Going back to the mundane suburbia, I am endlessly captivated by the beauty artists are able to bring to the everyday. Color is often the main subject in Jordan’s work and she centers around the female form. She reveals she often shoots in an unconventional way, using a scarf over the lens, photographing reflections, and layering so that her process goes farther than the first exposure. At FIT she says she experimented with every camera, lens, and light you possible could. This led her to finding her keen photographic eye and thus precision in her work. Her use of light and color is visibly developed and intentional and I adore her from her process through to her result.

人形 (nin-gyo). Mika’s series explores human form using bodies as the still life instead of objects. She urges her subjects to not be aware of the camera and instead place their confidence and trust in her so that they can be comfortable with themselves. She views herself as a performance director as well as a photographer. Her style is clean and suburban, specifically the images she took in her hometown entitled DUSTY. An air of dreaminess leaks into her images as well,  and especially in her 人形 series, gives the feeling of inhuman like qualities to her models. Her self portraiture series entitles Bodies explores similar themes with similar qualities.

Photography graduate student left her Venezuelan home at 17 to pursue her education. First to the US then UK when she realized she didn’t see a future in her home country given its current state. Though for a living she mainly sticks to fashion photography in London, her personal work has been just that, personal. It all her been shot in Venezuela and depicts her feelings to her current relationship with her home country. In this series ‘Venezuelan Youth’, she aims to depict those who chose not to emigrate despite the situation. Morality is high, finances are tight, and the outlook is bleak in terms of medicine, food, and the acts of the political regime. To Silvana, Venezuela is personified as a woman, and though women are “often disregarded and indispensable” but “Nosotras” celebrates the women of the country. Her work in this series is soft and welcoming, nothing short of absolutely lovely.

Twenty Two year old Irish photographer, illustrator, and art director has done a lot for his age. Shooting mainly on 120mm medium format film is extremely  rare for such a digital age. This means his quest for light is imperative in his work more than ever. Cluny, Nylon Japan, Hunger Magazine, Light It Up Magazine, and CROM Magazine have  all featured his work. Illustration wise he is delicate and elegant in his work, with intentional lines and a thin touch. In comparison to his photography he searches for soft light and emotive subjects. He is in tune with his emotions and subjects emotions to create comfort and connection between them.

Berlin and NYC split photographer uses a narrative of the familiar. Mundane and everyday scenes we wouldn’t deem photographically or aesthetically pleasing are the chosen subject of Valentina. That is what makes a photographer special to the art world. Capturing and  noticing something intriguing or pleasing in a simple scene. The ping you get when you see something the average eye doesn’t is very special, and Valentina does this perfectly. Her style’s dullness and lack of vibrancy that would usually be there in a bright color is similar to her subjects, in the losing of the light or spark of life in the everyday.

LA Based art director, illustrator, and designer is another  artist who displays the  fluidity and variety in the portfolio of the modern artist. Her clients include GQ, Vulture, Politico, The Ringer, Variety, and the Los Angeles Public Library. She aims to make a statement with vibrant colors, political and historical messages, provoking content, and lifelike  artistry. What I admire most about her work is her willingness to open her breadth of experience  as she moves through the industry. Her design of book covers is what intrigues me most because though we say we don’t judge a book by it’s cover, we books the opportunity to be judged at our first glance of them.

Light, shadow, and subject is the  essence of art. This Lithuanian born Berlin based artist ” pairs precise pencil drawings with abstract uses of both digital and traditional mediums, to create images with a focus on detail and texture”. Some of her selected clients include Wired, Variety, Stylist, Politico, The New York Times, The Lions, Intern Mag, The Financial Times, Condé Nast Traveler and among others. Her designs are vibrant, make a statement, and have a realistic quality that makes them look intriguingly real. One of the most unique aspects of her work is the animation she brings to some of her works that bring them completely to life.

A twin-sisters duo from  Ukraine who are currently based in New York City. They don’t advertise much of themselves or their life online, but the images they produce are worth sharing. Soft, dreamy, and sultry images tend to spatter their feeds and website. There is a beauty in the simplicity of content and color, and a recurring air of a romantic glow. It is hard to discern the artists’ focus but a fashion based photography and portraiture are most prevalent.

Art is fluid, so artists should be too. Josephine graduated with a graphic design degree but her artistic path took her elsewhere. She shifted to a photography focus through a big move to Barcelona and an  internship that allowed her to grow and explore. Her background in graphic design  gave her the design experience she needed to craft articulate images with a fashion focus in her future. To be an artist is to practice fluidity and variety in your craft as opposed to arrow straight direction into what  you think is your future and your goals. Evolution is necessary and inevitable, so the earlier you embrace it the wiser.

Another New York based Photographer but i’ll never be over it. Davey  has his own special style as we all do, aiming to create cinematic tranquility in his work by slowing down  the NYC lifestyle. Color is liberally used and often soft. He tells InternMag “I wanted to capture beautiful images like the directors I admire” he tells us, “my main references are movie screen grabs more than anything else, nature, faces, expressions and feelings”. I relate to his words on do  many levels, as he put into words exactly how I’ve been feeling about photography and my style.  There’s a quiet breath to each of his images, an inference of halted action.