Phillip Prodger served as the head of the photography department at the National Portrait Gallery in London and was the founding curator of photography at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts. He is currently the executive director of Curatorial Exhibitions in Los Angeles.
Toshio Shibata is a contemporary Japanese photographer. He is best known for his large-format photographs of construction works in the rural Japanese landscape. Shibata was born in 1949 in Tokyo and graduated from the Tokyo University of the Arts, where he received an MFA in 1974. In 1975, he received a scholarship from the Belgian Ministry of Education to study at the Royal Academy in Ghent. The artist lives and works in Kamakura, Japan. His works are part of the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago.
