Lloyd Spencer was born in South Africa in 1955. As a teenager, he had developed and printed his own medium format photos using his father's antique cameras as well as his dad’s kitchen (or bathroom) darkroom. Lloyd's serious pursuit of street and documentary photography began at the beginning of the 1980s during the years in which he was a post-graduate in Germany studying Walter Benjamin, who inspired John Berger’s extraordinary TV-series Ways of Seeing. During this time Spencer had the privilege of working on Another Way of Telling with Jean Mohr and John Berger.

Brett Eloff is an independently employed professional photographer, residing and working principally in Johannesburg, South Africa.

He began his career in the early nineties, covering South Africa’s transition to democracy and the accompanying violence, which engulfed the townships around Johannesburg. Since then Brett has been assigned by numerous publications and organisations, both locally and abroad, with a focus mostly on actuality and portraiture.

The Tsitsikamma National Park is situated at the heart of the picturesque tourist Region known as: 'the Garden Route'. This region is found in the Southern Cape of South Africa. The Park incorporates 80 km of rocky coastline with spectacular sea and landscapes, a remote mountainous region with secluded valleys covered in mountain Fynbos and temperate high forests with deep river gorges leading down to the sea.

29 km from Oudtshoorn, at the head of the picturesque Cango Valley, lies the spectacular underground wonder of the Klein Karoo - the Cango Caves.

Zubeida Vallie was born in 1963 in Newlands, Cape Town from which she and her family were forcibly removed under the Group Areas Act.

John Liebenberg was born in 1958, in Johannesburg where he also currently works and lives.

He was introduced to Namibia in 1976 when together with his fellow conscripts he was sent to Ondangwa Air-force base near the border with Angola. He later returned to Namibia and in 1985 was appointed photographer for a new weekly, ‘The Namibian’. Following independence, he and his family moved to Johannesburg, from where he covered the Angolan civil war as freelancer for Reuters. He later joined Media 24 magazines, mostly working for Drum.