Primarily self-taught and with no preliminary experimental, developmental, or student work, French-born Bertrand Meniel (1961-) mastered techniques and skills in photorealism that normally require a lifetime and by 1996 was creating works with powerful, distinctive, and original imagery.

Louis Meisel is an American author, art collector, and dealer, as well as a pro­ponent of the Photorealist art movement. He has contributed to four volumes documenting the genre, numerous monographs, and he continues to organize international museum exhibitions for leading Photorealist artists.

Otto Letze is the director emeritus of the Institute for Cultural Exchange in Tübingen, Germany. He is the author and editor of numerous essays, catalogues, and books on international art, and culture.

Terrie Sultan is an independent curator, cultural consultant, and Principal Museum Strategist for Art Museum Strategies at Hudson Ferris. She was the director of the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, New York, as well as the director of The Blaffer Art Museum at the University of Houston in Texas.