All posts by Emerald Arguelles

What We’ve Found Results: Generational Spirit

Thank you all so much for all of your submissions to July’s What We’ve Found. This month’s prompt was “Generational Spirit” curated by Toby Kaufmann. Congratulations to all the selected…

In Conversation With: Scott Abrams

Scott Abrams is a Florida-based artist who incorporates nonsense and randomness into abstract mixed-media paintings in order to explore our relationships with iconography, language, and the ways we associate humor with…

I Look Good As Hell On Me: Kreshonna Keane’s Directorial Debut

Kreshonna Keane is a self-taught photographer from The Bronx, New York. Kreshonna has a very unique way of utilizing her environment and her surroundings to transform her images into conceptual…

Ann Evstigneeva

Anna Evstigneeva is a Kyiv-based fashion photographer.With the connection of art and fashion, Anna immerses the viewer in her own surreal world. Her characters are mystical and slightly ironic. Experimenting…

Daniel Harel

Daniel Harel was born in Spain and moved to the Dominican Republic when he was sixteen. After twenty years there working both as a commercial photographer and IT consultant, he…

Alan Gignoux

I am a photographer and videographer based in central London. Since I left the London College of Printing at the turn of the century, I have mostly worked in Africa,…

In Conversation With: Tatiana Wills

Tatiana Wills is an LA-based artist and photographer, whose practice focuses on documenting creatives, rule-breakers, professional dancers, and her own daughter. Wills—who’s photographed the likes of Mister Cartoon, Shepard Fairey, and…

Charles-Henry Bédué

Charles-Henry works in the field of reportage photography but has developed a strong esthetic that gives a feeling of staging, which is never the case. He extracts from a diligent…

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…

In Conversation With: Dola Posh

Dola Posh is a Nigerian portrait photographer based in the United Kingdom. She works from the landscape of her imagination and focuses on telling the stories of everyday life. Emerald…

Julia Forrest

Julia Forrest is a Brooklyn-based artist. She works strictly in film and prints in a darkroom she built within her apartment. Her own art has always been her top priority…

Yvette Tang

I was born in Hong Kong in the ’60s and I spent my childhood living in an imaginary bubble. I didn’t fit with the other kids and spent most of…

Serena Perrone

I am a multi-disciplinary artist working largely in works on paper, photography, and ceramics. I received an M.F.A from RISD in 2006 and I am represented by Cade Tompkins Projects…

Hana Frenette

Hana Frenette is a writer, editor, and 35mm photographer based in Florida. Her writing and photography have appeared in USA Today, Paste Magazine, InWeekly, the Atlanta Journal Constitution, Florida 850,…

Claudia Fuggetti

Born in Taranto in 1993, after graduating in Cultural Heritage, she was admitted with a scholarship for a Master’s degree in Photography and Visual Design at NABA, Milan. Subsequently, she…

In Conversation With: Mohamed Salman

Salman is an artist living and working in Madras, India. Known primarily for his abstract and technical paintings, he is entirely self-taught. His mixed media work often explores the nature…

What We’ve Found: Generational Spirit

Aint-Bad is so grateful of our collaboration with Facebook. We teamed up with Toby Kaufmann who chose the theme for the month of July “Generational Spirit”: I’m always looking for the…

Pride.

Aint-Bad acknowledges the beauty and celebration of Pride. We are committed to raising awareness of diversity while respecting the culture and the struggle for equality. We teamed up with Facebook…

André Ramos-Woodard

Raised in the Southern states of Tennessee and Texas, André Ramos-Woodard is a contemporary artist who uses their work to emphasize the repercussions of contemporary and historical discrimination. Primarily working…

Donavon Smallwood

Donavon Smallwood (b. 1994) is a self-trained American photographer focusing on creating intimate portraiture and images investigating nature & civilization through absolute idealism. He studied comparative literature and documentary film…

Guido Castagnoli

Guido Castagnoli was born in Turin, Italy in 1976. Soon at an early age, he was fascinated by the world and the mystery behind it. As an adolescent he was…

In Conversation With: Bronson Shonk

Bronson Shonk is a multidisciplinary artist based in Seattle. After a career in analytics, Shonk became a full-time artist creating bodies of work that explore the nature of growth and…

Emily Monforte

Emily Monforte is a queer photographer based in Los Angeles, CA. She graduated from Wesleyan University in 2018 with a degree in Fine Art with a concentration in photography. Her…

Chad Wong

Chad Wong is a visual artist based in Vancouver. The majority of his work can be described as photo-based conceptualism with a focus on everyday and the mundane, this is…