WAFA Poloraid by We Went North

We currently have members in Washington, Oregon, California, Minnesota, Maryland, Virginia, and the UK. We collaborate artistically, and our collaborations include zines, postcards, street art installations, music, web based initiatives, and gallery exhibitions. The artists in our collective have a diverse set of skills and interests, making it possible to achieve things together that we would not be able to in isolation. We also operate a web store which is primarily a way to sell our zines. We use the money to fund future projects.

Untitled – Collaboration by Jenkins and Bear Colony.

Our community is important to us, and it is something we have nurtured over the past 5 years. Besides artistic collaborations, we offer support for one another and are active in each other’s lives as artists and individuals. This support system is more important than the work itself.

A page in the WAFA ‘Future’ journal. A book that was started by Jenkins and has traveled to every current working member of the WAFA. It is now finished.

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No Culture Icons started purely as a collective. It was a place to share and highlight young and emerging photographers, as well as already established ones. Essentially it was somewhere for us to show a wider audience the work of photographers we enjoyed and drew influence from.

The larger idea of a collective combined with the Film Lab came about later when the photo lab Liam was working in closed down and we acquired some of the equipment. As well as wanting to use it for our own purposes it seemed logical to offer the services to other photographers. As film photography was turning into a much more seldom practiced trade it was harder to find affordable labs who knew exactly what photographer’s requirements were. We tried to fill the gap by offering our services to others. The lab has been going for only 2 or 3 months so far, and it has been hectic, and we’ve learned a lot! The idea arose from wanting to give something back to the photographic community we are involved in and want to preserve.

This year should be an exciting one we have various projects on the horizon for both the collective and also for the film lab side of things: Our first exhibition is in the works, where we will be showcasing work of photographers we’ve discovered through the lab and also people who we have looked up to throughout our photographic journey. We are also working on a zine which will highlight work of amateurs who we have discovered through the collective and from having developed their images in the film lab.

As for the Film Lab, we’re going to be adding E6 (slide film processing) to our services and have also recently acquired a printer so we will be able to offer all of the services you’d expect from a photographic lab.

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