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Brent is my favorite photographer right now. He shoots a lot of grainy hot girls writhing around on the floor. His muse, this girl named Zaina that I sometimes see at Lucien, is a great muse. He often works with his friend the stylist Myles Xavier. Any image that the three of them are involved in is perfect. Friends working together is such a New York thing... when it works, it works.
Oct 21, 2021
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I used to work editorial and one of my hidden missions in life back then, was to commission female photographers as much as possible, so I'm really glad to know a bunch of cool women now! Links below for their work:
Mashael Al Saie, Reem Falaknaz, Freya Najade, Gelareh Kiazand, and recently Chloé Milos Azzopardi. I'll add more when I remember.
And the one male photographer whose work I've loved for awhile:
Nguan
I really like that dreamy film photo vibe, but when something is slightly unhinged in it. In all their works, they manage to convey their message, and I like works where even the softness holds edge.
Jun 13, 2024
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Brian is one of the hardest working street film photographers in New York City. I love his ability to curate photo carousels with linear narrative themes. He captures authentic moments that happened just behind you. His work is a reminder that New York is alive and odd in all the right places when you aren’t looking. Sometimes when he leaves the Fantasy office in Williamsburg, he walks to Harlem just to take pictures along the way. I’ve seen some of his unreleased projects and you’ll be doing yourself a favor if you follow along too.
May 6, 2021
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Not only was she part of the most important circle of the Mexican punk rock scene when we were 15, but she is the best photographer of all times. She photographed one of my favorite restaurant’s cookbook, Ikoyi (coming out soon), she takes photos of Natalia Lafourcade, one of my favorite musicians, and she knows all the good chicken soup spots in Mexico City. Give her a follow @maureenme
Jan 17, 2023
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I thought Labi Saffre was a woman, he’s not. Nice quality in a singer. Anyway, these are two of the best love songs ever written. I first heard You’re Lovely on repeat on mushrooms. It’s :32 seconds. I recommend the experience.
Oct 21, 2021
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Henry makes a lot of low key insufferable navel-gazey films that I really enjoy. Last Summer in the Hamptons (1995) is his best. A matriarch presides over her family, who are all somehow involved in the theatre. It makes you wish you grew up with intellectuals in a house by the sea. Eating: A Very Serious Comedy about Women and Food is so annoying, it’s just women saying they’re fat at a party in Los Angeles, but my friend and his wife have the poster in their dining room, and it’s a great poster, I recommend getting it. He’s alive, Henry is, my translator friend knows him, she’s his muse, though she’s turned the camera back on him, her documentary on him needs a place to screen, if you’re a gallerist, get in touch. Support living artists!
Oct 21, 2021
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My two favorite living American writers — Fanny Howe and Mary Robison — both named female characters Money. Fanny imagined it was long for “Mona,” Mary, that it was short for “Monica.” I will be naming my child Money Phillips, no middle name. Anyway, you should read their books. (I have a lot of ready demands on whatever partner is dumb enough to procreate with me. Like, whoever has a child with me will have to drive me to a random hospital across the stateline into Montana in my third trimester, because I need my child to be a fifth generation Montanan. It’s a great source of anxiety to me that my dad lied to me growing up and said I was fifth generation. I was fourth.)
Oct 21, 2021