WHO WE ARE 200

The Moderators of NFT Asia photographed by Lenne Chai in Singapore

Clara, Ernest Wu, Speak Cryptic, Shavonne Wong, Jonathan Liu, the Singapore-based moderators of [NFT Asia](https://twitter.com/nft_asia), a community for NFT artists in Asia.

[Twitter](https://twitter.com/lenneigh)
[Instagram](http://instagram.com/lenneigh)
[Website](https://lenne.photography/)

WHO WE ARE #172

Brandon Espeleta photographed by Brandon Espeleta in Los Angeles, CA, USA

First generation Chicano, born in Los Angeles and raised in Palmdale. Brandon Espeleta picked up a camera while studying Criminal Justice. He decided to pursue a career in photography rather than in the criminal justice system. Now, doing photography full time for 3 years, he photographs concerts, festivals & day to day lifes of artists. Brandon has been an NFT collector for about 2 months now and has recently jumped to the creator side of NFTs, releasing his first collection documenting lowrider culture in Los Angeles.

[Twitter](https://twitter.com/jvdotsls) 
[www.jvsls.com](http://www.jvsls.com)

WHO WE ARE #171

Akosua Viktoria Adu-Sanyah photographed by Kam Vachon

Akosua Viktoria Adu-Sanyah is an internationally exhibited and published German-Ghanaian visual artist and documentary photographer based in Zurich, Switzerland. Her work is frequently awarded for exploring new territories through image-making, research, and human connection. She believes in the diversity of thought and expression, which results in various practices that inform each other. She equally engages in documentary work and conceptual arts.

[Twitter](https://twitter.com/kamvachonn)
[www.kamvachon.com/](http://www.kamvachon.com/)

WHO WE ARE #170

Luke Yun photographed by Brandon Espeleta

Luke Yun is forever dreaming of an open, decentralized future. He is a firm believer in Web3 and making the concept of a "starving artist" obsolete. He is currently helping on chain technology unlock creativity for all.

[Twitter](http://www.twitter.com/jvdotsls)

WHO WE ARE #169

Cynthia Hasenbos photographed by Hugo Caspers in Enschede, The Netherlands

Cynthia Hasenbos (or Artfromabove) is a drone photographer based in Enschede, the Netherlands. She has been a professional photographer since 2012. Her NFT work is mainly based on her drone photography. 

[Twitter](https://twitter.com/Amigo225Hugo)
[www.amigomedia.nl/](http://www.amigomedia.nl/)

WHO WE ARE #168

YVRTrader photographed by Evan McQuaid Bedford

YVR Trader is VC to numerous Crypto projects and an influential NFT collector as well, focusing on fine art and photography. He is a founding member of the Meebits and Pixel Vault Founder"s DAO. In addition, he is a social media influencer on Twitter where he is deeply involved in all aspects of Crypto, NFTs and Web3.

[Twitter](https://twitter.com/embphotos)

WHO WE ARE #167

Mona Kuhn photographed by Yogan Muller in Los Angeles, California USA

Mona Kuhn is a photographer and lens-based media artist, member of the RAW DAO and Quantum.Art. She is is considered a leading artist in the world of figurative discourse.Her work is collected by museums in the US, Europe and Asia. Kuhn was born in So Paulo, Brazil, in 1969, of German descent. Her work is in private and public collections worldwide. She is excited about NFTs. The best is yet to come! [www.monakuhn.com/](https://www.monakuhn.com/)

[Twitter](http://twitter.com/yogan_muller)
[yogan-muller.com/](https://yogan-muller.com/)
[Instagram](http://instagram.com/yoganmullerstudio)

WHO WE ARE #166

Cody Ceverha photographed by Connor Millin in the SF Bay Area, California USA

Cody is a traveler and photographer taking gorgeous photos of destinations he reaches by foot, truck, boat, plane, and whatever else he can find to carry him somewhere new. He works with a variety of different cameras and styles to suit the subject at hand while trying to highlight the natural features of the world so many of us miss. He has been investing and involved in the world of Crypto for over a year. Cody has been minting and collecting NFTs for the last few months while encouraging and assisting other photographers to do the same.

[Twitter](https://twitter.com/connormillin)

WHO WE ARE #165

Viribus Femina photographed by Benjamin Sumner Franke aka Soulcraft

Viribus Femina is a seasoned art model, NFT creator, and muse to some of the most prestigious fine art photographers and artists of our time. Evolving far beyond her fashion background, she found liberation in the world of art modeling. Through her depth of character, brilliant creativity, and collaborative spirit, she seeks to free us from our conditioning and open our eyes to inherent beauty. Within this focus, she elevates every creative expression to an otherworldly, deeply meaningful, and ineffably beautiful level.

[LinkTree](https://linktr.ee/_soulcraft_/)

WHO WE ARE #164

Carlos Mondeja photographed by Sam Bohorquez in Madrid, Spain

Carlos Mondeja is Cuban and graduated from the Instituto Superior de Diseo in Havana, Cuba. He is a graphic designer, illustrator and has recently started his journey as a NFT artist. He always like to explore new ways and styles to express himself, both in analog and digital ways.

