Hamish Ta-Mé (ASSDip, Mart) is one of Australia’s leading commercial and fine art photographers. He is well-known for his high-end fashion work for magazines such as Madison, In Style, Who Weekly, Crema as well as working regularly at Sydney and Melbourne Fashion weeks.

From his Paddington studio, he is also heavily involved in the fine-art community nationally as the founding president of International Noise, an artist run initiative with an innovative guerrilla art program.

Hamish lectures in photography and fine art at Sydney University, the Australian Center for Photography and others. His work appears in many private collections in Australia and abroad. He can be contacted at this email: hamish@doofdoofdoof.com

Dr. Tamara Russell (BSc, MSc, PhD) is a research scientist working in psychiatry. Her research looks at how individuals with mental illness (particularly schizophrenia) perceive and understand social signals such as eye gaze and facial expressions of emotion.

Based in Australia for the last eighteen months, her work on emotion recognition training for individuals with schizophrenia has garnered national media exposure. Please see the following web links:

• ABC News: 'Facial recognition software aids schizophrenia sufferers.'
• Macquarie University Newsletter: 'Facing up to schizophrenia.'
• ABC Radio: 'Fragmented Minds.'

She also has a segment on the Discovery Channel's "One Step Beyond" (released in December 2006). Tamara has a passion for the public understanding of science and openness to new directions for scientific investigations, which in part, led to the current collaboration. She can be contacted at this email: tamara@doofdoofdoof.com