Through her tactile experiments in analog photography, textile arts, and performance, Brooklyn-based artist Hernease Davis treats the creative process as a healing tool.

Working with Ghanaian children on Lake Volta, humanitarian photographer and cinematographer Jeremy Snell’s luminous images tell a serious and urgent story.

Karen Navarro constructs colorful, hand-crafted kinetic sculptures, creating photographic portraits which are as fluid as identity.

Peeking in from outside her neighbors’ windows, London photographer Julia Fullerton-Batten creates elaborate, cinematic tableaux, voicing their stories from a distance.

Rebecca Horne arranges everyday objects into illusion-filled still lifes and tableaux, creating worlds of unexpected visual relationships.

In a surreal play on self-portraiture, Tommy Kha creates 3-D masks of his face for his friends, family, and strangers to wear.

Nanna Heitmann combines elements of traditional documentary road trip photography with elements of Russian art and folklore in her depictions of an eclectic mix of individuals, interiors and landscapes.

Lucas Foglia travels the world and photographs people as they seek positive ways to engage more thoughtfully with nature in the context of climate change. 

Transforming simple objects into vibrant and shimmering abstractions, Deborah Bay’s inspiring studies on light and color are a reminder of the magic of photography and what we can do with it.

These unusual, large format portraits ask us to question the role of boredom today, in our contemporary technology-saturated, over-scheduled lives.