In her Hyeres Festival 2012 series, Ina Jang photographs the work of ten fashion designers.  These pieces are pristine and glamorous without being self-referential.  They certainly engage with the aesthetics and conventions of the contemporary fashion editorial, but urges the audience past consumerism toward notions of identity: who are these women? Are they subjects or […]

Zoe Crosher celebrates Los Angeles in her work- the illusion of stardom, the ability to reinvent oneself and the discrepancy between fact and fiction in a city built upon illusion.  The Michelle duBois Project began in 2005 and continues to evolve with the persona of Michelle duBois, a relic of an extensive photo archive and […]

Jen Davis uses her camera as a diary, daring to appear as a vulnerable subject examining her body, identity, and the meaning of beauty in contemporary culture.  Photographing herself wrapped in a soaked towel and in deep states of contemplation and sadness on the edge of her bed, the viewer is granted access into deeply […]

Shanghai-born and New York photographer Shen Wei explores the vulnerability of his subjects and his own body in his series I Miss You Already and Almost Naked.  Working within the painterly tradition of the nude, the human form is exposed and captured in contemplative moments that feel meditative, sorrowful and stripped to a bare minimum. […]

There is a distinctively painterly quality about the photographs of Marc Yankus.  The landscape of New York becomes an urban collage of decay, grime, optimism, and renewal all while appearing as a blur straddling the past and the present.  Yankus went into greater detail on Saatchi Online about the source of his inspiration as being” […]

Brooklyn-based Amy Stein documented that strange holiday where children dress like their favorite animation character or superhero and go door-to-door in their neighborhoods asking for candy.  Halloween in Harlem presents a new spin on this tradition- what happens when the neighborhoods are enclaves of small business owners? In an urban environment like New York City, […]