XIUZHUO ZHOU

"In an era marked by fleeting relationships, emotional transience, and the individual’s steady withdrawal from communal experience,absence is no longer merely an aesthetic device—it has become a profound metaphor for existence itself.

This series constructs a visual narrative of absence and memory through contemplative images. In these scenes, time does not stand still but flows silently, echoing the traces of once-intimate moments now surrendered to impermanence.

These vacant spaces are not simple depictions of solitude; they are meditations on the liminal zone between presence and absence, possession and loss. Here, photography functions neither as documentation nor as aesthetic embellishment, but as a form of spiritual testimony—a way of showing how others, even after their departure, leave intangible imprints upon us through memory and emotional resonance.

There is a quiet tension within absence: it is not void, but presence in another form—not an ending, but an afterglow. It points to how we preserve unoccupied spaces within an increasingly fragmented world—spaces for remembrance, for waiting, for imagining, and perhaps, for reunion. As the poet Li Bai once wrote, “There will be a time when the winds and waves are favorable, and I will sail the seas with my cloud-like sail.” Though the future remains uncertain, it is in these unfilled moments that we find the resilience of hope and the echo of meaning in silence.

Absence is not a record of loss, but a visual inquiry into spiritual resonance and the subtle traces of being. When presence fades, can memory take its place? After countless departures—might we still meet again, somewhere?"

Xiuzhuo Zhou is a Chinese photographer whose work explores solitude, memory, ecological fragility, and the quiet tensions of existence. In series such as The Island Within, Absence, Unbounded, Green Promise, Ephemeral, and Who You Become, he combines documentary realism with collage to examine how individuals dwell within the cracks of loss, time, and identity. His images capture presence through absence, spiritual glimmers in nature, and the struggle of becoming—inviting viewers to rediscover meaning and selfhood in what is often overlooked.

 

EMMA SYWYJ

"My artwork aims to capture and show life at it’s most vibrant & exciting. The photographs I take encourage people to see the intricacies & beauty beyond the everyday. My artwork is often centered around my immediate environment and cultural identity. I also celebrate culture in all its varied forms all over the world. I have photographed Europe & Asia capturing these countries and cultures as I experience them.

My work encourages viewers to feel awe and joy in the travellers quest and the rewards that experiencing other cultures can bring whilst developing my own cultural identity through photography.

I am a award winning artist and photographer that has been creating art for 20 years, 5 of those years I was based in London studying photography at the Camberwell College of Arts at the UAL. From there I received a BA in Photography and a Foundation Diploma in Art & Design. I have exhibited artwork internationally in the US in New York, Art Basel Miami & San Francisco, as well as in Athens, Greece and Budapest in Hungary.

I have also exhibited nationally in the UK and London several times. I have been published in several art magazines in the UK and journals internationally and exhibited my video artwork in galleries & film festivals around the world.

In 2018 I won The Avalonia Photography Traveler Award in the USA and won Best Photograph at the Annual Copenhagen Film Festival as well in the same year.
I have exhibited my video art piece Screen Test: Part One at the Wiz- Art Festival in Lviv in the Ukraine and I have exhibited my photography several times in Budapest at the PH21 Gallery. I have also been published in Artist Talk Magazine and C41 Magazine.

IMAGES FOR SALE

Bread, Italy - 13cm H x 18cm W
Archival Paper
$136 unframed
Limited Edition of 20
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Flowers & Oranges, Malaysia - 30cm H x 30cm W
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$136 unframed
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Mahjong, Malaysia - 30cm H x 30cm W
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$136 unframed
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Contact: Emma Sywyj 
Taxi at Sunset, China - 13cm H x 18cm W
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$136 unframed
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View of Miranda, Italy - 30cm H x 30cm W
Archival Paper
$136 unframed
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Wall & Window, China - 13cm H x 18cm W
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$136 unframed
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Contact: Emma Sywyj 
emmasywyj@hotmail.com
 

www.emmasywyj.com

www.instagram.com/esywyj/?hl=en-gb
 

JILL SUTHERLAND

There is no rebirth without destruction, no rising without the fall. A woman moves through the remains, unbound, vulnerable, becoming. Light and shadow blur, figures drift between worlds, the echoes of fire still breathing in the earth. Charred trees stretch like specters, walls crumble, the past lingers in dust and ember. A white horse appears, a ghost or a guide, its presence as fleeting as the wind. No fire, no phoenix. From ruin, something new begins.

Jill Sutherland is a versatile multimedia artist and accomplished portrait photographer with a deep passion for human connection. Since 2012, she has used her lens to reveal raw emotion, exploring themes of light and shadow, archetypes, eroticism, addiction, and the longing for inner truth. Her work is a testament to the belief that the more personal the art, the more universal its message.

Emerging from 16 years in industrial metalworking, Jill first honed her craft in an energy-rich, transformative environment that became a path for healing. The loss of her mother led her to embrace feminine energy in her art, infusing her work with compassion, depth, and a search for balance between dualities—masculine and feminine, connection and detachment, structure and fluidity.

