Robert LeBlanc
location: Los Angeles, USRobert Leblanc is an artist who works primarily in photography and video. His projects capture non-traditional communities, including hotshot firefighters, hurricane survivors, and Holiness snake handlers. Through raw, unguarded images, he offers a glimpse of daily life into otherwise rarely pictured social spaces. He works from the conviction that a meaningful documentary series is made through mutual engagement, transparency, and years of trust-building.
LeBlanc is a self-taught photographer who first bought a 35-mm point-and-shoot camera in 2003 to document and share skate culture, and his experience navigating the world on a skateboard. Over the next 12 years, he created an authentic record of day-to-day life in his cohort, culminating in his debut artist book, Unlawful Conduct. Each copy of this limited edition came enclosed in a unique case, die-cut from a specially-made large-scale graffiti mural. Unlawful Conduct sold out before print and was carried in highly selective bookstores worldwide, including museums MoMA PS1 Bookstore and Frye Museum Store.
In 2017, LeBlanc became one of a handful of photographers awarded a government contract to document hotshot wildfires. Over the next four years, he documented Montana and California crews as they risked their lives to battle remote and unpredictable wildfires. This rare and intimate perspective on the proliferation of natural disasters is chronologized in his second publication, Moon Dust. In partnership with Mystery Ranch and Monster Energy Cares, book sale proceeds are donated to the Eric Marsh Foundation, U.S. Hotshot Association, and Backbone Series Scholarship.
LeBlanc's 2023 monograph, GLORYLAND, pictures not only the last Holiness serpent-handling church in West Virginia but an old mystic religious ritual on the verge of extinction. LeBlanc spent over five years with the church congregation, giving a unique and intimate view of this dying demonstration of devout faith.
LeBlanc continues to develop images that bridge the worlds of documentary and surrealism. In a time of great social upheaval and escalating environmental consequences, his work contributes to a broader understanding of the contemporary human experience.
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Tim Georgeson
location: Canada and AustraliaGeorgeson is an Australian filmmaker and artist.
Georgeson documents everything from cultural enclaves to environmental and humanitarian crisis zones, to street life across the world. His creative insight into the human condition gives his work a unique perspective inside the boundaries of art and documentary, where he captures complex dynamics in contemporary life at a time of digital change and media free-fall. His current film work merges found moments and storytelling with musical design in groundbreaking collaborations, especially with Australian indigenous communities in landscapes that have been devastated by fires and environmental crises.
Georgeson has been celebrated in the media, the arts, and the commercial world with acknowledgements and awards. He has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in France, UK, Japan, Holland, Canada, the US, and Australia. His work is held in the collections of the National Portrait Gallery of Australia, Australian Museum, Bundanon Trust Art Museum as well as in regional galleries, museums, and private collections internationally.
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Andy Dixon
location: Los Angeles, USAndy Dixon is a Canadian artist whose work is distinguished by his unique blend of classical art and contemporary aesthetics. Drawing on his background as a punk and experimental electronic musician, Dixon brings a distinctive sensibility to his work, reimagining Renaissance and baroque themes through a playful, modern lens. His practice often involves sampling historical motifs—such as cherubs and memento mori—and transforming them into vivid, surreal compositions. Dixon’s art delves into the psychology of value by exploring how these recurring historical elements interact with contemporary notions of luxury and cultural significance. His recent collaboration with Versace underscores the dynamic interplay between art and luxury. By integrating opulent, candy-coloured elements with traditional styles, Dixon offers a nuanced commentary on the intersection of art and economic value, inviting viewers to reconsider the role of art in today’s market.
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Thandiwe Muriu
location: Nairobi, KenyaThandiwe Muriu is a Kenyan artist known for creating surreal illusions in a unique mix of vibrant textiles, cultural practices, and beauty ideologies. Working with the kitenge fabric, a distinct African cloth, she makes her subjects both disappear and serve as a canvas of reflection to the questions of womanhood, identity and its evolution over time. Her illusions are completed by handmade accessories, constructed from reimagined objects associated with Kenyan daily life. Merging history and the present, Muriu pairs each work with an African proverb, expressing the collected oral wisdom of generations past even as she communicates culture in a visual form.
Born and raised in Nairobi, Kenya, Thandiwe discovered photography at age 14, experimenting with her father's old Nikon camera. Self-taught, she immersed herself in books and video tutorials, learning from every resource she could find, as Kenya did not have any formal photography schools. By age 17, she was working professionally, and by 23 had shot her first solo advertising campaign. By 2019, she was photographing campaigns for some of the largest companies in East Africa.
As the sole woman operating in the male-dominated advertising photography industry in Kenya, Thandiwe repeatedly confronted questions around the role of women in society, the place of tradition, and her own self-perception. These experiences inspired her first work, the Camo series, a project of cultural reflection. Camo was the catalyst for her to push new boundaries in her photography, leading her into a deeply personal artistic journey.
Even though she is still a young artist, Thandiwe is a rising star of contemporary photography. Her works are part of significant museum and public collections like Collection Gervanne + Matthias Leridon, Fondation Gandur pour l’Art, and UHODA Collection, as well as being a Rockefeller Foundation Residency alumni, among others.
She currently resides in Nairobi, Kenya where she teaches workshops and regularly travels for assignments.
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Ray Neutron
location: Atlanta, Georgia, USRay “Neutron” Spears is an image-maker based in Atlanta who is devoted to showing stories rather than telling them. Through motion and still imagery he captures authentic and ephemeral scenes, oft-described as “cinematic documentary”. Past clients include Apple, Jack White, Pepsi, ESPN, BBCICECREAM, Under Armour and more.
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