Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable

Japanese edition on 2022
Archival Pigment Print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta Paper
Born December 8, 1953 in Belleville, Illinois USA
Moved to New York in 1977. 1n January 1979 he photographs an early series of headshots with his friend Jean-Michel Basquiat. In1979 Nick joined Basquiat’s band “Gray” (guitar). Gray was a very unique sound oriented band associated with the “No Wave” scene in New York City at that time. Gray opened for bands like The Lounge Lizards and DNA in New York City clubs such as CBGB’s, Tier 3. Hurrahs and the Mudd Club., Squat Theater. Nick had the good fortune of being a close confidant to Mr. Basquiat, and from 1981-’84, Nick watched Jean-Michel paint and draw hundreds of works in Basquait’s Crosby Street loft. In 1982 Basquiat named him “DJ High Priest” for a collaboration they did at the Squat Theater in New York City. Also in ’82, with ‘tape loop-dj’ing’, he opened in Michael Holman’s weekly Hip Hop event with Africa Bambatta, Cool Herc and Jazzy J at Club Negril in the East Village. High Priest was the dj for the New York City Breakers opening for acts Soul Sonic Force and Grand Master Flash. At The Kitchen in Soho 1983, Fab Five Freddy selected him for his dj-ing skills in the band ‘Estate Fresh’ which included Max Roach on drums. Nick co-produced “Sounds of…” Gray’s first lp released in 2010 with Michael Holman on their label “Plush Safe Records”

Archival Pigment Print
Emily Andersen is a London-based artist and graduate of the Royal College of Art. She can photograph a derelict industrial ruin and make beauty of it. She photographs interiors; they may be in New York, Rome or London, the exact place is unimportant. What unifies her vision is the atmosphere and poetry that she evokes. She explores the language of portraiture and notions of time and the representation of memory and investigates the process of translation of everyday life into still images.
Her work has been exhibited in galleries including: The Photographers’ Gallery, London; The Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; The Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh; Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art; Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai; China Arts Museum, Shanghai; and Gwangju Design Biennale, Korea. A number of her portraits are in the permanent collection of The National Portrait Gallery, London.
She has received many awards, including the John Kobal Prize for Portraiture. Her monograph Paradise Lost and Found was published by Hotshoe Books in 2009. Portraits: Black and White was published by Anomie in 2018, and the multi-channel film installation Somewhere Else Entirely that explores the work and life of American-born poet Ruth Fainlight. It premiered at the Bonnington Gallery in Nottingham in March 2023.

Painted on Polaroid.
Jørgen Axelvall is a Swedish photographer and artist based in Tokyo, Japan Before moving to Tokyo in 2011, Axelvall lived in New York for 15 years. He works on personal yet universal projects that evoke an abstract, dreamlike world in his exploration of intimacy and solitude, soft focus or selective focus. Axelval seeks to capture complete vulnerability and beauty in order to transform the subject into the essence of the moment. Axelval's visual storytelling interacts with experimental language. Axelval has exhibited internationally and has received important awards, including the International Award for New Exposure by Vogue USA in 2013, the Athens Photo Festival in 2019 and the 18th Japan Media Arts Festival in 2015. Axelval has published four monographs to date.Since 2018, Jørgen Axelval is represented by Ken Nakahashi Gallery in Tokyo.