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“VISIONS OF US”
PHOTOGRAPHERS
Iryna Semko
Iryna Semko is an award-winning visual artist from Odesa, Ukraine.
Through a kaleidoscope of bright colors, abstract forms, and unique materials, each photograph reveals a unique facet of the artist’s inner world, serving as both an expression of personal identity and a testament to resilience in the face of adversity.
This project invites viewers to reflect on their own identity, emotions, and the diverse ways in which we express ourselves, even in the most challenging of circumstances. And where art becomes a powerful tool for healing and understanding.
Iryna Semko is an award-winning visual artist from Odesa, Ukraine.
Through a kaleidoscope of bright colors, abstract forms, and unique materials, each photograph reveals a unique facet of the artist’s inner world, serving as both an expression of personal identity and a testament to resilience in the face of adversity.
This project invites viewers to reflect on their own identity, emotions, and the diverse ways in which we express ourselves, even in the most challenging of circumstances. And where art becomes a powerful tool for healing and understanding.
Iryna Semko
Leroy Skalstad
Leroy Skalstad is a disabled veteran who finds peace taking his camera to the streets.
Leroy Skalstad is a disabled veteran who finds peace taking his camera to the streets.
Conrad Valone
"My name is Conrad Valone. I am a conceptual Fine Art photographer from San Francisco, California. I grew up hard, ran away, and never looked back. It is my belief that the creation of art is the consistent and insistent need for people to express what can never be said. I photograph my nightmares and my daydreams. Sometimes it can be difficult for me to tell the difference between them."
"My name is Conrad Valone. I am a conceptual Fine Art photographer from San Francisco, California. I grew up hard, ran away, and never looked back. It is my belief that the creation of art is the consistent and insistent need for people to express what can never be said. I photograph my nightmares and my daydreams. Sometimes it can be difficult for me to tell the difference between them."
Conrad Valone
Conrad Valone
Rainer Würth
"Inner and outer landscapes blur into one another."
Well-known German writer Rainer Würth (1967) learned and trained his photography skills as a journalist.
For local media in the beginning, he took photos to illustrate his stories and articles. Later, as a freelance travel writer; he worked for nationwide newspapers and magazines in Germany, Switzerland and Austria. Focused on the writing mainly he continued to shoot and publish photos from his trips all over the world.
After he moved to Flores (Azores) in 2016, his main focus is artistic photography; portraits, body & nude and landscape. In his photos inner and outer landscapes often blur into one another. Rainer Würth is interested in the open, in fragments and abstraction.
For him as a photographer it is all about the moment, motif and composition to create visual poetry or to tell a story. In the process of taking pictures he experiments with apertures and exposures, intentional camera movement (ICM), light and color.
"Inner and outer landscapes blur into one another."
Well-known German writer Rainer Würth (1967) learned and trained his photography skills as a journalist.
For local media in the beginning, he took photos to illustrate his stories and articles. Later, as a freelance travel writer; he worked for nationwide newspapers and magazines in Germany, Switzerland and Austria. Focused on the writing mainly he continued to shoot and publish photos from his trips all over the world.
After he moved to Flores (Azores) in 2016, his main focus is artistic photography; portraits, body & nude and landscape. In his photos inner and outer landscapes often blur into one another. Rainer Würth is interested in the open, in fragments and abstraction.
For him as a photographer it is all about the moment, motif and composition to create visual poetry or to tell a story. In the process of taking pictures he experiments with apertures and exposures, intentional camera movement (ICM), light and color.
Émilie Teresina Caracciolo
Émilie Teresina Caracciolo discovered early on that photography was her means of making sense of the world. For Émilie, capturing moments through her lens became an essential way to understand and document the complexities and beauty of life around her.
Émilie spent 15 years as a social worker. Her career included supporting asylum seekers, working as a street-worker, and serving the Juvenile Judge.
She has a unique talent for capturing the essence of moments that might otherwise go unnoticed, revealing the inherent beauty in simplicity and hardship.
"Taking pictures has always been natural to me. As well as questioning the world. Born to a south-italian working-class family in France and social worker for 15 years, I’ve always needed to archive, to witness, I like creating images, fixing moments of who and what I love, what I believe in and what makes me angry or what I wonder about."
Émilie Teresina Caracciolo discovered early on that photography was her means of making sense of the world. For Émilie, capturing moments through her lens became an essential way to understand and document the complexities and beauty of life around her.
Émilie spent 15 years as a social worker. Her career included supporting asylum seekers, working as a street-worker, and serving the Juvenile Judge.
She has a unique talent for capturing the essence of moments that might otherwise go unnoticed, revealing the inherent beauty in simplicity and hardship.
"Taking pictures has always been natural to me. As well as questioning the world. Born to a south-italian working-class family in France and social worker for 15 years, I’ve always needed to archive, to witness, I like creating images, fixing moments of who and what I love, what I believe in and what makes me angry or what I wonder about."
Émilie Teresina Caracciolo
Audrey Franza
Audrey Franza is a photographer who currently lives on Long Island, NY.
She studied mathematical science, economics, and photography at Binghamton University and her work aims to blend the three disciplines by merging analytical structure, economic theory, and visual storytelling.
Her work has been involved in numerous national and international shows. She is currently the co-founder and senior photography director of RENA magazine, an art publication dedicated to exploring the intersections of visual storytelling, fashion, and artistic research.
"M. stands for the portuguese slang term “moleza”, which means someone who is sluggish or lacks energy. It is difficult to have moments like these, especially in New York City which is known as the city that never sleeps. This image aims to show a contrast between the bustling energy of New York City and the feeling of being a moleza."
Audrey Franza is a photographer who currently lives on Long Island, NY.
