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 | Adrianna Wasinska-Fabian
Adrianna Wasinska-Fabian is an Australia-based artist, a horse-riding instructor, and a passionate naturalist and traveler. Adrianna's work evokes nature. It is her biggest and finest inspiration. Nature enables her to be a part of something bigger; it expands her perspective and liberates her from the outside world. The strong connection she has with it gives her freedom and power during the process of creating.
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 | Ying Kimily Jiang
Ying Kimily Jiang is a Chinese fashion designer and fashion stylist, currently based in the United States. She has been active in the fashion industry for over a decade, both as a designer and as a stylist for photo shoots. Her unwavering passion for fashion and her innate ability to explore the ways in which fabrics interact with the human body have made her a sought-after talent in the industry.
INTERVIEW | Claire-louise Pitman
Claire-louise Pitman is an eco-conscious, disabled, cameraless artist. This is done by using sustainable photographic light processes such as chlorophyll printing, cyanotype printing, and scanography, meaning no harm has been done to the environment. Through her research on visual impairment and Anomia Claire-louise expands her knowledge but still faces accessible barriers along the way.
INTERVIEW | Aleš Jungmann
Aleš Jungmann is a photographer from Czech Republic. After a long artistic abstinence, which he interrupted only sporadically, he is now intensively returning to landscape photography. With new energy and passion, influenced by his work as an architectural photographer and using the same medium format digital camera technique, he understand landscape photography as an exploration.
INTERVIEW | Hao Wen (Claudia) Chung
Hao Wen Chung, also known as Claudia, is a graphic designer and artist who was born in Taiwan and currently splits her time between residing in Taipei, Taiwan, and Brooklyn, New York. Although she is an accomplished designer with an eye for precision, her photography and ceramic artworks reveal another side of her that is emotive, free-spirited, and exquisite. The naturalness of things can be seen in Claudia's artwork.
INTERVIEW | LIU ENTUNG
Liu Entung artist from Taipei, Taiwan, and currently lives in New York City. As an interdisciplinary artist, ENTUNG’s works explore the intersection of multiple fields: visual art, performance, and technology with various methods like paintings, photography, performances, installations, videos, and sounds. Through her art practice, LIU shows the relationships between identification, technology, nature, and life.
INTERVIEW | Yanqing Pei
Yanqing Pei works with the idea that everything exists as one simultaneously while being connected to something else independently in her paintings. Her practice is an exploration of the intimate symbiotic relationship between human beings and their surroundings with a focus on nature, as well as imaginations of poetic spaces derived from narrative contexts composed of Chinese ideographic characters.
INTERVIEW | Sophie Ruoyu Zhang
Sophie Ruoyu Zhang is a Chinese artist, currently based in Brooklyn, NY. Working as a "diffraction apparatus", her practice utilizes multiple natural materials (napa cabbage, wine, coffee, etc.). Her oil painting, printmaking, and performance respond to and reinterpret the natural objects that are in a limbo of recognition, permeating poetics on the threshold of the subjecthood, the recognizable and the representable.
INTERVIEW | Patricia Rabbiosi
Patricia Rabbiosi is a composer, sound architect and visual artist from Argentina. She explores sound architecture and objects as source material in her music. Her visual work is self-taught, exploring different techniques from real images, which are then digitally processed. Her other works include performances and interventions with social themes.
INTERVIEW | Luc Vandervelde
Luc Vandervelde Lux is a Belgian artist, living and working in Brussels. No material escapes the eye of the artist: carpets, fabrics, plastic, felt, jute, rubber, knitwear, metal or wooden frames, remnants of roofing, tape, or moving blankets are processed in his visual universe. It is a multi-layered world where found objects are freely brought together to relate to each other in new harmony.
INTERVIEW | Tobias Tavella
Tobias Tavella’s "Dynamic Studio Practice" examines sculpture, sound, and objects according to their space-constituting consequences. He creates new contexts of meaning where sounds, "objet trouvés" from nature, and technology are his primal spatial experience of fragility. With his temporary spatial interventions, he reflects the social framework of art and its conditions of production and representation.
INTERVIEW | Dina Cline
Dina Cline works are critical engagements with philosophical principals of aesthetics and questions of existentialism. More recently, Dina Cline's painting has engaged with issues of psychology and mental health, as well as notions of the existence of God. As someone living with bipolar disorder and experiencing periods of mania and depression, she has a unique perspective on the human brain.