Participating Artists in the Exhibition

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-Alejandra Loaiza is a Colombian photographer specializing in fashion and editorial work, currently based in Paris, France. In her recent personal projects, as a Colombian living in Europe, she has chosen to focus on themes that celebrate the richness and magic of Latin American culture—an homage to her roots.

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-Alexia Pandelia is a multidisciplinary artist with a background in graphic design and a strong focus on photography and visual storytelling. Her work blends documentary and artistic approaches to explore emotion, movement, and transitional moments. She is drawn to unfiltered scenes — quiet gestures, fleeting glances, the chaos behind the curtain — moments that often go unnoticed but carry emotional weight. Her studies in design have shaped her understanding of composition, light, and narrative — elements she explores deeply through the lens. Although she began experimenting with digital photography at the age of sixteen, she has recently expanded into analog film, drawn to its texture, unpredictability, and the intimacy it brings to each frame. This shift has deepened her connection to process, timing, and trust — allowing her to slow down and engage more intentionally with her subjects and surroundings. Her practice is grounded in observation, care, and a desire to preserve emotional honesty — to capture what might otherwise be overlooked.
 

-Allister Lee is a self-taught photographer currently based in Exeter, United Kingdom. His work focuses on street and documentary photography, aiming to capture people within their everyday environments and lived experiences.
 

-Ana Barberá is a photographer whose work explores themes of coming of age, nature, and its coexistence with urban environments. Her practice is driven by an interest in how individuals are shaped by their surroundings and personal circumstances. The sea and fashion are strong influences in her visual language, often informing the mood and aesthetic of her imagery. Centered on the human figure, her photographs use color as a key narrative tool to evoke emotion and atmosphere.
 

-Bonni Melendez received her bachelor's degree in psychology and worked as a social worker for five years before making a pivotal shift to focus on her artistic practice. This transition not only deepened her connection with others but also taught her how to intentionally nurture a relationship with herself. Her background in psychology informs her work, which often explores how our inner worlds shape the ways we carry ourselves, connect to lineage, and experience autonomy.
Raised in Queens, New York, among diverse cultures, Melendez developed an interest in how cultural memory and personal history are formed and sustained through daily life. As the daughter of Peruvian immigrants, these themes are central to her practice. Her photography—blending portraiture, documentary, fashion, and self-portraiture—examines how ancestral stories are passed down through objects, gestures, and rituals.

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-Brooks Plummer was born in Rome (Georgia) in 1987. His love affair with photography began in high school where he learned his way around a camera and the darkroom. After a conscious uncoupling that lasted more than a decade, he reunited with photography in 2018 when, on a whim, he took his dad’s old Nikon SLR on a trip to Japan. The two have been inseparable ever since, leading to a growing body of work exploring themes of travel, tourism, geographic identity and the commodification of culture. He has been published in several magazines including Lodestars Anthology and The Flow Trip, and was recently included in the group photobook “In The Modern World,” published by Woofermagazine. His photos have been selected for inclusion in shows in Rhode Island, Utah, Alabama, and Graz, Austria. He currently lives in New York City.
 

-Catherine Chen is a Brooklyn-based poet and artist. They incorporate their study of Chinese mythology, Taoist folk practice within Chinese diasporas, and family history to explore the effects of settler colonialism on the colonized body’s ability to archive grief, ritual, and memory. She has received fellowships from The Watermill Center, CultureHub, Theater Mitu, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (Arts Center Residency 2021), Lambda Literary, Poets House, and Franconia Sculpture Park. Their poems appear in The Academy of American Poets, The Rumpus, Hyperallergic, Apogee, Nat. Brut, among others. Chen is the author of Beautiful Machine Woman Language (Noemi Press, 2023), Manifesto, or: Hysteria (Big Lucks, 2019), and the children's book Sunny's Alphabets (Scholastic Our Voices, 2024).
 

-Christian Mata is a photographer based in South Korea whose work often focuses on documenting everyday life and local subcultures. Through his practice, he aims to support the underground scene and shed light on aspects of Korean society that are often overlooked.

