More than two dozen photographers, a dozen countries, an age range of nearly 40 years (possibly more, but some won’t tell), multiple languages, and varied styles. Our team consists of members from around the world. We include photographers from Australia, Canada, England, France, Germany, India, Italy, Northern Ireland, Russia, Spain, Turkey, and the United States.

What could possibly bring this diverse group together? There’s only one thing in the world strong enough to do that: a deep love for photography.

Our collective was formed on the intentional basis of being DIFFERENT - different artists with different backgrounds, different races, languages, ability/disability, ages, and genres.

When the theme was announced there was a collective sigh, literally heard round the world. In all honesty, the theme of TOGETHER presented a challenge to nearly every single person on the team. From landscape, travel, nature, astro, portrait, fine art, urbanscape, and conceptual photographers, we’ve all literally spent the past two years ALONE.

World conditions have left everyone in isolation. The thought of “TOGETHER” was at the same time refreshing and terrifying. A few members panicked, some laughed, some left, most cringed at the thought. But in the end, the theme of TOGETHER has brought us TOGETHER.

We’ve dug through our archives, shot new images, edited like crazy, and shared critiques. Then we went back and started all over again!

This collective is the labor of our love, created with laughter, fun, and friendship. With our members spread over at least a dozen time zones, meetings were sometimes varied, crazy, and broken into smaller parts depending on the parts of the world. When you think about that accomplishment alone, accomplished with a bunch of creatives no less, you realize the depth of the loyalty to the project, to the team, and to each other.

Long late nights filled with love, laughter, jokes, craziness, and support have been the backbone of this project since the beginning.

For members of the team who are just beginning their NFT journey, it is an honor to be included with seriously talented photographers, who have been secretly discovered to be just normal people. We are all photographers but we don’t act like competitors. The community and support have been the stuff of legends. We want everyone to make it. Together as a team, we have been able to celebrate victories, face challenges, share as we have won awards, been represented by galleries, sold limited edition fine art prints, and are helping ensure everyone on our team is kicking it in the NFT world.

Through it all there is one common theme: every single member shares the same passion for photography. When asked what the best part of our team is, one member replied, “Love, kindness, love, happiness, love!”

Or, as they say in Ireland, the craic!

CURATOR: AlphaTrilogy
    

ARTISTS

  * Armand Sarlangue
  * Daniel Viñé
  * Dima Chatrov
  * Donna Martinez
  * Ekrem Şahin
  * Elena Liseykina
  * Emre Bostanoglu
  * Enrico Fossati
  * Eric Boniakos
  * Gianluca Podestà
  * Hendro Soetrisno
  * Houston Vandergriff
  * Jidhun M.G.
  * Joffrey Briaud
  * Kat Livengood
  * Kristen Valent
  * Kristin Piljay
  * Leslie Spurlock
  * Mustafa Aydın
  * Pam Voth
  * Paul Killeen
  * Paul Moon
  * Sabine Weise
  * Sara Zanini
  * Xose Casal
  * Yuri Santin

TOGETHER by Artists United curated by AlphaTrilogy

Left to wither in another place,   An angel newly fallen from grace.   She wandered the earth for some time,   Searching for the ties that bind.   A trail of tears left along the way,   The angel with no one left to pray.   And just when she began to lose hope,   she felt the pull of a familiar rope.   There they were, the familiar faces,   of the people who prayed for her graces.   They extended hands and held her near,   and told her she had nothing to fear.   Although she fell from heaven alone,   The fallen angel had found her home.  

CURATOR NOTE

Together? Do you see it in this photograph? I see a look of contentment. Of acceptance. Together, with her wings, she can deal with anything. They empower her and without them, she might be lost. What, and who, are your wings?

THE ARTIST

Photojournalist for Zuma Press, photographer, storm chaser, and humanitarian. Leslie Spurlock, a talented and gifted photographer, has been capturing stunning pictures across the globe. With her unique style and one-of-a-kind shots, she is captivating audiences all over the world.

With 21 years of experience, Leslie is bold with her pictures and captures the world through her eyes. She has covered stories all over the world from the USA to the Amazon and Haiti taking breathtaking pictures wherever she goes.

Leslie has a true talent and is very gifted. She can capture truth, beauty, and the heart of humanity across the globe with her candid shots. She got started in her photojournalism career when she decided to make a bold move and go to Haiti to do some documentary work. By 2004, she was supposed to go to Haiti for Carnival but the uprising happened and that’s when she decided to listen to her calling and embarked on her career in photojournalism.

She ended up living with the rebels for 3 weeks when they ousted President Aristide and took over the country temporarily. She went back 4 more times, including, covering Tropical Storm Jeanne which killed 3000.

After those times in Haiti, she took a break from photojournalism and started shooting weddings and portraits, but her heart wasn’t in it and soon she was led back into photojournalism in 2020.

She was watching the riots unfold with George Floyd and that’s when she knew in her heart that she had to make a decision. This was her life’s calling, which she could no longer ignore. It was then that she covered 17 protests across the country. She captured the most astonishing and captivating moments in US history. Not only was she out in the middle of the riots, but she was also involved in storm chasing, capturing the heart of the storms and the aftermaths of Katrina, Rita, Harvey, Laura, Ida, and Delta.

She has been published worldwide including in Time, Wall Street Journal, Mother Jones, NY Post, The Guardian, Der Spiegel, Miami Herald, Austin American Statesman, Daily Mail, ABC, CNN, Yahoo, and many more.

Leslie Spurlock is truly gifted and talented at capturing events around the globe and humanity through her lens and unique world of photojournalism.

Angel Tears by Leslie Spurlock

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