Now in his mid-30s, Dave Anderson came to photography only after working in other fields. Born to Quaker parents and raised in East Lansing, Michigan, he studied history and film in college. He worked for President Bill Clinton’s communications and media affairs office, MTV’s nation-touring "Choose or Lose" bus recruiting young voters, and later for Madstone, a maverick independent movie studio in New York.

A chance sighting of a course catalog from the International Center of Photography (ICP) in New York led to classes and soon an all-consuming passion for photography. He pursued his studies under Keith Carter at Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas and Michael Kenna, via ICP, yet he continues to be primarily self-taught.

For the past three years, he has been a full-time fine art and commercial photographer. In that short time, he has been recognized as “one of the shooting stars of the American photo scene” by Germany’s fotoMAGAZIN and named to the “PDN 30” list by Photo District News, the much anticipated annual list of 30 emerging photographers as the “ones to watch.” ROUGH BEAUTY was the winner of the Santa Fe Center for Photography’s 2005 Project Competition.

His work has been featured in numerous magazines (Esquire, Stern, ESPN, Photo District News, British Journal of Photography, B&W) and is in the collection of various museums (Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; George Eastman House; Art Museum of Southeast Texas; Worcester Art Museum in Massachusetts; Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans).

A former New Yorker, he now lives in Little Rock, Arkansas with his wife.

Anne Wilkes Tucker is the founding Curator of Photography at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, where she has worked since 1976. The museum's collection now includes over 20,000 photographs made on all seven continents and the prestigious Manfred Heiting Collection. She has curated over forty exhibitions, including retrospectives for Robert Frank, Ray K. Metzker, Louis Faurer, Richard Misrach, and Brassaï, as well as surveys of the Czech avant-garde and the landmark exhibition The History of Japanese Photography, most of which have been accompanied by a publication.

Her essays have introduced the debut monographs of photographers from Joel Sternfeld to Alec Soth, as well as being published in many different magazines. She has lectured throughout the U.S., Europe, Asia, and Latin America and has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, as well as an Alumnae Achievement award from Randolph Macon Woman's College. In 2001, in an issue devoted to “America’s Best,” TIME magazine honored her as “America’s Best Curator.”