Untitled DAO is pleased to share the completion of its origin collection, a selection of fifteen photographers engaging thoughtfully, critically, and inventively with the medium and the world-at-large, while holding presence within the NFT ecosystem.
The selection of these photographers occurred over a 6-week period in which Untitled DAO members were allotted a budget to select 1-2 photographers for the collection in consultation with the membership as a whole. The results of this process reflect our values in championing a breadth of photographic practices that reflect formal sophistication, emotional complexity, and criticality in stances toward social, cultural, and historical conversation.
Moving forward, we will open dialogues around and about each of the photographers in our collection. And we will continue to work closely together to identify the most unique and important emerging photographic practices within the NFT space.
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Ursula
A science-fiction-inspired series interpreting notions of AI genderization and servitude.
https://opensea.io/collection/hannahwhitaker-ursula
Skin Story
A study and celebration of the tactility, intimacy, and tenderness of the human body.
https://opensea.io/collection/skinstory
Behold the Ocean
A collection of ocean photographs produced with algorithmic generative technology to raise funds for a scientific climate research expedition.
https://opensea.io/collection/beholdtheocean
El Nuevo Mundo
A lyrical interpretation of colonial legacies and the “Western Gaze.”
https://opensea.io/collection/el-nuevo-mundo-by-cristina-velasquez
If Not Here, Then When?
An exploration of virtual ownership, utilizing The MET’s digital archive as source material.
https://opensea.io/collection/if-not-here-then-where
SK876: A Portrait of Jamaican Skateboarding
A documentarian glimpse into the world of a skateboarding community near Kingston, Jamaica.
https://opensea.io/collection/sk876
The Cousins
A tender rendition of the relationship between the artist’s daughter and niece, addressing youthfulness, girlhood, and Haitian lineage.
https://foundation.app/@KIBAPTISTE
Enough
An exploration of Blackness, patriotism, power, and community channeled through the traditions of street photography.
https://www.quantum.art/collection/enough
Some Kind of Heavenly Fire
A magical-realist reconstruction of UFO sighting stories from Northern Finland in the 1960s.
View Some Kind of Heavenly Fire
https://foundation.app/collection/heavenly
Complicit
A theatrical suite of portraits inspired by French Romanticism, depicting the photographer’s own relationships with older men.
https://opensea.io/collection/complicit
Silver Lining
A brief odyssey of encounters experienced during an aimless road trip in the American Southwest.
https://opensea.io/collection/silverliningnft
Blue Crawfish
An “American Gothic” centered on tragedy and family throughout Louisiana.
https://opensea.io/collection/blue-crawfish
This is Real Life
A New Media vignette about the strangeness found on the fringes of American culture.
https://foundation.app/@robertleblanc?tab=created
Apiary
An interpretive documentary on anti-establishment celebrations in rural Southern England.
https://foundation.app/collection/rfa
Polyarnye Nochi
A Landscape survey of Northern Russia’s Kola Peninsula, meditating on the teetering relationships between man and nature.
https://opensea.io/collection/polyarnye-nochi
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