• Lawrence Agyei
    Bonhomous in its openness, with a classic, clean quality, Lawrence Agyei’s work shows just how cool it can be to be calmly shot without chicanery—fantastic.

  • Tang Chan
    With a hand-painted craftiness, and stillness steroided by a meditative humor, Tang Chan delivers postcard-fragile snapshots full of picaresque shades and vapors that makes one wonder why the world sometimes seems so much more real on film than it does when one looks at it with one’s own eyes.

  • Federica Erra
    Floating like sun-charged motes in light air, Federica Erra’s neat, sharp shots sweep you up to ethereal realms of cold-cast eyes and sculpted countenances that peel back the outer to reveal the internal, in the subject, and in the viewer as well.

  • J. Quazi King
    J. Quazi King’s photography wears its cool casually; wearing candy-like haute carriage with the intimacy of a searching portrait, it is immediate, it is tender, it is bold, it is unflinching, it is amazing.

  • 涛 杜
    Warmly fierce in their chilled mellowness, 涛 杜’s naturalistic captures portray the world in a wonderfully ‘and-that-is-exactly-how-it-is’ fashion—quick, perfect, poignant.

  • Hillary Boles
    Taking shots that sweat style, Hillary Boles salutes the past without becoming mired in it; her work is a chronicle of cool that illustrates life both as it is, and as it ought to be.

  • changer
    Fiercely intense, each one of changer’s shots feels like several concentrated into a single image, a deliciously syrupy solution of youth, fashion, and attitude—brilliant.

  • Evgeniya Vradiy
    The actual even among artifice, without elevation, seems central to Evgeniya Vradiy’s work—people are presented as real, and the result is beautiful.

  • Yang Qiu
    Yang Qiu shoots in a manner that’s off-handedly true, giving us photos that are perfectly, poignantly composed, matter-of-fact, like the best declarative sentences.

  • Marwane Pallas
    With the heady feverish intensity of a hypnopompic miracle, Marwane Pallas takes that which whips about the mind in torment and births it duskily into the world, solidifying it into dreamy gneiss.