Christian Badach (b. 1999) is a photographer from New Jersey who works throughout the rural northeast. His work is based in the creation of pseudo-fictionalized spaces that examines elemental landscapes and their capacity to act as catalysts in the formation of paradoxical emotions that alter psychology, behavior, and movement. His work has been shown internationally at PhMusuem Days (PhMuseum, Bologna) Other Spaces (The Photographic Exploration Project, Berlin) Uchi Soto (The Contemporary of Photography, Bangkok) and his writing has been featured by Paper Journal Magazine.
Chen Xiangyun is a Chinese artist based in New York City and New Haven CT. Their work has been shown internationally and nationally, including in the Pingyao International Photography Festival, the PhotoVogue Festival in Italy, and the Baxter Street Camera Club of New York. They were the winner of the Robert Giard Grant for Emerging LGBTQ+ Photographers, The 99th Annual International Competition at The Print Center in Philadelphia and recipient of the En Foco Fellowship. They are currently a MFA-Photography candidate at Yale School of Art. Chen’s most recent photography project features psychologically probing portraits of their diverse queer community in the U.S.
Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Jasmine Clarke creates lyrical, uncanny photographs, to examine the mysteries and mythologies that underpin our notions of home and family. Clarke was a 2022 Light Work Artist-in-Residence and was one of the inaugural 20 artists to receive support from the 2021 Aperture and Google Creator Labs Photo Fund. This fall, Clarke will be part of CULTURED Magazine's Young Photographers issue, nominated by Stephen Shore. Jasmine Clarke has shown work in exhibitions including The Brooklyn Artists Exhibition (Brooklyn Museum), And Let it Remain So (Phoenix Art Museum), All in This Together, (PhotoVogue Festival, Milan), Bard x HGG (curated by Stephen Shore at Howard Greenberg Gallery), Entitlements (National Center for Civil and Human Rights), Photoville (Brooklyn Bridge Park), and Identity, Place, Migration, Immigration (Blue Sky Gallery, Portland). Clarke’s current solo show, Every Shore, is on view at Wa Na Wari in Seattle.
Faith Couch (b. 1997) is an image maker, educator, and curator from Durham, North Carolina. Her practice illuminates Black memory and the beauty of the everyday. She earned her BFA in Photography from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2019 and has exhibited internationally, with presentations in Qatar, Northern Ireland, France, England, and across the United States. Her work has been shown at New Image Art Gallery in Los Angeles, the International Center of Photography, the Nasher Museum at Duke University, the African American Museum in Philadelphia, Aperture Foundation in New York, among others. Alongside her fine art practice, Couch works editorially, with photographs published in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Vogue, and more. In 2021, she became the first Black woman photographer to be named a Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree in Art & Style.
Atefe Moeini (b. 1998, Bushehr, Iran) is an artist working primarily with photography, video, writing, and world-building. As part of the 2023 Tehran Biennale, Moeini presented a photo installation titled Six Windows and a Balcony in an apartment in downtown Tehran, where she had lived during the 2022 protests in Iran. Her photographs have been included in group exhibitions such as Woman-Life-Freedom at the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo, Another Birth at Jossa by Alserkal in Dubai, and the Tbilisi Photography and Multimedia Museum. She is a recipient of the Prince Claus Seed Award and the Penumbra Foundation / Image Threads Scholarship. Her work has been published in the British Journal of Photography, Lenscratch, and The Quick + The Brave. She continues to build worlds through photographs, fragments, and the act of remembering.
Christopher Postlewaite (b. 1993) is a photographer and musician living between Philadelphia, PA and New Haven, CT. His photographs traverse varying communities, subcultures and external environments, all working to create a sense of place. Christopher photographs friends, family, strangers and their shared spaces. Using large and medium format cameras, he works with his subjects to create a level of intimacy and familiarity, placing the viewer between insider and outsider. Connection, trust, and the relationship between care and violence thematically intersect in the world of his photographs. Christopher Postlewaite is a Gordon Parks Scholar (2013, 2014) and most recently was awarded Artist-in-Residence at Rowan University (2025).
Olivia Reavey (b. 1998) works between New York, NY and New Haven, CT. Her work is born from a curiosity into morbidness, intimacy, and representations of gender and lust. She seeks to challenge perceived limitations of the body, and in doing so, simulates a space in which those limitations are non-existent. Primarily printing in the darkroom, Olivia aligns her picture making process with the inherent physicality of making a fiber paper print. Her focus on corporeal imagery, often marred by the intervention of physical objects or choreographed movements, is reflected in her dedication to the disruption of straight photography by way of challenging the traditions of analog printing. Olivia has exhibited in galleries across New York (Yancey Richardson, Janet Borden, Helena Anrather, Independent Art Fair, Justine Kurland Studio), Baltimore, MD (The Compound), Portland, OR (Lumber Room), Richmond, VA and Newport, RI. Olivia’s upcoming show will be at Thomas Erben, showing alongside Hannah Beerman, opening October 30, 2025.
John Shen is an artist whose work interrogates the evolving apparatus of photography and its entanglement with vision, experience, and memory. Shen’s multidisciplinary practice straddles the tactile traditions of photography and the mediated realities of contemporary digital culture. His works have taken the form of photographic objects made from a camera hand built by the artist, comprising approximately 28,000 drinking straws. With this, Shen creates one-of-a-kind images on direct positive silver photo paper, echoing simultaneously 19th century photography while also speaking to the infinitely reproducible digital image. From 19th century processes, hand-built cameras, drones and 360 degree cameras, Shen uses his personal subjectivity to thread the link between the vast imaging apparatuses that have become active agents in the production of meaning. His photographs emerge as objects that meditate on technology’s augmentation, distortion, and displacement of human vision. They ask the viewer to reconsider photography as a site of negotiation between indexical record, illusion, and the apparatus itself.
Em Wall was born and raised in Michigan where they grew up in a large Mormon family. Em was drawn to photography for its ability to dismantle and dissect relationships. Their current work delves into the landscape of childhood and the religious narrative of their youth. Em wrestles with Mormon culture and teachings that don’t fit their conceptions of gender and sexuality and the way they uphold, transform, or fail to escape the domestic traditions handed down to them. Their images are not meant to be acts of rebellion but rather to quietly subvert ideas of religious patriarchy and the belief that it has a monopoly on spirituality.
Andrew Warner (b. 1994) is a photographer and ultra runner whose art spans photography, sound, video, and performance. His work interrogates the abstraction of control, investigating the nuanced interplay between pain and pleasure in endurance, the phenomenon of belief as it relates to mystery, and the roles of masculinity and individuality play in shaping identity. Warner began his artistic journey at Bard College, earning a BA in Photography in 2017. Prior to entering Yale’s graduate photography program, he spent four years in the Bay Area as a reproduction photographer and art handler. He is currently based in New Haven, CT, where he is completing his graduate studies while actively pursuing both his art and athletic training.