The Team
- Gabriel Orozco: Artist
Gabriel Orozco was born in Jalapa, Veracruz, Mexico in 1962 and studied at the Escuela Nacional de Arte Plasticas in Mexico City, and at the Circulo de Bellas Artes in Madrid, Spain.
An avid traveler, Gabriel uses the urban landscape and the everyday objects found within it to twist conventional notions of reality and engage the imagination of the viewer.
- Dustin Lynn: Film-maker
Dustin made his first film at age 12, an animated short about endangered manatees in Central Florida. The film won a National Scholastic Award. At 20 he purchased a Super 16mm Bolex camera, flew to New York and began shooting his first documentary: “Tranquil Music,” which was selected by Martin Scorsese to premier at the first annual Tribeca Film Festival 2002, as well as Gen Art Film Festival’s Starbucks Salon Week 2006, and Delta Airlines Fly-In Movies 2007.
- David de Rothschild
David is the founder and creator of the Sculpt the Future an independently run initiative that aims to raise environmental awareness and action through education. No stranger to using alternative mediums to gain awareness for environmental and social change, in 2005, Adventure Ecology, the latest initiative from Sculpt the Future
He currently resides in the UK and when not on expedition he can be found relaxing with his dogs Smudge and Nesta.
- Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin: Photographers
Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin are a photographic team based in London. Together they have produced four photographic books; TRUST (2000) which accompanied their solo-show at The Hasselbad Center; GHETTO (2003) a collection of their work as editors and principal photographers of Colors magazine; MR. MKHIZE'S PORTRAIT (2004) which documented South Africa ten years after apartheid and accompanied their solo show at The Photographer’s Gallery; and CHICAGO (2006), an exploration of contemporary Israel, published by Steidl in conjunction with a solo-show at The Stedelijk Museum.
- Maria Fadiman: Geographer/ Ethno Botanist
Maria Fadiman has recently been named one of National Geographic’s Emerging Explorers. She conducts ethnobotanical geography research in the developing world.
In the rain forests of Latin America she has worked as a naturalist guide in Costa Rica, helped to prepare medicine for a healer in Belize, researched the useful plants of the indigenous Lacandon in Chiapas, Mexico, and studied Mayan hat weaving materials in the Yucatan.