Garth Erasmus (born July 1956, in Uitenhage, Eastern Cape, South Africa) is a South African artist who works in several media, including painting. Erasmus’ work is represented in several art collections, including the National Museum of African Art and the Smithsonian Institution. Among other formats Erasmus is known for his Resistance Art protesting the apartheid regime in South Africa. Beginning as graffiti protest art his State of Emergency series depicts images of entrapment. Writing in a review of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Arts 2002 exhibition “Encounters With the Contemporary,” critic Mark D’Amato called Erasmus’ painting The Muse 3 (1995) “a highlight.” Erasmus’ work uses his archival research to approach his Khosian lineage, and drawing on figures from Khosian cosmology. Erasmus has “employed Afrikaans text to comment on the brutal Khosian history and its impact on present descendants, opening a window onto the way this history has been repressed.”

Farouk Batiche is a press photographer who covers Algeria, North African countries, and the Middle East.
He accumulated nearly 20 years of experience in photojournalism.
Batiche started his professional life at the Newpress photo agency in Algiers in the early 1990s. This period allowed him to work regularly as a war journalist.
At the dawn of the Arab Spring in the early 2011, Batiche was working as a freelance writer at the British news agency Reuters, where he was noted with exclusive photos of events in Algeria. This brief job at Reuters was a gateway for him which opened the doors of Agence France Press (AFP), which he joined in February 2011. Batiche worked as AFP’s permanent correspondent for Algeria until August 2016.
He has carried out many missions in foreign countries, including Egypt, Burkina Faso, Tunisia and several African countries.
During his career, Batiche has had to work in extreme conditions during major events.