Her creative process began with shooting lots of bad pictures — then letting them rest, going back months later, hoping one of them had quietly become something. Sara Meinz, born in Vigo in 1996, has since been shortlisted for the Palm Photo Prize, selected for Futures Photography, and published twice by Pomegranate Press. Back in her hometown, she is working on something new: narratives, not single frames. The pandemic changed what she thinks photography is for.

He didn't train as a photographer. He sat in on campaign shoots for a sportswear brand until the lens claimed him. Now based near Milan, Fabio Bottiroli makes images built on collaboration, preparation, and a stubborn refusal to let quantity win over quality. In an age of content overload, that's its own form of radicalism.

Most of his icons are dead. He's lived in San Francisco, Berlin, Brooklyn, Los Angeles, and now a small town at the northern tip of Bavaria — and through all of it, he's been in the studio. Kottie Paloma makes paintings that function like fossils: gritty, humorous, archetypal records of what it means to be alive right now. We spoke with him about process, the art world's secondary market madness, and why the Pink Panther is quietly becoming one of his heroes.

She buried a bed sheet in Los Angeles soil for eight months. She bleaches fabric until it finds its own pattern. She works in a former clothing factory in small-town Germany — and makes work about decay, the universe, and everything in between. Meike Legler in conversation

Tommy Kha is a left-handed, Queer, Asian American photographer from Memphis who is not supposed to exist. Interview on Half, Full, Quarter, Nan Goldin, his mother's immigration photographs, and photographs as currency.