Sharelle Monét Thompson is a dynamic photographer and documentarian who captures subtleties and depths with equal vigor, witnessing the fullness of moments and weaving them into intricate stories. Her work speaks with the connectivity, reverence and mourning that comes with living in an ever-changing city, with ever-changing challenges. Her images featured here show the Morris Black housing projects before they […]
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Summer 2025 Photo Poet Hollis Mehling’s site-specific works focus on the quintessential magical grunge that hangs in the air on Coventry Road like smoke. An analog reflection on the Midwestern, Rust Belt grit that births new imaginations and interpretations of the neighborhood. A space influenced by old and new, whimsical and poetic, holding all the sensory experiences felt on a […]
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Photographer Rachel Yurkovich, with her well-traveled perspective, highlights nooks of Cleveland that represent a microcosm of the macrocosm. The color, composition and framing remind you of the things you notice out of the corner of your eye. The shapes and patterns formed by the movement of life, and the settled debris from that movement. Yurkovich was born in South Carolina […]
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Wil Frierson is a Cleveland-based visual artist with over ten years experience capturing indoor and outdoor architecture in their natural element. He aims to make you feel like you’re immersed in that environment, experiencing it from a “bystander’s” point of view. Out of the way, taking it all in. As a professional photographer and videographer, Frierson focuses on the architecture […]
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Meet a photojournalist whose documentary style depicts a full expanse of Cleveland, brimming with talent and manifested dreams, truths, and beauty, all with a balanced composition and detailed curation. Emanuel Wallace is a photographer and journalist from Cleveland, Ohio. He has been the staff photographer for Cleveland Scene magazine since 2014. In the past, he has contributed to Cleveland.com, Destination […]
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BIO Camilo Gonzalez Barragan BIO Camilo Gonzalez Barragan is an independent artist from Bogotá, Colombia, who studied film and TV at the UNITEC University Corporation of Colombia. He found interest in analog photography as a means to develop his ideas and tell his stories while working on audiovisual projects. Cinema, music and painting have been his inspiration to illustrate his […]
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Photo poets launched in November 2021, featuring the work of emerging artist Vivica Satterwhite, whose work was on the cover! Since then we have featured nine artists in print, ranging from hobbyists to professionals, with styles ranging from documentary, photojournalism and architectural-based work. Each photographer states their own definition of a photo poet, taking the title and making it their […]
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Photo Poets is a quarterly street photography feature curated by Aja Joi Grant. The featured photographer in Winter 2023 is Paul Markowicz. Paul Markowicz has had his photography on display in The Robert Thürmer People’s Art Show at The Galleries at Cleveland State University, Cleveland Print Room, doubting thomas Gallery, Rant! Gallery, Lakewood Art Studios and in the Cleveland Photo […]
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Photo Poets is a street photography feature curated by Aja Joi Grant. The Fall 2023 Photo Poet is Mansa L. Bey. Mansa L Bey is a Moorish-American poet and mixed media folk artist from Cleveland. Centering the experience and expressions of identity and indigeneity, Bey’s passion for the oral tradition of griot-style spoken word and visual poetry converge to display […]
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Kenyatta Crisp began his studies in art & photography back in 2012. Over the years, he has developed a keen eye for portrait photography and is deemed a fine artist with all curations under 28KaratBlack. His work reflects Black/African American art culture and the representation of Black joy and happiness in the likeness of darkness and despair. His photobook, Divine, […]
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