Photography

INTERVIEW | Zihan Zhou

INTERVIEW | Zihan Zhou

Zihan Zhou is an artist who creates visual art and explores a variety of media while also writing, educating, and working in the media. Zhou draws deeply from historical iconography, searching for their connection to contemporary contexts. Shifting from traditional painting to collaged images to installations and performances, Zhou’s art strives to produce a more open resonance.

INTERVIEW | Zengyi Zhao

INTERVIEW | Zengyi Zhao

Zengyi Zhao is an artist who primarily uses photography and video as his creative method. His photography revolves around the critique of inauthenticity and alienation brought by capitalism and consumerism. In his work, he visualizes the connections between individual life and grand narratives, discussing the presentation and impact of different sociocultural phenomena such as modernity and spectacle.

INTERVIEW | Jewan Goo

INTERVIEW | Jewan Goo

Jewan Goo is a research-based photographer who focuses on reexamining and reconstructing the fading history of Korea during the Japanese colonial period. His work is deeply connected to contemporary issues within institutional archives and history education, which are often biased and subject to political control or censorship by governmental or educational authorities.

INTERVIEW | Naoual Peleau

INTERVIEW | Naoual Peleau

Naoual Peleau is a French artist working with photography. Her practice is largely experimental, with a focus on manipulating, transforming, and even destroying the image and its support. As a self-professed clumsy person, she embraces accidents and mistakes as an integral part of her creative process. Her research aims to strike a balance between accidental creation and successful experience.

INTERVIEW | Robin Dru Germany

INTERVIEW | Robin Dru Germany

Robin Dru Germany is a Professor in Photography at Texas Tech University in Lubbock Texas. Her research investigates the tenuous border between the human and the natural worlds, looking simultaneously at the capitalist-driven human world and the undisclosed activity of nature with emphasis on the undefined area between the two, pointing to the asynchrony between these two environments.

INTERVIEW | Sára Kasanová Bown

INTERVIEW | Sára Kasanová Bown

Sára Kasanová Bown is a visual artist specializing in photography, video, and installation media. Her work explores themes, including the non-linear perception of time, vulnerability, and human connection, reflecting a deep engagement with the human experience. Her latest series was created in the spring of 2023 and 2024 after moving from the city of Prague to the suburbs.

INTERVIEW | Sonya Bleiph

INTERVIEW | Sonya Bleiph

Sonya Bleiph is an interdisciplinary artist, creative director, and educator, working in both traditional and digital visual arts, as well as the film & entertainment industry. Through the lens of surrealism, industrial hauntology, body horror, and paganism, Bleiph creates an eclectic world reminiscent of the phantasmagoric. Their recent projects focus on human inclination toward sentimentality.

INTERVIEW | Lily D'Olce

INTERVIEW | Lily D'Olce

Lily D’Olce (b. 1993) is a French artist and photographer who studied at the University of the Arts of London. With a background in classical music and modern dance, her reflections on emotional states and body performance developed into a sculptural photographic process. Her latest series features a continuum of figures in extension, soaring through both remote and industrialized settings.

INTERVIEW | Tianqi Liao

INTERVIEW | Tianqi Liao

Tianqi Liao is a visual artist with a Master of Arts in Arts Administration from Columbia University. As a photographer, she is intrigued by conversations that arise from the friction between societal norms and individual perceptions. Through her lens, she captures the subtle tensions and overt contradictions present in everyday life, to examine themes of conformity and resistance.

INTERVIEW | William Josephs Radford

INTERVIEW | William Josephs Radford

William Josephs Radford, a Spanish-born fine art photographer, challenges conventional thought processes through his striking compositions and thought-provoking subject matters. His photography delves into controversial themes such as sex, religion, gender, and identity to convey complex emotions and altered perceptions.

INTERVIEW | Vytautas Buinevicius

INTERVIEW | Vytautas Buinevicius

Vytautas Buinevicius is an architect, urbanist, researcher, and photographer based in Vilnius, Lithuania. His latest series, Hypervernacular, is an ongoing series of research on urban and rural areas in transition celebrating the ingenuity of non-professional designs driven by sincere care, the sensitivity of nature, “supervised decay,” pure practicality, and limited resources, unrestrained by mainstream or high-society architectural culture.

INTERVIEW | Ana Pinho Vargas

INTERVIEW | Ana Pinho Vargas

Ana Pinho Vargas is a Portuguese artist, photographer, and painter based in Vila Nova de Gaia, Porto. Her latest series, Silêncio II, is the result of the junction of two coexisting universes: writing in musical scores and the artist in his most fragile physical humanity, revealing the intimacy of the eye through the close connection between the author and the person being photographed.

INTERVIEW | Fernando Gimeno

INTERVIEW | Fernando Gimeno

Fernando Gimeno Pol is an artist whose practice spans photography, sound, and video. In recent years, his artworks have revolved around nature, involving a series of incursions into forests and utilizing various devices to document and rethink the idea of nature as a mirror of the human condition.

INTERVIEW | Shiyao Xia

INTERVIEW | Shiyao Xia

Shiyao Xia is a mixed media artist based in London, UK. She explores the concept of what is remembered as ephemeral and influenced by experiences felt at the time of observation. Her work is inspired by the small, unassuming things in the corner of our eyes that hold a multitude of hidden narratives. Looking for the relationship between memories and multiple meanings.

INTERVIEW | Han Yang

INTERVIEW | Han Yang

Han Yang is a distinguished visual artist and photographer. Her work masterfully combines abstract and surreal elements to evoke profound emotions and explore the complexities of human psychology. Central to Han's artistic vision are themes of femininity, the human body, gender, and technology, which she vividly represents through oriental metaphors. 

INTERVIEW | Yuehan Hao

INTERVIEW | Yuehan Hao

Yuehan Hao is an artist who focuses on visual creation. Her work takes as its theme the dialectical and contradictory relationship between the stillness of life and the retention of photography. It reflects on the relationship between the mother's death and the changes in family relationships and creates discussions around the correlation between the spiritual consciousness of life and the body's images.

INTERVIEW | Chelsea Ning

INTERVIEW | Chelsea Ning

Chelsea Ning is a photographer and textile designer currently based in Providence, Rhode Island. She is grappling with subtle feelings based on the ideas of dissonance, self-identity, concealment, displacement, isolation, and nostalgia in her work. Chelsea has been interested in different ways of media based on visual expressions, including film installations, paintings, and prints.

INTERVIEW | Sonalika Vakili

INTERVIEW | Sonalika Vakili

Sonalika Vakili, born in Tehran, Iran in 1985, is an award-winning visual artist renowned for her groundbreaking photography. She explores the complexities of human identity through her work, challenging conventional notions of self-expression. Her latest project delves into the powerful concept of the female body as a landscape of struggle and resilience.

INTERVIEW | Asiya Al. Sharabi

INTERVIEW | Asiya Al. Sharabi

Asiya Al. Sharabi is a Yemeni/American visual artist whose work has gained recognition both nationally and internationally. Currently based in the US, she initiated her career as a journalist and photographer before shifting her focus to artistic photography. Her artistry is rooted in capturing the challenges faced by Middle Eastern women, young adults, and immigrants, a perspective that profoundly influences her creations.

INTERVIEW | Yue Wu

INTERVIEW | Yue Wu

Formed and influenced by a family legacy of glass artistry, Yue Wu began his journey by accompanying his father on global artistic expeditions. Drawing inspiration from giants, childhood memories, urban life, and human consciousness, Wu's art deeply resonates with our world. His diverse portfolio includes videos, handcrafted installations, and photographs.