UNB15! Artist Features: IV
UNBOUND15!
July 1 – August 8, 2026
TOBIAS SHAW • DUSTIN RIGGS • JULIA PARRIS • MARGO GEDDES • LAUREN BERTELSON • ROSHAUN STEPHENSON • GRACE WESTON
TOBIAS SHAW | DC
Multiple layered ink-jet prints,
17 x 12 inches framed
Variant Edition, #1 of 7 + 1AP
$850
'The Crescent Moon' is a collaborative book project between Laila Nahar and her niece, Amaya Mahmud (18). The work reflects Amaya’s inner world using her painting/sketching/writing and photographs as she is struggling with Eating Disorders/Anorexia. Amaya has been drawing consistently since she was a child. The drawings evolved over time and together with strong words it shows how Amaya’s feeling towards her body changed. Laila’s photographs and collages had been taken along the way.
Manifest/Destiny 1, 2026. Layered inkjet prints, 17 x 12 inches framed. Variant edition, #1 of 7 + 1AP. $850
Manifest/Destiny is an excerpt from a series examining my relationship to America at 250 years. The work starts with a photograph on 35mm film which is then printed in both it’s raw negative and it’s converted positive. The positive is then burned and the images are layered.
Tobias Shaw has worked professionally as a photographer, in NYC and DC, for over a decade in the events industry. When not shooting for clients, Tobias’ focus is on portraiture, fine art, and conceptual work. In DC his work has been shown at HOMME Gallery, Dupont Underground, and University of the District of Columbia. He recently produced his first publication, “36 Polaroids”, a limited edition imperfectly handmade collection of images from 2025. Over the last 5 years, he has spent countless hours walking, riding, and documenting the underground metro systems of NYC, DC, London, Singapore, and other cities. Utilizing photo montage and composite techniques, his goal is to unfold the cramped spaces beneath our feet into vistas half real and half imagined.
DUSTIN RIGGS | SEATTLE
Gelatin silver print,
11 x 14 inches
Edition of 20
$300
In Why Am I Sad, I find myself engaged in a profound process of self-examination, mental health and sadness - using the camera to explore the essence of who I am and my connection to the art of photography. My roots lie in a small town. Within this space, I grappled with a pervasive sense of loneliness that transcended both the physical boundaries and the emotional confines of my surroundings. Even in the company of others, I felt a profound solitude that echoed within and beyond those walls.
Home, rather than a sanctuary, was a place where the weight of stress, anxiety, and extensive sadness loomed. Family, instead of offering solace, became a source of inner turmoil. Unspoken but deeply felt, my mother's battle with clinical depression cast a shadow over me. I saw her lose more and more of herself, becoming less and less a person I understood.
In my youth, I perceived her sadness as a natural extension of my own sadness, failing to grasp the impact it would have on my journey toward understanding and confronting my own struggles with depression as I grow older.
Marmot and Pickets, 2025. Gelatin silver print, 11 x 14 inches. Edition of 20. $300
Dustin Riggs was born in Texas and grew up in central CA. After high school, he joined the Navy and landed in Washington. He found photography while exploring Seattle and its surrounding wilderness areas. He primarily works with black & white films, processing everything by hand and printing in the darkroom.
JULIA PARRIS | BROOKLYN, NY
C-Print diptych,
24 x 20 inches each, mounted
Open edition
$725
Gathering, 2022. C - Print diptych, 24 x 20 inches each, mounted. Open edition. $725.
Dreamscapes and Constructed Realities is a series of imagined spaces, portals into the artist’s subconscious, where the weight of witnessing ongoing environmental trauma lingers. Constructing as a form of meditation, Parris blends cut-paper collage with photography to create intimate, surreal landscapes that explore how collective ecological grief seeps into our personal lives, shaping inner worlds as much as outer ones. Parris’ work invites viewers to confront both the beauty and the pressing realities of our planet’s current state, urging reflection on humanity’s role in its preservation or destruction.
Julia Parris is a multi-media artist and faculty of School of Visual Arts in New York City. Moving between cut-paper collage and photography, she constructs surreal, layered worlds that explore the subconscious and the global and personal impacts of climate change. Collaging as a form of meditation, Parris uses everyday objects and printed ephemera to create, re-contextualizing the familiar and mundane. Parris holds a BFA in Photography from Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island USA. Her work has been exhibited in the UK at Royal Photographic Society, and throughout the United States. In 2025 she was shortlisted for the Form Photo Award, and received Gold and Silver from Muse International Awards in 2025. Her work has been featured online and printed in publications.
MARGO GEDDES | MISSOULA, MT
Cyanotype diptych, toned with green tea, 14 x 20 inches ea. (diptych)
Edition # 1 of 5 + 2AP
$525
Durée explores time not as a measurable sequence, but as a lived phenomenon shaped by perception, memory, and movement.
Rather than presenting a singular, instantaneous view, these photographs are constructed through successive acts of attention. Drawing from small, rapid movements of human vision, the images register perception as cumulative and fragmented. What appears at first as a unified panorama reveals subtle fractures, repetitions, and shifts in scale and light, echoing the way the brain stitches together reality over time.
In this work, photographic time is neither singular nor stable, but layered and subjective. The images invite slow looking and active engagement. Meaning emerges not solely from the photograph itself, but through the viewer’s movement across the visual field and their awareness of time passing in relation to the work.
Hazel, 2025. Cyanotype diptych, toned with green tea, 14 x 20 inches each. Edition # 1 of 5 + 2AP. $525
Margo Geddes explores the intersections between human perception and the natural world, with particular attention to landscape, memory, and lived experience in place. Raised on Nantucket Island, Massachusetts, Geddes has lived and worked throughout the western United States for the past three decades and now lives in Missoula, Montana.
