Stories

Explore fashion, film, and archives through the lens of emerging image-makers — Sixteen brings together bold new voices with forgotten stories from the past.

  1. Merrick Morton, West Coast Portraits from the Hood, 1980-1996

    Beginning in 1980, Merrick Morton set about going to East and South Central Los Angeles—traveling as far as San Diego—to document street gang culture.
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  2. Sam Gregg, San Juan del Rio

    Sam Gregg shoots San Juan del Rio grieving context for Sixteen Journal Volume 9.
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  3. Thalia Gochez, Lady Lowrider Car Club

    Thalia Gochez shoots Sandy Avila president of Lady Lowrider Car Club in Pasadena.
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  4. Carlos Jaramillo, Tierra Del Sol

    Photographer Carlos Jaramillo finds parallels between his current home city of Los Angeles, and McAllen, Texas, the small border town where he was born.
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  5. Xavier Encinas, Desert Solitaire

    Xavier Encinas documents the American South West desert for Sixteen Journal Volume 8.
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  6. Sam Gregg, La Flaquita

    Sam Gregg documents Dias de los Muertos in Tepito, Mexico for Sixteen Journal Volume 8.
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  7. Chieska Fortune Smith, Birth

    Chieska Fortune Smith documents women during their pregnancies for Sixteen Journal Volume 7 on Womanhood.
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  8. Jet Swan, Commuters

    Portraits taken the first week of March 2022 in Liverpool Street Station, London, UK.
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  9. Aubrey Trin, Mormon Trail

    In the Summers, I go home to the place I grew calluses on my knees from praying – I document my place as a way to see it again and re-tell it.
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  10. Ben Toms, Gender Studies

    Photography by Ben Toms
    Styling by Victoire Simonney
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  11. Tealia Ellis Ritter, The Model Family

    Intergenerational love, loss, trauma and joy are explored in a project mining the ambiguities of memory, through thirty years of the artist photographing her family.
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  12. Katsu Naito, Hip-Hop meets Jazz

    Katsu Naito portrays New York's new generation of Jazz and Hip-Hop artists.
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