CONTRIBUTORS:
Chase Griffin
He is the author of Long Day Press's What's on
the Menu? and he has stories in the Oyez Review, Funny Looking Dog
Quarterly, Maudlin House, and more.
IG @kilgoretroutius
Kirra Kimbrell
Artist, writer, and mama currently
living and working in New Jersey. Her work revolves around themes of
domestic life, motherhood, and celebration.
www.kirrakimbrell.comIG @kirrakimbrell
Megan Driving Hawk
I seek connections to and ask
questions about the Divine, my ancestors, my family, my community, and
the environment by photographing, writing, and practicing various forms
of traditional needlework. I create through a feminist lens in order to
think about cultural, familial, and personal expectations as a mother
and woman. Additionally, I contemplate the delicate weaving of life,
death, decay, hope, light, darkness, and what gets left behind. I am
curious about how one person's expression of life and self-discovery
connect to another and how different basic human life experiences are
from one another. After spending a childhood blocking out life
experiences and people, I now want to be present to feel and savor where
I am in the world as I heal childhood wounds.
www.megandrivinghawk.comIG @mdrivinghawk00
Roslyn Julia
She is a photographic
artist. Drawn to the medium of photography through her sense of awe, the
theme can be found all of her images. She received her Bachelor of Fine
Arts in Photography from the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan in 2013
and is currently based in Ithaca, NY. In 2020, she was included in
Artpil’s 30 Under 30 Women Photographers list and Midwest Center of
Photography’s Emerge exhibition. She is an avid photobook lover with
five books of her own work published. In 2019, she co-founded a small
independent publishing company called Goldenrod Editions where she will
continue to publish photobooks of her own work and others. Her
photographic work has been shown nationally and internationally,
including an online exhibition at Aviary Gallery and featured in
publications including: F-Stop Magazine, Fraction Magazine, Aint-Bad and
Float Magazine.
www.roslynjulia.comIG @roslynjulia
Sayaka Ueno
Sayaka is a photographer & designer. She graduated with a BFA from
Pratt Institute in 2015. Since then she has been published in the New
York Times, Time Out New York, Okayplayer, Medium, and Refinery29. Her
side projects include book publishing, writing, and curation. Sayaka was
born in Japan, raised in Hawai’i and currently lives in New York City.
When she’s not working, she's on the dance floor or making a playlist.
IG @benzaiten.jpg
Ryan Courtier
"In our modern world globalisation
blinds us with the invisible threads of industry and economy. Ryan is
an abstract artist seeking to look through this tangled web of the
world, to the beauty in
it that also connects us. Ryan encourages the viewer to listen to the
colours in his art and to get lost in the textures and forms and hear
their inner sounds. “We must find a way back to nature again to gain
inner peace of mind, and cure ourselves of this toxic imagery we see
every day”. Ryan maintains that the ultimate peace of mind can only come
from time spent in Nature, appreciating its beauty. "
IG @ryancourtierartist
Valida Baba
A film director, writer, and poet born in Azerbaijan now based in Prague, Czech Republic.
IG @valida_baba
Lucilla Bellini
She is an
Italian born photographer.
My work is characterized by a strong imaginative component and the
sophisticated use of color.
This is the visual diary of my confinement
on the island of Tenerife, Canary Island (Spain).
A series of days and
places inside the house tied by the red color.
IG @mirtylla
Henri Antikainen
I mostly focus on photographing my immediate surroundings in the suburbs
of Newark, so my practice has not changed much. Perhaps it is even more
focused now on the same streets, that sometimes reveal a new detail
previously omitted, or a new shade of color as the light changes.
IG @antihenri
Sélina Farzaei
Born
and raised in the suburbs of Montreal Island, I find inspiration in
shitty things; dead flowers, polluted river water, construction sites.
Although I explore, experiment and share various forms of visual art,
analog photography remains my favourite. I state “the cheapest way to
film” as I believe in limitless creation at a minimal cost, often using
recycled or thrifted materials.
IG @wackography
Jaime Alvarez
Photographer living and working in Philadelphia. For the past 4 years,
I’ve been photographing the changing neighborhood of Fishtown in
Philadelphia. It sits in an area that is quickly changing through real
estate development and is near one of the hardest-hit areas affected by
the opiate crisis.
