David Mesa

(b. 1995, Pereira, Colombia)

David Mesa is a New York/Berlin–based photographer whose practice bridges photo-documentary and fashion. His work explores intimacy, desire, and identity – often through the male body and queer narratives, reflecting on how migration and lived experience shape collective memory. At the core of his images lies a commitment to human connection, tenderness, and the visibility of queer communities.

Esteban Raheem Abdul Raheem Samayoa

(b. 1994, Sacramento, CA, US)

Raheem Abdul Raheem Esteban Samayoa is a Mexican-Guatemalan artist based in Oakland. Working across charcoal, painting, ceramics, and installation, his practice explores cultural heritage, identity, and transformation. Through materials like soil, burlap, and plaster, Esteban’s work traces personal and communal histories - acts of remembering that become gestures of healing.

Tyler Cala Williams

(b. 1996, Trenton, NJ, US)

Tyler Cala Williams is an American artist based between New York and Savannah. Their practice combines photography, painting, and digital manipulation to create surreal self-portraiture charged by community, memory, and cultural inheritance. Through digital composition, Williams examines appropriation in Western art traditions and the complexities of Black representation, reworking the image as a site of reclamation and reimagining.