Ernest Amabibi is a Nigerian filmmaker and photographer. His debut short film, Valedictorian, explores themes of power, guilt, and justice. With a photographer’s eye for detail, his storytelling reflects the richness of Nigerian culture while delving into universal questions of identity and resilience.
 

Henry Alvarado is a Venezuelan street photographer living in Buenos Aires, Argentina. As an immigrant who has experienced homelessness, Henry brings a powerful, lived perspective to his visual storytelling. He began his photographic journey through Proyecto Calle, a collective of photographers who have lived on the streets. His work focuses on the invisible lives of those often overlooked by society, capturing themes of solitude, resilience, and silent beauty in the urban landscape. Now living in a shelter, Henry uses his camera to explore both realism and poetry in the streets — through portraits, artistic nudes, and candid moments charged with emotion. His distinctive use of light and composition evokes a quiet, dreamlike atmosphere while remaining rooted in reality. Henry’s work has been exhibited internationally, including in Athens and in major photography festivals across Argentina. He continues to transform his personal experiences into deeply human images that reflect dignity, pain, and hope.

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-Hugo Vásquez is a Peruvian photographer whose work explores light, memory, and the hidden layers of everyday life. He studied Photography at the Centro de la Imagen in Lima and trained with renowned artists such as Ananké Asseff, Alejandro Castellote, Maricel Delgado, and Roberto Huarcaya.He has presented six solo exhibitions, including Society (Alliance Française, 2009), Visitors (Centro de la Imagen, 2011), Concealment (El Ojo Ajeno, 2013), and The Solitude of Light (Cecilia González Gallery, 2018). His work has been shown internationally at fairs such as LimaPhoto, PARC, Buenos Aires Photo, Art Basel Miami, and LA Art Show.
 

-Jay Paulo Rodrigues is a photographer from São Paulo, Brazil. In 2009, he moved to Paris to study literature at the University of Sorbonne. Over time, his interest shifted toward photography, leading him to assist various fashion photographers before gradually developing his own practice. He began by shooting test images for model agencies, eventually moving on to editorial and commercial work for brands. Rodrigues primarily works with film and aims to incorporate it into his practice as much as possible. His visual approach is deeply influenced by cinema, particularly the work of directors such as Andrei Tarkovsky, Robert Bresson, and Michelangelo Antonioni—whose aesthetics and narratives continue to shape his creative vision.

 

-Jess Tran is a Vietnamese-Australian photographer and writer based in Brooklyn. Her work is focused on communities and cultures in transition. She was selected as the Artist-in-Residence for the 2024 Program of LESArtist in Lesa, Italy, and her series Viet Kieu was shortlisted for the 2025 LensCulture New Visions Award in the 'Humanity' category.
 

-Jessica Garcia is a first-gen Mexican-American photographer capturing the human condition and slow fashion with a soft, honest sensibility.
 

-Laurent Hsia is a photographer, filmmaker, and biologist based in Taipei and New York. His work uses analog photography & biologically altered darkroom processes as a medium to explore the asymptotic nature of truth.

 

-Liz Macro is a New York City-based artist working across various mediums including photography, film, dance and drawing. She is trained in nonfiction photography and video production and has worked across the country using visual media to tell and contextualize stories for organizations like the National Park Service and Newsweek. She has created films about contemporary art in rural Alabama, nonprofit work at the Mexico-U.S. border and the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. Her work has expanded beyond traditional documentary filmmaking and photojournalism, now exploring dance, drawn portraits and street photography, often combining these mediums. Her art plays with perspective, shape and pace while being firmly rooted in her personal experiences.

 

-Matt Liu is a Chinese-born photographer and educator based in New York City. His work explores themes of cultural displacement, marginalization, and the emotional distance between individuals and society. Liu holds an MFA from Brooklyn College, CUNY, and a BA from the LuXun Academy of Fine Arts. Through observational photography, he documents how immigrant communities reimagine urban space and identity. His current work focuses on neighborhoods in Queens, especially Flushing, where he also teaches photography to newly arrived immigrant teenagers at Flushing International High School through the Josephine Herrick Project.
 