While my family and I have been staying at home, we do venture out to get materials at the pharmacy or to just get some fresh air. It gives me
a chance to continue photographing the changing landscape of Fishtown.
IG @jaimephoto79
Micah McCoy
Micah is a photographer based in Chicago, IL. He is an MFA candidate at
Columbia College Chicago and works throughout the Midwest. Micah's work deals with religiosity and the ways that people express faith. The work attempts to find the sociological threads that tie people together in the midwest. Micah has also attempted to use landscape photography to discover the ways in which the land shapes belief.
Charlotte Dobson
An emerging photographer focusing on connection between humans and nature, always aiming to create emotion to then connect to the viewer.
‘Transition’ was created as a photographic tool to explore how our emotions can be placed into another medium- how the camera and the brain coincide. In a simplistic way, the warm colours represent warmth and the cooler colours representing times of difficulty. The images aim to represent the truth as life is always changing, especially during these uncertain times for many. Above all, the series aims to document life and feelings to understand and explore the world in a more expansive way.
IG @charlottedobson.photography
Eric Kaczmarczyk
He is an artist, photographer and computer programmer based in Tarrytown, New York. His artwork focuses on the nuanced lack of connection between human beings. This theme manifests into images of technological devices, oppressive structures, remnants of human expression, and nature as an opportunity to reflect.
IG @ericmichaelmichael
Vann Thomas Powell
Vann Powell is a landscape and documentary photographer working and studying in Durham, N.C. Powell works with analogy and metaphor to tell the story about our relation to land and how this can shape identity. Most recently Vann exhibited "Piedmont Topographics," a survey of the shifting Carolina Piedmont landscapes at Through This Lens Gallery in Durham, N.C.
IG @vann.powell
Marinella
Consigli
I was born in 1995 in Florence (Italy). After many wrong choices, I decided to follow my real passion and I graduated from photography in march 2019, in Florence.
I feed on emotions, fears, lights, shadows. I photograph what keeps me alive and whats destroys me. I use to say that I photograph because I am not able to speak that much. Mostly I photograph what I can't say: I am just trying to express what I am feeling because I am not good at telling it.
IG @consigram
Piper Kruse
My photos exist somewhere between looking and seeing. I feel pursued by images, aware that they are more likely to be found when I’m not looking for them. My pictures trace over fragments of reality, exploring light and composition, feeling and memory, and all the spaces in between.
IG @piperkruse
Emily Jaswal
My name is Emily and I am 17 years old! I make art in lots of different
ways (writing music, performing, photography, writing, drawing, sewing,
fashion, makeup, modeling, entrepreneurship, marketing, teaching,
learning, screaming, set design, digital manipulation, social media,
acting, etc.) I will use whatever supplies I’m given to create and replicate the ideas in my brain into some sort of tangible form. I find that art exists in the most peculiar of objects, and experiences. From the way, we sip our water, to the mold on our ceiling, to the peculiarity of our nightmares. There is a puzzle between our brain and reality which waits to be pieced together. As I observe myself in a self-portrait, I look beyond my skin and feel the power from the people around me, captured within myself. Quarantine has forced many of us to communicate with our friends and loved ones via our screens, but it is important to remember that there is a disconnect between the internet and reality. I like that an image can show the ugly, as well as the beautiful. An image can communicate my thoughts when I am unable to put them into words. When you look at an image of mine, you see both my body, and my brain.
IG @emilyjaswal
Diana Carbone
I am a photographer out of Boston, MA working on a project about how the
people around me and myself find comfort in one another and their
environments through touch, gesture, and landscape, to understand the
shift roles of people and places in an unprecedented time. Through this
project I find comfort in the uncomfortable and the uncertainty of
everyday life
IG @dianacaptures
Kate Schneider
Kate Schneider is an educator and kayaking instructor of settler (Euro-Canadian/American) ancestry living in Tkaronto (Toronto). Her artistic practice is engaged with the areas of activism, political culture, and environmental social justice.
Kate has exhibited shows, presented at conferences, and published writing throughout Canada and the United States on the subjects of environmental sustainability and photographic discourse. Her works have shown at the Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art (Toronto), Harbourfront Centre (Toronto), SoHo Photo (New York), the Great Plains Art Museum (Lincoln, Nebraska), and published in numerous publications, such as Magenta Foundation’s Flash Forward publication and PDN’s Photo Annual. In 2014, Senator Barbara Boxer used Kate’s images as a visual testimony against the Keystone XL pipeline on the floor of the United States Senate.
