Medium Photo Collective Members

Amanda Dahlgren (she/her)

@AMANDADAHLGREN | amandadahlgren.com

Amanda Dahlgren is a conceptual artist whose photographic and video work opens dialogues about the way we live as a society and what we choose to value. Amanda is also an educator and mentor whose mission is to challenge and inspire everyone in her care to find powerful and authentic ways to express themselves through photography.

Brandy J Sebastian (she/her)

@BRANDYJSEBASTIAN

Brandy J. Sebastian is an experimental and conceptual photographer whose work is rooted in connections to femininity, spirituality, and her philosophical life journey. Her work is derived from, and explores, a spectrum of photographic mediums, including digital, analogue, and alternative processes. She is passionate about pushing the boundaries of what a photographic print can be, beyond the traditional printed image.

Galina Semenova

@GALA_SEMENOVA | galinasemenova.com

Galina Semenova is an award-winning Fine Art Portrait Photographer based in San Diego, California. Born in Russia and relocating to the United States in 2009, she brings a multicultural lens and over two decades of experience to her work. Influenced by Russian literary giants, her portraits explore the complexity of the human soul, balancing fragility and strength, vulnerability and courage. Galina’s socially engaged projects, including Portraits of Domestic Violence Survivors and the Breast Cancer Survivor Series, transform adversity into resilience and healing. Internationally exhibited, her art illuminates the human spirit and fosters empathy, connection, and social transformation.

J. Grant Brittain (he/him)

@JGRANTBRITTAIN | jgrantbrittainphotos.com

J. Grant Brittain started shooting photos at the Del Mar Skate Ranch in 1979 while he was a worker bee and eventually the pro shop manager. He had watched the top photographers of the 1970s come through the skatepark with various pro skaters in tow and admired their work in the skate magazines months after they shot the photos. After borrowing his roommate's camera in February of 1979, he was immediately hooked on the art of photography. Grant honed his photographic skills by shooting his friends flying out of the cement bowls on their skateboards over the next few years.

In 1983 he helped found Transworld Skateboarding Magazine, and over the next 20 years served as its only Photo Editor and as a Senior Photographer. His dynamic skateboarding photos shot all over the world were on 60+ covers over that time. 

In 2004, Grant and his friends left TWS and started The Skateboard Mag, which had a great run from 2004-2016. Today Grant works on his own artistic, commercial, and personal projects: teaching photography, doing photo exhibits all over the world, releasing new photos from his 44 year archive, and has published his book project, “PUSH- 80s Skateboarding Photography”.

Grant is a lifelong North San Diego County native and lives in Encinitas with his family and his pets.

Kris Moore

@GENIUS.CRICKET_PHOTO | krishodsonmoore.com

Kris Moore’s work addresses current events, social engagement, and concern for the environment. She uses digital capture intended for archival artist prints. Her latest work is a result of picking up beach trash since 2020 and bringing it back to her studio where she poses her favorite pieces against newspaper headlines and colored paper. Her theatre background and love of drama are evident in the playful application of these skills mixed with her outrage over MAGA-world insanity. She has been observed muttering to herself and pulling out clumps of hair. She loves flowers, bright colors, and is a safe and courteous driver.

Her work had been seen at galleries throughout the United States and beyond. She has won awards and grants. Through 2027, her soft focus architectural details are currently mounted as giant panels in the North Park neighborhood of San Diego, CA.

Kaleah Lanae King

@kaleahlanae | kaleahking.com

Kaleah Lanae King is a San Diego–based photographer, educator, and visual artist. She holds a B.A. in Photojournalism from California State University, Fullerton, and an M.F.A. in Photography from Lesley University College of Art & Design. In addition to her artistic practice, she has over a decade of experience in nonprofit & arts education. She currently serves as Executive Director of Medium Photo.

Liliana Hueso (she/they/ella)

@LILIANA_HUESO_PHOTOGRAPHER | huesoproductions.com

Liliana Hueso is a queer, bi-national, bilingual professor, filmmaker, photographer, and activist. Her work bridges education, visual storytelling, and community engagement across the U.S.–Mexico border. With extensive experience in teaching media, leading workshops, and organizing exhibitions, she centers narratives often overlooked by mainstream media.

Her films and photography have been exhibited in bi-national conferences, festivals, and galleries. As a Borderlands artist, Liliana’s perspective is shaped by lived experience. Through her lens, she amplifies marginalized voices—creating space for stories that challenge, connect, and heal.

