Each month, we feature emerging artists who are among the paid members of Compositionally Inclined.
This is our selection of the strongest images from each submitted work, through Composition's lens. This exhibition is representative of our talented audience of creatives, whose work aligns with the projects we curate across our platform.
Nova Scotia by Aswin Prasad
In the corners of Nova Scotia, Prasad captures the landscape of the region. Through this series, he aims to record what those places felt like to stand in.
He uses grain and color to highlight the solitude of the environment. Through the images, there is an emphasis on the relationship between people and the environment, showing how little room a person takes up on that stretch of the Atlantic coast.
See more of his work on his Instagram.
East Asia by Figo Kwok
Kwok made this series while travelling through Vietnam, Thailand, South Korea and Hong Kong. He skips the landmarks and examines streets, markets and buildings.
Kwok shoots straight on and fills the frame, so signage and storefronts do most of the work. People pass through, but his subjects are the places they inhabit every day. The series argues that these spaces say as much about a place as its landmarks do.
Street Photography by Justin Sablan
Sablan photographs people on the street and likens it to watching a film with no director or script.
Sablan shoots in black and white, in hard daylight. The pictures focus on bystanders rather than what's happening around them, and no one seems aware of the camera.
See more of his work on his Instagram.
Somewhere Between Girls by Madelene McMillian
McMillian is a photographer based in Kentucky. This series is set in a girl’s bedroom, which she examines as the one place where identity can be explored without anyone watching.
The concept treats the room as a second portrait. Clothes become a way of trying on different versions of oneself, and the bedroom is where those versions can be tested without the opinions of the outside world.
More of McMillian’s work here.
Sisyphus Was Trampled by Olivia Han
This series of zines collects offhand pieces of creative writing alongside spreads of objects Han has gathered over the years.
Every page is made within the limits of a black-and-white printer. She layers hand-drawn illustration over clipped images and text, lifting interview quotes and old advertising graphics out of their original context and putting them somewhere personal.
See more of Han’s work here.
Submissions for December’s edition are open exclusively to members. Limited to 20 artists each month. Spots fill in order.
In Motion by Cameron Rooney
Rooney made this series during the change of the seasons. The images record the shift through deliberate camera movement and distortion.
Rooney rotates the camera during the exposure, so leaves and sky turn into circular streaks of color. With detail gone, autumn is represented as color alone.
More of Rooney’s work on his Instagram.
Familiar Faces by Neus Hoffmann
Hoffmann moved to Berlin at 20 and found a community in the city’s punk scene. This series follows the scene through strangers, musicians, loved ones, and the spaces they share.
Hoffmann shoots in grainy black and white, from inside the scene rather than from the outside. The pictures move between friends, strangers, and musicians without marking who is who.
More of her work on her Instagram.
Photography by Syncere Burge
Burge’s goal with his work is to render what the moment feels like, giving his images a cinematic look.
He shoots at night with direct flash, so the subject and her costume contrast against a dark street full of out-of-focus lights. Everything behind the subject drops away into black, giving the pictures the look of a film still.
See more of Burge’s work on his Instagram.
Unbridled by Ib Mundi
This series captures a crowded stretch of seafront, with kids playing in the ocean and climbing on the promenade railings.
Mundi shoots in black and white, in the sun, and works close, cropping figures at the edge of the frame with the crowd behind them. The pictures are loose and busy, and no one in them has been arranged for the camera.
More of Mundi’s work on his Instagram.
Florida Transfiguration by Ella Brooke Withrow
This series follows Florida from the height of summer into fall. It explores how far apart the two seasons are in a state usually thought of as having only one.
She tracks change through people and the landscape. The subjects are styled and posed, so the series reads more like a fashion editorial than documentary.
More of Withrow’s work here.
Submissions for December’s edition are open exclusively to members. Limited to 20 artists each month. Spots fill in order.
Field Research by Tommy Zarth
Zarth made this series across the Teton Range and Yellowstone Ecosystem. The series looks at where sport, design, and nature meet in the American western landscape.
He renders climbing gear the way a product shoot would, close up and isolated, with logos and printed labels left in the frame. The equipment is treated as designed objects first and tools second.
See more of Zarth’s work on his Instagram.
Dream State by Shaon
Shaon is a photographer from Bangladesh based in Brighton, UK. These pictures were made on the English coast. Shaon plans each photograph like a painting, working out the light and perspective before shooting.
He shoots from a distance with a long lens, so people become small figures scattered across the landscape. The scenes read closer to a painted seascape than a snapshot.
See more of Shaon’s work here.
Photography by Keonte Conner
Conner photographs ordinary parts of life in Georgia, along with friends and family. The pictures come from an open collection, each one pulled from a larger set shot on a single day or at a single event.
Conner photographs people at rest or at play, close up and in hard daylight, in both color and black and white. The candid nature of the shots keeps them close to the snapshot, which is what makes them feel lived-in rather than staged.
See more of Conner’s work on his Instagram.
Mama by Rachel Villagomez
These photos follow Villagomez’s mother, who for the past two years has raised litters of French bulldogs from birth until they leave for new homes. Villagomez draws on growing up with that same care.
She explores the care given to these puppies with the knowledge that they will be given away, and how little that changes the way they’re held.
See more of Villagomez’s work here.
Illustrations by Katrīna Paula Safronova
Safronova is an illustrator and animation student at the Art Academy of Latvia, from Liepāja. The drawings come from her sketchbook practice, mostly of characters and portraits.
Safronova draws in colored pencil with fast, loose hatching, and incorporates the texture of the paper into the composition.
See more of Safronova’s work here.
Submissions for December’s edition are open exclusively to members. Limited to 20 artists each month. Spots fill in order.
New Castle, Pennsylvania by Joshua Ellis
Ellis shot this observational study in New Castle, in Western Pennsylvania. He explores a post-industrial town where brick storefronts and empty lots are slowly being taken back by weeds and ivy.
He records the decay of the abandoned storefronts with straight-on framing and flat, overcast light that puts the peeling paint and boarded windows front and center.
More of Ellis’ work on his Instagram.
Photography by Emaniko
Emaniko made this work over a six-hour hike with her partner and a friend, during a psychedelic trip.
Paying close attention to surfaces like weathered wood and moving water, Emaniko places the people within the land rather than at the center of the frame.
Prints from the series are available on the Omakase Collective’s website.
Grim Dinner by Cyrill Izmerov
Izmerov took these pictures in 2026, behind the scenes of a shoot for Solar Flashes, an emerging Russian clothing label. The brief was a grotesque mood built from food, characters, and props.
Izmerov shoots the table the way a painter would set up a still life, with raw fish on a paper plate and cigarettes standing in the pasta. The contrast between the clothes and the unorthodox culinary selection creates the uneasiness around the shoot.
More of Izmerov’s work here.
Photography by Luke Bergman
Bergman grew up in the Southern US and photographs the places and people around him, mostly from the road.
He uses the camera as a reason to go places and talk to people he otherwise wouldn’t. In these shots, Bergman keeps the subject small or dead center and lets the color of the location fill the rest of the frame.
More of Bergman’s work on his Instagram.
Photography by Tom Sarver
Late last year, Sarver took a new camera and a new dog on a three-month road trip from Chicago to San Diego and back. The pictures come from the trip and the weeks leading up to it.
Sarver shoots square, in black and white, and keeps the frames sparse. The series reads like a record of the in-between parts of a trip, the places you pass through rather than the destination.
More of Sarver’s work here.
Thank you to every artist who submitted work for this month’s edition.
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