Albert C. Ledner at 100

Catherine Ledner lives and works in Maine. She grew up in eccentric New Orleans surrounded by positive, hardworking people. Architect Albert Ledner is her father. Her mother was a stage actress and her grandmother was a legendary New Orleans baker. Being brought up by these three wonderful people taught her how to interact with and celebrate all different types of individuals. She graduated from NYU Tisch School of the Arts in 1984 with a degree in film. A few years later she decided to continue her education in order to pursue her passion of photography. She graduated from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA, in 1994 with a BFA in photography. During her long career since then she has worked for many major corporate clients including Apple, IBM, Microsoft, American Express, Mastercard, Visa, and Kodak. Editorial clients have included Dwell, New York Magazine, AARP, Time, Newsweek, and Travel and Leisure.

Roy Beeson is a portrait photographer living in Brooklyn, New York. He grew up in Atlanta, Georgia, with close family ties to New Orleans. He studied English and creative writing at the University of Georgia in Athens. After school he spent a period of time in New York, where he worked as a researcher and in editing rooms on documentary films. Later, while working in Lebanon and Syria, he became passionately interested in photography and moved back to New York in 2002 after finishing a degree in photography at the Creative Circus in Atlanta. He has worked for many editorial and corporate clients and NGOs in Afghanistan.