In 2000, Simone Lueck took her 35mm camera on a 2-week trip to Cuba with no agenda and nothing to do. Inspiration struck and she wandered the dark streets of old Havana slipping in and out of strangers' living rooms snapping pictures of their alter like TV sets and everything surrounding them.

Lueck grew up in St. Paul, Minnesota and moved to Los Angeles after receiving an MFA from UC San Diego in 2005. Her work is marked by an interest in looking at a cultural territory colored by notions of identity and performance. She recently completed a body of work featuring older women posing as glamorous movie stars.The Once and Future Queens, which was recently exhibited at the Musée de la Photographie in Charleroi, Belgium as well as at Kopeikin Gallery.

Jeffrey Milstein elegant photographs of commercial jetliners have been exhibited internationally. This Fall the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum will open a year long exhibition of the images expected to be viewed by eight million people.

"Jeffrey Milstein's images do more than mirror reality in Cuba. They offer an orientation to its complexities. They present glimpses that factual, realistic, honest, mixed with a breath of lyricism and quotidian simplicity, capturing our attention and allowing us to see the unseen. They get us in touch with the depth of our own inwardness and expand our sympathies not only for the Cuban people but also for humanity." - Nilo Cruz