Still Life: Photographs & Love Stories

About Kate Sterlin

Kate Sterlin is a photographer and writer whose work has been featured in The New York Times The Atlantic and Vogue. Stemming from formative experiences mentoring under acclaimed documentarian Mary Ellen Mark alongside her striking early snapshots of her father she has developed dual bodies of work in street photography and portraiture that wend together to capture otherwise hidden stories. She has been exhibited in group and solo shows and her film Sometimes has been shown at film festivals internationally. After a long period of working and living in New York City she is currently based in Los Angeles CA.Arooj Aftab is a musician and multi-hyphenate creative whose repertoire includes music production and engineering as well as a sprawling vocal practice assembled in pursuit of what she adoringly refers to as global soul. She has delivered rapturous performances at such venues and events as the Newport Jazz Festival Coachella and Glastonbury and has received praise from a constellation of publications and critics including The New York Times Pitchfork Rolling Stone and Time. Among her many accolades are five Grammy nominations (and one win for 2022s Mohabbat) a 2023 United States Artists Fellowship and the Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Music.Tessa Thompson is an award-winning actor and producer. She most recently reprised her role as Bianca in Creed III directed by Michael B. Jordan. In 2020 Thompson starred in Prime VideosSylvies Love of which she was an executive producer. In 2021 she starred in the indie film Passing which debuted at the Sundance Film Festival and she also served as an executive producer. Thompsons past credits include Thor: Love and Thunder Creed Creed II Men in Black: International Thor: Ragnarok Avengers: Endgame Little Woods Annihilation Sorry to Bother You Selma Dear White People and Westworld. Up next Thompson will star in the titular role of Hedda Gabler in Nia DaCostas upcoming film Hedda for MGMs Orion Pictures and Plan B. She will also produce via her own Viva Maude label launched in 2020.