Crofton Black

Crofton Black was selected for the 2023 Shortlist with Flight of the predator: Jet linked to Israeli spyware tycoon delivers surveillance tech from the EU to notorious Sudanese militia.

Crofton is a writer and researcher specialising in technology and security topics. His areas of focus include surveillance, military contracting and secret detention. His book Negative Publicity: Artefacts of Extraordinary Rendition (with Edmund Clark, Aperture 2016) won the Rencontres d’Arles Photo-Text Book Award and the International Center of Photography Infinity Award for Documentary and Photojournalism, as well as forming the basis for several international exhibitions and installations. He has a PhD in the history of philosophy from the Warburg Institute, University of London.

Avi Scharf

Avi Scharf was selected for the 2023 Shortlist with Flight of the predator: Jet linked to Israeli spyware tycoon delivers surveillance tech from the EU to notorious Sudanese militia.

Avi is Haaretz’s National Security, Cyber and OSINT editor. He was previously the Editor in Chief of Haaretz English Edition and the editor of Haaretz Online in Hebrew.