Jasmine Clarke
Palm Curtains 2018
Jasmine Clarke is a 25-year-old photographer born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. She graduated from Bard College with a BA in Photography in 2018 and . Her practice focuses on identity, memory, and the surreal qualities of our waking world. Her work has been shown at Howard Greenberg Gallery, Photoville, Photo Vogue Festival, and the National Center for Civil and Human Rights.
Nydia Blas
Denasia with Hands on Hips, 2016
Nydia Blas is a visual artist who grew up in Ithaca, New York and currently resides in Atlanta, Georgia. She holds a BS from Ithaca College, and received her MFA from Syracuse University in the College of Visual and Performing Arts. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Art and Visual Culture at Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia. Her photographs have been commissioned by The New York Times, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, The Washington Post and more. Nydia uses photography, collage, video, and books to address matters of sexuality, intimacy, and her lived experience as a girl, woman, and mother. She delicately weaves stories concerning circumstance, value, and power and uses her work to create a physical and allegorical space presented through a Black feminine lens.
Andrew Lyman
Born to Fight Industries, 2020
Andrew Lyman is a lens-based multi-media artist native to the city of Atlanta. His is a generational voice within the discourse of queer ontology speaking from the edge of the new millennium. Lyman’s unwavering disclosure of vivid honesty in photographs and poetry sheds new light on the complexities of living and finding meaning during an age of uncertainty and rapid regeneration beneath the shadow of global crisis. Lyman’s work is a reverential archive of love and intimacy that chronicles unfolding newness. Lyman received a BFA at the Savannah College of Art and Design and recently graduated with a Master of Fine Arts degree at Georgia State University. Lyman lives and works in downtown Atlanta as a working artist and instructor of photography in higher education.
Gabby Wyke
Christina, 2021
Gabriella Wyke is an artist who was born and raised in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago where her passion for art was first discovered and developed. Only later in her teenage years was she introduced to photography when she and her family were posted by their military to Toronto, Canada in 2010. There, she took her first photography class and learned a variety of photographic processes that were both film and digital based. Several years later, Wyke moved to Atlanta to pursue a photography degree at Savannah College of Art and Design. In May 2020, Wyke graduated with a BFA in Photography from SCAD and now works as a freelance photographer in Trinidad and Tobago. Some of her most recent work is centered around social issues of racial prejudice against black men and gender-based violence against women in her community as she believes in unity and equality of life for all.
Pierre Solomon
Frustration Study 3
Pierre Solomon is a self taught lens-based artist born in Chicago and raised in both Florida and Georgia. He was a finalist for the MINT + ACP Emerging Artist Fellowship and has been featured in numerous local exhibitions and publications. His Influences include Francis Bacon, Carrie Mae Weems, and Robert Mapplethorpe. Pierre is also a musician and works in the construction industry here in Atlanta.
Shawn Campbell
Stock Character, 2021
Shawn Campbell is an artist located in the Southeast United States. He earned a BFA with a concentration in photography from The University of Akron and a master of fine arts with a concentration in studio art from The University of Georgia. Campbell’s work engages within the spectacle of military, football, myth, religion, propaganda, and government. Its threads are woven together to form and uncover unexpected relationships between them. Borrowing from the aesthetics of Minimalism, Baroque, Pop Art, and Byzantine iconography, Campbell’s work also utilizes a variety of mediums including photography, sculpture, video, installation, and painting. The work is able to function in a broad and open manner due to its recognizable media and art-historical references, presenting questions and granting the viewer the opportunity to connect within the work openly.
RJ Kern
Rylee and Nelly, 2016
R. J. Kern (b. 1978) is an American artist whose work explores ideas of home, ancestry, and the sense of place. He uses the photographic medium in multiple formats, utilizing both natural and artificial light to document the interaction of people, animals, and cultural landscapes. His work has been exhibited in a number of notable exhibitions, including the Museum of Modern Art (Tbilisi, Georgia), the National Portrait Gallery (London, UK), the Yixian International Photography Festival (Anhui, China), and solo exhibitions at the Griffin Museum of Photography (Boston, MA) and the Plains Art Museum (Fargo, ND). Kern’s work and books have been exhibited at art fairs such as Paris Photo and Classic Photographs LA, as well as at galleries nationwide, most recently Klompching Gallery in Brooklyn, Burnet Fine Art & Advisory in Minneapolis, and Afterimage Gallery in Dallas.
Kristen Joy Emack
Cousins, 2021
Kristen Joy Emack is a photographer and public school teacher living and working in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Primarily self-taught, she has received numerous recognitions for her work, which explores themes of childhood, family, visibility, and loss. Her numerous awards include Smithsonian Magazine, PDN Magazine (Photo District News). ; 2019 Cambridge Art Association National Prize, 2019 Photolucida, Michael Reichmann Project Grant; 2019 Mass Cultural Council Fellow grant, 2020 McDowell Residency Grant. For almost a decade, Kristen has been photographing her daughter and nieces in the Series Cousins.
Anthony Francis
Shawn, Kansas City, Swope Park 2018
Anthony Francis (b. 1980) is a photographic artist making work for commercial, editorial and exhibition. He is based in San Antonio, Texas and teaches at Texas State University. After receiving an English degree from The George Washington University, he went on to earn a MFA from The Academy of Art University in photography. His work engages people's autonomy and representation while his research interests and process concerns are in the poetics of universality, love, and portraiture's politics.
Peyton Fulford
Rian with Friends 2017
(b. 1994) is an American photographer born and raised in Georgia. She received a BFA in Photography at Columbus State University in 2017. Through her attentiveness to detail and nuance, her images piece together stories of human connection and the surrounding environment. Peyton sets her sight on a diverse range of extraordinary, thought-provoking, and at times even controversial narratives that bring to the surface an honest portrayal of everyday life. Her photography has been shown worldwide in solo and group exhibitions including Labs New Artists II at Red Hook Labs, Photo London at Somerset House, and Photo Vogue Festival at Base Milano. She is the recipient of the Women Photograph + Nikon Grant (2020), Firecracker Photographic Grant (2018), and finalist of the Inge Morath Award given by Magnum Photos.