American, born 1977, based in Brooklyn, New York. Painting.
Quinn builds faces from shifted, collage-like fragments in oil paint, gouache, charcoal, pastel and gold leaf, as if memory and identity are visibly coming apart on the canvas. His portraits draw on family photographs, fashion magazines and personal history, turning each piece into a layered record of loss, resilience and self-recognition.
Website: https://www.instagram.com/nathanielmaryquinn/
Dutch, 1893–1945, based in Bergen (NH) · graphic artist and illustrator
Refined woodcuts and ink brush drawings steeped in symbolism, made for a string of literary book illustrations in the 1920s and 30s. Essers’s prints carry a quiet, decorative stillness, shaped by his childhood on Java and later training in the Arts and Crafts tradition.
Website: bernardessers.nl
I hit this amazing cover of Motorhead’s The Ace of Spades by psychobilly band The Reverend Horton Heat.
Chinese, born 1992, based in Shanghai and New York · photographer
Vivid, colour-driven fashion and documentary photography exploring identity and belonging among Xinjiang’s ethnic minority communities. Ma’s images move fluidly between staged editorial and spontaneous street observation, blending fashion, family and cultural memory.
Website: instagram.com/hailunma
Israeli-British, born 1961, based in London · photographer
Cinematic, muted portraits and large-scale landscape work, best known for the Yangtze river series and stark editorial portraiture. Kander’s images share a quiet, subdued tension, whether he’s photographing world leaders or vast, altered stretches of land.
Website: nadavkander.com
