Richmond Lam. Photographer. Montreal.

Richmond Lam is a fantastically talented photographer and good friend of mine... we first met while working in retail as students, when he was just starting out his photography career... shooting local events and people. Richmond quickly made a name for himself in Montreal, and has since shot for magazines such as Dazed and Confused, Vice, and Naked Eye and worked with the likes of the Virgins, Kids in the Hall, and the Sam Roberts Band. He's one of the greatest portrait photographers I've come across and I look forward to seeing continued success in his future.
richmondlam.com

Stacey Rozich. Illustrator. Seattle.

watercolors, gouache.
beautifully radical.
mysterymeats.blogspot.com

Joe Sacco. Writer. Cartoonist. Activist. Portland.

Joe Sacco has spent his career covering war zones-Palestine, Bosnia, Iraq through comics... the dialogue in his work is based on the real interviews he's had with people. In his latest graphic-novel, Footnotes in Gaza, Sacco investigates two incidents that took place during the Suez Crisis of 1956. The first incident is a massacre of 275 Palestinian men by Israeli forces at Khan Younis. The second story is about an anti-guerilla operation, where the Israeli military entered Rafah, rounded up all the (Palestinian) men, questioned them all day, hoping to identify militants hiding among the population, and eventually executed more than 100 of them. Joe also includes modern-day Gazan events in his book...including Israeli attacks on Palestinian funerals; suicide bombings in Tel Aviv; and a long series of Palestinian home demolitions by Israeli soldiers. The 400-page book of hand-drawn comics is not only informative, but visually impressive. I highly recommend his work to anyone interested in the Middle-East.

Michelle Blade. Artist. SF.

acrylic, oil, ink on paper on panel and canvas.

Michelle also runs 5651 San Pablo, an artist run practice space in Oakland, Ca.
michelleblade.com