She holds an MFA in Photography from the University of Oregon and an MA in Museum Studies from Johns Hopkins University. Geddes is the registrar at the Missoula Art Museum.
LAUREN BERTELSON | CHICAGO, IL / PALM BEACH GARDENS, FL
Found stereoscope with 7 stereocards
made of collaged pigment prints
mounted to mat board,
12 x 10 x 7 inches
Edition #1 of 1 + 1AP
$3,000
Vanishing Point (2025 - ongoing) examines the mechanics of photography through the use of a stereoscope and seven sterEocards. I collage images of my body and skin into three-dimensional geometric line drawings from the mid-1800s to destabilize the gaze on the female body. Each side of the manipulated sterocard has a different collage which, when viewed through the stereoscope, creates a dissonant virtual image. The representations of architectural space and form become a site in which the body can never be fully grasped
Vanishing Point, 2025. Found stereoscope with 7 stereocards made of collaged pigment prints mounted to mat board, 12 x 10 x 7 inches. Edition #1 of 1 + 1AP. $3,000
Lauren Bertelson (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist who examines vision, the female body, and the limitations of photographic representation through a combined photographic and sculptural practice. She is a recipient of the 2026 James Weinstein Memorial Fellowship and the 2022 SOURCE Grant. Bertelson is pursuing an MFA in photography at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (expected may 2026) and holds a BFA in Art Photography from Syracuse University. Her work has been exhibited at the Light Work, Ukranian Institute of Modern Art, Studio 1608, Target Gallery, and other locations across the US.
ROSHAUN STEPHENSON | BALTIMORE, MD
Vinyl EP in sleeve,
12 x 12 inches.
Open edition
$700
Lillie's Greatest Hits, Vinyl EP in sleeve, 12 x 12 inches. Open edition. $700
Vinyl EP in sleeve,
12 x 12 inches.
Open edition
$700
Scented Fingerprints. Vinyl EP in sleeve, 12 x 12 inches. Open edition. $700
AYNOS Records is a collaborative archival project built around 28 vinyl records—one for each year of my mother’s incarceration.
The project brings together sound, photography, and printed materials to create a physical archive shaped by the people most affected by incarceration. Phone recordings of conversations between my mother and me are transferred to vinyl, alongside writings from women currently incarcerated with her. These recordings form the audio component of each record.
The visual component draws from family photographs, personal archives, and newly produced images. These photographs are printed and assembled as album artwork using traditional photographic printing and hand-assembled sleeve construction. Each record is housed in a custom sleeve that combines image, text, and sound into a single physical object.
The final works function both as playable vinyl records and as photographic artifacts. By using the format of a record album, the project builds an alternative archive rooted in family memory and lived experience.
The project is motivated by a central question: what would it look like to archive love with the same care that the prison system archives punishment? While carceral systems document people through case files and identification numbers, AYNOS Records constructs a different kind of record—one built through voices, photographs, and shared memory.
Roshaun Stephenson is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores the relationship between memory, time, and the systems that attempt to record and define human lives. Working across photography, sound, and archival materials, he investigates how institutional records often reduce people to numbers while lived experience remains far more complex.
Drawing from personal history, family archives, and collaborative storytelling, Stephenson examines how relationships, identity, and love persist within structures such as incarceration and other systems of control. Through photographs, recorded conversations, and physical objects, he constructs alternative records that foreground memory and lived experience.
Stephenson served seventeen years in the United States Navy. He is currently completing his MFA in Photography, Media and Society at the Maryland Institute College of Art.
GRACE WESTON | PORTLAND, OR
Archival pigment print
19 x 15 inches image
28 x 23 inches framed
Edition #1 of 8
$1,800
Lee, 2025. Archival pigment print, 19 x 15 inches; 28 x 23 inches framed. Edition #1 of 8. $1,800
I am an artist creating staged photography of miniature scenes built with characters, props and sets that I source, alter, or fabricate by hand.
Dolls and miniature figures are my protagonists. Historically used across cultures as tools for psychological projection, I reclaim these objects as serious artistic instruments. By employing materials traditionally coded as feminine, I deliberately challenge hierarchies of gender and artistic value.
IN RESISTANCE: WOMEN OF A CERTAIN RAGE explores women's roles in resistance movements throughout Western society. My image Lee recreates David Scherman's iconic photograph of Lee Miller bathing in Hitler's tub, her boots still muddy from documenting the concentration camps at Buchenwald and Dachau. Miller's act, defiantly claiming space in the dictator's private sanctuary while carrying the evidence of his atrocities, embodies profound resistance.
Grace Weston creates narrative staged photography through meticulously crafted miniature tableaux. Her work explores psychological, political, and intersectional feminist themes with a distinctive conceptual and visual voice.
Weston was recently awarded First Place in All About Photo Magazine Issue #46 (2025). and longlisted for the 2024 BBA Photography Prize in Berlin. In 2023, she was recognized as one of the Top 50 photographers in Photolucida’s Critical Mass 2023 and received a solo exhibition at the Southeast Center for Photography in Greenville, South Carolina. She received First Place Overall Portfolio and Gold Winner Fine Art Portfolio at the 2021 Tokyo International Foto Awards
Her work has been shown throughout the United States and internationally in Paris, Madrid, Tokyo, Naples, Shanghai, including a solo presentation at the Center for Photography in Yekaterinburg, Russia (2021), and at Paci Contemprary in Brescia, Italy (2012). A solo online exhibition in All About Photo's Showroom garnered widespread recognition across professional photography publications in multiple languages.
Throughout her career spanning more than 27 years, Weston has earned numerous fellowships, grants, and awards supporting her continuing exploration of staged miniature tableaux.
