The photographic assemblages (or photo collages) of Nancy Staub Laughlin are based on concepts of luminosity and intrinsic value. Through specific ‘sparkled’ motifs such as jewelry, gems, diamonds, crystals, pearls, florals, magnolia trees, snowy wintery landscapes, and oceanscapes, she creates her own sense of mythology on visuals meant to be treasured and cherished. Nancy Staub Laughlin has exhibited in Chelsea multiple times and has been critically reviewed and published e

Vilma Leino is a performance-based conceptual photographer who has exhibited across Europe including Finland, Germany, France, Greece, Denmark, Czechia, Italy, and Poland. Recent solo exhibitions include Pragovka Gallery in Prague, Kalleria in Helsinki, Scope BLM in Berlin, Red Door Gallery in Copenhagen, and Lyon Particule in France. She has been recognized and shortlisted for various awards including by the Human Impacts Institute, MyMa Artist Grant, Jalón Ángel Internation

Kristina Žetko is an experimental abstract photographer who has exhibited in countries such as Sweden, Slovenia, and Canada. Recent solo exhibitions include Kulturhuset Fregatten, Gallery Gjuteriet, and Street Gallery in Sweden as well as Fotogalerija STOLP and Galerry Tir in Slovenia. Her awards include the Helge Ax Johnsons Scholarship, the Estrid Ericsons Scholarship , and project funding from the City of Ljubljana in Slovenia. Like a celestial lightning storm, the camera-

Mantinieri is a documentary analogue photographer who has been photographing for 40 years. During this time and through thorough experimentation, he developed his own printing method with a modified custom printer which prints chemical-free carbon pigments onto 100% cotton paper. He calls this technique “carbon-gelatine printing”. Mantinieri still uses analogue cameras he purchased three to four decades ago and he describes his carbon-gelatine printing process as far more arc

Echoes of Perception by Fina Ferrara is interactive performance art but presented in a manner similar to theatre, with a formal stage and seated audience. The conceptual basis of the performance conveys the Kuleshov effect, a film editing practice leaving the audience with different interpretations of the same action when presented with various visual contexts. Fina’s performance entails short 5 minute screenings of clips from several Hollywood movies. These films include The

Anastasiia Ulianytska ( WHY.NOT.ME ) is a fashion designer and textile artist who has exhibited in London at The Holy Art Gallery and Boomer Gallery. She describes her fashionable wares through the following: “My practice is a rebellion born from silence and the necessity of survival. I transform textiles into an "Armour of Senses", portable sanctuaries designed for the modern nomad. My shift from canvas to cloth was catalyzed by my displacement from Ukraine; when you must fi

William Morris III is an analogue digital artist who has exhibited multiple times and awarded a scholarship with the Hite Art Institute in Louisville, Kentucky. He describes his work as “visuals inspired by the Y2K era. This also is a play on the appearance of capitalism, advertising in the late 90s to early 2000s features, a soft blue tint with blurry imagery”. Using Photoshop and non-copyright, non-AI stock imagery for the basis of his compositions, William Morris III creat

Gabrielle Chardigny is an installation artist who has exhibited in Germany, France, and Portugal. She has been awarded the Kunst Prize and participated in the Montemero Art Residency. Gabrielle describes her interests “in how natural resources and living organisms are extracted, displaced, and maintained within human-made systems. Industrial and synthetic materials are used not only as a contrast to natural elements, but as infrastructures that organize and condition their ex