Authors

Meet the authors behind Omiya’s stories on photography, design, and culture.

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8 storiesBerlin

Brenda Reichel

Brenda’s visual essays begin with a page or an object that has been deliberately arranged. She writes about design through the order of images and the spaces between them, asking how a small shift changes the whole composition.
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7 storiesWarsaw

Damian Erdman

Damian edits Omiya and writes about how photographs are made and read. His essays follow the choices around a face in a frame, with a close eye on where the light falls and what the photographer leaves out.
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6 storiesNew York

Breana Flatley

Objects and the working studio are Breana’s subjects. She is interested in the life of a thing before it looks finished, and in the ordinary tools or awkward arrangements that give a room its particular character.
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6 storiesGlasgow

Nichole Becker

Nichole approaches culture through photographs and the words we put beside them. She writes about how images are read, and about the questions that come up when a familiar picture begins to suggest something its caption never mentioned.
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5 storiesSolvang

Daryl Wehner

Daryl writes about places at street level, following the point where a building meets everyday life. His stories move between interiors and familiar routes, with an eye for small details that change the way a space is used.
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