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My recent photographic works explore the emotional landscape of home. I collaged jean textile as a frame for images, using denim as both material and metaphor. The fabric evokes protection, labor, familiarity, and Americana—something worn, touched, and lived in. Against this tactile border, I placed film photographs of domestic spaces alongside symbols and omens: a house, an empty pool, a raven; and a house receding through the woods with dried roses. Elements that create a juxtaposition of belonging and isolation. These photographs were taken on 35mm film in New York and Florida while with family. The houses I photographed are partially obscured—behind a fence or set deep in the country, distanced by trees. They suggest safety, yet also secrecy. Together, these works consider how home is shaped by time, both within and without. Home is not only a structure, but a feeling formed by memory, landscape, and the symbols we attach to place. It is a space we return to, even when we cannot fully see it.

Alex Howard is a Houston-based photographer whose work captures transient moments. She documents music scenes and performances internationally.

I am a photographer based in the Border Land of El Paso / Juarez area

7 years of experience in digital photography

One year practicing analog photography

Portrait and street photography are my main topics

Some of my photographic expo participations:

-PFIS, Photographic Project of Social impact (Sponsored by Chihuahua State)

A photobook was published at the end of the project.

-El Paso Museum of History collective Photographic narrative PASOS URBANOS

-FOTOGRAFOS POR EL MUNDO collective exhibition in Cusco, Peru

-Several local El Paso / Juarez photowalks with collective exhibitions.

-Solo participations in Juarez and Chihuahua city, QUE BELLO ES JUAREZ photographic collection.

Alina Vreeland is an artist originally from Redondo Beach, CA and is currently living in Marfa, TX. Primarily focused in studio arts, she also dabbles in photography and other mediums

I have been a photographer for almost 2 decades both professionally and as a personal pursuit. In recent years I have primarily worked in film. While the process is not as fast or cheap as digital, I have come to prefer film. I think my preference for film come from the fact it is a more deliberate medium that requires patiences and understanding. Along with shooting film I have a collection of vintage film cameras I take pride in. I have also published several zines featuring my photography along with that of some o my friends.

Tejedora & Adobera in-training living in El Paso, Texas

Brandi Price is an interdisciplinary artist working across photography, paint, sound, and design. Her work explores the quiet tension between the natural world and built environments.

Through in-camera double exposures, Price layers industrial structures, architectural interiors, and open sky into atmospheric compositions that feel suspended in time. The images do not offer a fixed vantage point; instead, they ask the viewer to move through them — to question depth, boundary, and perception.

Influenced by her background in music, she approaches photography as a study of resonance. Light behaves like vibration, structure like rhythm. Each frame becomes a space where separate moments overlap and form their own visual frequency.

Degree in Photojournalism from UTA, followed by a career in commercial photography. In my personal photographic work, I've been shooting and printing 35mm TriX film for over 50 years. The creation of the printed image is the emotional expression in my artwork.

Chris Ramming is an interdisciplinary artist based in Marfa, Texas and the founder of Club Nowhere.

My name is Clarissa Cervera- Briceño. I started photographing when I was a child. I found out I could collect scenes that amazed me and revealed the beauty of life. Photography has remained a constant in my life, and it has always been part of me.

A year ago, inspired by a dear friend I began experimenting with film photography. There is magic in having a specific amount of exposures and forgetting what I captured while waiting for the roll to be developed.

I am drawn to topics like everyday life, the essence of spaces, and landscapes. This particular series is about my return, after many years to El Yaqui, Sonora, Mexico, a small town where my family is from. I wanted to capture the scenes I remember seeing each time we visit. Growing up in Juarez, I was rarely able to play outside the way I could in this magical place.

Fotógrafa documentalista.

Me centro en documentar experiencias, lo que puede ser cotidiano o extraordinario para muchos, entiendo la cámara como una forma de escucha y exposición al día.

Jax Le Baron-Widmar is a Two-Spirit self taught multi disciplinary artist born in 1997 at Rancho las Tortugas, Chihuahua, MX. They’ve had two solo exhibitions in El Paso, TX at The Falstaff (2024), and 510 Prospect Street (2022). They were featured in the group show Exhibition Nowhere no.0001, at Club Nowhere in Marfa, TX. They have work featured in Jaden Urrea’s album “Too Soon”, Stay Easy Stay Safe Vol. 2, No Erotica #4, Glasstire’s Best of 2024 and Cartography Issue 12. They currently live and work in Marfa TX.

