Laura Barth’s photographic practice is an urgent response to the pressures of twenty-first-century womanhood and motherhood—an alchemical process that merges art and science. Her foundational series, “Mythos and Manna,” transforms digital memories and personal upheaval into layered, mythic images through Polaroid emulsion lifts and handwork, blurring the boundaries between memory, artifact, and healing.

Terri Warpinski’s photography explores the complex relationship between land, memory, and human presence. Blurring the line between documentary and abstraction, her series Restless Earth examines landscapes scarred by borders, conflict, and environmental shifts, revealing how place becomes a vessel for personal and political histories.

Shadow Gather’s photos unveil nightlife’s raw, electric energy as spaces of defiant authenticity. Her Meow Wolf exhibition elevates marginalized stories, embracing imperfections as vital truths. Each image is a protest against sanitization, celebrating unguarded moments of liberation.

Ever wondered how an artist finds their personal “voice” in photography? Meet Jeffrey Sass, whose new body of work, “Internal Views,” beautifully demonstrates a transformation from straightforward documentation to layered, narrative-driven art pieces.

These images are the AF Team's curation of the most stand-out must-see images produced in 2024. From career photographers to amateur hobbyists, these scenes and portraits made a huge impact this year!

Chad Coombs’ "Portraits" series is an audacious foray into the unsettling terrain where identity, faith, and societal norms collide in his manipulated Polaroid collage series.

These images are the AF Team's curation of the most stand-out must-see images produced in 2023. From career photographers to amateur hobbyists, these scenes and portraits made a huge impact this year!

Victoria Kosel quite literally destroys her photographs, only to create them anew. Her sliced and diced prints are reborn into fragmented scenes that force the brain to fill in the gaps that challenge the ideas of traditional landscape photography.

Liz Albert’s series, Family Fictions, take us on a journey back in time to explore family and social dynamics in the 50s and 60s through photographic slides that she has found, purchased, and combined into diptychs.

Kyle Lang’s new series Manifest Content is a darkroom photography project that delves into themes of time, memory, dreams, subconsciousness, and the environment we find ourselves in, both while awake and lucid dreaming.

Taking landscape photography to a new level, Tara A. Cronin’s new series “Winds” uses transparency film, archival inks, and her own blood to create work reminiscent of star maps or ancient genetic code.

Mads Madison's Antithesis gives you a tool for you to interact with your whole persona by taking a journey into your own unconscious with each viewing of the images contained within his new abstract book.

Thomas Kellner creates outstanding and mammoth-sized prints that deconstruct and reinterpret architectural masterpieces, rebuilding them, frame by frame, into animated and whimsical works of art.