About the Jurors:

Bill Shapiro is the former Editor-in-Chief of LIFE magazine; LIFE’s relaunch in 2004 was the largest in Time Inc. history. Later, he served as the founding Editor-in-Chief of LIFE.com, which won the 2011 National Magazine Award for digital photography. Bill is the author of several books, among them Gus & Me, the best-selling children’s book he co-wrote with legendary Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards. In 2018, he published What We Keep, which was turned into a streaming series with Cynthia Erivo serving as executive producer. A fine-art photography curator for New York galleries and a consultant to photographers, Bill is also a Contributing Editor to the Leica Conversations series. He has written about photography for the New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, Esquire, Vogue, the Atlantic, Oprah, the Los Angeles Times, Blind, among others. On Instagram, he’s @billshapiro.

Alex Harris is a photographer and a founder of the Center for Documentary Studies and DoubleTake Magazine at Duke where he taught for four decades. His photographs of Cuba, New Mexico, Alaska and the American South have been exhibited widely including a 2020 Solo Exhibition at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta. Harris and is the author/editor of eighteen books including Red White Blue and God Bless You:  A Portrait of Northern New Mexico, and River of Traps: A New Mexico Mountain Life (with William deBuys), a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in general non-fiction.