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.
Fred Herzog
Fred Herzog has been on my list of artists to feature here since I started Focus a year ago.
Sergiy Barchuk
Sergiy Barchuk's still life compositions celebrate exactitude and stillness.
Justin Leveritt
I met Justin Leveritt standing in line outside the David Zwirner Gallery ten years ago.
Greg Tango
Greg Tango is a New York cinematographer and director whose communication is as precise as his lensing.
Keerthana Kunnath
London-based photographer Keerthana Kunnath’s series of female bodybuilders in South India, Not What You Saw, defies India’s conventional standards of feminine beauty.
Talia Herman
Talia Herman recently added me to her mailing list, and I was struck by her new, as-yet-unpublished series With Daughters: Rewilding in the American West.
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.”