Photo Poets: Rachel Yurkovich

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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Photo Poets: Wilbur Frierson III

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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Photo Poets: Emanuel Wallace

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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Photo Poet Camilo Gonzalez Barragán

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 Retrospective

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: Paul Markowicz

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: Mansa L. Bey

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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Photo Poets: Kenyatta Crisp

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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Photo Poets: Arfil Pajarillaga

Arfil Pajarillaga is a multimedia artist based in Cleveland. Over years of cultivating his practice in photography, working primarily with analog processes, his work gravitates towards documenting the relationships that coexist within environments. Whether between people, or a subject in nature and its surroundings, he actively works to document the beauty and magic that occurs within everyday life. “How do […]

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Photo Poets: Stephen Shaum

Photo Poets Street Photography curated by Aja Joi Grant Photographer: Stephen Shaum, owner of Bike Courier Perfect, @bikecourierperfect Bio: Committed to living, working, and playing by bike. Searching for life on the margins of presupposed, prepackaged experiences. Being in tune to the city’s flow. Photography styles: Architectural, Documentary Multidisciplinary photographer working in digital media, utilizing a mirrorless Sony camera. Notice […]

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