René Sing Brooks

René Sing-Brooks, born on the Nicaraguan Caribbean coast in 1961, is a writer, photographer, and digital filmmaker living in Jackson Heights, New York. He arrived to the United States in 1992, invited by the State University of New York to be part of its one-year Oral History Program in the City of Buffalo.

From 1993 to 1995, Sing-Brooks worked for the Coalition for Economic Survival, a prestigious tenants rights organization based in Los Angeles, CA. Soon after his arrival to New York City in 2002, he became part of the Queens-based The Fortune Society —a human development and advocacy organization for people who have been incarcerated— joining its Education Program team and taking charge of Fortune’s computer literacy initiative. Seven years into what would become a fourteen-year tenure, Sing-Brooks developed a Multimedia Workshop that received funding from the New York City Department of Education and the West Harlem Development Corporation.

Rene Sing-Brooks has written for OpenStax at Rice University in Texas, for AM NEW YORK, and for the Pulitzer Center. He is a recipient of a 2020 Pulitzer Center fellowship and a graduate of New York’s LaGuardia Community College Photography Program.

Maylyn Iglesias

Born on the Lower East Side and raised in that neighborhood’s hip hop and punk community, Maylyn finds her images by walking (sometimes all night) fascinated by the things people do and leave behind and the endlessly creative ways they find to exist in the city. She is a self-taught photographer, her early sensibilities formed by 80’s graffiti, hip hop, punk, and her mother’s Salsa and Supremes records. Her work has been shown in New York City at Theater for the New City, The Clemente, Rivington Music Rehearsal Studios, Cameras for Science exhibit at LaGuardia Community College, and featured in Brooklyn vs. Hackney at Hackney Picture House, London. She is currently enrolled at LaGuardia Community College pursuing a Photography degree.

Shoshanna Soleyn

Shoshanna Soleyn was born and raised in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. She is a Commercial Photography major at LaGuardia Community College. She was first introduced to photography by a friend in 2016, and got her first camera in 2018. She then started to learn how to make images and wanted to learn more about photography. She enjoys doing portrait photography. Shoshanna's favorite photographer is Tyler Mitchell, and her favorite filmmakers are Issa Rae, Ava Duvernay, Spike Lee, and many more. She got accepted for LaGuardia’s Camera for Science for 2021. She looks forward to seeing where photography and film will take her in life. Shoshanna is graduating from LaGuardia Community College in June 2021 and will be attending Brooklyn College for Film Production in Fall 2021.

Jeremy Orozco

Jeremy Orozco is a photographer, born and raised in Woodside, Queens. He is currently studying to receive his degree in Commercial Photography from LaGuardia Community College. He is passionate about Photojournalism as well as cultivating images that speak and give light to subjects that are often overlooked. During the pandemic, he converted half of his room to a dark room area so that he could develop film from home. He loves traveling, and would go anywhere in the world as long as his camera accompanies him.​​ Once he has obtained his degree, Jeremy's goal is to work for a big publication based in NYC and move up in the photojournalism world.