J.D. Garcia was born on October 5, 1984 in Alpine, TX and it’s all been downhill from there. J.D. began his artistic practice at a young age, first writing music and taking pictures on point-and-shoot and Polaroid cameras. He later developed an interest in painting and sculpture in high school and college. He rediscovered photography as a student at Sul Ross State University and worked as a journalist for The Big Bend Sentinel as a reporter and photographer before burning the fuck out and getting into the booze and powder a bit too hard. He’s now California sober and still doing all the things he likes while living in obscurity. He’s also a Dungeon Master.

Semblanza.

Jissel Chávez Bencomo 1993. Productora visual egresada de la universidad autónoma de ciudad Juárez. Su producción se enfoca en la fotografía análoga, algunos procesos antiguos y la intervención de esta en técnicas mixtas, basándose en temáticas como la ciudad y su arqueología como puente a la memoria personal o colectiva. La reinterpretación de las imágenes dentro de la experimentación de materiales, dando como resultado un recorrido metafórico dentro de las distintas disciplinas artísticas hacia nuevas perspectivas que denota la imagen, la ciudad, la búsqueda y la perdida. Así como la intervención de la misma mediante una hibridación entre la escultura de manera experimental. Las caminatas y el ejercicio de observar son fundamentales en el proceso creativo, la mezcla de la Ciudad industrial con lo rural nutre la esencia de los lugares y personas que forman parte del entorno inmediato, esto de manera constante y cambiante, para culminar la producción visual como un testimonio de que el arte se convierte en la extensión de uno mismo.

I started in this photography more than anything similar and experimental at my 13 years old, right now I have 5 years of experience, I started thanks to the motivation and inspiration of Jim Marshall and any skating photography and wanting to portray every special moment and full of rock and roll in a physical way in which I did not have to use the digital so much, since it is something as natural and special as the light is reflected in a negative that I would take to print later or it would be a good work in such a wonderful physique

I’ve been shooting since 1976, starting with a Kodak Brownie 120 when my mother worked for the Mexia Daily News, and had all my film developed at the newspaper office. Continued my emulsion journey throughout high school and college, where I was inspired by the likes of Keith Carter, George Krause, Danny Lyon, Herman Leonard, and Weegee. My eye and my soul are always attracted to roads, signs, streets, people, and places in Texas, the West, Mexico, and Europe. Happiness is a warm Rollei…

Julián Herrera is a Marfa-based photographer and multidisciplinary artist whose work is rooted in the landscapes of Big Bend and the high desert of West Texas. Working primarily in film, he embraces a tactile, hands-on process that mirrors the geological time scales he often contemplates. Through an interplay of landscape and philosophy, Herrera’s work reflects on humanity’s brief presence within ancient terrain, finding both humility and strange comfort in deep time.

Kathleen Shafer is an artist, writer, and geographer based in Marfa, Texas. Her visual and academic work explores landscape, space, and place, home and memory, and aviation and aerial geography.

Is an artist based out of Nashville, TN.

Kelby Reyes is an El Paso-based street photographer working under the name Street Ghost. He shoots primarily on 35mm film, documenting everyday life in the border region.

Kimmy is a full time production ceramicist in Santa Fe NM. She picked up an old pentax 35mm camera in 2023 on a whim and learned her way around photography from there. Capturing surreal landscapes and intimate social moments among friends, and of course her pottery creations.

Working primarily as a musician, Kyle Harris approaches photography in much of the same way as his music- softly atmospheric edges, guided by instinct to capture space between spaces

Kyle Melgaard is a photographer based in Marfa and El Paso TX. Mostly digital. Exploring film. Primarily landscapes.

I got into photography around 2007 while living in Austin and using a point and shoot from Walgreens. Got back into film photography while living in Los Angeles in 2023 and shoot both 35mm and 120mm film.

Liz Potter is an analog photographer based in Alpine. She earned a degree in photojournalism in 1990 from the University of Texas at Austin and lived in the city for 28 more years before starting a new chapter by moving to far West Texas in early 2018. Like many, the region has significantly impacted her creative focus. With a darkroom in her house, she prints black-and-white film but also explores other photographic mediums to create images, such as cyanotype, Polaroid, and Suminagashi.

Wmass woman making her way in WTX.

Steel and skin, film and stone.

Songs in the wind.

