US photographer Adam Ekberg writes that in "calculated performances that intersect with photography’s documentary potential, I explore ephemeral occurrences. Making such humble events happen is alchemy of sorts, the transformation of the mundane into the poignant."

Below is an image entitled 'An aerosol container in an abandoned peach orchard 2012':

Alinka Echeverria writes "Fifty five years ago, young men from impoverished rural areas in the highlands of Cuba rose up against the dictator, Batista to join Fidel Castro’s rebel army. They had no weapons, supplies, nor guarantees of survival. Triumph seemed like a distant possibility, yet many claim they had nothing to lose. My project revisits the history of this remarkable revolution through the personal biographies of men, who despite dedicating their lives to their leaders, have remained anonymous and have never held positions of power."

Below is an image from her 'Cuba 1959: The Second Front' series:

Bryan Schutmaat was born in Houston Texas in 1983 and currently is based in Brooklyn, New York.  He writes about his 'Grays the Mountain Sends' project that it "combines portraits, landscapes and still lifes in a series of photos that explores the lives of working people residing in small mountain towns and mining communities in the American West."

Below is an image from his 'Grays the Mountain Sends' series:

4x5 field camera with Kodak Portra

Jill Mead writes "I was born and grew up in North Yorkshire.  My love of photography blossomed from expeditions with my family, taking pictures of abandoned farms on the North York Moors, capturing both beauty and poignancy in their dereliction. Imagining which one I might live in one day. Now I feel incomplete without a camera."

Below is an image from her 'Bangladesh honey hunt' series:

Nikon F100 with Kodak 400VC

Ron Jude was born in Los Angeles in 1965, grew up in the Pacific Northwest, and currently lives in upstate New York.  He writes about his 'Other Nature' series "The places in these pictures are transitional, and therefore nameless within the standard vocabularies of landscape: between the parking lot and the woods, the train-tracks and the stream, the highway and the field. They exist only as a result of the exigencies and limits of other things and forces."

Below is an image from his 'Other Nature' series:

4x5 field camera with Kodak Porta 160N

Erica Shires, a New York photographer is originally from Detroit and has also lived many years in Texas.  She writes that her 'Nova Scotia' series was taken during "a 3 week road-trip, camping and meandering all around Nova Scotia."

Below is an image from her 'Nova Scotia' series:

Mamiya 645 AFD with Kodak Portra

Justin Schmitz is currently studying photography at Yale University. He received his BFA in Photography from Columbia College Chicago in 2004. He writes that his series 'Patrick' "is a collaboration between my littlest brother and I. These pictures are a record of two brothers growing up.  We have made pictures together for over ten years and continue to make picture indefinitely." 

Below are two images from his series entitled 'Patrick':

6x7 camera

4x5 camera