The Paper Crane

Bryan Der­balla is a young, aspir­ing pho­to­jour­nal­ist liv­ing in Brook­lyn, NY by way of San Fran­sisco, CA. He is the cre­ator of the web­site lovebryan.com which serves as a host site for the blogs of friends that use pho­tog­ra­phy as a way to con­nect with each other and…

Dani­aelle Simon­sen is an illus­tra­tor and embroi­dery artist liv­ing and work­ing in Los Ange­les. When she is not sewing her art she is sewing every­thing else - clothes, hand­bags, home stuff, and books. Simon­sen says “Some­times I feel like my sewing machine could replace my hand. I am greatly inspired by…

It is a grey and rainy day in Chicago when I arrive at the stu­dio of Woohyun Shim. She greets me in the lobby of The School of the Art Insti­tute of Chicago’s 112 S. Michi­gan build­ing and we ride the ele­va­tor up to her stu­dio, a cor­ner space on…

The first time I spoke to Heather Chon­tos was over the tele­phone, I was 45 min­utes late in call­ing her for our 7:15pm cen­tral time phone appoint­ment. To my relief, she was not mad over my time dif­fer­ence tar­di­ness. Hav­ing just put her youngest daugh­ter, Zana, to bed,…