Volume 2, Issue 2
Visual Art
including work by Eliette Markhbein, Carolina Dutca, and more
Stories of the Street
Henry Lara was born and raised in Los Angeles. He is a writer and photographer. Most of his photographs and stories are based and inspired by the city of Los Angeles. His writing and photographs have been published by Dryland 2018 and Zyzzyva Literary Magazine 2020. You can see his work on Instagram @Angelenoheart and reach him via email at mrlara0704@gmail.com.
Innocent
Death Becomes Her
Tracy Whiteside is a Chicago-area photographer specializing in Conceptual Art. She has worked in fashion merchandising, owned a modeling agency, operated a theatre where she taught musical theatre to young people, and lead a non-profit organization. Tracy can be reached at info@tracywhiteside.com. You can enjoy her images on Instagram @whitesidetracyfashion and @whitesidetracy.
In Plain Sight
Maxime Cousineau-Pérusse is a figurative expressionist artist based in Montreal, Canada, and a current Ph.D. candidate in developmental psychology at McGill University.
Fake News
Eliette Markhbein’s artwork is rooted in her life and her beliefs: the fight for social justice, Human rights, inclusion. She makes art to acknowledge, celebrate, and empower the human spirit and to help change antiquated attitudes regarding issues she cares deeply about. Her approach to art-making is multidisciplinary: large-scale charcoal drawings, paintings, photography, graphic arts, clay, poetry, collages, and short films. Markhbein holds a BA in art history from the Sorbonne, Paris, as well as a Masters degree in Journalism from Columbia University. She studied studio arts at Hunter College under the guidance of Nari Ward, Robert Swain, and Michael Brennan. She can be contacted at Eliette.markhbein02@myhunter.cuny.edu.
Apă
Carolina Dutca works with photography, video, installation, and text. Born in the Transnistria region in 1995, Carolina Dutca studied art and documentary photography in Academy Fotografika, Saint-Petersburg, Russia. Carolina likes to experiment and is open to new practices. Her art projects are connected with the theme of relationships, home, nature, and memory. Also, in collaboration with Valentin Sidorenko, she plays with time. They are reminiscing about fairy tales, growing up, and being naughty.
Valentin Sidorenko was born in 1995 in the small town Gornyak, which is situated in Altai Krai on the border of Russia and Kazakhstan. He graduated from the VGIK — Russian State University of Cinematography with a major in Animation and Multimedia (Moscow, Russia), also he graduated from Fotografika — Academy of Documentary and Art Photography (Saint-Petersburg, Russia). Except for photography and animation, Sidorenko works with documentary films using an observation method.
More of their work can be seen at dutcarolina.tilda.ws/ and valentinsidorenko.com/.