Chris Sands has lived in Kabul, Afghanistan since 2005. His work is published regularly by Le Monde and Esquire.
Elizabeth Rush has worked in Vietnam and Myanmar since 2007. Her work has appeared in Granta, Le Monde Dipolmatique, Asian Geographic, Project Freerange, Asian Art News, and the Seneca Review. A collection of her work, Still Lives from a Vanishing City, is forthcoming with the Things Asian Press in 2012.
Emma LeBlanc has been based in Damascus, Syria since 2007. Her photographs and writing from Syria and Iraq have been published widely in newspapers, magazines, and journals including GQ, Le Monde, The National, Syria Today, and JO. Her work has also been exhibited in solo and juried shows in the US and Middle East. She was recently awarded a Rhodes Scholarship.
Phil Sands lives in Damascus, Syria and has been reporting from Iraq since 2003. His work has been published in GQ, Esquire, The Independent and The Washington Post, as well as other magazines and newspapers. He is a correspondent for The National.
Emma + Phil Collaboration is a collection of essays by Emma LeBlanc and Phil Sands, which consistent of jointly written texts accompanied either by compilations of photographs taken by each individual photographer or, more often, by images produced collectively.