Eva Gurevich is an M.A. student in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis University. Her interests include the aesthetics of Israeli and Palestinian geopolitics, with a special focus on art and its representation of land relations. Other related interests include aesthetics of Zionist environmental design as well as cartography. She holds a BFA in Photography from the San Francisco Art Institute, and has worked in several Jewish museum and art institutions including The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life at University of California, Berkeley.​

Ira Krakhman is a student at Hornstein Program for Jewish Professional Leadership and Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis University. Her first camera was a Soviet Zenith that leaked light and instilled a lifetime worth of romance with visual storytelling. She is interested in portraiture as a dialogue, an intellectual and a spiritual quest into the hidden strata of human experience.

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This project emerged out of her fascination with the contemporary culture of Russian Jews. ​She is grateful to Brandeis Genesis Institute for Russian Jewry for supporting her creative leaps into the  great unknown.