Photography

INTERVIEW | Melaney Wardell

INTERVIEW | Melaney Wardell

Melaney Wardell is an American photographer. Her concentration is documentary photography. She challenges the idea of beauty by focusing on the decay and destruction around her. Her photography focuses on capturing beauty in unexpected places. Her goal is to convince her viewers to appreciate the mess of life and see the beauty in the destruction. 

INTERVIEW | Yuxiao Mu

INTERVIEW | Yuxiao Mu

Born in Dalian, China, Yuxiao Mu is an interdisciplinary artist and educator based in Boston, MA. Mu’s practice is driven by conceptual ideas surrounding memory, emotion, and storytelling; her work ranges from analog and digital photography and video to printmaking and painting. Her work has been exhibited internationally and nationally in Rome, Boston, and Minneapolis.

INTERVIEW | Nicole Tran

INTERVIEW | Nicole Tran

Nicole Tran is an artist who uses photography and filmmaking to build her signature bold visuals. Her background in fine art is imbued into her photography, evident in her use of color theory and matte textures. Nicole builds a visual universe for the viewer to step into, developing character identities that are translated through styling and posing. She incorporates elements of storytelling to represent not only her own ideas but the ideas of others.

INTERVIEW | Jemima Charrett-Dykes

INTERVIEW | Jemima Charrett-Dykes

Jemima Charrett-Dykes is an artist whose output is primarily autobiographical, drawing from experiences in childhood and the aftermaths of psychosis as a result of Complex Post-traumatic Stress Disorder. Using art-making as a therapeutic outlet, Jemima's work often references her past and the traumas linked to her body both physically and mentally.

INTERVIEW | Anrike Piel

INTERVIEW | Anrike Piel

Working predominantly with oil painting, clay, and photography, artist and social justice advocate Anrike Piel (b. 1993), with womanhood in focus, contributes her perspective on the enduring impact of intergenerational trauma on individuals and society, the plight of refugees, and societal reflections. Her work aims to catalyse change, challenge perceptions, and advocate for a more empathetic world.

INTERVIEW | Kôichi Nabeshima

INTERVIEW | Kôichi Nabeshima

Kôichi Nabeshima is an artist in the audio-visual field who lives and works in Paris. His interest is the concept of art, analyzed by the phenomenalist idea and the interactive relationship between Nature and Humanity. The societal aspect of the land, in that it separates nature from human society, allows him to understand the history of the cultural will for development by a man of the territory.

INTERVIEW | Dajzha Little

INTERVIEW | Dajzha Little

Dajzha Little is a 24-year-old photographer & videographer based in Atlanta, GA. Dajzha Little loves to use photography and creative direction as an expression of her current emotional state. She loves to use these mediums to make a statement, peak curiosity, and give food for thought. She specializes in film photography and collaborating with other creatives to bring visions to life.

INTERVIEW | Ava Goodwin

INTERVIEW | Ava Goodwin

Ava Goodwin grew up in New York City. She graduated from Denison University with a minor in studio art and a focus in photography. In favor of a break from city life, she chose to attend college in rural Ohio. In order to portray the adjustment to country life, Ava chose models from big US cities (New York, Chicago, Pittsburgh). She styled and photographed them among the farmland of central Ohio.

INTERVIEW | Carlotta Olympia Pompei

INTERVIEW | Carlotta Olympia Pompei

Carlotta Olympia Pompei is a young freelance photographer based in the United Kingdom, dedicated to capturing the fleeting essence of life through the camera lens. While Carlotta holds a deep appreciation for all art forms, it is through the lens of photography that she captures reality, making it her medium of choice - one that is undeniably reflective of our era.

INTERVIEW | Pavel Shynkarenko

INTERVIEW | Pavel Shynkarenko

Pavel Shynkarenko is a forward-thinking, meta-modernistic artist and entrepreneur who explores the fascinating intersection of technology and human creativity. By delving into meta-modernist ideas, oscillating between opposites like irony and sincerity and subjectivity and objectivity, Shynkarenko's work transcends traditional artistic boundaries. In making new art, Pavel also experiments with AI language models.

INTERVIEW | Ran Fuchs

INTERVIEW | Ran Fuchs

Ran Fuchs, an Australian artist and global nomad, is driven by two intertwined passions: an undying obsession for wildlife and nature and an exploration of the fine line separating reality from consciousness. Ran's fascination with the natural world converges beautifully with his enduring interest in traditional Japanese arts, specifically kachoga and sumi-e (ink painting).

INTERVIEW | Roberto Sabatini

INTERVIEW | Roberto Sabatini

Born in Italy, Roberto Sabatini was raised in a family of photographers. While he was influenced by their choices, it wasn't until recently that Roberto adopted photography as a visual art. He is not only interested in showing beauty but also in evoking concepts and emotions. His works range from representational to abstract within this realm. In his recent works, he is focusing on reinterpreting famous artworks and exploring motion blur.

INTERVIEW | Hani Amra

INTERVIEW | Hani Amra

Hani Amra is a Palestinian artist, living in Jerusalem. Hani's intrinsic work is about digging into the surface of reality and searching for unexpected answers to open questions. His main subject of study revolved around the processes of transformation. In his new work, he introduces three Sufi concepts to decode his process of creation and applies them using everyday construction material on the surface of a stretched canvas.

INTERVIEW | Paola Fillippi

INTERVIEW | Paola Fillippi

Paola Fillippi is a multimedia artist born in Colombia in 1997 and raised in Brazil and currently based between Spain and Portugal. Through her art, Paola shares intimate human issues related to the inherent conditions of being in constant movement and detachment processes, reflecting what can be found in the spectrum of love and fear. Her current focus is on creating outsized works as a means of exploring human feelings and the stoic virtue of courage.

INTERVIEW | Gregory Boyarintsev

INTERVIEW | Gregory Boyarintsev

Gregory Boyarintsev is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work spans music, art photography, and motion graphics. For him, art is an essential part of life, something he needs to stay alive. Gregory's artistic practice involves integrating AI into his photography, using painting software to remix the photos with his own hand-drawn elements. As a musician, he plays guitar and sings, and he's currently exploring different ideas and themes to express through his music.

INTERVIEW | Karim Abed

INTERVIEW | Karim Abed

Karim Abed was born in El-Kelâa (Tigzirt), a small village in North Africa. He moved to Ontario, Canada, in 2004, where he has lived ever since. His work explores the dynamics of human relations both at the individual and societal levels. Through his photos, he examines the impact of modernity on ancient cultures that are fighting for survival. The idea of power and how it is used in our day and age is at the center of his current work.

INTERVIEW | Max Cavitch

INTERVIEW | Max Cavitch

Max Cavitch is a landscape, nature, and macro photographer who lives in Philadelphia, where he is also a teacher and a writer. Since 2019, he has been a contributing photographer for the public-science project iNaturalist, with over 2000 observations of flora and fauna to date. A budding amateur geologist, his studio portraits of various geological specimens are collected on his Instagram page.