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Kenyan-born artist Wangari Mathenge’s new body of work draws inspiration from “The Danger of a Single Story,” a 2009 Ted Talk delivered ... More

Martynka was one of ISSUE’s co-founders back in late 90s in NYC and actively participated in creating our first nine issues from ... More

As the co-founder of 1970s new wave cult band Blondie, Chris Stein is most well-known for his musical prowess. It should come ... More

In early 1990s rural Mississippi, Levon Brooks was arrested for murdering a three-year-old girl and sentenced to life in prison. A few ... More

I went to hang and shoot with Maly in her studio at her home in Long Beach on a Saturday morning. When ... More

What began as a fascination with remote, rural communities, necessarily evolved into a greater conversation about modernization and tradition for documentary photographer ... More

Noël Wells is a comedian, actor, writer and director from San Antonio, Texas. She is known for her roles in Master of ... More

German photojournalist Corinna Kern is interested in the fringe groups of society, those outside the Westernized norm. Her subjects are often marginalized ... More

When Brittney and I first started chatting about shooting together, I could tell we were going to have a good time. I ... More

I met Buckley at her studio in downtown LA. Immediately as I stepped inside you could tell it was a creative space: ... More

I first met KyttenJanae demoing a video game she had designed, freshly graduated from the UCLA Design Media Arts program – it ... More

I walked into Joanna’s apartment and set down all of my equipment. I was immediately greeted with a warm hug and smile ... More

Sarita Jaccard is a touche-a-tout woman! In another era, she would have inspired Baudelaire and posed for Klimt. A singular beauty with ... More

This spring in Frankfurt, Germany, large-scale portraits of refugees drape over the faces of multi-story buildings, old and new, as part of ... More

Originally from Short Hills, New Jersey, artists and twins Allie and Lexi Kaplan earned Bachelor of Fine Arts degrees from NYU before ... More

With a predilection for capturing documentary moments, German filmmaker and photographer Kirstin Schmitt explores her adopted city of Havana with a camera ... More

Photographer Emilie Regnier spent most of her childhood in West and Central Africa, and situates her photo series Hair in her then ... More

One day in 2012, I went to the beach with friends completely forgetting I had a casting for Stussy Japan. I turned ... More

When my grandmother turned 90 this year, our family created a tributary artwork that incorporated various symbols she uses in her body ... More

Alice Mann cites her childhood in post-apartheid South Africa as a catalyst for her photographic work, which focuses on racial stereotyping and ... More

I first met Danny in New York City. We were acting in what was mutually our first film and were introduced on ... More

When Bob Zahn showed me his latest project, American Gothic II, a fine art photography collection of Slab City, I looked at ... More

I met Chicago-born artist Nathaniel Mary Quinn in 2013 and have had the pleasure of working with him on a number of ... More

Jay Batlle and I have had a continuous, incessantly-focused conversation going for nearly six years now—always about art. We began as neighbors ... More

In his newest series, Cathedral of the Pines, photographer Gregory Crewdson returns to his home in rural Massachusetts to stage elaborate interior ... More

Joakim Eskildsen is a Danish art photographer and documentarian who, over the past two decades, has captured images that unapologetically depict modern ... More

Los Angeles-born and raised artist Ariana Papademetropoulos paints from found, vintage images which she manipulates and renders large, ornate and vibrant. In ... More

This series is a collaboration with LA-based artist Alexandra Grant, coinciding with the release of her photography book and exhibition, Shadows, with ... More

Scot Sothern has been developing his photographic niche since the ’70s, when he began documenting fringe populations on the streets of America. ... More

In October of 2015 I had the pleasure of boarding the Ultra Letizia cargo vessel in Hiroshima for it’s maiden voyage. Alongside ... More

T-shirts can be all things to people, from a status symbol to a memory trigger. What do they represent to you? Just ... More

Known for his ever-evolving approach to painting, sculptural installation and photography, Bronx-born artist Kori Newkirk uninhibitedly explores cultural identity, black history and ... More

Catherine Opie’s work ranges from self-portraiture to landscape photography, often investigating identity through portraits of social groups including the LGBT community, surfers ... More

Elena Stonaker is a rare bird whose works of art are stunning, inspiring and gloriously strange. The first time I saw something ... More

T-shirts can be all things to people, from a status symbol to a memory trigger. What do they represent to you? T-shirts ... More

Doug Rickard is an archivist and self-proclaimed “hijacker” fueled by a fascination with American culture and its new brand of self-surveillance—the ever-present ... More

I’ve always avoided getting too close with my neighbors. It’s an unspoken rule in NYC: keep to yourself but always be companionable. ... More

In 2007, before the selfie was even a common trope, Los Angeles artist Petra Cortright was recording herself with a webcam. For ... More

On April 6, Silicon Valley actor Amanda Crew kicked off her 100-Day Project – a challenge to choose one action and repeat ... More

Artist Charlie White investigates American excess, identity and desire through stylized film and photography. His photographs capture the tension between perception and ... More

Jennifer Howell is the founder of The Art of Elysium, an organisation which works to make art a catalyst for social change ... More

Allan’s a weird cat and an amazing story teller, and I’ve had the privilege of being his friend for over two decades. ... More

Not much gives form to the archetype of American glut and consumerism more than its big box stores – the Walmarts and ... More

Where are you from? The Pacific Ocean, Brentwood. Who influenced you growing up and who influences you today? Ursula, Marilyn Manson, David ... More

Jordan Sullivan’s exhibition of over 300 photographs and collages coincides with the publication of “An Island in the Moon,” a small edition ... More

Los Angeles poets Mandy Kahn and Jacqueline Suskin are carving out a place for their old-world craft in the new world. Jacqueline ... More

The experience of Jason McLean’s work is like following a train of thought back to its root. Where did it start? Where ... More

Stacy Kranitz grew up in the heart of Appalachia – a largely rural swath of mountains running from New York to Alabama, ... More