Photography

INTERVIEW | Saman Qadir

INTERVIEW | Saman Qadir

Saman, also known as The Samaniist, is a talented photojournalist and artist with a rich cultural background. Based in the Bay Area, California, Saman's work is influenced by both her Pakistani roots and American surroundings, resulting in a unique perspective that captures the essence of diverse cultures and stories. With a passion for storytelling through the lens, Saman uses her photography to shed light on the untold narratives of people and places.

INTERVIEW | Lifu Hu

INTERVIEW | Lifu Hu

Lifu Hu, originally from Chengdu, China, and now based in New York, works predominantly around her reflections on self-emotions and intimate relationships, exploring her connections with lovers, family, and her own being. Lifu focuses on conceptual photography, still life, and documentary photography, creating visually captivating stories that leave a lasting impression.

INTERVIEW | Connor Daly

INTERVIEW | Connor Daly

Connor Daly is a British fine art photographer from Jersey (Channel Islands), currently based in the UK. His work explores varying levels of colour and compositional effects that provoke spatial ambiguity, using a painterly and abstract style that is evocative of nostalgia, memory, and the passing of time. Furthermore, his work is predominantly concerned with the depiction of a space, exploring broad visual styles.

INTERVIEW | AndrΓ©s Mario de Varona

INTERVIEW | AndrΓ©s Mario de Varona

AndrΓ©s Mario de Varona was born in 1996 and grew up in Miami as a first-generation Cuban-American with two Cuban families. Art is a tool for AndrΓ©s to measure cycles of indignation and healing, our growth as human beings, and as a way to record victories. What he aims to create is an attempt to enter the collective human experience, as well as an access point into himself.

INTERVIEW | Jia Hao

INTERVIEW | Jia Hao

Jia Hao (b. 1990, China) is a visual artist based in the Yunnan province of China, with a BA in Fine Art from the State University of New York in Albany. Jia Hao works predominantly in photography and collage, building surreal narratives within her work. Her main focus is on the human body and the environment, and through her work, she creates a dialogue about the expression and concealment of human identity.

INTERVIEW | Lydia Schreibikus (Suslova)

INTERVIEW | Lydia Schreibikus (Suslova)

Lydia Schreibikus (Suslova) is a photographer and screenwriter researching the correlation of different art forms. Her creative practice mainly focuses on photography and film scripts. The photographs reveal the connection between light and form, the destruction of the effect of one-sided visibility. Light does not just show the object but creates the composition itself; all that remains is to see and capture the moment before it crumble.

INTERVIEW | Aleksandra Vizin

INTERVIEW | Aleksandra Vizin

Aleksandra Vizin is a creative director and photographer living in Sarajevo. Aleksandra has a direct, somewhat raw approach to photography with limited use of postproduction techniques. She prefers shaping imagination with reality, choosing contrast as a main tool. Using costumes, creating stories, and developing characters, Aleksandra tries to keep elements of surprise, freedom, and uniqueness.

INTERVIEW | Chun Han

INTERVIEW | Chun Han

Chun Han is a photographer and creative director based in New York. Chun has been creating works focus on Asian women's social dilemmas, photographing Asian women and women's bodies, especially her self-portraits. Her other studio and video work were largely impacted by her theatre background by staging contrasting colors and theatrical effects in the images.

INTERVIEW | Massimiliano Cambuli

INTERVIEW | Massimiliano Cambuli

Massimiliano Cambuli is a photographer who lives and works between Brussels (Belgium) and Cagliari (Italy). His recent body of work focuses on nudity, which is not the core of his works but rather a phase: β€œjust a narrative ploy,” he says. In a mix of exploration, experimentation, and research, he pushed these works to the extreme borders of graphisms to transfigure reality and drive the viewer beyond aestheticisms.

INTERVIEW | Kwabena Ofori-Darkwa

INTERVIEW | Kwabena Ofori-Darkwa

Kwabena Ofori-Darkwa is a self-taught Ghanaian photographer whose work is based on concepts focusing on nature and its relation and significance to humanity as part of a personal quest to seek a deeper understanding of various aspects of life as has been found as well as to build on the continuous rise of African contemporary photography to add different nuances and perspectives in subsequent conversations.