Peter Valente works with a variety of physical media - film photography, tape recording, and robotics. His photographs capture moments where familiar things become strange: Americana in vast emptiness, ancient symbols against modern skylines. Growing up moving between remote locations as a diplomat's son, he learned that communication is always partial, and experience can not be spoken — something is always lost, something else always appears. His work explores what remains when words don't work: presence, absence, the space between what's shown and what's seen.

Is an artist based out of Marfa, TX.

Riata Lindley is a student at Western New Mexico University in Silver City, NM and is pursuing photography. She graduated from Alpine High School and has also lived in Wyoming and Colorado. The intimate relationship with analog cameras and the textures that film creates is what she has fallen in love with. But it is not just the tangible film process that she loves. It is primarily the relationship and curiosity she develops with every landscape she explores that is her real passion.

Rob Mazurek is an interdisciplinary artist/abstractivist, with a focus on electro-acoustic composition, improvisation, performance, painting, sculpture, video, film, and installation, who spent much of his creative life in Chicago, and then Brazil.

He currently lives and works in Marfa, Texas

I've lived all my life in Florida, up until this past year and a half, where I've been traveling around the U.S. with my sweet, senior pup. I came out to West Texas to do a workstay on a vineyard for a few months, but have recently moved locally to work as a carpenter. As a photographer, I've always been drawn to capturing the magical moments that appear during everyday life and creating scenes and atmospheres that are dreary and ethereal.

19-year-old self-taught photographer working in both Polaroid and digital formats. Featured by Polaroid, highlighted in local news for the Frontera Film Photo Collective, and exhibited in art galleries.

Sara Wong (b. 1991, Parral, Mexico) is a self-taught photographer whose practice centers on analog photography. After beginning in digital photography, she transitioned to film in 2018, embracing a slower and more intentional way of working. Analog photography is not only a technique in her practice, but a conscious commitment to preserving a tactile and attentive way of seeing.

Her work focuses on everyday life, architecture, and the spaces we inhabit, paying close attention to subtle gestures and overlooked details. She has participated in exhibitions and collaborative projects and is actively involved in analog photography communities.

September is an art director and photographer born in San Antonio and based in Marfa. She studied Graphic Design in New York City. In college, she learned a lot about the parenting industry while interning at New York Family Magazine. Post grad she worked in an old firehouse in Midtown Manhattan as the Senior Graphic Designer for tech startup, Mommy Nearest. After moving to Austin in 2018, September was the Art Director for local leading arts + culture magazine, Tribeza for two years. September was a Lead Designer at Adweek for over two years before landing her most recent full-time role as a Senior Designer for the Harris for President 2024 Presidential campaign. She is currently freelancing and opening a vintage store in Alpine, Texas named Big Bend Vintage.

Shea Carley is a multidisciplinary artist & educator based in Far West Texas. Through a site-responsive and research-driven practice collaborating with locally foraged natural materials and light sensitive surfaces, Shea’s work looks beyond human-centered delineations of place and time and imagines new paradigms in human to more-than-human relationships for a more hopeful ecological future.

More than a name is an action, the action of capturing the lives and faces of people living in the border. Analog street photography based in the border towns of El Paso, TX and Cd. Juárez, Mexico.

Victor Camacho AKA ba_zart is a visual artist who explores image-making through photography and drawing. His work is fueled by the inspiration and euphoria sparked by music. For nearly eight years, he has documented the raw energy and stage presence of bands and musicians performing in bars, auditoriums, courtyards, and stadiums across Mexico and the United States—sometimes with official accreditation, and other times from a more spontaneous, camera-in-hand approach.

Xavier Rony (b.1998, Los Angeles) is a French–Mexican photographer based in New York City. Working exclusively with analog film, his practice explores grief, memory, and the passage of time.

Yoshio Torres, also known as House of Torres Photography, is an analog film photographer originally from Midland, Texas and currently based in El Paso, Texas. With over six years of experience as a dedicated film photography enthusiast, Yoshio has developed a distinct visual voice rooted in high-contrast street photography. His work focuses on capturing raw, unscripted moments that reflect the rhythm, tension, and beauty of everyday life.

Deeply inspired by the culture and energy of border communities, Yoshio’s images explore identity, movement, and human connection through a bold, documentary approach. He is also a co-founder of the Frontera Film Fotos Collective in El Paso, where he collaborates with fellow artists to celebrate and grow the analog photography scene in the region.