Manfred Heiting is a designer and editor of photo publications and a collector of photobooks focusing on the period between 1839 and 1990. He has designed and edited Photography 1922-1982, 50 Years Modern Color Photography. 1936-1986 and Between Science and Art. 50 Years German Photographic Society, 1951-2001. Steidl has published his extensive surveys of German, Soviet, Japanese and Czech photobooks (Dutch Photobooks 1918-1980 will be released in 2023), as well as Dr. Paul Wolff & Alfred Tritschler. The Printed Images 1906-2019 (2021) and Shigeru Onishi's A Metamathematical Proposition (2021).

Rebecca Mark is the director of the Institute for Women's Leadership and a professor in the Department of Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies at Rutgers University. Her research addresses southern cultural studies, particularly representations of memory and trauma, and her books include The Dragon's Blood: Feminist Intertextuality in Eudora Welty's Fiction (1994) and Ersatz America: Hidden Traces, Graphic Texts, and Mending of Democracy (2014). Mark's honors include the Eudora Welty Prize, the Public Humanities Achievement Award from the Mississippi Humanities Council and the Weiss Presidential Fellowship.