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Roy Barker
Graduated from Central Saint Martins 2003.
Freelance photographer and art gallerist.

royandrewbarker@gmail.com
www.thebrauhaus.co.uk
 
 

Black (Su Hei)
Black is a writer, certified clinical hypnotherapist 
and spiritual healer based in Hong Kong, MPhil
Graduate at the Chinese University of Hong
Kong. As a student, she had already started to
host study groups and lectures on a variety of
subjects such as literature, films, culture and
philosophy. After her studies, Black was involved 
in various cultural projects and lectured in 
numerous universities in Hong Kong. Black had
been involved in many arts related activities
such as art administrator for avant-garde theatre 
and dance projects both in Hong Kong and
Mainland China, and editor for various
independent cultural publications. In the
drastic year of 1997, she travelled in Britain till 
1999, and worked as a columnist for Hong Kong
press. She was court interpreter for Sussex Police
while starting her spiritual retreat by the seashore
of the beautiful town Brighton. After her return to
Hong Kong, Black worked in different roles including 
senior manager and program host for multi-media
websites. Throughout the years, she has been
working as a spiritual healer and lecturing on the
very subject in Hong Kong. Despite controversial
reviews of her early work related to sex issues and
cultural criticism, Black now enjoys readers’
acclaims as well as commercial success. She has
a wide readership in Hong Kong, Mainland China,
Malaysia, North America and Europe. Clients come
from all over the world seeking her spiritual healing.

www.blacksoblack.com

Selected work:
No Fear in Aloneness, Cosmos Books Ltd, Hong
Kong, 2004; Solitude of Two, Cosmos Books Ltd,
Hong Kong, 2004; Women’s Private Dossiers: diary
of a spiritual hypnotherapist, Cosmos Books Ltd,
Hong Kong, 2003; Sex Herstories Dossiers, Cosmos 
Books Ltd, Hong Kong, 2003; You Are Not Alone,
Acradia Press, Hong Kong, 2002; Sex Herstories —
Interviews, Sisters Culture, Hong Kong, 2002.
 
 

Paul Bruty
Paul Bruty graduated from Central Saint Martin's
college of Art and Design in 1998 with a degree in 
Illustration. He photographed, designed and
produced the first Saint Martin's yearbook, ‘GDLA’, 
with associate Daniel Prentice. Though most at
home in the print room pursuing an interest in
traditional print methods, most of Bruty's illustration 
skills were honed in developing a love of pencil
portraiture. Since graduating he has worked across 
an array of creative fields ranging from book
illustration to interactive design. He is currently
chief designer at SHOWstudio.com where he is
responsible for the site's design and build. He has
also created web sites for a number of London based 
practitioners including art director Scott King,
clothing label ‘Oeuf’ and gallery space ‘Hotel’;
produced illustrations for London Graduate Fashion
Week in association with Dazed & Confused
magazine; and maintains his own online showcase,
‘Super-Reload’. Through this individual project he
demonstrates an obsession with the “strange
attraction of banality” and habitually draws
inspiration from London's army of commuters.

www.super-reload.com
www.oeufworld.com
www.scottkingltd.com
www.generalhotel.org
www.garethmcconnell.com
 
 

Leonora Chan
Leonora Chan is a graphic designer who was trained
at the Royal College of Art and Camberwell College 
of Art. Both highly regarded, her education prepared 
Leo to work professionally in the industry, for clients
such as The Independent and New Scientist, as well 
as many collaboration projects with peers across
different disciplines.

www.leonorachan.com
 
 

Mauro Cocilio
Portrait and documentary photographer. His work is 
featured in publications such as: The Independent 
Magazine, Dazed & Confused, Fashion Now 2 and
Modern Painters Magazine, as well as multi-media
website SHOWstudio.

cocilio123m@yahoo.com
 
 

Olimpia Dior
Miss Dior is a photographer, stylist and art director 
specialising in collaborations.

olimpiadior55@yahoo.co.uk
 
 

Robert Gray
Robert Gray is a Speech and Language Therapist 
living and working in South-East London. He enjoys 
music and cycling. He is neither rich nor powerful,
but he has a lucky face. Robert does not normally
refer to himself in the third person.
 
 

Peter Ibruegger
Peter creates drawings based on psychological
compulsive behavior that he first observed while
working in a psychosomatic ward for children and
an asylum in Germany. It was during his BA at
Middlesex that Peter started specializing in
theories of sexual identity, gender politics and
eastern philosophy. A photography workshop at a
day centre for young male prostitutes exposed him
to the delicate and tensed relationship between
sexual desire and self-destruction. Peter's latest
project is an installation based on creating a
shrine that consists of layers of patterns hand-
applied on wallpaper, tiles, prints and drawings.
 
 

Koomi Kim
I'm a photographer from Japan and came to London
6 months ago. Really enjoying every day
xx.
 
 

Paul Lukas
Paul Lukas, author of  ‘Inconspicuous Consumption: 
An Obsessive Look at the Stuff We Take for Granted’ 
specialises in writing about the overlooked details
of everyday things. His fanzine, ‘Beer Frame: The
Journal of Inconspicuous Consumption’, which he
published from 1993 through 2001, deconstructed
consumer culture in excruciating detail, and since
1999 he's written ‘Uni Watch’, a sports column that 
examines the subtleties of sports uniforms. He
specialises in minutiae fetishism and writes regularly 
about the lesser-noted aspects of food, travel, place, 
design, and business history. He lives in Brooklyn, 
New York. His favourite colour is green and his
favourite state is Wisconsin.
 
