By Laura Ellstrom
After being dubbed “weird” by childhood classmates, Laura Ellstrom has embraced the label and enjoys creating art that is “just shy of normal.” She is endlessly supported by her husband; her four cats mostly tolerate her. Find more of her work on IG @lauraellstrom.
By Loria Carnefix
Loria Carnefix makes art that pushes back, art that acts as a megaphone—a visual voice—a tool to help empower people with confidence and worthiness and validation in the only way she knows how: photography. Her featured photo is from a shoot called “Black Paint,” which was part of a collaboration with the band Zealot. You can find more of her work at www.carnefixphotography.com and on IG @carnefixphotography.
Erica Keeling is an analog photographer and multimedia artist living in Seattle, Washington. Her photographs explore various social conditions, pulling from her own experience, that of those close to her, and what she witnesses on a larger scale. She exhibits nationally and enjoys creating for various performing artists and musicians. In sharing her work, she honors the connectivity of the human experience as well as the unseen becoming seen. More of her work can be seen at EricaKeeling.com
By Merhia Wiese
Merhia is an artist, creative, mother, Denver native and community outreach coordinator and marketing associate for Meow Wolf Denver. She connects people in need with those who can help, either personally or professionally. She’s been working with artists for the last 20 years on making their presence known and advocating for fair pay. She has been given accolades for her advocacy and was labeled one of 5280 Magazine‘s “Disrupters” for 2018.
By Kevin Mohatt
Kevin Mohatt is an international award-winning photographer based in Denver, Colorado specializing in editorial photography. He loves photographing people in real situations, with an emphasis on capturing decisive moments and creating images that have an authentic, unique and often edgy feel. Go to KevinMohatt.com to see more of his work.
By Kevin Mohatt
Kevin Mohatt is an international award-winning photographer based in Denver, Colorado specializing in editorial photography. He loves photographing people in real situations, with an emphasis on capturing decisive moments and creating images that have an authentic, unique and often edgy feel. Go to KevinMohatt.com to see more of his work.
Sarah Haney is a fine art photographer based in Denver. She spent a lot of time playing with Barbie as a child, and found the doll’s perpetual smile disturbing—it ruined the sense of drama as tragedy repeatedly befell her. Remembering her childhood irritation with that fixed smirk inspired Haney’s “Welcome to the Dreamhouse” series. Her work has been displayed in numerous Denver-area galleries and featured in local and national publications. She received her BFA from the University of Colorado-Boulder.
Mark is a co-founder of The Museum of Contemporary Art Denver and founder of the Month of Photography Denver and The Big Picture street art projects. His personal fine art photography is shown and collected worldwide alongside some of the most influential photographers in history, including Ansel Adams and Irving Penn. In the 1980s, he spent time documenting the lives and work of noted artists such as Andy Warhol, Jean Michel Basquiat and Rene Ricard. Find more of his work at www.gallerysink.com.
Taylor Boylston was born and raised in the mountains of Colorado. After a failed attempt of becoming a world renowned competitive fencer, Taylor’s narcissism and loneliness led her to pursue something a little less athletic and a little more self serving: photography. Boylston currently lives in Los Angeles, where she works as a freelance plasma donator.
