Curious about
their work,
not the moment.
Leila Antakly has spent over twenty years in conversation with artists, musicians, designers, filmmakers, and thinkers all over the world who are making work that matters. These are the conversations.
Interviews from the Archive
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Visual Artist Leila Jeffreys
Sydney bird photographer Leila Jeffreys on portraiture at human scale, the Arctic, slow-motion flight, Antarctica with the Australian Antarctic Division, and her forthcoming Thames & Hudson book.
I Find Inspiration Everywhere — A Conversation with Helin Bereket
Architecture student turned photographer. Istanbul to Berlin. Samsung, Nikon, Audi, Swatch. Helin Bereket on bucket lists, happy accidents, and why every person is their own icon.
ISMAIL ZAIDY USES PHOTOGRAPHY TO EXPLORE NOTIONS OF SPACE AND FAMILY
Marrakech-born self-taught photographer Ismail Zaidy on growing up watching women in djellabas, shooting abstract minimalism on a Samsung S5, and publishing in GQ, Vogue Arabia and Dazed.
Anndra Neen: Where Art, Legacy, and Wearable Sculpture Collide
Their grandmother's necklaces were worn by Frida Kahlo. Her bracelets sat in Peggy Guggenheim's collection. Her coterie included Diego Rivera, Anais Nin, Helena Rubinstein. When Phoebe and Annette Stephens founded Anndra Neen in 2009, they were not starting a jewelry label from scratch. They were picking up a thread their grandmother had laid down in a Mexico City atelier sixty years earlier, and they were determined not to drop it.
“Visibility has never been our measure of significance. We seek out artists and inspiring individuals whose work sparks curiosity, challenges assumptions, and leaves a lasting impression.”