CONTRIBUTORS Matthew Hong Editor / Creative Director Primarily a poet, his books include I, Faust, Cities & Dust, and Exit Orpheus, as well as his forthcoming epic poem, Exoration. Matthew Hong is the Founder, Editor and Creative Director of Artpil. + The Artbox ART DESIGN COMMUNICATIONS The Artbox is an art, design & communications studio based in New York and Paris, specializing in interactive website creation, identity/logo design, and photography. + Ornella Mazzola Photographer Ornella Mazzola is born near Palermo in 1984 and grew up in the streets of this city, from which she inevitably inherited strength and fragility. She studied documentary cinema, photography and art history. + Beatrice Sacco Artist / Art Director Beatrice Sacco is an artist based in Turin, Italy. Exploring various media including sculpture and photography, her practice deals with contrasts and contradictions, showing the line between opposites and their intertwined connection. + Bill Phelps Photographer / Director Born in St. Paul, Minnesota, Phelps has built an impressive career lending his talents to Italian Vogue, French Marie Claire, Conde Nast Traveller UK, The New York Times Magazine, Fortune and Interview… + Benedetta Ristori Photographer Benedetta Ristori is a freelance photographer currently based in Rome. Her work focuses on the tensions that exist between forms, such as a human head or a geometric shape, and the space which they occupy. + Photo Boite Photography Organization Photo Boite is an organization promoting photography, recently adopted by ARPTIL to present its projects with higher visibility. Photo Boite collaborates with various organizations and contributes regularly to ARTPIL. + Michael Whelan Photographer Michael Whelan’s practice engages with some of the most pressing issues of our time. His work investigates behavioral experiences invoking a dialogue on the impact of the innovations of modernity. + Laure d’Utruy Photographer I am a French photographer based in Berlin. Formerly, I have worked and studied finance and business in Paris until I moved to London in 2013 to pursue a degree in photography… + Alessandro Zanoni Photographer After attending the Liceo Artistico and the graphic design degree at European Design Institute in Milan, I began my profession working in printing, publishing, design, and finally photography, focusing on the discovery of unusual and desolate urban landscapes. + Eléonore Simon Photographer Eléonore Simon’s work focuses on the poetry of city life, on the quiet and enigmatic moments that emerge in the midst of our chaotic and overwhelming urban environments. She currently lives in Valparaíso. + Alexandra Gilliams Photographer / Writer Alexandra Gilliams photographs environmental and fashion portraiture, as well as subjects on the street. She is currently working on her Masters in Paris and is an Associate at Artpil. + Emin Mathers Photographer Emin Mathers was born in Baku in 1990. From 2009, during his last year in Architecture and Construction University, he started to practice photography as a more realistic tool to share his observations. + Sarah Blesener Photographer Sarah Blesener is a documentary photographer based in New York City. Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, she studied Linguistics and Youth Development at North Central University. + Ken Aria Contributor Art, poetry, photography. Beauty… Publisher, collaborator with everything print, sometimes digital. Longtime friend and comrade. Aria Press. Contributor to Artpil. + Ekaterina Anchevskaya Photographer / Filmmaker Originally from Russia, Ekaterina finds her inspiration in her homeland and its distinct culture. She was preparing for film school before deciding to switch to Journalism and Spanish studies.. + Loo & Lou Gallery Art Gallery Committed both aside young talents and acknowledged artists, the Loo & Lou Gallery opened in June 2015 with two exhibition spaces : one in the Haut-Marais area and one off the Champs Elysées. + Paola Paleari Writer / Curator Author, editor and curator based in Copenhagen, her main area of interest is photographic language and its relations with contemporary visual culture and art practices, often intertwining art criticism with other forms of storytelling. + Davide Degano Photographer / Videographer I was born in Italy with a Colombian background, currently living in The Hague. I investigate the storytelling possibilities offered by the visual medium, a narrative which has a power that is often impossible to convey in written text. + Jinhyun Cha Photographer Jinhyun Cha is an artist working in documentary photography that explores Korea’s modern and contemporary history and the identity of the division of Korea between South and North Korea. + Stéphane Lagoutte Photographer After studying Fine Arts, he committed himself to documentary photography. From the field of news reporting, to the margins of society, he is interested primarily in the relationship between man and his environment. + Catherine Lemblé Photographer Catherine Lemblé is a photographer based in Brussels. She received her master’s in photography from Luca School of Arts Brussels. Her work is framed by the ever-changing relationship between man and the natural world. + Emilien Urbano Photographer Emilien Urbano is a documentary photographer. In 2012, having covered the struggles of refugees in Athens, he went to Syria, in the coastal region of Latakia, where he reported on the fight of FSA rebels against Al Assad’s regime… + Miss Aniela Photographer Miss Aniela is a fine-art photographer based in South East UK. Miss Aniela independently models for, directs, photographs and digitally processes her own images. “My images have become their own autobiography…” + Julie Hascoët Photographer Julie Hascoët is a young visual artist born in France. Her work has been shown on photo & publishing-related festivals, La Gacilly Photo Festival, Les Rencontres d’Arles, Tbilisi Book Days… + MYOP Photo Agency Agence MYOP represents a group of 19 photographic artists who bring together their differing visions of contemporary photography and who question today’s world through the stories they tell. + Thierry Clech Photographer Thierry Clech only uses silver-based photography and his pictures are exclusively black and white. He takes photographs during his travels: India, Japan, Nicaragua, Ukraine… + Wlasta Laura PHOTOGRAPHER Wlasta Laura (b. 1994, Znojmo) is a visual creative who is using photographic processes and images to realize her ideas. She is focused on photography, drawing, writing and video. +