Cultured Magazine

46 culturedmag.com Contributors BRANDON STANCIELL Photographer A portrait and fashion photographer based in Los Angeles, Stanciell's work revolves around the portrayal of black men in the media and uses flowers to help reshape how we think about black men. "It was really special to shoot inside and around the Getty and incorporate some of the art in the images," he says of his No Sesso shoot—his first for Cultured. MONICA USZEROWICZ Writer Monica Uszerowicz is a writer and photographer in Miami. She is the former film and per forming arts editor for the Miami Rail and her work has appeared in several publications including the Los Angeles Review of Books. For this issue, she spoke with Texas Isaiah about his tender photographic practice, which removes the power imbalance between photographer and subject and emphasizes genuine care. PETRA COLLINS Photographer Petra Collins is a photographer and filmmaker based in New York and LA. For this issue, the former Cultured cover subject turned her camera lens to fellow creative force Virgil Abloh, who she captured on the streets of Chicago. "It was so fun shooting Virgil in his favorite city. It's important to me to shoot subjects in environments that they are comfortable with or challenged by. We shot around Virgil's favorite illegal and legal public art. Public art is a big thing we connect on and I loved seeing his favorite works." JARRETT EARNEST Artist and Writer Jarrett Earnest is an artist and writer whose book, "What it Means to Write About Art: Interviews with Art Critics," is out this fall from David Zwirner Books. "I read his histor y of the American Indian Movement a few years ago and just sobbed," Earnest says of Paul Chaat Smith. "I knew I had to include him in my book." Earnest's first piece in Cultured is an excerpt from his interview with Smith. PHOTO BY ADAM DAVIS (STANCIELL); ANDREW KERR (USZEROWICZ); SELF PORTRAIT (EARNEST)

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