India Mandelkernwas born in Los Angeles, California, and is a graduate of Middlebury College. She received her PhD in History from the University of California, Berkeley. Since then, she has worked as a curator, consultant, and critic, and has written on art, culture, design, and the social connections that they sustain for a variety of publications, such as Vice, Curbed, Los Angeles Magazine, Roads & Kingdoms, Wine & Spirits, Eater, and the Los Angeles Review of Books . From 2016-2018 she served as a fellow at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, where she studied the intersections among placemaking and public art. There, she created Chris Burden's Urban Light: A Field Guide (2018), an alternative historical take on one of LA's most iconic landmarks. She currently works at the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transit Authority (LACMTA) and lives in Los Angeles.
Tom Wayne Bertolotti is a professional photographer and a humanist and has a phobia of short bios. Following enthusiasm as his guiding daemon, Tom earned a doctorate in philosophy and pursued a decade-long scholarly career across Italy (Pavia), France (Paris), and the United States (USC). After publishing a book about LEGO and Philosophy, Tom felt like there were no worlds left to conquer in academia and set off to explore human nature through photography, which is so shallow and at the same time so deep." Tom's photographic studio, sometimes known as "Portrait Philosophy", focuses on everything people-related, from headshots to editorial and commercial shoots. If he needs to unwind, you will find him capturing iconic Southwestern landscape or cinematic urban scenes. He lives in Los Angeles, California.
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