Born in Massachusetts in 1962, Richard Phillips lives and works in New York. He is known for his strikingly distinctive paintings. Drawn from found imagery, his work deals with the marketability of man, his wishes, ideas, actions, identity, sexuality, politics, and desires. He translates these images into both drawings and paintings executed through a traditional process. In doing so, he makes use of the iconic quality of pictures, which the media and Art use daily – each according to its own agenda. His recent exhibition, Most Wanted at White Cube in London, for example, featured ten larger than life celebrity portraits set against red carpet step-and-repeat backdrops.

Meltem Cumbul is one of the most influential and well-known theatre, cinema and stage actresses in Turkey.

New Zealand-born Australian film director and screenwriter Andrew Dominik was born in born in 1967. He is the director of Chopper and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.

Born in Istanbul,  the artist was accepted to the Bilkent University College of Music and Performing Arts in 1989 with a full scholarship.  He studied piano with Martin Berkofsky and Namik Sultanov and studied counterpoint and harmony with Sami Hatipoglu.

A longtime central figure in New York’s cultural landscape, Cecilia Dean was a pioneer in the cross-pollination of fashion and art, having co-created Visionaire, the limited edition publication, in 1991.

Violinist Charlie Siem has performed on concert stages from The Royal Albert Hall to Carnegie Hall. He has toured with the Moscow Symphony Orchestra with Yuri Simonov and the Czech National Symphony with Libor Pesek. Charlie has performed with the London Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic, the English Chamber Orchestra, and the Bergen Philharmonic.

Last fall, Charlie released his third album on Warner Classics recorded with the London Symphony Orchestra.