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.

I am a photographer based in France, I grew up in an environment where visual arts were very important.

I began photography very early, moving to medium format and then large format in 1999. The beauty of the focusing screen, the contemplative and slow approach that these cameras dictate, and the incredible beauty of the prints suited my sensitive approach. The use of Polaroid films has allowed me to get exactly the atmosphere I want.

I studied French Literature and went to Oxford University for literary research. My photographic approach has been nourished by literature and literary studies. My work investigates the subject of metaphor. Reality, its disappearance, its representation, has never ceased to fascinate me. In a way, I can't get over the fact that reality 'is'.

Trying to make things poetic and to have the photographs superimposed on reality is a way to get to the fiction of the image. At least, it is my way!

French photographer working since 2007, Julien is self-taught, and has a predilection for photographing the gray and rainy days and likes to play with words and images. Step by step, he collects small lights and letters to tell his stories to anyone who will listen ... He thinks that one day perhaps he will do just that, until he works nights as a nurse and learns of this precious time when the city sleeps ...

The Berlin-based artist Stefan Heyne (born in 1965) works in a constant exploration of the boundaries between painting and photography. His photographs are never descriptive and don't seek to depict visible reality. Instead, his motives attain autonomy by renouncing the notion of reproduction - a quality long considered to be central to the medium.

Heyne's works are characterised by a vigilant manipulation of the obscured detailing of the objects and spaces shown. The allure of his prints lies in the magical spectrum of their colours, their velvety surfaces and their quality as objects.

Jordanna Kalman was born in New Hampshire, USA and currently spends her time working in NY and London.

She was awarded her MA in photography from the London College of Communication in 2008 and received her BFA in photography from Purchase College.

Born in 1965, Bertrand Meunier has been a professional photographer since 2001. In 2004, he joined Tendance Floue, a collective photo agency based in Paris.

His relationship with China started in 1997 with a trip to the industrial wastelands of the Shanxi province. Since then, he has carefully documented the underbelly of post-Maoist China. His work culminated in the 2005 book in collaboration with French journalist and China expert Pierre Haski Le Sang de la Chine (The Blood of China), and later in the Tendance Floue group project titled Mad in China in 2007, and finally in the highly contrasted and harrowing series titled Erased completed in 2008, part of which was acquired by the prestigious collection of the Fonds national d'art contemporain (FNAC) in Paris.

Bertrand Meunier was awarded the Leica Oskar-Barnack Prize in 2001, the International Media Prize in 2005 for the book Le Sang Dd La Chine and the Nicephore Niepce Prize in 2007. In 2009 the National Library of France collected a set of images from his series Erased.

Alice is London based, specialising in music photography. Her work has appeared in Dazed & Confused, Plan B and Mojo among others, as well as various book covers. Alice’s personal work explores relationships, memory and the space that connects (or separates) people and their environment.

Robert Schlotter was born in Jena, Germany in 1981. He studied Photography at the University of Applied Sciences Bielefeld from 2003 to 2009 and graduated with the final work 'memories and how to get them'. Robert Schlotter works in various fields of photography including documentary and experimental. In 2009 he published his book 'Halle Silberhoehe' and started the project 'disappearing architecture'.

Often rooted in the study of relationships and personal mythology Manjari's work has been recognized as walking the line of fine art, portraiture and lifestyle. Manjari Sharma was born in December 1979 to a modest family in Mumbai, India. Encouraged by accolades Manjari soon started to freelance with The Times of India and was hired as a staff photojournalist with Better Photography magazine, a well respected South Asian photography publication.

The chase to learn and grow brought Manjari to the US in 2001, where she pursued her BFA in photography from Columbus College of Art and Design in Columbus, Ohio. Some of her recent achievements include eight honorable mentions at the IPA Lucie awards. She was recognized as a winner for the NYC Strand photo contest judged by Lesley Martin from Aperture amongst other honorable judges. Two of Manjari's images were selected by John Paul Caponigro for the Centre for Fine Art Photography and her work was selected for Slideluck Potshow 2009 and PDN Photo of The Day Blog.

1000 Words Magazine, Fraction Magazine, Exposure Compensation, nymphoto blog, Burn Magazine have endorsed her latest body of work, The Shower Series. Manjari was selected as a featured photographer for her ongoing shower series for the spring 2010 issue of PDN edu to be released in March and her selected client list include AOL, American baby, Penguin Books and AARP. Manjari currently lives in Brooklyn, NY and is available for freelance assignments worldwide.

I picked up photography in 1998 when I dropped out of school for a year and bought an old, second-hand Yashica FX2. For a few years my camera and I were inseparable, but after I graduated with an English degree and started working full-time, it fell away. When my son was born in 2006, I again saw photographs everywhere. I started capturing some with an actual camera, and haven't stopped since. My life as a mother is integral to my photography, even when it isn't explicitly the subject of my photos. During my son's infancy, the stroller was one of the few places he would sleep that wasn't my arms; the walks I took with my camera allowed me space for both introspection and engagement with the outside world, in a way that the physical demands of mothering wouldn't otherwise allow. I think photographs should make you wonder.