WePresent: New Rules 2024
WePresent's New Rules (2024) is an 80-slide editorial issue for photographers, editors, and cultural producers exploring photography's current 'unfixed' moment. Organized into four chapters: Taking Risks, Radical Storytelling, Building Community, and Creative Autonomy. Contributors include Charlie Engman, Rhiannon Adam, Quil Lemons, Sheida Soleimani, and guest editor Gem Fletcher, arguing that hybrid practices and collective infrastructure are reshaping the field.
- Slide 1: New Rules: navigating photography's unfixed future
- Slide 2: The new rule is: there are no rules
- Slide 3: Index: taking risks, radical storytelling, community, autonomy
- Slide 4: Taking risks: chapter one
- Slide 5: Charlie Engman: a conversation on photographic elasticity
- Slide 6: Charlie Engman: selected images (Mom; Horse)
- Slide 7: AI's uncanny blend of physicality and surprise
- Slide 8: Process: image-generation and editing in practice
- Slide 9: Capitalism demands scale: a critique of commercialization
- Slide 10: Rhiannon Adam: listening
- Slide 11: Chushana and the Frigate (2015–2022): Rhiannon Adam
- Slide 12: Working for dearMoon: constraints, unknowns, and vulnerability
- Slide 13: Baikonur launch imagery and museum rockets
- Slide 14: I quantify whether a risk is worth taking
- Slide 15: Quil Lemons: Quiladelphia and queer Black portraiture
- Slide 16: Quil Lemons: staged portrait diptych
- Slide 17: Taking risks is like placing a mirror in front of myself
- Slide 18: I want to give myself more grace by taking risks
- Slide 19: Back and flag portraits: Quil Lemons
- Slide 20: Ten questions with Antwaun Sargent
- Slide 21: Antwaun Sargent on audience engagement and public contexts
- Slide 22: Images from The New Black Vanguard and historic portraiture
- Slide 23: Radical storytelling: Chapter two
- Slide 24: Sheida Soleimani: conversation opener
- Slide 25: Staged tableaux and masked family portraits
- Slide 26: 'The stories worth telling are often fugitive.'
- Slide 27: Italy & Libya (2019): collage tableau
- Slide 28: On art-world expectations and playfulness
- Slide 29: Trojan-horse tactics and maximalist assemblage
- Slide 30: Myriam Boulos: listening
- Slide 31: 'Of course, there is risk in telling these stories': Myriam Boulos
- Slide 32: My relationship with image-making keeps evolving
- Slide 33: Night portrait contrasted with uniformed soldiers
- Slide 34: 'Giving space to personal stories is an act of resistance.'
- Slide 35: Jan Hoek: co-authorship and moral questions in photography
- Slide 36: Sistaz of the Castle: staged collective portrait
- Slide 37: 'Photography became a method to connect and unite…': Jan Hoek
- Slide 38: Bryin Jackson: persona, collage, and staged interiors
- Slide 39: Ten questions with Elisa Medde
- Slide 40: Elisa Medde on curatorial process and leaving ego behind
- Slide 41: Editorial cover montage invoking play and image politics
- Slide 42: Chapter three presents contributor bios and roles, framing the section
- Slide 43: Between friends: roundtable on Nomadique
- Slide 44: Having a forum without pretense: Sasha Arutyunova
- Slide 45: Doubt and creative isolation: Yael Malka
- Slide 46: Consistency and peer support through freelance cycles
- Slide 47: Seeing friends shift between busy and slow: Heather Sten
- Slide 48: Intimate portrait and urban waterside diptych
- Slide 49: Jamal Nxedlana: Bubblegum Club and cultural infrastructure
- Slide 50: Portrait and paired pose: Jamal Nxedlana
- Slide 51: Experiment to create creative independence: Jamal Nxledlana
- Slide 52: Janina Sabaliauskaite: writing queer representation into photographic history
- Slide 53: Domestic portrait with 'DYKE' tattoo
- Slide 54: We want to build something bigger than ourselves: Janina Sabaliauskaite
- Slide 55: Community organizing has empowered me to create change and resist
- Slide 56: Ten questions with Eve Lyons
- Slide 57: Eve Lyons on editorial commissioning and visual storytelling
- Slide 58: Selected work commissioned or edited by Eve Lyons
- Slide 59: Creative autonomy: chapter four
- Slide 60: Campbell Addy: a conversation
- Slide 61: Campbell Addy on career planning and publishing
- Slide 62: Addy argues for collaborative creative relationships with brands and institutions
- Slide 63: Tyler portrait for WSJ Magazine
- Slide 64: On publishing and Nijournal's return
- Slide 65: 'If I'm honest, until recently I never knew if I
- Slide 66: Jess T. Dugan: listening
- Slide 67: 'I'm asking bigger questions: what makes this life of mine meaningful?'
- Slide 68: Building careers through community and persistence
- Slide 69: 'I'd had enough initial success to take my foot off
- Slide 70: Collin and Elcid portraits (red and green rooms)
- Slide 71: Cait Oppermann: creative autonomy and client collaboration
- Slide 72: Acrobatic and underwater studies
- Slide 73: Newfound freedom rekindled my connection to creativity
- Slide 74: You can't do great work without accountability
- Slide 75: Fuck, Marry, Kill: essay by Emily Keegin
- Slide 76: How it begins: origins of photographic practice
- Slide 77: First comes love, then comes marriage; killing photography
- Slide 78: WePresent Contributors: portraits and credits
- Slide 79: Directory: WePresent by WeTransfer; guest edited by Gem Fletcher
- Slide 80: WePresent by WeTransfer: closing lockup
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