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.
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.
Christian Delfino
Christian Delfino’s series Hydrators celebrates water and endurance with equal measure.
Martien Mulder
Martien Mulder’s ease in balancing portraiture, architecture, landscape, and still life is mirrored by the calm stillness in front of her lens.
Sarah van Rij
Dutch photographer Sarah van Rij has a superb sense of composition, color and detail.
Stephen Gill
Stephen Gill’s 2019 book The Pillar is about wooden posts in a field, a motion-control camera, and birds. Sound boring? Far from it!
Lisa Weatherbee
The tenderness in Lisa Weatherbee’s short film Lin & Daughters is palpable.
Fischli/Weiss
Known for their cross-disciplinary art practice, the Swiss artist duo Fischli/Weiss observed the mundane with curiosity and wit.
Heather Hazzan
New York-based photographer Heather Hazzan brings a distinctly intimate gaze to stills and motion for clients like Levi’s, Rolling Stone, and W Magazine.
Barkley L. Hendricks
Barkley L. Hendricks was an artist known for memorializing “ordinary Black men and women” in a new and exciting way.
Suzanne Saroff
It must have been around 2018 that I first came across Suzanne Saroff’s work.
Kate Friend
Kate Friend’s book There Are Always Flowers For Those Who Want To See Them is balm for the eyes.
Geordie Wood
Geordie Wood is a Brooklyn-based photographer known for his authentic, understated style. With his debut short film Divers, he expands his practice as a director.