INTERVIEW | SuJung Jo

INTERVIEW | SuJung Jo

SuJung Jo is a Brooklyn-based artist who works with photography, woodworking, and sculpture. Jo uses organza to veil her images, both as a psychological strategy but also an innovative growth in her approach to photography. In doing so, she stretches the boundaries of the two-dimensional photography and integrates it with the three-dimensional possibilities of sculpture.

INTERVIEW | Agnieszka Stopyra

INTERVIEW | Agnieszka Stopyra

Agnieszka Stopyra (born in 1988) is an illustrator and graphic designer. In her fashion illustrations, she combines an expressive use of lines and subtle patches of colour, and in her graphic designs, she uses collage and combines it with surrealism and pop art, which she absolutely loves. The main theme in both these spheres is a woman with a whole spectrum of emotions, anxieties, inspirations, and her own micro-worlds.

INTERVIEW | Yuxiang Dong

INTERVIEW | Yuxiang Dong

Dong Yuxiang is an art, educational, and social worker. His practices and research focus on the exploration of photography and media art as ethnographic methods in the Anthropocene. Throughout his career, he has exhibited internationally, in the USA, China, and the UK. He has won prizes and has presented his research in international institutions and conferences.

INTERVIEW | Yu Chin Tseng

INTERVIEW | Yu Chin Tseng

Born in Taiwan, Asia, Tseng Yu-Chin began his creative career as an experimental filmmaker and now works mainly with video and photography and mixed media installations, living with his partner in Amsterdam and Berlin. His work is based on the human body and the subjective mind, using the body to discuss self-existence, identity, politics, society, and contemporary values.

INTERVIEW | PatrΓ­cia Abreu

INTERVIEW | PatrΓ­cia Abreu

PatrΓ­cia Abreu is a Brazilian visual artist. Themes about Time, Memory, and the Natural World are a constant presence in her work. She has always been interested in the mysteries of Nature's life, which is covered beyond the visible surfaces that envelopes what we see and blur what we imagine. Her series of photographs titled Echoing Humanity was shot in Cisco, a ghost town in Utah, USA, in January 2019.

INTERVIEW | Evgeniya Strygina

INTERVIEW | Evgeniya Strygina

Evgeniya Strygina is a London-based contemporary artist specializing in landscape and architecture photography. She captures urban and natural environments to highlight their relation to and their autonomy from human beings. To make the viewer see aspects of the landscape that routinely go unnoticed, she offers a different perspective and deliberately strips down the style of her photographs.

INTERVIEW | Annet Katan

INTERVIEW | Annet Katan

Annet Katan, originally from Ukraine, is a photographer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Annet's approach to her work is marked by a unique blend of art direction, photography, and styling. Her latest series, FakeFluence(r), analyzes the world of influencers with its artificial and misleading promotional images, exposing the hidden reality of the industry’s dark, glamorous side.

INTERVIEW | Emmanuelle Becker

INTERVIEW | Emmanuelle Becker

Emmanuelle Becker is a visual artist and photographer based in Paris. Emmanuelle Becker's photographic work explores the selective nature of memory and the impact of emotions on how the brain prioritizes and retains information. Becker has an intimist look at her subjects to create her singular dreamlike imagery. Her fascination with dreams and the unconscious is at the heart of her creative process.

INTERVIEW | Hui Long

INTERVIEW | Hui Long

Hui Long is a photographer and creative director who brings a unique perspective to the art world. Her work focuses on themes exploring femininity and self-discovery, using her own personal experiences and memories as a source of inspiration. Through her art, she invites viewers to delve into the complexity of the human experience and to consider how our past experiences shape and define us.

INTERVIEW | Sri Aditya

INTERVIEW | Sri Aditya

Sri Aditya is a Chennai-based Indian artist who aims to explore the narrative of regions and personalities of people through digital media. Whether it be film photography, graphics, or presentation, the artist manages to seep through intricate places and markets as one who is adept at traveling. His art centres around the dynamic play of light and darkness, a blend of neutral colour schemes and geometric patterns.