Maya Fuhr
location: Los Angelesclients: Coach, Chanel, Marc Jacobs, Mcdonalds, Pepsi, Sephora, Converse
Maya Fuhr is an award-winning Canadian artist based in Los Angeles. Her images and world-building installations interrogate the role of iconography in photography and consumer culture through the construction of identity. Across her work, whether she’s creating white-cube installations or shooting playful campaigns, her layered images oscillate the tension between concealing and unveiling, inviting her audiences to peel back an image’s layers to explore what lingers beneath its surface.
Her editorial work is featured in Fader, Intersection, High Snobiety, and Numero Berlin, and notable clients include Coach, Chanel, Marc Jacobs, McDonald’s, Pepsi, Sephora, and Converse. She has exhibited worldwide in galleries such as Patel Brown, SADE, and Arsenal Contemporary.
Her forthcoming exhibition and book "Sole Parts" will be published and exhibited at Capture Photography Festival at Equinox Gallery in Vancouver.
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Guillaume Lavrut
location: Paris, FranceFrom a young age, Guillaume Lavrut has had a passion for drawing, which naturally led him to pursue an art career. Currently an artistic director at an agency specialising in luxury goods, he has been exploring the possibilities offered by photography for many years. Every light, shape, and colour is a potential subject for him, transforming everyday life into a visual playground. The omnipresent, almost obsessive image culture that permeates his profession follows him behind the lens. Taken on the fly, his photographs capture mischievous moments. A subtle blend of simplicity, geometry, and contemplation.
Curious and contemplative, I love simple things and tracking down details. Captured on the fly, mischievous snapshots, colour, and geometry become his playground. “I completely identify with this quote from Robert Capa: ‘The photos are there, all you have to do is take them.’”
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Sarah Burton Fielding
location: New ZealandSarah Burton Fielding is an Aotearoa - New Zealand based photographer with an intuitive style, focussing on the emotions of the everyday. Favouring rich light, intimacy and analogue techniques to create cinematic moments and explore connection to place.
Sarah has returned home to New Zealand after almost a decade away in London, Berlin and Melbourne. She has exhibited worldwide and been published in publications such as Vogue, the Guardian and Financial Times. She is a two times Portrait of Britain winner. Photographic Museum of Humanity winner and photographed a book written by Alain de Botton for The School of Life London.
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Ray Neutron
location: Atlanta, Georgia, USclients: Apple, Airbnb, Pepsi, ESPN, Under Armour, Jack White, BBCICECREAM, Rocnation, Reach Records, Wolf & Shepherd
Ray “Neutron” Spears is an image-maker based in Atlanta who is devoted to showing stories rather than telling them. Through motion and still imagery he captures authentic and ephemeral scenes, oft-described as “cinematic documentary”. Past clients include Apple, Jack White, Pepsi, ESPN, BBCICECREAM, Under Armour and more.
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Thandiwe Muriu
location: Nairobi, Kenyaclients: Adidas, Christian Dior, Nespresso, Longchamp, Swatch, Bic, Oribe, The United Nations, Labo M, Swiss Red Cross
Thandiwe Muriu is a Kenyan artist known for creating surreal illusions in a unique mix of vibrant textiles, cultural practices, and beauty ideologies. Working with the kitenge fabric, a distinct African cloth, she makes her subjects both disappear and serve as a canvas of reflection to the questions of womanhood, identity and its evolution over time. Her illusions are completed by handmade accessories, constructed from reimagined objects associated with Kenyan daily life. Merging history and the present, Muriu pairs each work with an African proverb, expressing the collected oral wisdom of generations past even as she communicates culture in a visual form.
Born and raised in Nairobi, Kenya, Thandiwe discovered photography at age 14, experimenting with her father's old Nikon camera. Self-taught, she immersed herself in books and video tutorials, learning from every resource she could find, as Kenya did not have any formal photography schools. By age 17, she was working professionally, and by 23 had shot her first solo advertising campaign. By 2019, she was photographing campaigns for some of the largest companies in East Africa.
As the sole woman operating in the male-dominated advertising photography industry in Kenya, Thandiwe repeatedly confronted questions around the role of women in society, the place of tradition, and her own self-perception. These experiences inspired her first work, the Camo series, a project of cultural reflection. Camo was the catalyst for her to push new boundaries in her photography, leading her into a deeply personal artistic journey.
Even though she is still a young artist, Thandiwe is a rising star of contemporary photography. Her works are part of significant museum and public collections like Collection Gervanne + Matthias Leridon, Fondation Gandur pour l’Art, and UHODA Collection, as well as being a Rockefeller Foundation Residency alumni, among others.
She currently resides in Nairobi, Kenya where she teaches workshops and regularly travels for assignments.
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