Ben Garvin's is as a staff photographer at the Pioneer Press in St. Paul – where he recently started a regular photo column called Ant Farm – and teaches documentary photojournalism a the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Named "New Hampshire Photographer of the Year" for three straight years (2000-2002), the photographer spent 2003 in West Africa where he photographed stories for the Boston Globe and the Christian Science Monitor and wrote stories for the Pittsburgh Post Gazette and the Baltimore Sun.

His work has appeared in TIME, Newsweek, US News, People, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and many other national publications. He moved to the Twin Cities last year after his wife received a job teaching music at MacPhail Center for Music.

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Carlos Gonzalez is a Staff photographer at the Star Tribune in Minneapolis, MN. Carlos was born and raised in Northern California. He has interned at The Morning Call, Allentown, PA, The Baltimore Sun, and The Seattle Times before joining the Star Tribune staff. Carlos’ work has won regional and national NPPA, MNPA, CPPA, BPPA, SND and AP awards.

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Eric Hylden is a staff photographer at the Grand Forks Herald. He was chosen Photographer of the Year by the Dakota Press Photographer's Association five times and shared, with the paper’s staff, the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 1998 for coverage of the Flood of '97. As a member of the Herald staff, he also contributed images to its second place finish in the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News category, the same year he was nominated for LIFE magazine’s “Elsie” award.

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Brian Peterson is presently the photo coach and staff photographer at the Star Tribune. The Duluth native has been named Minnesota Press Photographer of the Year nine times and continues to focus his camera on issues that affect his home state. Peterson’s six-year documentary project of a rural Minnesota family’s struggle with AIDS was honored with a Robert F. Kennedy Award for Photojournalism, the Canon Photo Essay Award from the National Press Photographers Association and several other awards.

He has covered many national and international events and recently conducted a six-month photographic study of the pollution in the Minnesota River. His “Voices for the Land” newspaper feature was later collected into a book that won three 2003 Minnesota Book Awards. In 2004 Peterson began a documentary project titled “Witness – A photographic exploration of everyday life.” The Witness project seeks to explore the rich and diverse cities and rural communities of Minnesota, focusing on the celebrations, traditions, rituals and rites of passage that give our lives meaning.

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Cathy ten Broeke is a documentary photography and advocate for the homeless. Prior to this exhibit, her most recent work was ‘”Stories from Supportive Housing,” a documentary about people who have moved from homelessness into supportive housing. Ten Broeke has also taught photography to men and women experiencing homelessness and, with them, co-created a 164 image exhibit called “Perspective.” Revealing the daily lives and dreams of the homeless photographers, the project was shown at the Intermedia Arts, Minneapolis City Hall and the Hennepin County Government Center.

Ten Broeke’s career includes eight years as advocate and director of St. Stephen’s Shelter in Minneapolis and four years as policy aide to Hennepin County Commissioner Gail Dorfman. The 2004 Archibald Bush Foundation Leadership Fellow currently researches effective strategies for ending homelessness.

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