Beatriz Ryder

A Portuguese-born, self-taught photographer, with a particular wonder for surf photography. My work is driven by a desire to create a sense of connection between the viewer, the subject, and the ocean itself. Although my early years weren’t shaped by the ocean, photography has always been in my life. What began as a curiosity quickly evolved into a passion, and eventually, a lifelong pursuit. I see my journey as a testament to the transformative power of falling in love with something later in life and chasing it with everything you've got.

Thomas Hannah

A writer and artist born in the suburbs of Sydney, my literary teeth were cut as a singer-songwriter, playing gigs in dive bars and backyards. Although music informs and influences most everything I do, it was upon discovering poetry and its freedoms, that I focused my ears away from the likes of Bob Dylan, and eyes toward those alike Dylan Thomas. Spending afternoons painting in the sun and writing at a lamplit typewriter in the evenings, I see written word and visual art as sustenance, when at times one can be starving for understanding, connection, and expression.

Beba Rizzaro

South American multi-disciplinary artist. Living in Australia has taught me to value the power of sharing time and space in daily life with those next to you. My art is centered around the eternal search for the point where the two opposites meet: technology and nature, real life and social networks, abundance and lack, chaos and order, company and solitude, exposure and intimacy, analogue and digital.

Daniel Souza

It’s pretty much just about walking around and finding stuff in the bush, and then talking about it. Otherwise enjoying the feeling of electronically charged water particles on the skin. A life spent appreciating the beauty of natural things. What more could you ask for?

Jill Bontempo

I guess you can find me, now, in Byron Bay. Either in the sea or with my peoples. Ebbing and flowing with the tides.
I wonder,
often.
My style of craft will always be led by curiosity. Documenting through visual enactment and sometimes through written words. More often than not, neither creation is presented for the public. Holding onto memories with film and other mediums alike.

Scout O’Donoghue

From the city to the sea, to the vibrant hinterlands of the Northern Rivers, my inspiration seems to greet me at the intersection of the brilliant and the quirky. The environment I find myself in, and the people that surround me, continue to collide with beautiful calamity at this intersection. With a pen and paper in my back pocket and a camera slung over my shoulder, the notion of a story going unnoticed is amiss.

Joel Benguigui

I was born in Denpasar of Flores, East Indonesia and raised in Paris. Since reconnecting with my roots and biological family in Indonesia, I have moved away from commercial commissions and focused on an aesthetic that speaks to humankind’s relationship to both the built and natural world. From working with analogue film and hand processing all images, my work is an invitation into stillness.

Charlie Trenerry

The reeking gutters of Sydney’s inner-west grew me, but would not recognise me. I lost the ability to speak in those dreary streets (though you would not think it to meet me now), with words in my ears, words in my arms in the form of stacks upon stacks of heavy hardcovers or tattered paperbacks in my jacket pockets. Words in my head and on my fingertips as I desperately tried to portray what I saw and what I heard and how it made me feel. As I tried to explain myself, justify myself, without the voice to do so, I had just one steadfast companion.

Elila-Rose Mkakanzi

Raised Rastafarian, my early years were spent adventuring rather wildly in vibrant Eastern Africa. My mother, sister and I moved to Australia, and in this sleepy country town reading and writing became my escapism.
Through my adult years this has kept me sane, especially as I’ve transitioned from maiden to mama of two daughters. Authentic expression through writing assists in keeping my dreamy mind dreaming.

Dane Harrison

An essayist and poet. A collaborator in South-London’s Tantum Collective, published in New River Press, Augienflieck, and Moof. I don’t know if there is anything interesting about me. My parent’s disagree on my birthday-- does that count?

Kelvin Saik

It seems I’ve fallen into most things in my life, whether it be a young entrepreneur selling yo-yo strings, a handcrafter of vinyl sticker characters, a Bboy and a documenteur of the breakdancing scene, or a film creative. I am a curious observer, which often leads to some strange, awkward encounter and along the way I’ve found that these things inform the way I tell stories. Plus, being a dad of two young boys means it’s always an adventure in the Saik household.

Adam Robertson

I am a cinematographer, editor and photographer residing in the Northern Rivers, New South Wales. I have been doing the tango with Indonesia and here over the last number of years, most recently arriving back after a long stint in Sumatra. Shooting has given me wings to travel the world, though no matter where I am my addiction to instant ramen remains the same. Fittingly, I have been given the name ‘mr mie kuah’, which translates to mr. noodle soup.

Teagan Kruse

Birthed straight onto that sticky carpet of a Melbourne bar’s band room. Guided through life by art, music, and literature. I’ve wandered rainforests to taste the inside of trees just to check if the book I read had their flavor right. I’ve dived to the ocean floor to see if all sand dots are that same sand colour everywhere. I’ve made my way along mountains or scaled atop buildings just to make sure the clouds didn’t smell different from up there. But mostly, I just skip along with a book in my hand, and a song in my head, severely caffeinated, a little crazed, and always completely terrified!