KZ Creatives are the freshly formed choreography and casting company behind your favourite music videos. Established in 2019, following their success working with Jungle on the iconic dances behind Heavy California, Casio and Cherry, founders Kane K and Nat Zangi, are creating new waves in the industry. Since their initial launch, they have already worked with a variety of artists and brands such as Labrinth, Trady and Connie Constance. We spoke to them about their emerging company, working in the industry and what dance can offer as a medium today.
(Pictured on the set of Labrinth’s visualiser)
We spoke with Monica Lek, the incredible Spanish filmmaker and photographer based in LA. Throughout her career, she has been dedicated to capturing and creating cinematic magic. Whether it’s directing her own work or being the official stills photographer for films such as Waves and Assassination Nation, she has spent a life working behind the camera, creating stories tirelessly through her work. We got a chance to ask about her day to day experiences on set, her love for cinema and her advice to those pushing for a career in the film industry.
(Pictured: Alexa Demie in Waves)
We spoke with photographer Lewi Dawson about inspiration and making connection through the medium of photography. ‘You do you, it’s what you love.’
For this issue, we spoke to the incredible photographer and filmmaker Lou Jasmine. Hailing from East London, Lou Jasmine has worked with people far and wide, capturing stories and perspectives in her signature rich, dreamy and nostalgic style. In this in depth interview, she shares valuable wisdom from her career, advice on working in the industry and the driving inspirations behind her work.
(Pictured: Jayda G.)
Katy Cummings is the photographer capturing music legends in her signature, saturated style. We spoke with her about her passion on the job, working in the music industry and her favourite moments from her career to date.
(Pictured: Billie Eilish)
(un)titled spotlights Oscar Lang’s debut Chew The Scenery. Photography by Jordan Curtis Hughes.
Youth in Bed is a new short film that chronicles moments from three stories intertwined across generations - brought together by the very same bed. It explores notions of coincidence, romanticism, love and loss, all from the perspective of the hungry, hopeful and longing characters that lie within it. We spoke with the creative team behind this short, writer and director Edward Zorab and creative producer Mollie Cayzer-Colvin on their influences and inspirations behind this film and what it means to them. Photography is by DoP Edward Glynne-Jones.
Blending fierce, massive vocals and raw bluesy guitar with introspective lyrics and electronic textures, Elizabeth Moen ‘showcases both strength and vulnerability, reminding us that these traits often go hand in hand’ (NPR Music).
(Pictured: still from Creature of Habit music video)
I am Trent Trammell, Atlanta based Photographer. I create because there has always been a burning need for me to create something that was not there before; whether it's capturing a fleeting moment, telling a story, or staging a themed look. Creating in today's world has afforded me the ability to broadcast my work to every corner of the planet and turn my ideas into reality. I feel proud to create and stand alongside so many of talented youth, fully capable of turning dreams into reality.
gas-lighting. being held by a thread. what once was. constriction. censorship. forced connections, small talk. This is what I hoped to convey in my series, emotional distance. I shot these photos with a couple who were dating at the time, so I could harness that intimacy yet also depict that strained connection that can form in relationships. a lyric I was really inspired by for this series is one by The Marias from their song ‘I don't know you,’ it goes “there's a weight in my bed where you laid and you said 'I don't know you.'" the photos are about losing touch and losing a sense of togetherness.
Maybe I, too, Was Photosynthesizing is an exploration of the self through lived experiences of light. Based on a written account of memories and passing thoughts triggered by observing light and how it moulds things, this project explores existential anxiety, mental illness, body esteem, and being as the process of becoming. This book includes visual responses to the text, using both digital and analog drawing methods, as a means of viscerally expressing what it is like to feel intolerably light.