Chad Coombs’ "Portraits" series is an audacious foray into the unsettling terrain where identity, faith, and societal norms collide in his manipulated Polaroid collage series.

These images are the AF Team's curation of the most stand-out must-see images produced in 2023. From career photographers to amateur hobbyists, these scenes and portraits made a huge impact this year!

Victoria Kosel quite literally destroys her photographs, only to create them anew. Her sliced and diced prints are reborn into fragmented scenes that force the brain to fill in the gaps that challenge the ideas of traditional landscape photography.

Liz Albert’s series, Family Fictions, take us on a journey back in time to explore family and social dynamics in the 50s and 60s through photographic slides that she has found, purchased, and combined into diptychs.

Kyle Lang’s new series Manifest Content is a darkroom photography project that delves into themes of time, memory, dreams, subconsciousness, and the environment we find ourselves in, both while awake and lucid dreaming.

Taking landscape photography to a new level, Tara A. Cronin’s new series “Winds” uses transparency film, archival inks, and her own blood to create work reminiscent of star maps or ancient genetic code.

Mads Madison's Antithesis gives you a tool for you to interact with your whole persona by taking a journey into your own unconscious with each viewing of the images contained within his new abstract book.

Thomas Kellner creates outstanding and mammoth-sized prints that deconstruct and reinterpret architectural masterpieces, rebuilding them, frame by frame, into animated and whimsical works of art.