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.
Joel Meyerowitz
Joel Meyerowitz has been photographing New York streets since 1962, becoming a pioneer of color photography and mentor to many.
Gus Powell
Gus Powell is a born and bred New Yorker whose street photography demonstrates a brilliant eye for composition, color and the everyday.
Daniel Arnold
Daniel Arnold captures the absurdity of everyday life in New York with split-second recognition of the strange, funny and improbable.
Vincent Tullo
Vincent Tullo's portraits demonstrate deep curiosity, a keen eye, and an ability to adapt when circumstances shift.
James Brittain
James Brittain is a Montreal-based architectural photographer influenced by the Düsseldorf School. His images invite stillness.
William Eggleston
William Eggleston's The Last Dyes features new dye-transfer prints at David Zwirner's 19th Street location through March 7.
Kalpesh Lathigra
Kalpesh Lathigra: “I am trying to be quiet in myself in the hope that the audience can ask questions themselves.”
Jessica Antola
Jessica Antola inherited her love of travel from her mother, who is also a frequent subject of Antola’s work.
Wim Wenders
Wim Wenders’ documentary film Tokyo-Ga is much more than a tender love letter to the Japanese director Yasujiro Ozu.
Celeste Sloman
Celeste Sloman is a New York–born photographer and director whose work spans portraits of cultural figures, public personalities, and activists.
Luigi Ghirri
For Luigi Ghirri, photography was “a language for seeing and not for transforming, hiding, or modifying reality.”
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.
Chris Brooks
Chris Brooks makes photographs that feel as carefully composed as paintings, yet delightfully unpredictable in spirit.
Dayanita Singh
Dayanita Singh reshapes photography with democratic dissemination. A pioneering Indian artist whose work opens doors and inspires connection.
James Reeve
James Reeve’s Lightscapes turn nocturnal city skylines into luminous abstractions — light as architecture, pattern, and pulse.
Kai-Uwe Gundlach
Kai-Uwe Gundlach creates imaginative photography across portraits, automotive, architecture, and landscapes — equally playful, precise, and passionate.
Richard Renaldi
Richard Renaldi is a portrait photographer whose lens brings intimacy not only to people, but also to objects and landscapes.
Jeremy Liebman
Jeremy Liebman blends humor, spontaneity, and depth in portraits for Apartamento, Cultured, Interview, Esquire, Google, The Met, and more.
Cottage Eight Films
Cory Jacobs and Jason Schmidt make mighty films together under the name Cottage Eight Films.