Sam is a founding member of Deep Sleep and designed and developed the website. He is currently working on a number of online projects including other online magazines. He has worked as a freelance designer and developer for many leading design and advertising agencies in London.

Justin is a freelance photographer based in Shoreditch. His interests in photography are wide and varied, but his current specializations are in architecture, interiors, still life and landscapes. He won awards in both 2010 and 2011 at the International Photography Awards for his archtectural work and was shortlisted for the WPGA in 2010.

He remains faithful to large format film both 5x4 and 8x10. He is represented by One Photographic.

London based photographer Martin Scott-Jupp has worked extensively in the field of design and publishing, his work appearing frequently on the covers of most of the UK's top book publishing houses, as well as many overseas.

He has recently been involved in producing a photographic record of the work of furniture designer Mathias Bengtsson, trying to push the boundaries of how this kind of subject matter is usually represented.

Ben Smith is a photographer, writer and idler who divides his time between personal documentary projects, corporate shoots for big brands, editorial commissions from magazines and newspapers and gazing out of the window. Ben is in charge of all words for Deep Sleep, acting as our one-man leader writer, chief sub and copy editor. He is currently not working on a novel or a screenplay.

A British photographer, Ian Teh has been documenting working conditions in China for over a decade. His photographs have appeared in publications such as Newsweek, Time, The New Yorker and the UK Independent Magazine and have been widely exhibited. He has received numerous honours, including the World Press Master Class. He was finalist for the CCF Foundation for Photography prize in 2004 and his work was recently acquired by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Presently he lives and works in London.

Nathalie Daoust’s photographs reflect a love for random places and a wild, inexhaustible sense of inquisitiveness. Exploring, experiencing and documenting rarely visited landscapes and carefully hidden hotel rooms, Daoust spent the last decade producing voyeuristic insights into these otherwise veiled existences.
 
The Canadian Daoust, who studied the technical aspects of photography at the Cégep du Vieux-Montréal, spent two years in the late nineties living in the Carlton Arms Hotel in New York.  Daoust has traveled extensively and took photos not only of New York hotel rooms but also of Tokyo’s red light district, Brazilian brothels and Swiss naturists populating the Alps.

Greg Krauss graduated with a BFA in photography from SVA in 2009, and was honored with an award from Getty Images upon graduation. He lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

I was born in Rome 28 years ago. After a few exciting years studying sociology, psychology and communication and some far less exciting ones in marketing and advertising, I've decided to - try and - pursue a career in documentary photography.

I moved to London in 2010, where I graduated with a distinction from the MA Photojournalism and Documentary Photography at University of the Arts London.

I'm interested in portraying the subjective perceptions of social issues and, basically, in exploring 'what it is to be a human being'.

These days I live and work in London. I am a member of the photo collective Five Eleven Ninety Nine.

I, Dayv Mattt, was born in Toronto on April 28th, 1977. I am addicted to cursing, simple white dress shirts, and shooting street photography. I am very handsome and currently live in Seoul with my equally gorgeous wife. We are both ultra-wicked-awesome. There is nothing poignant I want to say about this photography.

Born in New Zealand. Billy Maynard remains transient.
His last major work was Trans/Tender (2011).
Currently researching his upcoming work in France.

Paula McCartney creates photographs and artist books that explore the idea of constructed landscapes, using the scientific practice of collecting, labeling and organizing as a starting point for her work.  McCartney holds an M.F.A. in Photography from the San Francisco Art Institute. She has received grants from the Aaron Siskind Foundation, the McKnight Foundation, and the Minnesota State Arts Board. Her Bird Watching series was recently exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, who in collaboration with Princeton Architectural Press published a monograph of the project in Spring 2010.

Simon Menner has always been fascinated by pictures that can be decoded in a variety of ways, yielding entirely different results. One picture seems to show us a simple tangible object, and yet the object is changed fundamentally and continuously by what the viewer knows about it and what the viewer expects to see. On a personal level this might not have such a decisive influence. But perception is not limited to the personal level; it also plays a decisive role in surveillance.

Marsha Owett was born in Soviet Moscow to a world-renowned physicist and a notorious dissident mother, who collected and exhibited illegal “Unofficial Soviet Art”. Owett was exposed to the power of art from the very beginning. Marsha and her family soon moved to St. Petersburg, then Leningrad, where she was educated at home in an effort to shield her from Soviet propaganda. Her mother turned the family’s small city apartment into an illegal gallery and salon for painters, poets and other radicals. This led to the family’s eventual exile, and emigration to the United States when Marsha was 10 years old.

Marsha attended an arts and drama boarding school in the UK. Upon her return to New York, she continued her studies at the School of Visual Arts. While studying in England, she became interested in photography. It was in the school’s small darkroom where she found escape from her teenage angst.

Owett currently lives in TriBeCa with her music executive husband and their two young children.

 

Claudius Schulze travelled and worked in forty countries. Though a documentary photographer, he tries to depict the imagined rather than the factual, always striving to find the world that lies below the surfaces of the obvious. Claudius’ work appeared in numerous international publications including Geo, Stern, GQ, and The Independent and has been exhibited worldwide. Claudius studied Islamic and Political Science at Hamburg University and received a Master’s degree in Conflict Studies at Sabanci University, Istanbul, as well as a Master’s degree in Documentary Photography and Photojournalism at LCC, the Arts London. He currently lives in Brussels and Istanbul.

Vincent J. Stoker is a photographer based in Paris. He studied literature and wrote a memoire on "Progress in Victorian painting". The idea of progress has been central to his work ever since. In 2011, he completed the first series of his project "Heterotopia". This series is called "Heterotopia, the tragic fall" and shows buildings in the descending phase of their existences. He is now working on other series of "over-determined heterotopic spaces" and plans to release the series "Heterotopia, the utopian bodies", "Heterotopia, the stored knowledge" and "Heterotopia, the end of History" in some years. He uses large format cameras 8x10" and 4x5". He is represented by Galerie Alain Gutharc in Paris. His work is held in the collection of the FNAC.