-Michèle-Marie Laporte is an engineer specializing in materials science and sustainable development, as well as a visual artist. As a photographer, set designer, and talent manager, her Congolese, Martiniquais, and French roots shape a deeply Pan-African, engaged, and multicultural artistic vision.
 

Mobin Mayeli born in Iran, is a socially engaged photographer with political and human concerns, exploring the boundary between documentary and emotion in his work. With a poetic gaze on the world around him, he captures subjects such as solitude, identity, borders, and the act of living in frames that are simple yet deeply affecting. Mobin has experience living, traveling, and working artistically within constrained and real environments, and he seeks out stories that are often unseen or unheard. In addition to photography, he also works on nonfiction writing, short stories, and short documentary films. His projects often emerge at the intersection of art, society, and resistance.

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-Nick Grinder is a photographer and musician living in New York City
 

-Rain Valladares is a contemporary photographer and visual artist whose work delves into themes of identity, personal narratives, and emotional landscapes. Through her intimate portraiture and documentary-style images, she captures moments of vulnerability and introspection, often focusing on the complex intersections of family, self-discovery, and cultural identity. 

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-Sambit Biswas is a photographer, videographer, and creative technologist working at the intersection of fashion film and technology. Born in New Delhi, India, he moved to the United States in 2016. Now based in New York City, his practice is deeply influenced by the city's energy, diversity, and the introspective lens it has brought to his work and worldview.
 

-Savino Kings is a cowboy with a camera.
 

-Sergio Avalos was born in Guadalajara, Mexico, and moved to Los Angeles at the age of 12 with his mother in search of better opportunities. While studying business in college, he discovered photography, which quickly became his primary creative outlet.
 

-Shina Peng (彭澤萱) is an environmental portrait photographer based in New York City and Tokyo. Currently she resides in Brooklyn. Her international upbringing as a Taiwanese American born and raised in Japan heavily impacts the themes she explores in her artwork. Through her work she questions society's definition of identity and attempts to understand her own background. She focuses on moments of the "in-between", the intersectionality, and the dichotomies that people exist in. Shina's work focuses on the beauty in the mundane. Her nostalgic narratives are unexperienced memories that romanticize the repetitions of daily life.
 

-Sofija Leckaite born in Lithuania and now based in Southern Spain, she draws deeply from both places to shape her perspective and photographic vision. She has carried a camera for over 15 years—initially as a safe space to retreat to, and now as a means to create similar visual escapes for others. Preferring analog cameras, she embraces their occasional impracticality for the unique way they keep her present with both her subjects and the creative process.
 

-Tanya García is a photographer based in Mexico City. Her work explores themes of identity and femininity, focusing on capturing honest moments and subtle details. She is drawn to the emotional language of the body and the quiet gestures that reveal something authentic.

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-Valentina Benaglio is a Mexican-Italian multidisciplinary artist and immigrant based in Brooklyn, NY. Working across painting, photography, and sculpture, her practice explores identity, memory, and emotional transformation. Raised between Mexico City and Lake Como, Benaglio draws from a rich cultural duality to create deeply personal, resonant work. Her large-scale oil portraits, often centered on women, capture moments of vulnerability and strength, blurring the line between clarity and distortion. A passionate advocate for human, women’s, and LGBTQ+ rights, Benaglio uses art as both expression and activism, creating space for dialogue, reflection, and connection.
 

-Valeria Moreno is a photographer based in Brooklyn, NY. She was born in Bolivia and raised in Virginia, where she studied photography in Richmond, VA. Her work explores color, texture, and memory through images that feel personal, poetic, and quietly emotional.

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-Wish Thanasarakhan born in Thailand, he moved to New York City 14 years ago in pursuit of a creative life and deeper artistic expression. As an immigrant, he has built his career from the ground up, drawing inspiration from the city’s diversity and resilience. His work explores themes of quiet intimacy, identity, and emotional storytelling, often blending fashion with raw documentary sensibilities. Deeply rooted in analog photography, he spends time in the darkroom creating hand prints—an extension of his meditative creative process.

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