IG @katepschneider
Amy Aiken
Amy works as a Research Economist and spends much of her free time on photography. Photography invites (sometimes forces) her to slow down and pay attention to the world around her. She loves the challenge and joy of making interesting pictures from seemingly boring or mundane surroundings. Details and complexity start to emerge if she will simply be still and watch and wait. She finds great delight in the patterns and textures of life, and she hopes to communicate some of that wonder to you through her images.
IG @amyaikenphotos
Jody Boyer
Jody Boyer is a visual artist and arts educator originally from Portland, Oregon. In her studio practice, she explores the broad interdisciplinary possibilities of traditional and new media with specific interests in personal and historic memory, cinema, landscape, the natural world and a sense of place. She received her B.A. in Studio Arts from Reed College, her M.A. in Intermedia and Video Art from the University of Iowa, and her K-12 teaching certificate at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Her artwork has been shown in over 70 exhibitions across the country, including at the Des Moines Art Center, Urban Culture Project in Kansas City, and the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts. She teaches studio art courses at the University of Nebraska at Omaha and visual arts at Norris Middle School. In 2014 she received the nationally selected Caucus of Social Theory in Art Education’s Social Theory-in-Practice Award for K-12 Art teachers, which recognizes and honors a teacher who utilizes social theory in classroom pedagogy. She was selected the 2016 Nebraska Outstanding Art Educator of the Year by the Nebraska Art Teachers Association.
IG @iowa_jody_boyer
László Gábor Belicza
These are pictures from my personal visual diary. Under isolation. I notice such small details that I have gone by so far.
IG @laszlogabor
Kateri Quirk
Kateri Quirk is a photographer based in Massachusetts. Her current work, "Stoping to Stare" is a documentation of the fleeting moments found within the natural world. Kateri graduated from Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2014 and currently resides in Western Massachusetts.
IG @kateriquirk
Justin Hood
Midwesterner who uses photography to give the viewer a moment of sonder, or the realization that everyone in the world has their own life and problems. Sometimes we spend most of our time in our heads and forget that everyone is experiencing life at the same time as us.
@justinhoodphotography
Karl Frederick Mattson
I am a practicing film-maker, photo-taker, and art-handler based in Buffalo, New York. I received a BFA in Photography from the Hartford Art School in 2014. My visual explorations borrow from the behind-the-scenes perspective of my day-to-day job while studying overlooked influences society has on the surrounding landscape through still imagery and time-based media.
@karlfrederick
Emily Figueroa
As the pandemic continues, I become a voyeur in search of life, capturing how the illness manifests itself within these spaces. Photographing through windows into different homes and workspaces, I attempt to comprehend the forced separation and isolation we, as individuals, have placed ourselves in. Throughout my pursuit of life, I sense a strong urge to infiltrate and insert myself into the spaces I observe, but I am also content with limiting myself as an outside viewer, contemplating all aspects of the dwellings and people I encounter.
@emilyfigphotography
Kristen Farrah Naeem
I've lived in this Southern California community for as long as I can remember and grew up skeptical of organized religion while being raised in a combination Protestant/Muslim home.
These shots are from a series I did recently at a neighborhood church within walking distance from my home, which was an exploration of the collective comfort religious iconography offers and represents to followers in times of isolation, through an agnostic or secular perspective.
@kristennaeem
Emily Porter
Emily Porter is a traveling photographer who was born and raised in Milwaukee, WI. Her work has been printed in multiple publications including Harper's Magazine, Esquire Russia, This Very Instant, Float Photo as well as exhibited in Australia, London, Cleveland, Washington DC, New York among others. She graduated from the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design and has a working studio with Scout Gallery. Travel. Cats. Coffee. Tea. Film. Books. RadioLab. National Geographic. Ologies. Patti Smith.
@emilyporterphotograph
Lea Petrik
I'm an artist and filmmaker, a graduate of Prague's film school FAMU, focusing on new media, particularly moving images, but also exploring photography and its possibilities. I'm interested in the topic of invisibility - by means of art, I try to research the invisible, e.g. the states of consciousness.
Jude Infantini
I abide by the rule of cool - if it looks cool, I take a photo of it.