As part of Staveley & Sutherland, Jill collaborates on large-scale murals and immersive installations, including Circle of Doors Tarot, an Honorarium Exhibition at Burning Man in 2014 and 2022, celebrating intuition and the divine feminine. Her creative pursuits continue to evolve, incorporating experimental mixed media, photography, collage, and found objects to challenge conventional boundaries.

Whether through intimate portraiture or large-scale installations, Jill’s work invites reflection, conversation, and connection—offering a powerful visual narrative of resilience, transformation, and the beauty of the human experience.

IMAGES FOR SALE

Unbound- 16"H x 12" W
Archival paper
$500 unframed
Limited edition of 15
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Blind Faith-  16"H x 12" W
Archival paper
$500 unframed
Limited edition of 15
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Desert Bloom- 16"H x 12" W
Archival paper
$500 unframed
Limited edition of 15
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Contact: Jill Sutherland  jill@jillsutherlandphoto.com

 

www.jillsutherlandphoto.com
www.instagram.com/jillsutherlandphoto

IGAL STULBACH

"I'm a visual artist making photography, documentary films and video art. I'm exploring the borders between those fields. My way is constant search and
experimentation.

I am a flaneur. Born in Krakow Poland in the year 1949 to Holocaust survivors , since 1959 living in Bat Yam, Israel. I started my artistic activity at a relatively late age. In the year 2015 I made a documentary film named “Group portrait”
(Short monologues by second-generation Holocaust survivors) which was broadcast on Israeli national TV -channel 10 and
screened in several cinematheques.

My video art and photography works
have been shown in exhibitions in Israel and abroad. I received awards for
my artworks in several photography and film contests and festivals. My
photographs have been published in print and online magazines.

www.stulbach.com

BECCA SCRENOCK

"The images I am submitting are images with common threads of solitude and isolation.  I seek out environments within the Southwest, where I am located, and document my reaction to them through the lens. With found props and performative gestures, I respond to my surroundings.

Driving into the landscapes of Utah and Nevada to make work, is a way of connecting to my environment; almost like having a partner in a dance. This process is freeing and gives me space and time outside of the daily routine in order to play but also process my feelings of remoteness."

Becca Screnock is a Salt Lake City-based artist whose photography work focuses on overlooked moments, intimacy, and relationships between people and spaces. She studied Fine Art with a focus on Painting at the University of Wisconsin before completing the One-Year Creative Practices Program at the International Center of Photography (ICP), as a Director's Fellow.  Since graduating in 2021, she has volunteered as an online TA for the ICP One-Year Creative Practices and Documentary Programs, as a way of maintaining a strong sense of community.

Screnock's work has been included in group exhibitions such as The Exhibition Lab Exhibition at Foley Gallery (New York, NY); Soho Photo Gallery National Competition (New York, NY); Correspondence at Baxter Street Camera Club (New York, NY); and was a recent honorable mention for her work selected for the National Competition at Soho Photo Gallery.

IMAGES FOR SALE

4.75" x 7" image on 8.5"H  x 11"W 
Hahnemuhle Photo Rag Metallic Paper
$200 unframed
Limited Editions of 18 +2APs
Signed on back
Contact: Becca Screnock rmscrenock@gmail.com 
 

SCOTT OFFEN

"Grace is an ongoing collaborative project between my partner Grace and myself. The work examines the dynamics of authorship, gender, aging, and representation through a sustained photographic practice. Our images are constructed through a deliberate and reciprocal process in which Grace acts as an equal collaborator and co-author. Together, we create scenes that operate at the intersection of the real, the symbolic, and the psychological.

The natural landscape—primarily the rural environments of New England—function in the series as more than a backdrop. It is a character, contributing to the narrative structure of the work and complicating the boundaries between figure and ground, interior and exterior, human and nonhuman. In these spaces, Grace enacts a range of roles—often solitary, ambiguous, and archetypal—that unsettle fixed ideas of femininity, visibility, and domesticity.

Our collaborative process is grounded in duration and repetition. Over time, we have developed a shared visual language that resists the traditional model of the male photographer and female muse. Instead, the work foregrounds co-presence, agency, and transformation. The resulting images explore how the aging female body, so often rendered invisible in both art history and popular culture, can be repositioned as a site of power, mystery, and authorship.

The series draws on elements of mythology, psychoanalysis, and landscape theory, while remaining rooted in the material conditions of our shared life. Indoors, traces of Grace’s presence—the imprint of a body, an object, a shadow—suggest absence as a form of narrative. Outdoors, she moves through spaces shaped by light, season, and terrain, inviting viewers to consider how identity is formed in relation to the natural world.
Grace is both a visual inquiry and a model for collaborative authorship, framed by an ongoing commitment to experimentation, embodiment, and place."

Scott Offen is an East Coast photographer whose work has been widely exhibited and prominently featured online. His first monograph, Grace, was published by L’Artiere in 2025, accompanied by a book signing at AIPAD in New York City that April. That same year, he presented his first solo exhibition in Chelsea, New York City, at The Curator Lab. Scott holds both a BFA and an MFA from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, where he received the Graduate Thesis Award in 2024.

Offen uses a range of photographic formats from 8x10 to digital. His work has recently been reviewed by Forbes, L’Œil de la Photographie, Sky Arte, Collater.al, and other publications.

www.scottoffen.net
www.instagram.com/offen1645

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