 

Malcolm Munro
Malcolm Munro is an artist based in Cambridge, UK. 
Born in South London at the end of the last World
War, Munro soon moved to the suburbs with his family. 
Despite of their expectation to follow a more
respectable direction, Munro became an art student. 
Trained in Wimbledon School of Art before proceeding 
to the prestigious Royal Academy, Munro soon
realised his views were in conflict with the institution 
and perhaps the London scene. Munro then started
teaching in various cities in the UK before settling in 
Cambridge, where he later on suffered from clinical 
depression for a period. Munro is now married and
works as a full-time artist in Cambridge in his own
workshop. Having shown his work in London, Munro
now prefers to show in local, nevertheless, less
conservative galleries such as Notts.
 
 

Stephanie Netzberger
Apparently, according to my parents, I have been
drawing since my very early years. They decided I
shall attend a school for fashion, as that was the only 
opportunity to get drawing lessons within my regular 
education. Never been really happy there. I just
blamed it on the whole institution and my puberty.
For some unfathomed reason I didn't take my passion
for song lyrics and poems seriously and it took me
quite a while to realise, that the language is my
preferred way of expressing thoughts and emotions. 
Since this new awareness I finally discovered freedom.
 
 

Yi Hing Ong
Yi Hing Ong, graduate at the Chinese University of
Hong Kong in Chinese studies. No City but Love, his
first series of work renovated him as the youngest
ever winner of Hong Kong Chinese Literature Biennial
Awards (Fiction). Mainly in the form of fictions, his
work includes Robot A, Eighteen Farewells and Half
of Home, Half of Him. Wong’s work has also been
featured in major publications in Hong Kong including 
Hong Kong Literature, Literature Century, Ming Pao
Newspaper and ELLE magazine. He has also been a 
teaching assistant at the Chinese University of Hong
Kong, and judged in the Hong Kong Independent Short
Film Awards. Wong’s latest projects include directing 
and hosting the internet programme ‘Words Theatre’
for Radio Television Hong Kong, hosting ‘I-Chat Room’
for cable TV, as well as script writing for Commercial
Radio 903’s radio drama.

www.lifeasarticle.org

Selected work: No City But Love; Robot A; Eighteen
Farewells; Half of Home, Half of Him.
 
 

Paul Plews
Paul is from the North-East of England. “Taking
pictures as a child has led me to a photography
career in London. Curiosity is the main influence
behind most of my work. This has led me to many
inspiring meetings with people and places. These
people and places are the things I try to photograph”.
 

Dominique Renn
Some interests: object/user relationships, magic, 
re-use, archetypes, storytelling, fair trade...

hello@dominiquerenn.com
www.dominiquerenn.com
 
 

SHOWstudio
The award-winning SHOWstudio website was
launched in November 2000 by photographer Nick
Knight as an online space for leading creatives to
make experimental, personal work engaging with
the new fields of motion image and interactivity. In
its first four years, SHOWstudio has developed
into a high-profile fashion broadcasting initiative with
over 200 contributors including  Kate Moss, Hussein
Chalayan, Alexander McQueen, Björk, Julie
Verhoeven and Yohji Yamamoto, all collaborating
with Nick Knight and a team of leading practitioners
to create over 170 projects with an increasing
emphasis on live broadcasts. These are broadcast,
free-of-charge, to a burgeoning global audience via
the SHOWstudio website, exhibited in frequent
international exhibitions and screened at numerous
film festivals.

Taking its acclaimed programme of live events one
step further, webcams have been installed inside
the SHOWstudio space, treating the studio itself as
a visual interface for the projects created there.
An ongoing series of installations has been
implemented to establish a studio environment that
reflects the sensibility of current fashion, comprising
the paraphernalia drawn from shoots and fashion
shows, inside which the SHOWstudio team conducts
its daily business.

www.showstudio.com
 
 

Marieta Tsenova
Marieta Tsenova is an art director and stylist. With
an educational background in literature and history
of art, Marieta worked as a curator and theatre
costume designer in Sofia, Bulgaria. Her latest solo
exhibition,  ‘36 Female Portrait’ took place in National
Art Gallery Sofia in 2003. Previously art director
of avant-garde EGOIST Magazine in Bulgaria, Marieta
is now based in London and contributes to
magazines such as Flux.

www.justaperfectday.com
 
 

Julie Verhoeven
Julie Verhoeven has worked in numerous ways across
fashion and design, from illustration to creative
direction and design consultancy. She studied fashion
at Medway College (now Kent Institute), graduating in
1987, and began her career as John Galliano's first 
design assistant. Verhoeven continued this role at
Martine Sitbon, where she stayed for seven years as
design consultant. Verhoeven’s love of drawing is
always at the heart of any commercial work she
undertakes. In addition to creative direction for pop
promos, record sleeve design and set design for
advertising campaigns, she contributes regularly to
publications including Dazed and Confused, Self
Service and The Independent. Verhoeven has
lectured at various universities including The Royal
College of Art and Chelsea School of Art. She is
currently a part-time tutor on the MA fashion at
Central Saint Martin's College of Art and Design. 
Verhoeven much celebrated fashion work include the
monogram collage accessory collection for Louise
Vutton in Spring/Summer 2002 and womenswear
collection for Gibo.
 
 

Jan Von Holleben
Jan Von Holleben is a photographer. Currently
working as Director of Photography for DIVA
Magazine, he was previously Picture Editor for VIEW
and founded Photodebut gallery in 2003. With
numerous awards under his belt, Jan contributes to
creative publications such as Creative Review, Art
Review, The Face and Intersection, as well as major
publications such as The Observer.
 
 

Marcin Wichary
Marcin Wichary is a Polish computer scientist turned
designer, whose main work involves bringing
technology closer to people. Passionate about
computing history, typography, writing, London and
countless other things that interest him. Currently
resides in the Netherlands.

www.usability.pl/mwichary