Peter Brathwaite is a British opera singer who works across different art forms to express suppressed stories and voices. In addition to performing on major international opera stages, he devises his own theatre productions. He has been shortlisted for a Royal Philharmonic Society Music Award, and his collaborative work has won a Laurence Olivier Award. Brathwaite’s photographs have been exhibited by King’s College London / Wellcome Trust and the Bristol Museum and Art Gallery. As a broadcaster for BBC Radio 3, he has authored and presented programs on Black portraiture and the cultural legacy of enslavement in Barbados. He has written for The Guardian and The Independent, and he is a prominent speaker on performance, identity, and restorative justice in the arts. He is a graduate of Newcastle University.

Dr Mark Sealy, OBE, is interested in the relationship between photography and social change, identity politics, race, and human rights. He has been director of Autograph, London, since 1991 and is presently professor of photography, race, and human rights at University of the Arts London. He grew up in Newcastle and is a trustee of The Baltic. His PhD, Durham University England, focused on Photography and Cultural Violence.