Daria Lou Nakov is a French visual artist. Her work is at the crossroads between installation, photography, and video. She sees photography as a way to create images and not simply capture the world around her. In a society so fueled with images, she likes to create surrealistic images to question our relation to the hyperrealistic image-based world.
INTERVIEW | Farras Abdelnour
Farras Abdelnour’s fine art explores the serenity of sparsity and the absence of clutter, be it visual, acoustic, or mental. By and large, his work is influenced by his mathematical background. He uses photography as a contemplative medium. In his quest for emptiness, he composes abstract, sparse images that evoke a subdued mood, a sense of nostalgia.
INTERVIEW | Jiabao Sun
Jiabao Sun is a visual artist and photographer originally from China, and currently based in the USA. Jiabao’s work continually explores the variability and ambiguity of emotions and personal feelings. Her artistic expression is not limited in form, using photography, alternative photographic processes, and poetry to visualize the thoughts and dialogues inside her. Her latest project is titled Noēsis.
INTERVIEW | Man Zhu
Man Zhu is a fine art photographer originally from China, and currently based in New York. Her latest series, UnFrame: Relationship, is a body of photo-based works through which she explores her subconscious behavior by showing her relationships with people around her. The creative process draws on the principles of semiotics, appropriating and retaining each subject’s past, and integrating them into self-portraiture.
INTERVIEW | Gøneja ✷
Gøneja ✷ is a photographer and totemic sculptor based in Berlin. His practice represents an artistic quest to establish a connection with the spiritual world and explore it within the boundaries of the contemporary urban context. He combines classical photography and totemic sculpture to unfold a new mythological narrative. Spirituality is a means to discern contemporary mythological possibilities and unravel them in his work as active magical forces.
INTERVIEW | Jeremy Bach
Jeremy Bach is a self-taught artist, based in upstate New York. He started his art career as a painter, and later approach photography as a medium. Using his studies of art techniques and with the artist trained eye, Bach began using the camera not just as a tool but more as an extension of his imagination. He uses the camera to explore his feelings, dreams, and comments on artistic beauty or current social issues.
INTERVIEW | Giorgio Gerardi
Giorgio Gerardi is an Italian artist living in Favaro Veneto, Venice. He is a self-taught artist, and works by projects, divided into series of multiple images; among the latest, there are "Clouds", "Leaves" and "Details", and all focus on the search for details. Giorgio is not interested in a representation of the object. He is not interested in depicting it as it is; he tries to get a final image that has shapes and colors that he likes.
INTERVIEW | Dawn Gaietto
Dawn M Gaietto is a lens-based practitioner working and living in London. Her research is centred on examining small components of nonhuman agency, allowing for momentary lapses in preconceived notions, and exploring the impacts of nonhumans acting upon and influencing humans. Her latest project, Unfixed Consciousness/Positive Unconciousness, analyzes the impact of human activities on ecosystems throughout Alachua County.
INTERVIEW | Matityahu Neriya
Matityahu Neriya is a portrait and wildlife photographer based in Judean Desert, Israel. He constantly searches for emotions, textures, and colors to tell an interesting story. He likes to shoot environmental portraits in difficult-to-reach locations. His captured experiences are the result of remaining open to his surroundings allowing for the subject to evoke the scene and reveal its true essence.
INTERVIEW | Yien Xu
Yien Xu is a Chinese photographer currently based in Los Angeles, California. Art is a tool for the artist to explore the world. It allows him to understand how the world runs, form the whole structure of the world in his mind, and then express his perception of the world via art. Inspired by this, his latest works shifted to a surrealist style based on reality yet differed from it, conveying a false sense of truth.
INTERVIEW | Maggie Wen 温馨
Maggie Wen 温馨 works mainly with the combination of interview research-based text and photography. She draws a lot of her inspiration from intercultural research. She explores the relationship between words and the environment to understand culture, politics, economics’ influence over human life, and the driving forces behind decisions.
INTERVIEW | Yulia Artemyeva
Yulia Artemyeva is a photo-artist from Russia. She creates symbolic series of works that often balance between portrait and still life. The main theme of Yulia's art is death and memories people have of the already gone phenomena. In her latest series, Ballerina and Flowers, she compare flowers to the poses of a classical dance ballerina.
INTERVIEW | Suridh Das-Hassan
Visual artist Suridh Das-Hassan focus on cultural and ethnic identity as well as memory and movement, particularly within the urban environment. Traditionally, Suridh's work has been about documentation, investigation, and collaboration. His ongoing series Reconstruction Of Self (i) is an intensely personal journey through family, power, colonialism and identity.
INTERVIEW | Rick Bogacz
Rick Bogacz is a landscapes and street photographer based in Toronto, Canada. Influenced by painters such as Edward Hopper and Canadian Christopher Pratt, Rick’s images will show lone figures walking through the frame or standing alone contemplating their surroundings. Other photographs will emphasize the natural elements themselves but in a solitary way.
INTERVIEW | Dave Hanson
Dave Hanson is an artist with a lifelong passion for the medium of photography. He has been intrigued and inspired by everything, from the uniqueness of the human face and body to the historic footprints left by man on the land, or the beauty of the landscape throughout the United States and the world. Dave’s photographs represent the outcome of his vision as translated through the passion of his soul.
INTERVIEW | Milena Deparis
Milena Deparis is a French-Argentinian photographer based in the U.K. Her latest series, Hidden Canvases, explores the aesthetic beauty of our world's unseen and hidden images. Hidden Canvases is a motto that has come to encompass her photographic approach and style, as well as her perception of beauty and how she chooses to capture it.
INTERVIEW | Mallory Burrell
Mallory’s work focuses on collecting and ritual. In the Flowers of the Anthropocene series, she plays the role of an artist / pseudo-naturalist, for she does not create the flowers. She finds them in the waterways created by the forces of nature and clips the flowers to photograph them back in her studio.
INTERVIEW | Marie Marchandise
INTERVIEW | Minh Vinh
Minh Vinh is an American artist based in San Francisco. His work involves a mixture of illustration and design techniques. The artist has devised a number of concepts with various iterations to be a part of the subsequent choosing. The resulting creations were the products of several rounds of shooting and revising physical-world graphic layouts. The pictures that he presents are his personal narratives and commentaries.
INTERVIEW | Clemens Gritl
Clemens Gritl is a German artist based in Berlin. His work focuses on the interaction between space, dimension, monotony and materiality of urban megastructures. His black and white photorealistic presentations can be aligned with 1960s architecture photography which documents a singular, unbroken optimism and the radical zeitgeist of its era.