Riitta Ikonen

Finnish artist Riitta Ikonen creates impressive costumes for her subjects, who then incorporate them into their environments in playful and hilarious ways. The experiences of the people wearing Ikonen's creations as they ride on subways, walk through parks and stand on the street seem just as important as the resulting images. Check out more of her work on her site.

Bradley Peters: Home Theater

by Kelsey Keith Bradley Peters is a recent graduate of Yale University's renowned MFA program in Photography and one of photo curator Amani Olu's rising stars. Olu teams up this month with Brooklyn gallerist Melanie Flood to present Peters' images of family and strangers in mundane situations. Peters explains that he arranges his subjects in a scene and then "waits for something to happen"—in effect, …

Photographer Michael Lavine

New York-based photographer Michael Lavine took the iconic photo of Kurt and Courtney for the cover of Sassy magazine back in the early 1990s. When asked to recount the story behind the shoot he comments, "we shot the photos at my Bleeker St loft on the Bowery. I remember that my friends Andrea Linett and Janet Billig were there. I remember the ridiculous twelve foot …