Sergey Piskunov (b. 1989, Ukraine) is a hyperrealist painter based in the Netherlands. His large-scale figurative works merge classical oil painting with symbolic and gold elements, reflecting precision, depth and a meditative dedication to the craft. Each work unfolds through hundreds of hours of detailed execution, inviting the viewer into a quiet, intimate encounter.
INTERVIEW | Syona Cheng
Syona Cheng is a visual artist and photographer who merges fashion, fine art, and surreal digital collage. She transforms familiar gestures into psychological landscapes, revealing how identity and emotion are continually shaped by connection, memory, and space. Her ongoing series Torn and Reconstructed forms part of a broader visual trilogy exploring the cyclical process of fracture and renewal.
INTERVIEW | Elizabeth Glazko
Elizabeth Glazko is a Los Angeles–based photographer and visual artist specialising in cinematic portraiture and stylised visual storytelling. With over a decade of experience, she has built a practice that bridges the worlds of film, fashion, and fine art. Wolfilm, her ongoing body of work, s a personal archive of moments suspended between memory and fiction, shaped more by feeling than fact.
INTERVIEW | Ruonan Shen
Ruonan Shen is a visual artist and photographer based in London. Her work engages with gender expression and transformation, focusing on China’s emerging drag scene as a lens through which to question the boundaries of beauty, strength, and self-presentation. Shen creates highly staged environments that balance intimacy and control, presence and absence.
INTERVIEW | Maxim Frumkin (Max Naum)
Maxim Frumkin is an award-winning visual artist based in Canada, working across experimental video, art photography, and mixed media. His practice investigates the fluidity of identity, how we perform, reshape, or resist ourselves to be seen, to belong, or to disappear. He creates flexible, unstable narratives where meaning loops, blurring the lines between memory, persona, and authenticity.
INTERVIEW | Ellerie Brust
Ellerie Brust is an editorial photographer and photo editor based in Burlington, USA. She hopes her work inspires others to engage more actively in their community—not just artistically but politically as well. Humans are inherently social creatures, and in a time when technology seems to dominate, Ellerie believes it is crucial to remember what drives us to create and take action.
INTERVIEW | Edward L. Rubin
Edward L. Rubin is an award-winning fine art photographer, production designer, and painter based in Los Angeles. In his series My Mannequin Moment, he depicts the transcendent moment when we realize we are no longer aligned with the roles, beliefs, or relationships we've accepted and where the veil is lifted and we confront the false ideals imposed on us.
INTERVIEW | Sophie Dezhao Jin
Sophie Dezhao Jin is a multimedia visual artist originally from Beijing, China, who explores the intricate dynamics of human relationships through her diverse practice. Working across various mediums, she delves into themes of connection—whether with others, with nature, or with the resonances of the past. Her work focuses on identity, memory, and the human experience.
INTERVIEW | Klara Lenhard
Klara is a German filmmaker and graphic designer now based in Berlin. She works in mixed media, including video and sound design, photography, and inclusive design. Klara also engages in experimental arts with the focus on conceptual emotional design. She has been curiously exploring how art makes disconnections tangible.
INTERVIEW | Boris Osipau
Boris is a self-taught photographer originally from Minsk, Belarus, now based in Philadelphia. He combines his technical knowledge and creative vision to produce compelling images that resonate emotionally. His project, Fierce, examines the paradox of cuteness aggression, a psychological phenomenon where overwhelming feelings of adoration for something provoke an intense response.
INTERVIEW | Eagan Hsu
Eagan Hsu is an emerging photographic artist based in Taipei. His work explores the complex web of human emotions, mental health, identity, and the often-overlooked moments of daily life. Eagan's photography spans from candid street portraits to conceptual series, delving into themes like imperfection, memory, and anonymity.
INTERVIEW | Elsa Faudé
Elsa Faudé is a French photographer-author based between Barcelona (Spain) and Toulouse (France). Her production combines photography with video, installation, and literature at the borders of documentary and poetical approaches. In the Kozmic Blues series, the journey of Ronn, a Cherokee-origin blues(wo)man, embodies both the promises and disillusionments of the American Dream.
INTERVIEW | Cassandra McCoy
Cassandra McCoy is an American photographer, currently enrolled in a communications/photojournalism degree at Kent State University. Working primarily with analog photography, she takes the simple yet heartwarming scenes, completely blowing them out of proportion. If one were to describe her art in three words, it would be invasive, vivid, and lomographic.
INTERVIEW | Naoual Peleau
Naoual Peleau is a French artist working with photography. Her practice is largely experimental, with a focus on manipulating, transforming, and even destroying the image and its support. As a self-professed clumsy person, she embraces accidents and mistakes as an integral part of her creative process. Her research aims to strike a balance between accidental creation and successful experience.
INTERVIEW | Cesar Mammadov
Cesar Mammadov, born in 1988 in Baku, Azerbaijan, is a notable young artist. He captures ordinary moments from his travels and home country, influenced by his father's legacy and Azerbaijani culture. His bold brushstrokes and saturated colors convey optimism and celebrate diversity and harmony. His work offers unique perspectives, slightly flattening aerial views for a contemporary twist.
INTERVIEW | Ana Pinho Vargas
Ana Pinho Vargas is a Portuguese artist, photographer, and painter based in Vila Nova de Gaia, Porto. Her latest series, Silêncio II, is the result of the junction of two coexisting universes: writing in musical scores and the artist in his most fragile physical humanity, revealing the intimacy of the eye through the close connection between the author and the person being photographed.
INTERVIEW | Asiya Al. Sharabi
Asiya Al. Sharabi is a Yemeni/American visual artist whose work has gained recognition both nationally and internationally. Currently based in the US, she initiated her career as a journalist and photographer before shifting her focus to artistic photography. Her artistry is rooted in capturing the challenges faced by Middle Eastern women, young adults, and immigrants, a perspective that profoundly influences her creations.
INTERVIEW | Xinyu Gao
Xinyu Gao is a visual artist and photographer who specializes in fine art photography and experimental images. Obsessed with the visibility and invisibility of aesthetic and cultural diversity, she is inspired by echoes from pictorialism in her initial creation and constantly pricked from the perception of embodied senses, experience, emotion, and memory.
INTERVIEW | Boyuan Wang
Wang Boyuan is an artist based in London and China who explores absurdity and fantasy through printmaking, moving images, drawing, etc. Wang Boyuan’s works employ imagination and humor to reflect and rethink identity, sexuality, social constraints, and underlying ideologies. His current work is a series of drawings that serve as self-portraits exploring my possibilities, desires, and emotions.
INTERVIEW | Tony J. Smith
Tony J. Smith is a long-time Graphics Arts professional and self-trained artist. His paintings explore the human and ordinary side of life. He evokes a variety of emotions with each piece, allowing the observer to feel a new sense of connection. A perpetual student of life, Tony now works full-time on his art and artist opportunities.





















