collaborators


thoughts


eliot ross albers

eliot ross albers, phd, has been an activist for the human rights and health of people who use, and especially inject drugs, for fifteen years. he is executive director of the international network of people who use drugs; which is recognised by the relevant un bodies, and drug user activists the world over, as the peak network representing the interests of the community on the global stage. the principal work of the network is advocacy at the international level and capacity building at the national level.

eric boelts

eric loves posters – especially creating them. after getting a bfa and a mba, both from the university of arizona, eric spent some time teaching in arizona and colorado while running several design businesses. his current venture, brain bolts, llc, affords him the opportunity to create all facets of design and advertising, from logos to brochures, and interactive projects to posters for a variety of industries including technology, aviation, healthcare, and the arts. eric currently resides in boulder, colorado.

antonio castro

antonio is an associate professor of graphic design at the university of texas at el paso. he received his bfa in graphic design at the university of texas and a mfa in visual communications at tyler school of art in philadelphia. castro has been producing successful design solutions for companies such as bravo networks, independent film channel, american movie classics among others. prior to this castro worked as a fraphic designer for mithoff-burton partners and later as a senior designer/art director at parham santana in nyc.

jon dean

currently living in atlanta, georgia, jon prefers shooting staged portraiture. he received a bachelor of fine arts in photography from the savannah college of art and design, with a minor in cinema studies. his love of film and melodrama have always been the driving force of his image making.
@legendrychildrn

erin wright

erin wright earned his master of fine arts with a concentration in graphic design and illustration at the university of arizona and his bfa in graphic design at colorado state university. he has taught design at lsu, the university of montevallo, and is currently a professor of design and former chair of the department of art and art history at the university of alabama at birmingham.

visuals


erin forsyth

born and raised in auckland, new zealand, erin forsyth is a believer in
creative thought and creative application. erin’s practice is founded
in a range of creative disciplines including illustration, moving
image, curation, exhibition coordination, studio management,
independent publication and project development.

louie joyce

louie joyce is an illustrator and artist based in sydney, australia. as a lifelong fan of comics and animation, his work focuses on different techniques of graphic storytelling.
@louiejoyce

ali kianmehr

ali kianmehr, a calligrapher and graphic designer— educated in graphic design— doing "iranian calligraphy" for more than twenty years. he works on designing and painting calligraphy on large canvases in his studio in iran. he teaches "calligraphy-painting" methods and techniques in the art and culture centre of teheran university.

konsumterra

konsumterra came from adelaide to sydney about seven years ago and has since been working with street art as a teacher, tour guide, live artist for events, curated dozens of shows, published a graffiti newspaper, put on several festivals and been a consultant with government and councils. most recently he did a colouring book and game graphics for old school pen and paper gamer stuff. his older work was political and often a parody of consumer culture but nowadays he’s mellowed out and is less interested in shock. mostly he draws whatever strange things children tell him to do only with octopi.

posters without borders

posters without borders is an international poster exhibition founded and curated by eric boelts, antonio castro and erin wright. it’s an invitational exhibition with people from all around the world having submitted to the project. the project explores the issue of immigration; examining the role of constructed borders in people’s lives, the ‘other’ and what differing nationality means when a root ancestry can be traced.

rone

rone is the melbourne based street artist whose paintings of glamorous women have been adorning the city streets for over a decade. his jane doe portrait has become an iconic feature of that city’s landscape and now his women can be seen gazing out from walls across the globe. of late he’s been taking his works into galleries and is a part of the street artist crew everfresh.

stinkfish

colombian based street artist, stinkfish, has been gracing the walls of bogotá for over a decade now with his stunning works of art. the subjects gaze at the viewer with radiance, as wisps of colours swirl out from their eyes. he’s a man who never reveals his identity nor his real name. in recent years, stinkfish has been taking his art around the globe.

style


foureyes

foureyes is a new zealand street style fashion blog run by four guys - alex, chin, danny & mino.
launched in april two thousand and eleven, foureyes has rapidly established a reputation as new zealand's leading street style blog and is now in the process of publishing new zealand's first street style photography book.
capturing the best in new zealand street style, fashion shows and events, foureyes has gained a loyal readership both in new zealand and abroad.

if you have any further questions, please don't hesitate to contact us.
@foureyesblog

lee nutter

lee nutter is a fashion photographer based in sydney, australia. he enjoys telling short photographic stories that suggest a lot but explain very little. he is forever inspired by sydney's under-appreciated creative community. check him at leenutter.com and lee nutter tumblr
@leenutter

dennis zhu

dennis zhu is a twenty six year old, who’s originally from shanghai. he’s shot with a digtial camera since college and he’s been inspired by the flickr for a couple of years. now he uses a film camera occasionally and focuses on portraits and nude projects. he hopes to one day find his shooting style and make it his personal career.

words


vinny bambora

vinny's been a very naughty boy for a long time. he can't help himself. breaking the rules, he thinks, is paramount to gaining enlightenment. so he spends all his time trying to strip away those boundaries... sometimes, when he's really out of it, he kids himself that he's already found nirvana.

ella black

she's a big juicy mouth full of words; ready. she'll set to siege your panty line, pulverise your peach with peculiar passions, voracious verbs and titillating tenses. so, uncross your legs, loosen that buckle, lick your fingers ladies and enjoy.

louise carter

louise is a writer who once spent an entire year writing one poem per day – an experience which, while worthwhile, is not one she would recommend. at the moment she is working on her first verse novel, called warm in the belly of a monster. when she’s not writing, louise can be found baking cakes and talking to cats in the street. she lives in sydney.

maru delgado

multi-award winning writer, maru delgado has published in utero and el autoeclipse del espejo. she's translated the poetry of plath and vivien with maria miranda for the collection lady lazarus. she has taken part in various international magazines, directed two urban intervention projects and studied at the school of literature and linguistics at the universidad nacional de san agustin in arequipa.

paulina noir

paulina's mother used to read her de sade at bedtime. she fell in the street early on and her mind has been in the gutter ever since. she grew into one of the most stunning specimens and helps cuties with their relationship problems.
@paulinanoir

gina tron

gina tron is a writing robot. she is the features editor for ladygunn magazine and has contributed to such magazines as vice, bullet, and the daily beast. she is editor-in-chief for williamsburg fashion weekend magazine. gina doodles up quick drawings designed for entertainment on her tumblr and is working on finishing her first book.
@_ginatron

shots


nazir ekhlass

nazir ekhlass (afghan lens) is a twenty five year old freelancer living in kabul, afghanistan. he spent most of his childhood as a refugee in pakistan and hates spiders and cockroaches. he graduated school yet was terrible in math and history. soon he will gain a bachelor’s degree. currently, he is busy working as a survey and research project manager in acsor surveys. he started his career as a graphic designer and started photography as a hobby approximately ten years ago with a small digital sony cybershop and has no idea when that hobby turned into passion and addiction. he created afghan lens page on facebook in october thousand and twelve.

legendary children

legendary children is an exhibition about the changing face of the atlanta drag scene. five photographers celebrate the performers dedicated to building an edgy, creative, and accepting community for drag performers in atlanta and the greater southeast.
@legendrychildrn

richard maitland

richard maitland is originally from england, raised in jamaica ... living and working in new york.
“having been inspired by street and documentary photography i focus primarily on informal portraits of people encountered while traveling.”

aleksandra v

aleksandra v, from russia, portrait photographer. i started my photography three years ago. i love to shoot portraits or travel moments especially on vintage cameras. i shoot with an old zenit on my favourite thirty five mm film — kodak. the entire creative process takes place in my little apartment or out in the plain air. i would have never guessed that my hobby would take me so far!