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Alisa O’Connor

Alisa O’Connor is a photographer and photo editor originally hailing from southern Illinois. Now based in New York, she has worked extensively as a photo editor in music, travel, and…

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Monika Merva

Monika Merva received her B.A in Philosophy from Northeastern University Boston, Mass in 1992 and her MFA in Photography from Savannah College of Art & Design in 1998. Her most…

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Michael Thomas

Michael Thomas is an Australian photographer currently based in Melbourne, his work focuses on documenting the beauty in objects and places that are often discarded or overlooked. Part of this…

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Kelli Pennington

Kelli Pennington is a photographer, educator, and curator living in Portland, Oregon. An avid traveler and observer, Kelli teaches photography with lessons rooted in the belief that as we frame…

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Rachel Stern

Rachel Stern (b. 1989, New York City) is a photographer whose work challenges conventions of beauty and promotes escapist, constructivist fantasy. She received her BFA in Photography and the History…

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Peter Holliday

Peter Holliday is a photographer from Scotland in his final year as a photography student at the Glasgow School of Art. His work is an investigation into the ways in which…

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Craig Gibson

Craig Gibson is a 24 year old documentary and portrait photographer based in Glasgow, Scotland. He graduated with a BA from The University of the West of Scotland. His work has…

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In Conversation With: Bethany Mollenkof

Bethany Mollenkof is a filmmaker + photographer based on the West Coast. She creates both short documentaries and still photography focused on the intersections of gender, identity, and culture. Through portraits…

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Matt Nighswander

Matt lives in Brooklyn, N.Y., and spends a lot of time in his native New Hampshire. He completed an M.F.A at Columbia College Chicago where he also spent a lot…

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Robi Foli

Robi Foli is a documentary and street photographer. Her love for photography was born beneath the palm trees of her hometown of San Diego, but was developed in the Chicago…

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Pao Houa Her

Pao Houa Her was born somewhere in the northern jungles of Laos. She fled Laos with her family when she was a baby, crossed the Mekong on her mother’s back,…

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Steven Lang

Steven Lang received his B.F.A. from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. He was the recipient of a Loft Mentor Award for 2013-2014 and was a writer-in-residence for Coffee House…