Marshall Williams

@TACOSTAND_VERNACULAR | marshallwilliams.com

Marshall Williams’ photographs explore the cultural landscape of the American West and specifically Southern California by way of its unique vernacular architecture and the power of environment and place in revealing our identity.

Williams studied at Brooks Institute of Photography and apprenticed with photographer and educator Dean Collins. He frequently credits the detail rich and luminous Black and White photographs of Max Yavno as an enduring influence. Williams has maintained a commercial photography studio in San Diego, CA for almost 35 years. His fine art images are held by collectors and institutions.

Patricia Grabski (she/her)

@PATRICIA.GRABSKI

Patricia Grabski's work offers a visual journey through various influences she has photographed around the world. She applies her background as a city planner to inform her work. She explores how the built environment shapes our experiences and perceptions.

Through her work, she encourages us to look beyond the surface and discover the rich narratives that shape our world.

richard richard richards (he/him)

@RICPICS.ME | ricpics.me

richard richard richards (FKA “Richard Provencio”), is a visual artist, writer, and recovering comedian who primarily works in the medium of photography. richards considers his camera an extension of himself and uses it like “a Quija Board only cooler,” claiming it helps guide him to a place where intuition, chance, and preparedness meet and also “it’s got a lot of megapixel thingies." Known for his professionalism, sincerity, and cleverful…ness(?), richards has a knack for finding the exact moment when a feeling emerges and pulling it right out of thin air like a daft pick pocket or bumbling sorcerer.

Riley Arthur

@RILEYART | rileyarthur.com

Arthur’s work explores the relationship between people and place, examining identity, memory, and belonging through regional histories, gentrification, and cultural nostalgia. Born in American Samoa, her Pacific upbringing inspired a lasting love of bold color. A Fulbright Scholar and National Geographic grantee, her photography has been featured in more than 40 outlets, including The New York Times, The Guardian, and Der Spiegel. Her work is held in the Harris Museum, Horniman Museum, and Telluride Historical Museum, with exhibition highlights including the 2019 Venice Biennale, Ukrainian Pavilion. She also teaches smartphone photography and wrote Phone Photography for Everybody (Amherst Media, 2021).

scott b. davis (he/him)

@scott_b_davis | scottbdavis.com

scott b. davis photographs desert landforms using 19th century platinum/palladium materials and cameras as large as 16”x20”. A dedicated platinum printer since the 1990s, his work includes combinations of unique paper negatives and traditional darkroom prints made from film negatives.

In 2021 his work was published in the monograph scott b. davis: sonora by Radius Books. His work can be found in museum collections including the Center for Creative Photography, the J. Paul Getty Museum, LACMA, the Nelson Atkins Museum, San Diego Museum of Art and others. He is represented by Marshall Gallery in Santa Monica, and Etherton Gallery in Tucson.

Stefan Frutiger (he/him)

@stefan.frutiger.photography | frutigerphotography.com

Stefan is a photographer and environmental advocate based in San Diego, California. He holds a Master of Arts in Photography from Falmouth University and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the Bern University of Applied Sciences in Switzerland. Stefan has exhibited in juried shows and galleries in California and Internationally. He is an active member of the Sierra Club, focusing on environmental advocacy and community engagement.

Traverse Day Robinette

traverserobinette.com

Traverse makes photographic journals of the places he explores. He tells stories, some made up, some autobiographical. He likes to write poetry or short stories to accompany his photography. He is interested in quiet places and of things that are not thought of as important or grand. He focuses on small details, layers, shapes, and abstracts in nature. His projects revolve around his personal interactions with the environment and the people in his life.

Wolfgang Hastert

@wolfganghastert | wolfganghastert-studio.com

Wolfgang Hastert creates both moving and still images. He has traveled across the United States for the European TV station a r t e, producing documentaries on artists, photographers, and social issues. One of Wolfgang's most notable films focused on the painter Edward Hopper, blending fictional vignettes with documentary elements.In subsequent films, Wolfgang has portrayed communities in the Appalachian mountains, showed the imaginative world of James Bidgood in New York, and presented the modernist studio sets of Paul Outerbridge. These films have been showcased worldwide.

Wolfgang holds an MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts from Duke University. He has taught media production at UCSD, mainly concentrating on research and depiction of online communities. With the rise of cyber dating culture, he began documenting people searching for love online. In his works "Click Me" and "Russian Brides," he filmed participants in video forums, capturing their cyber-flirting behaviors. These documentaries have led him to further experimental exploration of how people connect with one another.