Medium Collective Members

Amanda Dahlgren (she/her)

@AMANDADAHLGREN

Amanda Dahlgren is a conceptual artist whose photographic and video work opens dialogues about the way we live as a society and what we choose to value. Amanda is also an educator and mentor whose mission is to challenge and inspire everyone in her care to find powerful and authentic ways to express themselves through photography.

Brandy J Sebastian (she/her)

@BRANDYJSEBASTIAN

Brandy J. Sebastian is an experimental and conceptual photographer whose work is rooted in connections to femininity, spirituality, and her philosophical life journey. Her work is derived from, and explores, a spectrum of photographic mediums, including digital, analogue, and alternative processes. She is passionate about pushing the boundaries of what a photographic print can be, beyond the traditional printed image.

Donna Cosentino (she/her)

@DONNADCOSENTINO

Donna Cosentino made the transition from photojournalist to photography professor in the 1980s, retiring from Palomar College in 2018. She opened The Photographer’s Eye, a photography gallery and non-profit teaching space in Escondido, California.

A practicing photographer who uses a Rolleiflex and black and white film, she also works with an SX70 and B&W Polaroid film to create unique diptychs. Currently her photography is concerned with botanical details using historical processes such as photogravure. Her visual aesthetic is driven by a deep connection to the natural world.

Galina Semenova

@GALA_SEMENOVA

Galina Semenova is a portrait photographer, born in Russia. Deeply influenced by Russian literary giants, Galina's work delves into the complexities of the human soul. Her portraits go beyond mere aesthetics, seeking to capture the essence of her subjects' spirits, revealing their inner beauty, resilience, and vulnerability. This approach creates a space for recognition, healing, and empowerment. Galina's commitment to socially impactful art stems from her belief that photography can change lives for the better, inviting more hope, love, and awakening.

J. Grant Brittain (he/him)

@JGRANTBRITTAIN

J. Grant Brittain started shooting photos at the Del Mar Skate Ranch in 1979 while he was a worker bee and eventually the pro shop manager. He had watched the top photographers of the 1970s come through the skatepark with various pro skaters in tow and admired their work in the skate magazines months after they shot the photos. After borrowing his roommate's camera in February of 1979, he was immediately hooked on the art of photography. Grant honed his photographic skills by shooting his friends flying out of the cement bowls on their skateboards over the next few years.

In 1983 he helped found Transworld Skateboarding Magazine, and over the next 20 years served as its only Photo Editor and as a Senior Photographer. His dynamic skateboarding photos shot all over the world were on 60+ covers over that time. 

In 2004, Grant and his friends left TWS and started The Skateboard Mag, which had a great run from 2004-2016. Today Grant works on his own artistic, commercial, and personal projects: teaching photography, doing photo exhibits all over the world, releasing new photos from his 44 year archive, and has published his book project, “PUSH- 80s Skateboarding Photography”.

Grant is a lifelong North San Diego County native and lives in Encinitas with his family and his pets.

Kris Moore

@GENIUS.CRICKET_PHOTO

Kris Moore’s work addresses current events, social engagement, and concern for the environment. She uses digital capture intended for archival artist prints. Her latest work is a result of picking up beach trash since 2020 and bringing it back to her studio where she poses her favorite pieces against newspaper headlines and colored paper. Her theatre background and love of drama are evident in the playful application of these skills mixed with her outrage over MAGA-world insanity. She has been observed muttering to herself and pulling out clumps of hair. She loves flowers, bright colors, and is a safe and courteous driver.

Her work had been seen at galleries throughout the United States and beyond. She has won awards and grants. Through 2027, her soft focus architectural details are currently mounted as giant panels in the North Park neighborhood of San Diego, CA.

Kaleah Lanae King

@kaleahlanae

Kaleah Lanae King is a dynamic photographer, educator, and visual artist with a passion for pushing creative boundaries. Originally from San Diego, she has been capturing compelling imagery since 2007, running a commercial studio for seven years. She holds a B.A. in Visual Communication from CSU Fullerton and an M.F.A. in Photography from Lesley University, where she explored alternative processes and experimental video. With 12+ years of teaching experience across the U.S. and internationally, her work has also been exhibited worldwide and featured in film, news, and academia. Before joining Medium, she led community outreach and fundraising efforts, supporting the growth of organizations like the San Diego Humane Society.

Liliana Hueso (she/they/ella)

@LILIANA_HUESO_PHOTOGRAPHER

Liliana Hueso is an award-winning photographer, teacher, producer, and artivist living in the Borderlands. With a focus on social justice and representation, her work explores the experiences and perspectives of women and the LGBTIQ+ community. Hueso's photography has been recognized with numerous accolades, including first place at the XII Baja California Biennial of Photography in 2022 for her project "En casa." Through her artivism, Hueso seeks to challenge dominant narratives and promote visibility and inclusion for those who have been historically excluded from mainstream representation.

Marshall Williams

@TACOSTAND_VERNACULAR

Marshall Williams’ photographs are observations and celebrations of the commonplace. In his long running fascination with Southern California taco shops, he is interested in the physicality of these structures and the role they serve as neighborhood landmarks and cultural touchstones.

