Mohammed Noureldine is a veteran photo journalist with more than 20 years of peering through a view finder, who has distinguished himself as a photographic artist. His work has been distributed through various press houses and organizations.

Mohammed graduated from the Col¬lege of Fine and Applied Arts at Khartoum Poltythechnic in 1986 with a degree in Graphic Design, having done research in artistic photography.

Mohammed is known as a master of the photo essay, where sequential images tell a story spoken in a universal language of emotion and pathos.

"My main goal is to capture the essence of the subjects and not the surface, in other words to show the depth of the human being," says Mohammed.

Ali Mohammed Osman is head of the photographic department and a lecturer at the Fine Arts Faculty at the University of Sudan in Khartoum. Ali has distinguished himself for his innovative approaches in the fields of photography and graphic arts.

Ali regularly exhibits in Europe and in Sudan. He was invited to Germany several times to teach experimental photography, which he practices with as much interest as documentary photography. In 2001, he was invited by UNICEF Khartoum to organize a photographic workshop with local professionals about photographic copyrights.

Ali was the director of the faculty of fine arts at the University of Sudan in Khartoum from 1999 to 2002. He then returned to his former post as head of the photographic department and lecturer in graphic arts. Since then, he has increasingly devoted his energies to personal projects.

Sidi Moctar is the official photographer of the Kwoto Dance Company in Khartoum. He settled in Sudan in 1982 after travelling throughout Africa, capturing the life of the continent in one photograph after another.

Once established in Khartoum, he quickly became known to all strata of Sudanese society, photographing everything from official events to weddings.

Inspired by the people of Sudan, Sidi's work is recorded in countless trips through the heartland, which he admires for its rich culture and ethnic traditions. He follows the threads of Sudanese life as seen through travel, recording modes of transport from donkeys to trains to ferries across the Nile.

Sidi is also interested in life as seen through hands -- the furtive hand on the shoulder that reveals hidden intimacy, the hand that begs, another wizened by work in the fields, the hand that ties the turban or lifts the veil, the snapping of the fingers, a signal to stop the bus.