Victor Wedderburn was born on 7 December 1954 in the Parish of Manchester, Jamaica. When Wedderburn was just a small boy his father moved to England in the hope of setting up a new life for the family followed shortly after by his mother. He remained in Jamaica until the age of 16 when he joined his parents in Bradford. After graduating from Wyke Manor School at 18, Wedderburn worked as a lorry driver for 10 years before being made redundant. He used his modest redundancy pay to pursue a long-held ambition: photography. He bought a second-hand Single Lens Reflex (SLR) camera and a colour photography kit to develop photos himself. In April 2025 Wedderburn had his debut exhibition as part of Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture quickly followed by a second exhibition at the National Science & Media Museum.

Lanre Bakare was born and grew up in Bradford, West Yorkshire. He writes for the Guardian where his work focuses on the intersection of art, race and culture across multiple disciplines. He was senior correspondent on the award-winning Cotton Capital project, and his debut non-fiction book We Were There was published by The Bodley Head in 2025. It was chosen as a book of the year for 2025 by GQ, Esquire and the Observer.

Anne McNeill is a photography curator, editor and writer. For 25 years she was the Director of Impressions Gallery, Bradford, stepping down in 2026. McNeill was previously the Artistic Director of Photo 98, the UK Year of photography, and founding Director of Photoworks in 1995. She is regularly invited to judge international awards, such as the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Grant, New York (2015) and the Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards (2019). In 2022 McNeill was the recipient of the Royal Photographic Society's Curatorship Award in recognition of excellence in the field of curatorship through exhibitions and publications.

Carol Tulloch is a writer, curator, maker and Professor of Dress, Diaspora and Transnationalism, at Chelsea College of Arts, University of the Arts London. She is a member of TrAIN Research Centre, an honorary senior research fellow at the V&A, sits on the London Museum Academic Panel, between 2016 and 2026 was a Trustee of Autograph abp. Her research on how Black people negotiate their sense of self, through their styled body led to her monograph The Birth of Cool: Style Narratives of the African Diaspora, and the exhibitions Syd Shelton: Rock Against Racism, and Black British Style.