She studied mathematical science, economics, and photography at Binghamton University and her work aims to blend the three disciplines by merging analytical structure, economic theory, and visual storytelling.
Her work has been involved in numerous national and international shows. She is currently the co-founder and senior photography director of RENA magazine, an art publication dedicated to exploring the intersections of visual storytelling, fashion, and artistic research.
"M. stands for the portuguese slang term “moleza”, which means someone who is sluggish or lacks energy. It is difficult to have moments like these, especially in New York City which is known as the city that never sleeps. This image aims to show a contrast between the bustling energy of New York City and the feeling of being a moleza."
Atiya Nur Walker
Atiya Nur is a Street/Documentary photographer and independent photojournalist from Philadelphia, PA.
Most of her work surrounds capturing the essence of humanity via scenes of everyday life, joy, and at times struggle. Her best connections with people are made via street portraits.
Atiya has a chance to become acquainted with her subjects and make personal connections with them, although briefly. Atiya enjoys the conversations she has with her subjects in which she explains her work and expresses gratitude to them for allowing their image to be captured.
Atiya Nur is a Street/Documentary photographer and independent photojournalist from Philadelphia, PA.
Most of her work surrounds capturing the essence of humanity via scenes of everyday life, joy, and at times struggle. Her best connections with people are made via street portraits.
Atiya has a chance to become acquainted with her subjects and make personal connections with them, although briefly. Atiya enjoys the conversations she has with her subjects in which she explains her work and expresses gratitude to them for allowing their image to be captured.
Atiya Nur Walker
Lee Jones
Originally from Bristol, VA, Lee Jones has traveled and exhibited all over the world but is currently in the local community as an art educator, commercial photographer, and digital marketer. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Photography and Digital Media at King University.
Jones’ Fine Art photography deals with themes of historical and cultural perceptions of the photographic medium. When not with his family, Jones is teaching, creating images, making music in the community, or volunteering for local art organizations.
Originally from Bristol, VA, Lee Jones has traveled and exhibited all over the world but is currently in the local community as an art educator, commercial photographer, and digital marketer. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Photography and Digital Media at King University.
Jones’ Fine Art photography deals with themes of historical and cultural perceptions of the photographic medium. When not with his family, Jones is teaching, creating images, making music in the community, or volunteering for local art organizations.
Maryam Shabani
"I discovered my passion for photography when I was a teenager. I love to take photographs of almost everything, and as an introvert, this ever growing fondness for photography has always been the best way to express and perceive myself in every moment I capture. I studied Math major in high school. Therefore, I couldn’t start learning something related to arts easily as a university student. I started studying Urban Planning at the Faculty of Fine Arts, the University of Tehran, in 2016. I wasn’t enjoying that major, and I was looking forward to getting related to arts and, more specifically, photography. Thus, I decided to study Photography for my master’s degree in 2021 in the same faculty and the same university. Since then, I have been trying to find my way as an art photographer. Why art photography? As mentioned, I find photography the best way to express myself and my feelings. Whenever I’m experiencing any kind of feeling, I can analyze it through my photographs, and I think this style of photography is an art form."
"I discovered my passion for photography when I was a teenager. I love to take photographs of almost everything, and as an introvert, this ever growing fondness for photography has always been the best way to express and perceive myself in every moment I capture. I studied Math major in high school. Therefore, I couldn’t start learning something related to arts easily as a university student. I started studying Urban Planning at the Faculty of Fine Arts, the University of Tehran, in 2016. I wasn’t enjoying that major, and I was looking forward to getting related to arts and, more specifically, photography. Thus, I decided to study Photography for my master’s degree in 2021 in the same faculty and the same university. Since then, I have been trying to find my way as an art photographer. Why art photography? As mentioned, I find photography the best way to express myself and my feelings. Whenever I’m experiencing any kind of feeling, I can analyze it through my photographs, and I think this style of photography is an art form."
Maryam Shabani
Pablo Iriarte Urdiain
"I grew up in Mallorca, Spain, and found creative ways to express myself through photography, music, and writing. It helped me voice things I couldn’t fully understand at the time. Now, I’ve made creativity part of both my life and work as a creative copywriter in Berlin. I believe in honesty, commitment, and dedication in everything I do. I see portrait photography as capturing those in-between moments, the brief second when someone’s guard drops and their true self comes through. I aim to get past the everyday persona and reveal something deeper and more real. This series follows the emotional arc of relationships. It starts with The Spark, the physical connection and passion where everything feels heightened and intense. Then comes The Unveiling, when we let our guard down and show who we really are. It ends with The Echo, where we return to solitude, facing a more distant, maybe less fulfilling reality, connected only through the traces of what once was. These portraits also represent a different time in my life, when I had space to dedicate to my friends and their stories."
"I grew up in Mallorca, Spain, and found creative ways to express myself through photography, music, and writing. It helped me voice things I couldn’t fully understand at the time. Now, I’ve made creativity part of both my life and work as a creative copywriter in Berlin. I believe in honesty, commitment, and dedication in everything I do. I see portrait photography as capturing those in-between moments, the brief second when someone’s guard drops and their true self comes through. I aim to get past the everyday persona and reveal something deeper and more real. This series follows the emotional arc of relationships. It starts with The Spark, the physical connection and passion where everything feels heightened and intense. Then comes The Unveiling, when we let our guard down and show who we really are. It ends with The Echo, where we return to solitude, facing a more distant, maybe less fulfilling reality, connected only through the traces of what once was. These portraits also represent a different time in my life, when I had space to dedicate to my friends and their stories."
Pablo Iriarte Urdiain
Pablo Iriarte Urdiain
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