Contributors: Vol. 4
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Grace Rivera
Grace Rivera is a RISD grad who began her career at ad agency Weiden+Kennedy in Portland. Now a photographer and director based in Brooklyn, she seeks out projects aligned with her goal: “to make images that contradict everything that girls have been told about how to behave.”
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Dollhouse
Dollhouse is the artistic partnership of multidisciplinary Brooklyn-based artists Stevens Añazco and Qori Camargo, who have been collaborating on independent projects since 2014. With shared life paths as artists of trans experience and Indigenous South American descent, the two use their desire to perform and document art-making as a tool to engage with their communities as well as audiences at large.
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Myles Loftin
Part of the new vanguard of image makers, Myles Loftin is an artist, storyteller, and creative collaborator based in Brooklyn. Forbes named him one of 2020’s “30 Under 30” in the category of Art & Style. His work has been exhibited at the Vogue Festival in Italy and is featured in the traveling exhibition "The New Black Vanguard: Photography Between Art & Fashion," curated by Antwaun Sargent. Myles’ House of LaBeija project will be shown this summer at Maison Kitsuné in Brooklyn and Paris.
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Chloe Sherman
Chloe Sherman’s photography has appeared nationally and internationally and has been published in books, magazines, and newspapers, including Rolling Stone, Interview, The Advocate, Out in America, and SF Camerawork. Her work stems from a deep commitment to capturing the vibrancy, resilience, tenderness, and joy that she sees in people, particularly within subcultures marginalized or derided by mainstream society.
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Emily Monforte
Emily Monforte is a queer photographer based in Los Angeles. They graduated from Wesleyan University in 2018 with a dual degree in Photography and Sociology. Emily’s photographs have been featured in The Los Angeles Times, British Journal of Photography, Pomegranate Press, The New York Times, W magazine, i-D Italy, Aint-Bad, AnOther Magazine, Patti People, Pique Magazine, Anywhere Blvd, Nowhere Diary, Hot Potato, Life Framer, and Stop.gap Journal. They have exhibited with Palm Studios, Pomegranate Press, Cluster London, Stoa Collective, and Zilkha Gallery. Emily is interested in shooting portraiture that walks the line between constructed and documentary. Their work is ever curious about other people’s interiors, the things they collect, and the lives lived behind the walls of unassuming homes.
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Eric Hart Jr.
Georgia native Eric Hart Jr. is a 22-year-old image maker who recently graduated from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. His stylized portraiture is an exploration of Blackness and shifting identities within Black culture, and his visual language is influenced by the nuances of intersectionality. From masculinity and queerness to dress, he aims to display people like himself in all of their power and beauty. Eric’s work has been published Rolling Stone, The Washington Post, and i-D magazine, as well as praised by artists such as Beyoncé and Spike Lee. He is a two-time Gordon Parks scholar and a 2022 Forbes 30 under 30 Art & Style select. In 2020, Hart was named one of Men's Health magazine's 20-year-old mavericks changing America.
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Jessica Pettway
Jessica Pettway is a New York City-based photographer and director specializing in creating playful compositions and surreal environments. She’s an SVA grad and reality-TV addict, and was last seen snacking.
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DJ Couples Therapy
Playlist: Pride Is Gigantic, Pride Is Expansive
Gina Young and Sorrell Scrutton have been playing ’90s hip-hop and Y2K pop as DJ Couples Therapy since becoming friends in 2016. Their long-running party DIVORCE is a cult fave on the first and third Thursdays of every month at Bar Franca in Downtown LA and has been featured in the Louis Vuitton Travel Guide. Sorrell is also a photographer and the creator of Queerantine. Gina is also a writer/director and the founder of SORORITY. They have never been married (to each other).
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Jessica Antola
Jessica Antola was born and raised in Los Angeles and later spent a number of years in Paris, where she began her photography career shooting portraits, fashion, and global travel stories. Her travels have always informed and inspired her work, including Circadian Landscape, a 2018 monograph that spans West Papua to Antarctica, Tibet to Myanmar and Sub-Saharan Africa. Jessica’s work has been exhibited internationally and honored by Prix de la Photographie and the International Photography Awards, among others. She is based in Brooklyn.
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Emily Shur
Emily Shur was born in New York City to an auditorium full of nursing students and grew up in Houston. Her work has been exhibited as part of the Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize exhibition at London’s National Portrait Gallery, Humble Art’s 31 Women in Art Photography exhibition, and more recently at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, International Center of Photography, and Hirshhorn Museum. Her images have been published in various collections, including Milk and Honey: Contemporary Art in California, Photographers' Sketchbooks, and eight editions of American Photography. In the fall of 2017, Kehrer Verlag published Emily's first monograph, Super Extra Natural!, chronicling 12 years of travels in Japan. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and their dog, Momo.
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Todd Cole
Todd Cole is an internationally acclaimed photographer and filmmaker who lives and works in Los Angeles. His work has been published in i-D, Purple, Self Service, POP, 032C, T Magazine, Vogue, The New York Times Style Magazine, The Fader, Art Review, and The Journal, among others. He has also published a photography book, I’m Yours To Keep (AndPress, 2012). He directed This Must Be the Only Fantasy (starring Elijah Wood), which was voted the top fashion film of 2013 by Business of Fashion and received a People’s Choice Webby Award for Online Film & Video, and The Curve of Forgotten Things (starring Elle Fanning), which screened at the AFI Film Festival in Los Angeles.
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Marcus Smith
When he was in elementary school in Chicago, Marcus was known as the kid you could pay to draw things for you. He was always about pictures. And sports. Those two passions eventually combined, flourishing into a career that has seen him photograph sports superstars like Serena Williams, LeBron James, and Kobe Bryant, whose end-of-an-era retirement campaign Marcus shot for Nike.
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Jen Garcia
Jen Garcia is a Filipino-American photographer and art director based in Los Angeles whose work is inspired by moody, color-rich cinematic lighting and romanticized nightlife.
Club Scum, a monthly queer POC dance party,
Montebello, California, 2018.
Video by Kristina Feliciano.