About a year ago, Elise Swopes graciously invited SHEER to her Sunrise Art Club event at Seed Brklyn during Brooklyn NFT Week. Elise had already secured her status as a widely successful photographer and NFT artist selling over $200,000 worth of digital art. Elise is more than just her successes and industry impact. She also gets personal with us about her upbringing, her time as a rapper in Chicago, overcoming addiction struggles, and healing her inner world through self-exploration.
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Angel Boyd is an NYC-based creative director and vocalist in the sibling band Infinity Song which is signed by Jay-Z to his record label RocNation.
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Read MoreOriginally from Lisbon, Portugal and now based in London, Nádia Correia is a fashion and beauty, stills and motion photographer. She became inspired by her grandfather’s passion and knowledge of photography while observing his work in Mozambique, where half of her family is from.
Read MoreJasdeep Kang (she/they) is an NYC-based filmmaker, photographer, editor, DJ, and musician from California. Grounding their art in fantasy, joy, care, integrity, and community, Jasdeep’s work draws attention to how we can interact with one another in a more present and loving way.
Read MoreKasey-Lynn “Kasinator” Rodriguez is the multi-faceted creator of Puerto Rican, Irish, and German descent behind Kasinator Visuals. Through intimate portraits of everyday people in the South Bronx, she captures serendipitous moments of her native hometown through a lens of authenticity and reverence for its history and culture: “The Bronx is beautiful, simple as that.”
Read MoreOriginally from Lisbon, Portugal, Mariana dos Santos Pires is a London-based photographer of Mozambican and Portuguese descent. Mariana describes her photographs as “capturing the moment” and not controlling it, a distinction that speaks to the effortless and authentic representation of her subjects.
Read MoreCharlee Black is a photographer and creative director based in the Midwest. Charlee’s photography is meant to take up space both physically and figuratively as she encourages BIPOC women to unapologetically command any room. Growing frustrated with the lack of representation of people of color in mainstream branding, Charlee launched Good Friends Studio
Read MoreOriginally from California and now based in Barcelona, Carmen Daneshmandi is a Spanish-Iranian photographer, videographer & visual artist. Carmen’s work combines portraiture and storytelling and disrupts it with a sensibility of color, playfulness, and mixed media
Read MoreSimrah Farrukh is an American-Pakistani photographer based in the Bay Area. Her Muslim upbringing centered around acceptance and empathy is evident in the range of subjects across gender, sexuality, and physical appearance that appear in her mesmerizing photographs. Simrah’s body of work is an ode to the humanity and beauty of the South Asian community.
Read MoreMexican-American analog photographer representing a wide range of women of color through her work in response to the conventional Eurocentric features that dominate mainstream media.
Read MoreMmadika Mphuthi is a South-African multidisciplinary artist who is empowering black queer femmes in an exclusively cisheterosexual creative landscape.
Read MoreNYC-based photographer of Afro-Guatemalan descent capturing the culture and spontaneity of diverse communities through film photography.
Read MorePhotographer and videographer from South Africa capturing lived experiences conceptually, while encouraging her subjects to recognize their personal creative power in the process.
Read MoreDominican-American installation artist and photographer empowering women through solidarity and visual activism.