Welcome to our 17th edition of the Artist Spotlight Series, where we highlight artists from different backgrounds, mediums, and blockchains.
This edition’s featured artists include:
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Oreste Mercado (Photographer)
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Jake Inez (Fine Art Photographer)
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Cory Staudacher (Photographer)
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Ray H. Mercado (Photographer)
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Bao Tran Trung (Photographer)
Blurred by Oreste Mercado
Oreste Mercado is a Philadelphia-based photographer and visual artist capturing ethereal imagery that conveys concepts using light, motion, and color.
Blurred depicts a Ferris wheel in motion, conveying the feeling of life going on and the days blurring together.
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Left Behind by Jake Inez
Jake Inez is a fine art photographer who coalesces the cinematic with the everyday, focused on romanticizing our most intimate moments and creating dreams out of reality.
Left Behind expresses a sense of longing and familiarity in a place once filled with joy and love.
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Dark Days by Cory Staudacher
Cory Staudacher is a Seattle-based photographer who draws inspiration from simplicity and minimalism, creating visual moments of peace and joy.
Dark Days is a black and white scene conveying loneliness in the emptiness of life.
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Nothing’s Really Changed by Ray H. Mercado
Ray Mercado is a photographer and visual artist from New York who captures surreal, narrative-based imagery of urban landscapes and cinematic street scenes.
Nothing’s Really Changed is reminiscent of Ray’s time in 2020 spent photographing civil rights protests in New York.
The scene makes a powerful statement: despite all our advancements, we still struggle with the same social issues more than 50 years later.
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Warm Lights for The Cold Nights by Bao Tran Trung
Bao Tran Trung is a photographer and visual composer based in Vietnam, crafting nostalgic, conceptual works of urban and rural landscapes with an atmospheric motif.
Warm Lights for The Cold Nights depicts a cold evening scene in the city during a full moon.
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