1. Franklin Yeep
https://www.franklinyeep.com/

A black & white film photographer based in NYC, Yeep shoots their portrait subjects using only analog tools, believing that the slow process allows the sitter to “breathe”. In those breaths, Yeep is able to capture their subjects in an honest, unguarded way. From start to finish, film and prints are processed by hand, allowing Yeep full control over the creative process. Yeep’s uniquely intimate and soulful work has been featured in publications like Vogue, Iconic and Voila!

2. Brittany Bravo
https://www.brittanybravo.com/

Born and raised in Los Angeles, CA, Brittany Bravo is a Chicana director and photographer. Her love for her community is reflected in her photographic work, where she captures her sitters through a powerful and tender lens. Bright hues in backdrops compliment the colorful clothing and styling of her subjects, in tableaus that revel in joy and connection between subjects and the natural world. Rather than considering herself a documentarian, Bravo is instead a world-builder inspired by and imaginatively expanding on the traditions of Chicano culture.

3. Rob Schanz
https://www.robschanz.com/

Rob Schanz is a commercial and editorial photographer. While based in San Francisco, it’s Schanz’s travels that inspire them in approach and subject, wanting to leave the viewer feeling as if they are with him in his experience of the moment, adventure, or observation of an object. The sensation of movement is indelible from his travel images, portraits of subjects propelled forward feel as if they pull the viewer with them, making these images a strong call to action for brands with whom he collaborates.

4. Alexandra Arnold
https://www.alexandracarnold.com/

Alexandra Arnold is a celebrity, fashion, and portrait photographer. Originally from New Orleans, she earned a BFA Cum Laude from SCAD in Savannah Georgia. Now residing in NYC, Alexandra’s focus is capturing iconic performers with a style and sensibility that reveals something new and unexpected. Contrast and vivid filmic tones, lends a nostalgia and palpable warmth reminiscent of Kodak, pulling her images out of time and space, rendering them as dreamlike vignettes of her subjects.

5. Kyle Dorosz
https://www.kyledorosz.com/

Born and raised in the state of Maryland, photographer Kyle Dorosz is now based in New York City. A portraitist driven to capture the individual and their complexities in an image. This palpable sense of authenticity is present even in highly commercial works. That he is so successful in this pursuit of idiosyncratic representation is a credit to his own ability to connect with others. To keep himself grounded, present, and open.

6. Hazel May Eckert
https://www.hazeleckert.ca/

Originally from Toronto where she earned a BFA in Printmaking from OCAD University and a diploma in Graphic Design from the College of the North Atlantic, Hazel May Eckert is now based in St. John’s. The photographic image is abstracted in Eckert’s recent work, eliminating focus and instead capturing color and form–an evolution from previous bodies of work that explored the beauty of shadows. Simple outlines of familiar objects and items, rendered universal in the absence of the objects themselves. Eckert is the creator of Nothing New, an independent publishing insignia producing small-scale artist editions and contemporary print-based works.

7. Lindsey Wernli
https://www.lindseywernli.com/

Philadelphia-based editorial and still life photographer Lindsey Wernli makes exceptional use of color and texture to create lush and otherworldly compositions from everyday objects. Her vivid still life images nod to the baroque tradition, distinctly contemporized by their details; stickers, plastic vessels and bubble wrap emphasize the humor of the modern vanitas. Through her lens the banal becomes uncanny, and commercial assignments are elevated to art in surreal and playful arrangements.

8. Delali Cofie
https://www.delalicofie.com/

Delali Cofie is a Ghanaian-Nigerian photographer currently living and studying in Toronto, Canada. Through storytelling he engages in multiple genres of photography, such as fashion, documentary and fine art, often blurring the lines between them. His personal work seeks to highlight beauty whilst exploring social-political issues, taking inspiration from the human experience, both of his and those around him. Frequently creating work between his native city Accra and current city Toronto, his work tells a tale of two cities linked by a diasporic thread.

9. Laurence Philomene
https://www.laurencephilomene.com/

Laurence Philomene is a non-binary artist from Montreal who creates colorful images and video works informed by their lived experiences as a chronically ill transgender person. Portrait tableaus of subjects in their homes provide cues to their inner lives. Their practice celebrates trans existence and studies identity as a space in constant flux via highly-saturated, cinematic, and vulnerable images.

10. Clint Colbert
https://www.clintcolbert.com/

Clint Colbert grew up in the small town of Fayetteville, Tennessee. He spent four years in Nashville, TN studying and practicing photography before moving to Philadelphia, PA where he now resides. Currently, he is working as a photographer for Urban Outfitters, but in his off time focuses on his personal work like his ongoing series Resort Destination.

11. Janne Amalie Svit
https://www.jannesvit.com/

A graduate from the Kent Institute of Art and Design in England, and Norwegian School of Photography, Janne Amalie resides in the countryside of Norway where she draws on her relationship to the landscapes of the north. What many think of is the middle of nowhere is her world, where scenes of the everyday become interspersed with the specific realities of a place where the sun doesn’t rise between November and January. A visual diary exploring motherhood and the human condition, her work keeps one foot in the real and another in a haunting space of half-light.

12. Seif Kousmate
https://www.seifkousmate.com/

After a career as a Project Manager in the civil engineering sector, Moroccan artist Seif Kousmate diverged on this path and became a photographer. Still concerned with sociological issues in Africa, Kousmate’s projects cover migration, youth and slavery. Moving in and out of documentary and editorial tableaus, evidencing tremendous skill, his work remains powerfully grounded in human experience and authentic emotion.

13. James Deavin
https://www.jamesdeavin.com/

Driven by a passion for documentary photography, James Deavin comes to his projects organically, while his choice of large format camera once presented an expansive and objective view of his subjects, his new approach is far looser, more immersive and spontaneous. His still life and landscape images, while still grand, have also embraced the small and mundane, seeking to bring equity to overlooked spaces and abandoned objects

14. Ernesto Cabral de Luna
https://abrokeniris.format.com/

Ernesto Cabral de Luna is a Mexican lens-based artist working in Toronto. Working through analog and digital processes, he utilizes his own photographs, archived imagery and documents to create still images and short animations emphasizing the multi-dimensionality and materiality of the image. His work centers around altering perception through image manipulation–providing new ways to experience recognizable imagery in unconventional manners and outside of their intended purpose. Design and a strong sense of narrative bind his work across genre and subject matter.

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