Walker Esner is a New York City-based editorial and commercial photographer. His main focus since graduating from the School of Visual Arts has been environmental portrait work. His inspiration is derived from the classic formal portrait made by photographers like August Sander. Taking major consideration of his frame, Walker searches for subtle quirks and surprises within highly structured photographs. Walker’s editorial work is widely published.
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Adam Hobbins recently abandoned the sidelines of photography by purchasing his first SLR, which he has been using almost non-stop ever since. He earned a B.A. in English from Seattle University, which he promptly put to work in the software industry. He spends his time brewing/drinking beer, cooking, wandering aimlessly around cities and photographing all of the above. Adam hails from San Antonio, Texas, and has also lived in Germany and Seattle. Currently, he calls Austin home.
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Matt Kushan was born and raised in Euclid, Ohio a suburb of Cleveland. Currently, Matt lives in New York City and is pursuing a BFA in photography at the School of Visual Arts. Matt is optimistic and passionate for photography. He is working on a series about his girlfriend Meredith that explores the façade of people and their possessions. His work presents a certain aesthetic that is driven by intuition and curiosity. While these findings may seem arbitrary they are closely linked to his relationship with Meredith. Matt Kushan loves his cats Margot and Simon.
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Matteo Musci was born and raised in Milan, Italy. After a couple of years, in the late 90′s, working as art-director in a big ad agency he began shooting as a professional photographer and founded zona13 studio. As photographer for zona13 he has worked all over Europe for a notable amount of ad agencies. In 2010 he started a new photographic cycle, leaving his ad portfolio behind and focusing on a more personal kind of photography, where neat composition and washy color are the main themes. Now he lives between San Francisco and Milan.
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Rachel Rebibo was born and raised in Washington, DC, studied photography in New York City and has been living in Paris for the last 6 years. She began photographing at the young age of 10 years old and is one of the few professional photographers today who still shoots in medium format film. Rachel shoots professionally in both film and digital. She is passionate about alternative processing techniques, vintage cameras, and she loves the smell of darkroom chemicals.
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John Rudolph is a graphic designer living in Stamford, Connecticut. He graduated from Syracuse University with a degree in Communications Design. John’s photography explores the contemporary suburban landscape and human interaction with it. He is often most interested in the places people pay least attention to. It is there – in the spaces in between – that he believes will offer the best insight about our socioeconomic selves. His heroes include Robert Frank, Stephen Shore, and William Eggleston. John blogs about graphic design and photography at trythiscreative.com. When not thinking about design or photography, he enjoys running, reading, and fishing.
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Agnes Samour specialized in documentary at the Australian Centre for Photography. Born in France, she became Australian in 2009 and has traveled to nearly 30 countries in the past decade. She finds inspiration in cultural differences and translates human diversity with an acute yet benign eye for the detail. She especially enjoys making photographs with her beloved film cameras, perpetuating her dad’s collection. Her work has illustrated various publications around the world. Home has a sweet flavour of double-scoop ice-cream, between Paris and Sydney, and Agnes endeavours to capture the essence of both cities.
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Sarah Small graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2001. Now Brooklyn-based, Sarah has turned her childhood hobby of photography into her life’s passion. Interaction fascinates her, specifically between people, but also humans and animals. Her varied subjects—from infants to the aged, from taxidermy to live animals—inhabit surreal scenarios often in absurd association with one another. Sarah also sings and writes music for Black Sea Hotel, her Bulgarian a cappella quartet. Since 1997, she has taken a diaristic Polaroid of herself every day. She plans to pursue this project for life.
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Winni Wintermeyer is a German born artist who settled 18 years ago in San Francisco in a neighborhood where he listens to mockingbirds imitating the sounds of cheap car alarms. When not roaming the streets late at night he photographs for a variety of publications around the globe. His diverse subjects include musicians, writers, garlic growers, contortionists, elephant psychologists and a laser the size of three football fields.
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