Khaya was born in Tshwane, South Africa, where he still lives and works. His passion for cartoons was first sparked by the foreign translated cartoons featured on South African TV during his childhood.

At the age of nine, Khaya first tried his hand at drawing his cartoons and gradually got more and more involved in the genre. However, it was not until watching the movie ‘Spirited Away’ in 2004 that he realised he wanted to turn his passion into a career.

During 2006 and 2007 Khaya devoted himself wholeheartedly to mastering the art of drawing cartoons, experimenting with many different illustrative styles and techniques on the way. Khaya is now well on his way to making his cartoonist dream a reality.

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He was born in Warsaw, in 1980, and belongs to the transformation generation. This has allowed him to experience two realities: a grey and a colourful one, as he calls them.

His early childhood was spent in what was still Communist Poland. All the political and social changes that took place in the country after 1990 had a strong influence on him and formed his way of looking at the world. His work spreads in many different ways, from painting and drawing to clothing and motion design.

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VHS is a street artist who lives and works in London and Lisbon. He is currently studying in London and has, at a young age, already exhibited in Lisbon, Barcelona, Madrid, Wroclaw, London and Los Angeles.

He is a staunch ambassador for street art and works to gain even more recognition for this exciting medium. When he first discovered graffiti at the age of 13, he did not imagine himself years later broadening the limits, breaking down the barriers of expressivity, blending languages, innovating tools and media in street art and raising its status to a serious contemporary graphic and artistic language.

This has been one of his greatest achievements. His ongoing projects include urban requalification work in degraded districts around Lisbon, developed together with the local communities.

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Artemy Lebedev works and lives in Moscow. He has realized over 500 projects including illustrations, insignia, logos, brands, corporate identities, websites, books, magazines and posters.

Including, of course, his installation for Euro 1/1: “Every moment of football is art”. He also has his own design studio, Art Lebedev Studio, involved in product design, graphic design, web–site design, interface design, editing, education and advertising. Today there are over 200 employees in his company and he is the studio’s art director.

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Grégoire Alexandre lives in Paris where he works on commissions for an impressive list of clients in all media spheres.

After graduating from the National School of Photography in Arles he soon started his wide-ranging body of work for magazines such as Wallpaper, Esquire UK, Intersection, The World of Hermès, Beaux Arts, Libération and GQ France; music artists such as Etienne Daho, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Yann Tiersen, Yelle etc. and advertising campaigns for companies such as Orange, Sony and Le Printemps.

He was selected for the Hyères Festival in 2003 and has taken part in exhibitions in France, Canada, Spain and Japan. After shooting a large photographic campaign for Christian Lacroix’s exhibition at the Musée Des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, he is currently working on an exhibition that will take place during the next Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie D’Arles.

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