Focus is the ongoing blog from Mission Projects. Here we spotlight emerging and established artists, collaborators, and ideas that shape how we think about creative production.

Each feature offers a closer look at the people and processes behind the work — a way of tracing the connections, inspirations, and exchanges that keep the creative world in motion.

Updated regularly, Focus is where we slow down, look more closely, and share what we find.

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Joel Meyerowitz

Joel Meyerowitz has been photographing New York streets since 1962, becoming a pioneer of color photography and mentor to many.

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Gus Powell

Gus Powell is a born and bred New Yorker whose street photography demonstrates a brilliant eye for composition, color and the everyday.

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Daniel Arnold

Daniel Arnold captures the absurdity of everyday life in New York with split-second recognition of the strange, funny and improbable.

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Vincent Tullo

Vincent Tullo's portraits demonstrate deep curiosity, a keen eye, and an ability to adapt when circumstances shift.

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James Brittain

James Brittain is a Montreal-based architectural photographer influenced by the Düsseldorf School. His images invite stillness.

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William Eggleston

William Eggleston's The Last Dyes features new dye-transfer prints at David Zwirner's 19th Street location through March 7.

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Kalpesh Lathigra

Kalpesh Lathigra: “I am trying to be quiet in myself in the hope that the audience can ask questions themselves.”

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Jessica Antola

Jessica Antola inherited her love of travel from her mother, who is also a frequent subject of Antola’s work.

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Wim Wenders

Wim Wenders’ documentary film Tokyo-Ga is much more than a tender love letter to the Japanese director Yasujiro Ozu.

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Celeste Sloman

Celeste Sloman is a New York–born photographer and director whose work spans portraits of cultural figures, public personalities, and activists.

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Luigi Ghirri

For Luigi Ghirri, photography was “a language for seeing and not for transforming, hiding, or modifying reality.”

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Greg Girard

Greg Girard’s night photographs of Hong Kong capture a vanished world of neon light, grit, and atmosphere — images that feel both electric and unexpectedly familiar.

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Chris Brooks

Chris Brooks makes photographs that feel as carefully composed as paintings, yet delightfully unpredictable in spirit.

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Dayanita Singh

Dayanita Singh reshapes photography with democratic dissemination. A pioneering Indian artist whose work opens doors and inspires connection.

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James Reeve

James Reeve’s Lightscapes turn nocturnal city skylines into luminous abstractions — light as architecture, pattern, and pulse.

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Kai-Uwe Gundlach

Kai-Uwe Gundlach creates imaginative photography across portraits, automotive, architecture, and landscapes — equally playful, precise, and passionate.

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Richard Renaldi

Richard Renaldi is a portrait photographer whose lens brings intimacy not only to people, but also to objects and landscapes.

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Jeremy Liebman

Jeremy Liebman blends humor, spontaneity, and depth in portraits for ApartamentoCulturedInterviewEsquire, Google, The Met, and more.

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Cottage Eight Films

Cory Jacobs and Jason Schmidt make mighty films together under the name Cottage Eight Films.

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