With Pulitzer Prize Winning Photographer Massoud Hossaini, born in Kabul in 1981, during the Soviet occupation. His family fled to Iran when he was six months old. As a young adult, Massoud became involved in activism and began to record the events he witnessed through photography. In 2002, after 9/11 and the start of the US war in Afghanistan, Massoud returned to his home country and received training from the AINA Afghan Media and Cultural Center in Kabul. He was a staff photographer for AFP & chief photographer for The AP between in 2007 and 2019. He is currently studying for a degree in political science at the American University of Afghanistan. He has won a breaking-news Pulitzer Prize in 2012, as well as the World Press Photo award the same year.

Lynne O'Donnell, journalist & author. Between 2009 and 2017 she was Afghanistan bureau chief for AFP and The Associated Press. She completed an MA in war studies at King's College London in 2019. She writes about Afghanistan for Foreign Policy magazine, among others, and is working on her next book.

Waliullah Rahmani is an author, researcher, and media & digital entrepreneur in Afghanistan. He has set up several digital media platforms, led and trained many digital journalists in Afghanistan since 2016. Before that, Mr. Rahmani led a think-tank on strategic studies in Kabul; he has studied and worked on radical Islamic movements, terrorism and the reemergence of insurgency in post-2001 Afghanistan.

Rupert Frere,an award-winning Combat Photographer, a highly experienced photographic instructor with a twenty-two-year career in the British Forces.