Oriana Poindexter (she/her)

@OPOINDEX

Oriana Poindexter is a photographer and marine scientist. Her work opens dialogues about our relationship with the changing biodiversity of the ocean using traditional and alternative photo processes.

Poindexter holds an MAS in Marine Biodiversity & Conservation from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and a BA in Visual Arts from Princeton University. Her work has been published by Smithsonian Magazine, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, and exhibited at Oceanside Museum of Art, Center for Fine Art Photography, and San Diego Public Library, among others. She also creates art-science exhibits for Southern California’s leading aquariums.

Patricia Grabski (she/her)

@PATRICIA.GRABSKI

Patricia Grabski is a photographer who is passionate about blending old and modern photographic materials and processes. She enjoys experimenting with a variety of cameras, including handmade pinholes, Polaroids, large and medium formats, as well as digital and infrared cameras. Additionally, she explores altered optics with a Lensbaby.

Patricia prints her images using alternative processes on a range of materials, such as photographic paper, art paper, glass, tin, cotton handkerchiefs, old linens, and brass plates for polymer photogravure. She also creates lumens using black-and-white photographic paper, which changes color when exposed to light, and produces transfer lifts using hand sanitizer.

These diverse techniques have elevated Patricia's photographic vision and intensified her creativity, transforming ordinary subjects into something truly extraordinary.

richard richard richards (he/him)

@RICPICS.ME

richard richard richards (FKA “Richard Provencio”), is a visual artist, writer, and recovering comedian who primarily works in the medium of photography. richards considers his camera an extension of himself and uses it like “a Quija Board only cooler,” claiming it helps guide him to a place where intuition, chance, and preparedness meet and also “it’s got a lot of megapixel thingies." Known for his professionalism, sincerity, and cleverful…ness(?), richards has a knack for finding the exact moment when a feeling emerges and pulling it right out of thin air like a daft pick pocket or bumbling sorcerer.

Riley Arthur

@RILEYART

Arthur’s work explores regional histories, marginalized communities, gentrification, and cultural nostalgia. The throughline of her work is the connectivity between people and place. Arthur was born and raised in American Samoa. A childhood in the Pacific sparked her love of rich color, which is central to her work. From a young age, she was fascinated by Americana, which has informed her long-term project documenting New York City diners.

Arthur graduated from the University of Central Lancashire with an MA in Visual Journalism and holds BA’s in Photography and Theater from Southern Oregon University. She is a Fulbright Scholar and National Geographic Explorer. Arthur’s artwork has been widely published in The New York Times, The Guardian, Der Spiegel, La Repubblica, and L’Oeil de la Photographie, among others. Her first book Phone Photography for Everybody, iPhone Photojournalism Technique was published in 2021, and she regularly teaches photography workshops domestically and abroad.

scott b. davis (he/him)

@scott_b_davis

scott b. davis photographs desert landforms using 19th century platinum/palladium materials and cameras as large as 16”x20”. A dedicated platinum printer since the 1990s, his work includes combinations of unique paper negatives and traditional darkroom prints made from film negatives.

In 2021 his work was published in the monograph scott b. davis: sonora by Radius Books. His work can be found in museum collections including the Center for Creative Photography, the J. Paul Getty Museum, LACMA, the Nelson Atkins Museum, San Diego Museum of Art and others. He is represented by Marshall Gallery in Santa Monica, and Etherton Gallery in Tucson.

Stefan Frutiger (he/him)

@stefan.frutiger.photography

Stefan is an award-winning photographer, visual artist and conservationist. In 2022 he earned an MA in Photography from Falmouth Flexible. The arid deserts in the American West became Stefan's preferred places for research and visual documentation. In several projects he covered environmental issues around water, waste management, and land contamination.

Stefan’s long-term project “Sacred Land, Scarred Land” is a critical examination of landscape change, environmental injustice & racism, wastelanding, and settler colonialism. He researches the impact of uranium mining on the Navajo Nation, a marginalized, indigenous community in the Four Corners region of Arizona, Utah, and New Mexico.

Traverse Robinette

traverserobinette.com

Traverse makes photographic journals of the places he explores. He tells stories, some made up, some autobiographical. He likes to write poetry or short stories to accompany his photography. He is interested in quiet places and of things that are not thought of as important or grand. He focuses on small details, layers, shapes, and abstracts in nature.

Wolfgang Hastert

@wolfganghastert

Wolfgang Hastert works with both still and moving images. His films about artists and photographers for German/ French channels ZDF/arte were presented worldwide. Among these are documentaries on Edward Hopper, Paul Outerbridge, and James Bidgood, the creator of the camp classic Pink Narcissus.

Currently, Wolfgang is editing The Secret Path - a poetic collage of landscape and portrait images shot along the coast of Cape Cod. His footage contains three miles of 35mm B/W movie film which he hand-processed. Wolfgang holds an MFA in experimental and documentary arts from Duke and taught media production at UCSD/Vis Arts.