual expression in 2014 after a 12-year career as a civil-rights lawyer. Marrying dark humor with structural critique, she uses still and moving images along with testimony and archival material to examine the performance of militarized American power in the post-9/11 era. Her photo books, Welcome to Camp America: Inside Guantánamo Bay (Radius, 2017) and Necessary Fictions (Radius, 2020) explore American “statecreated realities,” from the notorious offshore War on Terror prison and its global diaspora to the domestic military sites hosting immersive, realistic wargames. Debi’s work is exhibited internationally and has been profiled in Art in America, Hyperallergic, the New York Times Magazine, the Los Angeles Review of Books, the British Journal of Photography, Polka, and European Photography Magazine. Honors include a NYSCA/NYFA Fellowship, a Leica Women Foto Project Award, and a Harpo Foundation Visual Artist grant; shortlists for the W. Eugene Smith Fund Memorial Grant, Tim Hetherington Trust Visionary Award, Paris Photo-Aperture First Photo Book Prize and Rencontres d’Arles Photo-Text Book Award; and nominations for the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize, ICP Infinity Award, and Baum Award for an Emerging American Photographer.