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Tess Edmonson is a writer and curator from Montreal. She is currently the recipient of the Darling Foundry's France-Quebec Exchange Residency at Astérides in Marseilles, France. Her work has been published in Canadian Art and Modern Painters, among others. She is a graduate of Concordia University. She works with Palimpsest Magazine.

Celia Perrin Sidarous is currently pursuing an MFA at Concordia University, Concentration Photography. Her work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions at WWTWO, Montreal (2012), VU, Centre de diffusion et de production de la photographie, Quebec City (2011), Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography, Toronto (2008) and The Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Montreal (2006). Her images have been published in periodicals in Canada and abroad, notably in Norway, the Netherlands, Australia, China and Italy. In 2010-2011 she was artist in residence at the Banff Centre for the Arts and the Art and Culture Centre Kolin Ryynänen in Koli, Finland. She is the recipient of an Emerging Artist Grant from the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, of a Canada Council for the Arts Grant, and of the 2011 Barbara Spohr Memorial Award. She lives and works in Montreal.