John Jung and Monica LaBelle

Photography – Chicago

As a child, John Jung learned how to do photography with a broken 35mm camera- the aperture was always stuck wide open and his mother taught him her personal system for getting the equipment to work. At a certain point he learned how to do photography all over again with cameras that work the way they\'re supposed to. He still feels that there is something magical about photography, and he likes to refer to his camera as \"a machine that shows people what I\'m looking at.\"

Monica LaBelle wishes every moment of life came with a neatly written sign explaining what was going on. \"If only every person, object, and situation was easy to understand,\" she thinks to herself on an hourly basis. Having only recently resigned herself to the universe\'s lack of clarity, she consumes movies, graphic novels, and pop music for relief. Then she synthesizes all that and more to make stuff. She resides in the Upper Midwest part of the United States.