The expression of aesthetic values (what we like to look at) in art are just as valid as the expression of ideas - craft and concept are two sides of the same coin. I like to make things I enjoy looking at; the extractions of any "deeper meaning" is up to the viewer.
@easyemu
Abhiruk Lahiri
I am a self-taught photographer and a researcher in computer science. Native from India currently living in Israel. My photography works mostly revolves around urban spaces.
@kurihbarm
Camille DeSanto
Having an autoimmune disease, I have been afraid to leave my home for any reason in fear of contracting coronavirus. I constantly feel trapped, disoriented, and isolated. To express and deal with these emotions, I have been keeping a visual diary of my time in quarantine. I’ve never photographed my space so thoroughly or sadly. I spend a great deal of time being on this inside looking out.
@camille.desanto.photography
Victoria Campa
Victoria has been photographing her surroundings for as long as she can remember. It’s her memory, her feeling, her love language of choice.
@vwcampa
Martina Pizzigoni
Martina was born in Bergamo, Italy, 1998. She's attending the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice, enrolled in New Media Art department. She also spent one year abroad at TU Dublin School of Creative Arts. Her photographic practise revolves around the theme of habitus, trying to analyze the context we live in. Because of that, she considers her self more an anthropologist. For the Quarantine theme she decided to propose an extract of a few shots where the prevalent colours are light and without any contrast. The suspension of time, frozen by the picture itself, talks about dead times where we need to accept the situation, and live with it.
@martina.pizzigoni
Seamore Zhu
I’m fascinated with conveying a feeling and essence about my subject beyond the physical. I try my best to paint emotions and how the things I portray move me. I believe that if you’re genuine and true to what you’re making, art always has a way of revealing more: uncovering some depth to your subject and/or yourself. For me, that’s where the magic of art is. It’s not about making something super cool or complicated or beautiful. It’s about making it super real, honest, and true.
@cmore_withan_a
Morgan Davis Foehl
I'm a Los Angeles-based writer and photographer. My quarantine began when my daughter’s school closed on March 13. Our world shrank to the confines of a two-bedroom bungalow and the blocks surrounding it, only as far as we're willing to walk. I began making pictures of our time, limiting myself to materials I can deal with at home — 35mm black and white film. These images, taken within a quarter-mile radius, are selections from that work.
@morgandavisfoehl
Diego Maeso
I am a documentary and portrait photographer based in Bristol, United Kingdom. I am a trans artist and most of my work is about exploring my gender and documenting the LGBTQ+ community. I also work with photography archive. My personal projects involve the path of discovering my identity trough my gender and family heritage.
@diego_maeso__
@selfieisolation2020/
Rachel TuckerI'm currently a college student living in San Marcos, TX. I mainly like to capture moments that relate to my experiences. Quarantine has brought in a lot of anxiety and restlessness. This series is based on the experience and emotions of restlessness and loneliness while feeling trapped in isolation.
@rachelevelyn__
Marc Audisio
Marc Audisio is a 29 years old Argentinian photographer, mostly shooting analog for about 8 years now. He'll keep you on your toes with a dynamic array of colors, textures, portraits, and often overlooked everyday beauty
@marc_audisio
I capture usual moments of the every day + find inspiration in nature, unnoticed light, shadow, and movement, a blip: sudden minor shock, meaningless interruption, in an otherwise regular minute, hour, day, month, year, life.
@elise_gee
Emma Lindsay is a performance, video and installation artist based between London, Cornwall and Norfolk
@only_just_arrived
Maja Pozar
Maja Pozar is a Slovenian portrait photographer who's escaping into the quietude of the minimal.
'The style of my photography is very much so a continuation of my minimalist fine art works - modest, plain, and quiet. I believe we’re the ones who provide the stories. Events, products, and symbols don’t arise with the story and the meaning built in. My photographs therefore intentionally lack statement; they’re just an aesthetically pleasing sight in a vacuum. I neither need nor want to provide questions, ideas, and conclusions - just a quiet, melancholic haven from the overwhelming and ever present narrative.'
Matthew Dalton
I am a photographer from West Palm Beach, FL. Currently I am studying at the International Center of Photography and will be earning a BFA from Ringling College of Art and Design in 2021.
@optical.tea
Melissa Desmond
@mielphette