Matías Alvial (b.1997, Santiago, Chile) is a New York & Santiago based multimedia artist and community organizer. At the core of his work, he explores interpersonal relationships through a queer lens. This is best illustrated in his 35mm Diary, an ongoing documentary project that consists of capturing the 2020s through film photography, inspired by the early practices of Nan Goldin, Lyle Ashton Harris, and Ryan McGinley. His gallery debut was in Albert Merola Gallery in Provincetown, MA, alongside artists such as John Waters, Jack Pierson and Peter Hujar. Matías has photographed for i-D, New York Magazine, Paper Magazine, PIN-UP, Document Journal, among others. He holds a BA in ‘The Aesthetics of Commerce’ from New York University.
Yulin Gu is an artist based in Jackson Heights whose work spans across photography and sculpture. Yulin is intrigued by the gap between urban transformations and urban stillness, and her work portrays expanded personal experiences and collective memories. Yulin explores the imaginative potential of ready-made objects, offering captivating insights into the evolving urban landscape.
Andrew Kung is a photographer living and working in Brooklyn, New York. His work often centers on contested ideas of place, identity, and belonging. Andrew is a 2024 Light Work artist-in-residence, 2024 Houston Center for Photography Center Annual Selected Artist, 2024 En Foco Photography Fellow, and has been previously awarded by PhotoVogue, LensCulture, Photolucida, and Maine Media's Arnold Newman Prize.
Sha Luo was born in Guangdong, China, currently based in New York. She explores the ambiguity between truth and lies as well as the perception of tension and intimacy, materializing the entangled relations between sensations and memories through photography, video, sculpture, performance, and curatorial practice.
Chloe Scout Nix is an artist, performer, and teacher originally from Waxahachie TX and currently living in Brooklyn NY. She graduated with her MFA in Photography at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, and got her BFA from Southern Methodist University in visual arts, with a minor in Art History. Her conceptual work focuses on the body as material, exploring a variety of different techniques to both obscure and create heavy details within each image. Her process revolves around modes of performing for the camera, often resulting in self portraiture. She was the recipient of the Dallas Museum of Art’s Clare Hart DeGolyer Memorial Fund award in 2019. In 2025 she taught the course photographing Intimacy/Photographing Relationships through Strudlemedialive.
Zuya Yang is a lens-based artist and bookmaker based in New York. Her practice observes the impacts of human actions through connection with the natural and cultural landscape. Using photography and multi-media installation, Yang captures and uses aesthetics as a clue to tackle the invisible and fleeting nuances of everyday life that show the system’s abnormalities. She holds a BFA in Photography from the Rhode Island School of Design.
Yuhan Cheng is a photographer and filmmaker based between Chengdu and New York. Their work explores identity and the interplay between self and social environments, often blurring the lines between non-fiction and autofiction. Through photography, film, and interdisciplinary practices, Cheng examines themes of displacement, intimacy, and transformation. Their work has been exhibited internationally, including the series Princess of Funan River at Hüten Gallery, Shanghai, and Yellowbox Art Museum, Qingdao, in 2021. Their solo show Outside the Window, Inside the Tank was presented at Far-Near Studio in New York in 2024. Cheng’s projects have been featured in Dazed, Office Magazine, Nowness Asia, FotoFilmic JRNL Issue 13, and Far-Near Vol.5 Divergence, spanning photographs, short films, and installation.
Benji Zi Jian Hsu (b. 2002, Oakland, California) is an artist based in New York City. His work explores themes of diaspora, memory, and personal relationships, drawing from his own lived experience. Through photography and collage, Hsu reflects on intimate connections and the process of remembering. He has been featured in Cultured Magazine’s Young Photographers list and is an active contributor to Chinatown Basketball Club.
Dustin (he/him) is a cultural worker and image-maker based in Brooklyn, NY. His work explores memory and Asian-American identity using documentary photography, vernacular archives, and text.
Irma Mauro is a photographer based in New York City. Born in a small town in the south of Italy and raised near Milan, she moved to New York City on her own in her early 20's. New York became her home and that's where she began taking photos. Irma's work is focused on highlighting the beauty of real life, subcultures and modest living. In a time that strives for exclusivity, Irma seeks to find meaning and values in the ordinary and authentic, removing current trends and away from society standards or expectations.
Xander Opiyo is a multimedia artist from Delaware whose work both celebrates and grapples with transience + volatility of life. His work enshrines moments that are playful, fleeting, and intimate, leaning into deep hues and lens blurs to make his images feel like a memory.
Ramona Jingru Wang (b. 1995, China) is a lens-based artist based on the internet and New York. Her work explores how images intervene with our reality and create connections among people and space, investigating how we care for each other through photographs. She studied in the International Center of Photography-Bard College, and graduated with an MFA in photography from the Pratt Institute, New York. She has been the recipient of the 2024 LensCulture Emerging Artist Awards Jury’s Picks, F25 Fellow at the Silver Eye Center, 2023 Creator Labs Photo Fund by Aperture and Google’s Creator Labs.
Tracy Dong (b. 1995, Vancouver, Canada) is an interdisciplinary artist/photographer currently based in Brooklyn, New York. Her practice predominantly seeks to preserve and contribute to the legacy of the Southeast Asian archive, and explores the changing narrative of identity and community as a duality enduring generational diasporic passage. With a principal focus on intimate depictions of the marginalized subculture, she seeks to create subversion by deliberate documentation and a portrait of radical resistance to oppressive systems laced with palettes of romance and nostalgia. Her first monograph, “Tell Me About Saigon” was published in 2024 by Kris Graves Projects in New York City, and was featured in Huck Magazine and Dazed Magazine. She is currently studying visual storytelling at ICP and screenwriting and producing at NYU.
Macey Keung is a boundary-pushing multimedia artist, creative director, and founder of Antifragile Zine. Rooted in themes of radical vulnerability, intersectionality, and cultural disruption, her work spans photography, filmmaking, design, and print magazines. Macey’s upbringing across California, Shanghai, New York City, and Hong Kong, deeply informs her artistic perspective, blending global influences with a commitment to community-centered storytelling.
Andrew Liu is a designer and artist based in Brooklyn, NY. His photo’s capture a period of stillness as much as it is transition. In his images, he sets out to capture the natural elements surrounding the game he loves. Textural collisions from varying perspectives akin to the decision he makes on the court.
Dominick McDuffie (b. 1993, Pittsburgh, PA) is a contemporary photographer and artist based in Brooklyn, NY. A self-taught photographer, his work focuses on community, cultural preservation, and authentically documenting Black spaces and the people within them. He has exhibited with 38A Gallery, August Wilson House, Point Park Playhouse, and Saint Vincent’s Verostko Center. In 2023, he received the Silver Eye Keystone Award, recognizing outstanding photographers in Pennsylvania. Passionate about education, Dominick has integrated teaching into his practice, serving as a resident teaching artist with ACH Clear Pathways in Pittsburgh and currently with LEAP in Brooklyn. Now in New York, he continues to evolve and experiment with his image-making.
Paloma is a photographer from Berkeley, California, who uses her point and shoot to document precious moments in everyday life. Her work has appeared in Office Magazine, Paper Magazine, and other publications.
Zixuan Zhao 赵梓萱 (b. Henan, China), known as Echo, is based in New York. She often wonders how to archive scent, exploring olfactory storytelling.
She enjoys observing ripples, stones, and shells—elements that exist both as fleeting and lasting. Her photographic work is a nostalgic ode to everyday, mundane moments, finding renewed significance in celebrating the intersections of life and uncovering the allure in the ordinary.
Just like an echo, there will come a moment when you hear it.