Jonathan Michael Castillo is a photographer, visual artist, and educator whose practice spans photography, video, installation, and handmade paper to examine immigration, labor, debt, and the systems of government that shape everyday life.

He is a 2026 Guggenheim Fellow in Photography and the 2026 Joyce Foundation Artadia Awardee. He was the 2019-2021 recipient of the Diane Dammeyer Fellowship in Photographic Arts and Social Issues. Jonathan was included in the 2021 Hyde Park Art Center's Ground Floor Biennial in Chicago and was a finalist for the WMA Commission in Hong Kong. His work has been featured with The New Yorker, Wired, The Chicago Tribune, and CBS: Los Angeles. He has been interviewed on the BBC's “World Update” and Los Angeles public radio stations KPCC and KCRW.

Jonathan was commissioned to create a large-scale permanent installation of his work at O’Hare International Airport as part of the Terminal 5 expansion project. In 2023 he was commissioned to make work for the city of Chicago’s Citywide Plan in partnership with the Department of Cultural Affairs and the Department of Planning and Development. Work from that project was installed at Midway International Airport, City Hall and the Chicago Cultural Center.

Exhibitions include Opening Passages at the Chicago Cultural Center and A Lion for Every House at the Art Institute of Chicago. His work is held in the collections of the Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University, the DePaul Art Museum, and the Illinois State Museum, among others. His monographs include Car Culture (Skylark Editions, 2022) and Flags, Food & Faith (City of Chicago, 2025). Castillo holds a BFA from CSULB and an MFA from Columbia College Chicago.

Paul D'Amato was born in Boston where he attended Boston Latin School at the height of racial unrest and civil rights. He moved west to attend Reed College and claims to have learned as much from traveling cross-country - often by hitch-hiking and freight trains - as he did in class. After receiving an MFA from Yale he moved to Chicago where he discovered the community of Pilsen.

The pictures and writing D'Amato produced there were made into the book, “Barrio" published by the University of Chicago Press. His book of images made in the African American community on the west side of Chicago, entitled "Here/Still/Now" published by Kehrer Verlag, was awarded the Lucie Foundation Book Prize in 2018. “Rave” published by Skylark Editions in 2019, is about work made in the underground Techno scene in the early 90’s. He is now finishing work for two books: “Midway” and “The Train Riders”.

Paul D’Amato has been awarded numerous grants and fellowships including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Pollock-Krasner Fellowship, a Rockefeller Foundation Grant to Bellagio, Italy, and a number of Illinois Arts Council fellowships and his work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the High Museum and The Art Institute of Chicago among many others.

The visual artist Mehreen (Lali) Khalid explores the interstices between diaspora, displacement, identity, memory, and migration through her interdisciplinary practice. Working across photography, video, and text, Khalid engages with the nuanced dynamics of belonging, family, loss, and the quiet rituals of home. Her work often occupies the space between the public and private. Informed by personal experience, Khalid creates bodies of work that reflect on love and resilience.

Lali Khalid’s work has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions internationally. She was recently recognized as a Distinguished Fellow for the Penland School of Craft’s 2026 Winter Residency, and Khalid received the 2025–2026 Diane Dammeyer Fellowship in Photographic Arts and Social Issues from the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago. Her first monograph, Home. In my heart, beating far away, was published in 2021 by Artvoices Books. Khalid’s latest book, گوشۂ جگر کے نام، کچھ خط | Letters to Azan, was released in 2026 by Workshop Arts and shortlisted for Photo book Prize at  Les Rencontres d'Arles.

Born in Lahore, Pakistan, Khalid was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship in 2007 and she obtained her MFA in Photography from Pratt Institute. Khalid holds a BFA in Printmaking from the National College of Arts in Lahore. She is currently serving as a Visiting Artist in Photography at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and resides and works in Chicago, Illinois.

Colleen Plumb works in photography, video, books, installation, and public video projection. Her work examines relationships between humans, nonhuman animals, and the living world, exploring questions of captivity, coexistence, ecology, and justice. Plumb has published two books with Radius Books, Animals Are Outside Today (2011) and Thirty Times a Minute (2020). Through long-term projects that often involve collaboration with conservation and advocacy organizations, she investigates how cultural values shape our relationships with other species and the environment.

Plumb has projected videos in hundreds of public locations across the US and Europe, and recently at Art on The Mart in Chicago. Her work has appeared in LitHub, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Village Voice, Blow Photo, NYT LENS, Time Lightbox, Psychology Today, Oxford American, PDN, and Orion. Her 2021 installation, Surveilling Snow Lily, was a must-see in ARTFORUM gallery guide.

Plumb's work is held in several permanent collections and has been widely exhibited, including the Portland Art Museum, Milwaukee Art Museum, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Blue Sky in Portland, 21c, Oolite Arts in Miami, Southeast Museum of Photography in Daytona Beach, Jen Bekman Gallery NY, Edelman Gallery, Historic Water Tower Gallery, and Notebaert Nature Museum in Chicago. Plumb teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Dylan Yarbrough (b. 1991) is a documentary photographer and educator whose practice investigates power, dissent, and social issues. He is the recipient of the 2022–23 Diane Dammeyer Fellowship in Photographic Arts and Social Issues, a 2020–23 CPS Lives Fellowship, and the 2019 Stuart Abelson Fellowship.

His photographs are held in the collections of the Museum of Contemporary Photography, the Joan Flasch Archive, the Center for Creative Photography, CPS Lives, and the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. His work has been exhibited at institutions including the Cleve Carney Museum of Art, the Historic Arkansas Museum, the Glass Curtain Gallery, the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, and the Center for Creative Photography.

Dylan has taught photography at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Columbia College Chicago, and Lake Forest College. He is the editor of No-Type Magazine, an independent publisher of photography. He holds an MFA in Photography from Columbia College Chicago.