Sam is a founding member of Deep Sleep and designed and developed the website. He is currently working on a number of online projects including other online magazines. He has worked as a freelance designer and developer for many leading design and advertising agencies in London.

Justin is a freelance photographer based in Shoreditch. His interests in photography are wide and varied, but his current specializations are in architecture and interiors. He generally works on large format film cameras (6x17 and 5x4) despite having worked as a digital retoucher for many of the top advertising agencies in London.

London based photographer. Shooting and exhibiting his own projects. Working on commissions for a wide variety of clients all over the world, including: Arup, Design Miami, Faber and Faber, Freshfields Bruckhaus Derringer, Hamptons International, Mute Records, Penguin Books, Rundell Associates, The Science Museum, The Guardian and Ushida Findlay, to name just a handful. His work is also in the permanent collection of The Victoria and Albert Museum.

London based photographer Martin Scott-Jupp has worked extensively in the field of design and publishing, his work appearing frequently on the covers of most of the UK's top book publishing houses, as well as many overseas.

He has recently been involved in producing a photographic record of the work of furniture designer Mathias Bengtsson, trying to push the boundaries of how this kind of subject matter is usually represented.

Ben Smith is a photographer, writer and idler who divides his time between personal documentary projects, corporate shoots for big brands, editorial commissions from magazines and newspapers and gazing out of the window. Ben is in charge of all words for Deep Sleep, acting as our one-man leader writer, chief sub and copy editor. He is currently not working on a novel or a screenplay.

A British photographer, Ian Teh has been documenting working conditions in China for over a decade. His photographs have appeared in publications such as Newsweek, Time, The New Yorker and the UK Independent Magazine and have been widely exhibited. He has received numerous honours, including the World Press Master Class. He was finalist for the CCF Foundation for Photography prize in 2004 and his work was recently acquired by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Presently he lives and works in London.

George Georgiou has won numerous awards including 1st and 2nd prizes in the World Press Photo competition. For the past decade he has photographed extensively in the Balkans, Eastern Europe and Turkey, living and working in Serbia, Greece and for the last four years, Istanbul. His work has focused on identity and people caught between communities, cultures, and ideologies. His first book, Fault Lines, featuring his work from Turkey, will be published later this year. He is currently back on home turf in London, where the pictures featured here were taken.

A Chinese photographer, Wang Wei graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) in Beijing. Her work has appeared in a wide range of international publications ranging from Elle Decor to Newsweek. In 2006 her work was shown in a group exhibition entitled Totalstadt. Beijing Case at the ZKM museum in Germany. Her work from the series Standard Room was exhibited recently at the National Portrait Gallery as one of the highly commended photographs from the Taylor Wessing Prize 2008. Presently she is in London studying English.

Vanessa Winship has won much critical acclaim and numerous accolades for her portrait series Sweet Nothings, including a 1st prize World Press Photo award, the Godfrey Argent prize and the Sony World Photographer of the Year. The work has been published as a book and was exhibited at Les Rencontres d'Arles 2008. Her previous book, Schwarzes Mere (Black Sea), was published in Germany by Mare and won the Orvieto Book Prize in Italy.