Michael Hoppen has been involved in photography in one form or another for almost 35 years. Having worked as a professional photographer, he opened the Michael Hoppen Gallery in London in 1992. The gallery works with some of the great names and estates in photography such as Jacques Henri Lartigue, Tim Walker, Lillian Bassman, Sarah Moon, Robert Doisneau, Lucien Hervé, Shomei Tomatsu, Yoshihiko Ueda, Brassai, Blumenfeldt, Peter Beard, Araki, Guy Bourdin, Annie Leiboivitz and Richard Avedon. The Michael Hoppen Gallery also exhibits in New York, Basel, Hong Kong, Tokyo and Paris.

Brigitte Lardinois was Exhibition Organiser at the Barbican Art Gallery, London, where she specialised in photography exhibitions from 1985-1995. In 1995 she was invited to join the staff of Magnum Photos, where she set up and headed the Cultural Department in London. There she organized many Magnum group exhibitions as well as solo exhibitions with Henri Cartier-Bresson, Eve Arnold, Martin Parr and Elliott Erwitt. She currently writes and lectures on photography and edits photography books, most recently Magnum's Sixtieth anniversary book Magnum Magnum, which became a best seller.

Eamonn McCabe joined the Observer in 1976 and was voted Sports Photographer of the Year four times between 1978 and 1984. In 1988 he moved to the Guardian as Picture Editor and became the chief photographer of the Guardian profile portrait. In 2000 he left the picture desk to concentrate on photographing people in the arts. Images from his latest book, Artists and their Studios, are currently being exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery. We are delighted that Eamonn is supporting Renaissance for the third time.

Charlie Waite is one of the world's most celebrated landscape photographers. He has published 28 books on photography and has held over thirty solo exhibitions across Europe, the USA, Japan and Australia, including three very successful exhibitions in the gallery at the OXO Tower in London, each visited by over 12,000 people. His company, Light & Land, runs photographic tours, courses and workshops worldwide that are dedicated to inspiring photographers and improving their photography. He is the man behind Landscape Photographer of the Year, and this is his second year on the Renaissance panel.