Jason Guilbeau is a photographer who lives and works in Strasbourg. Damon Murray and Stephen Sorrell have been publishing books on Soviet culture since 2004 from the Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia to Soviet Bus Stops. Clem Cecil is a Russian-speaking specialist in language, literature and architectural preservation, with many years' experience working in Russia, initially as correspondent for The Times, then as co-founder of the Moscow Architecture Preservation Society.