Paola is a French photojournalist and documentary photographer. Studying political science and urban development, she explores topics of social and environmental justice through photography. Her documentary work ranges from the use of waste management as a development lever in Benin, to the life of an undocumented Afghan refugee in Canada, the cult of ancestors in the Voodoo religion, or the stories of binational couples separated by the pandemic.

Lydia Metral (Grenoble, 1986) was one of the 2021 Feminist Pride Contest winners. Discover their latest series titled, “It Takes Time to Heal.”

Renata Crespo graduated Bachelor of History from the University of Havana in 2019, Renata simultaneously studied photography at the School of Creative Photography of Havana. In 2016 she enrolled the National Geographic Photo Camp that took place in November of that year, as part of the cultural exchanges that were maintained during the so-called ‘‘Cuban thaw’’ (normalization of the relations between Cuba and the United States), started by the Obama administration. Renata has participated in four group exhibitions and threw her first solo exhibition, ‘‘Unusual people’’ in April 2019.

Alisa Gorshenina (alice hualice), 27 years old. Alisa was born in Yakshina village in the Urals. At present she lives in Nizhny Tagil. Alisa graduated from the art faculty of the Nizhniy Tagil Social and Pedagogical Institute. She works with a variety of mediums, such as: painting, graphics, textile sculptures, video art, animation and digital collages. Alisa was a member of the Tagil art group SECONDHAND from 2013 to 2016. In 2018 Alisa was the winner of the programme ‘Vslet at VDNH’ and she opened her personal exhibition ‘Uralskaya Shkura’ in the Hydrometeorology pavilion of VDNH. In the same year Alisa participated in Sondre Green – the Norwegian residence for textile artists.

Sol Bela is a 25 years old photographer and Director stablished in Barcelona, Spain. She has wide clientele including Facebook, Adobe, Pinterest, Getty Images, Adidas, Beats By Dre, Polaroid and many more. Sol Bela also collaborated and has been featured in incredibles magazines like The New York Times, I-D Magazine, Vice, Metal Magazine, Paper Magazine, etc. Sol’s work was born because of the lack of cultural references while growing up in the African diaspora and her goal is to create space for POC in media on her creative journey.

In early 2019, Daniela left a fifteen-year career in finance to pursue crypto-trading full-time. She’s since become a prolific NFT trader and art collector.

During the Summer 2021 NFT market boom, Daniela spotted the opportunity that NFTs provided to raise capital for the non-profit sector. This, in addition to a love of art and a desire to support and nurture artists in learning about the revolutionary model that blockchain technology offers them, is the genesis concept behind PLUTONIC.