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CONTRIBUTORS 58 CULTURED JANELLE ZARA is a Los Angeles-based art, design and architecture writer, whose work appears in The Wall Street Journal, T Magazine and architizer.com. "John Koga's organic approach to sculpture draws comparisons to Isamu Noguchi, Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth and other midcentury greats, but what he really captures are the forms that appear in his native Hawaiian landscape—plus his free-spirited personality." New York-based photographer MATTHU PLACEK has contributed to Visionaire, Vogue, POP and The Last Magazine, among others. He's expanded his photography into motion picture, where he has begun to examine the possibilities of portraiture through film. His subjects include Vanessa Beecroft, Marina Abramovic´, Jonah Bokaer, Terence Koh, Yoko Ono, Dana Schutz and Cindy Sherman. His works and collaborative works have been exhibited at the MoMA, The Kitchen, "New Frontier" at the Sundance Film Festival, Art Basel Miami Beach, Deitch Projects and Mary Boone Gallery. Brooklyn-based photographer JEREMY LIEBMAN is a contributor to Pin-Up, Apartamento, Nowness, W, The New York Times Magazine and i-D, among others. His zine À Rebours, released by French publisher JSBJ, was acquired by the library collection of the MoMA in New York. His work has also been exhibited in Los Angeles, New York, London and Berlin. In this issue, Liebman shot interior designer Jamie Bush in Los Angeles. STEPHEN TREFFINGER is a writer and consultant who has covered interiors, design, travel and technology for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Architectural Digest, Interior Design, Architectural Record, Travel + Leisure, Vogue Living (Australia), and others. "To sit down with architect Marc Kushner is to have one's faith in the future of architecture reawakened."