Everyone is So Dedicated Here
From an early age, MIKE SZPOT showed a creative side, shooting skateboarding videos with his friends. From that moment on, the passion that ensued has dominated his life. It created a...
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Looking Back at 2024
As 2024 draws to a close, we find ourselves reflecting on a year filled with milestones, creativity, and collaboration. It has been an incredible journey, and we’re excited to share...
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My Desk Always Has A Camera
ALEX SHEYN is a creative type – designer, illustrator, typographer, and photographer – currently working and living in San Francisco. Exploring 3D animation, motion graphics, illustration and interactive design to shape and share...
My Approach is Very Organic
ZACH LIPSON is a Portland-based creative with a passion for all things visual. What started as simply "learning" to use a camera, became a passionate hobby that changed his life in...
Chi-City Gritty...That‘s Got a Nice Ring to it Right?
KARL SOLANO is a lifelong Chicagoan with a penchant for philosophy, travel, people, basketball, art...pretty much all that life has to offer. Very big on self-improvement and learning from others, he is...
Randomly Organized
Born and raised in Chicago, ALBERTO SANTIAGO is a photographer and musician. His rule for life is that there is always time and space to learn from others.
Opportunity, Opportunity, Opportunity.
RYAN MCMAHILL was born in Los Angeles, raised in Saint Louis and eventually moved to Chicago after attending Miami University in Ohio. Ryan is the founder of the newly formed Feature...
It’s Easy to Find Inspiration Around Every Corner
GRAHAM CHAPMAN grew up in the Chicago Western Suburbs before moving to Chicago in 2010 to pursue his career as a video editor. He soon took up photography and found his true...
I Just Want People to See and Experience What I Experienced Through My Photography
ANDRÉ BAYARD is a Seattle transplant living in Chicago. He has spent time living in South Korea and Uganda volunteering and teaching English as a second-language.
Capture the Moments In Between
VINCE DESANTIAGO is a photographer and art director based in Chicago. He attended the Chicago Academy for the Arts where he majored in Musical Theatre and went on to Columbia...
I Have Found Faith in Myself and What I Do
VLADA KOZACHUK is a young photographer from Saint Petersburg, Russia. She came to study graphic design but quickly found photography as her passion.
Thirty Minutes with Kwe Bentum
We spent time with KWE BENTUM, a prolific mobile and dslr photographer in Chicago. His Chicago images are in the new book, Trope Chicago and he also appears in the upcoming...
Photography is My Meditation
Meet COCU LIU, a mobile photographer and product designer based in the San Francisco Bay area. He was born and raised in Beijing and lived in Hong Kong and Chicago for...
Exploring Chicago with a Camera in My Hand Ignited My Love for Photography
JOE ALTWIES grew up in Lake Geneva WI, and started taking regular trips down to Chicago to shoot while in high school. He loves photography because it often takes him to...
Five Minutes with John Regole
JOHN REGOLE is a Chicago based design engineer and self professed hobbyist photographer. John talks to Trope Publishing about his approach to photography and what inspires him to shoot. His...