[Twitter](http://twitter.com/sammbohorquez)

WHO WE ARE #163

Lily Hatten photographed by Mia Forrest in Byron Bay, Australia

Lily Hatten (b. 1992) is a self taught portrait, documentary and fine art photographer living on Bundjalung Country in Northern NSW, Australia. She works across digital and analogue photography. After becoming a mother herself, she was called to document birth, motherhood and the seasons of life, death and rebirth that ripple out from mothering. As well as her client work, Lily documents the lives of her immediate family through an ongoing and continually evolving series, and her images are intimate and almost surreal. [Lily"s Twitter](http://twitter.com/lilycallisto) [www.lilycallisto.com](http://www.lilycallisto.com)

[Twitter](https://twitter.com/miaforrestphoto)
[www.mia-forrest.com](http://www.mia-forrest.com)

WHO WE ARE #162

Josip Artukovic photographed by Paul Tait

Josip Artukovic is a documentary, portrait and street photographer, with a keen interest in the history of the medium and nature of the photographic image. His writings on photography in the NFT space allowed him to be one of the contributors to ObscuraDAO and a member of the RAWdao. Also, he is one of the five artists awarded ObscuraDAO"s first Foundry commission.

[Twitter](https://twitter.com/paultaitco)

WHO WE ARE #161

Mia Forrest photographed by Mia Forrest in Byron Bay, Australia

Mia Forrest is an Australian photographer and filmmaker. Her film work explores poetic and surreal ways to expand time, particularly through her slow cinema short films, and slit scan moving images. Mia's work has exhibited internationally at the Cannes AVIFF Art Festival, Channels International Biennial of Video Art at the Australian Center for Moving Image, Queensland Film Festival, and Aesthetica Film Festival. The music videos she directed have been twice nominated for a Queensland Music Award. Her portraiture work was shortlisted for the 2021 Photo Collective Australian Photography Award in the Documentary Category. Mia has just released her first NFT collection, Bloom, a time-based motion project that features fleurs and fungi, warping to transcend space and time. As the plants transform and mutate over time, the spectacle showcases the history of species and proposes new cosmic futures.

www.mia-forrest.com

WHO WE ARE #160

Idil Dursun photographed by Ilker Isik in Ankara, Turkey

Born in 1997, Idil Dursun (aka Jarvinart), is an Ankara based architect graduated from Bilkent University Department of Architecture in 2020. In September 2020, she began her professional career as a CGI Artist in the architectural visualization company ivaBOX. Since then, she has also been working on personal projects, creating mostly cyberpunk/dystopian environment concepts and building her own universe as a vision of the future world. In March 2021, she jumped into the NFT space and since then she has been an active member of the community. She is the curator of the " Architecture World" in one of the most recognized NFT platforms, Foundation. Her works are featured in the German science fiction magazine "Dark Matter Magazine" and displayed in the "The Crypt Gallery". She also works as a freelance Environment Concept artist for video games.

[Twitter](https://twitter.com/ilkerography)

WHO WE ARE #159

Ngina Ndetto photographed by Ian Soi in Nairobi, Kenya

Ngina Ndetto is a muse and aspiring photographer. She loves to express herself in front of the camera in really creatives ways. Shes been in the Kenya NFT community aiding in onboarding women and just supporting fellow creatives.

[Twitter](https://twitter.com/ian_tweezy)
[Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/ian_soi/)

WHO WE ARE #158

Louis Edlinger photographed by Grayson Lauffenburger in Berlin, Germany

Louis Edlinger is a composer for film and a music producer. After his studies at the Zurich University of Arts in Zurich, Switzerland he now lives in Berlin, Germany.  Next to his film music, he produces electronic house music under the artist name Melouie.  His first NFT project arose through a collaboration between him and the animation artist QUARCK for an animated music video of his release Eyes Closed by Melouie. After the first NFT drop they collaborated again for his next release What Do You Dream About. 
https://hicetnunc.art/objkt/462995 Louis is planning to release all his songs as NFTs in the near future.

[Twitter](https://twitter.com/graysonlauff)
[www.graysonlauffenburger.com](http://www.graysonlauffenburger.com/)

WHO WE ARE #157

Ashton Lee photographed by Gabriella Morton in Aotearoa, New Zealand

Ashton Lee is a Drone Operator & Pilot based in Aotearoa, New Zealand. He spent his early 20"s working on both Netflix and Amazon productions and believes the sky has no limits. His aerial perspective ranges from establishing settings, identifying scale and getting to corners of the globe that humans cannot reach. As Ashton learnt more about the technical side of drones he begun building and programming his own FPV aircrafts. The "First Person View" flight is achieved through VR googles, so he is currently experimenting how to bring the viewing experience to new heights in the NFT space.

[Twitter](https://twitter.com/gabriellamort)

WHO WE ARE #156

Rohit Saha photographed by Daniel Huete in Bangkok, Thailand

Rohit Saha is a visual artist from Calcutta, India. He uses photography, illustration, and animation to tell stories about communities, landscapes and political phenomena in different parts of India.

[Twitter](https://twitter.com/danielhuete
[Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/danielhuete)
[www.danielhuete.com](https://www.danielhuete.com)