Hallease Narvaez
2021 Resident
Atlanta, Georgia, and San Antonio, Texas US
Hallease is a filmmaker, digital storyteller, and creative entrepreneur. She has produced original online content for PBS Digital Studios, Target, Google, and YouTube through her production company StumbleWell. She hosts creative conversations with fellow artists on her podcast “Tryna Be Somebody,” and she teaches storytelling via Skillshare.
Shirin Nahvi
2021 Resident
Los Angeles, California, US
Shirin, also known as Queen Shirin, is a Los Angeles–based creative with a drive for storytelling through informative and empowering content. Born and raised in Maryland, Shirin always had big dreams of working in the beauty industry, so she built and pulled up her own seat at the table. Through her work, she hopes to inspire others to be the best version of themselves.
Tanya Gupta
2021 Resident
New York City, New York, US
Tanya, also known as Guptanya, is a New York–based art director, multimedia artist, and former NASA engineer. In 2021, she became the first Indian-American to join the Adobe Creative Residency. Since then, she’s directed more than 100 social editorials for Tom Ford Beauty, Disney, and more. Her work has been featured in Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, and Teen Vogue.
Christina Poku
2020 Resident
London, UK
Christina creates staged scenes that fuse reality with colorful abstract motifs. Working across disciplines with an unapologetic color palette, she creates impactful images and cinemagraphs. Her long-term goal is to run a full-service photography studio and multidisciplinary practice that merges physical and virtual elements in digital images.
Amelie Satzger
2019 Resident
Munich, Germany
For her project Seeing Music, Amelie worked with musicians to create surreal visualizations of their lyrics. She built backgrounds and props, posed the musicians, created her artwork, and shared her process from start to finish on social media. She hopes to creative-direct music videos and short films, and work with theaters, musicians, and actors to visualize their ideas.
Cyn Lagos
2019 Resident
Austin, Texas, US
During her residency, Cyn mentored aspiring artists in the techniques of visual language and storytelling via an empathic lens. In “This is your artist speaking,” her YouTube video podcast, Cyn advocates for your inner artist in a series of conversations discussing the techniques and culture of the creative industry while navigating her own artistic identity.
Tyler Babin
2019 Resident
New York, New York, US
Passionate about storytelling, Tyler is creating a video series that shares his experiences as an emerging artist alongside the experiences of established artists navigating their influence. He’s posting to Instagram and YouTube each day to bring the community into his creative process. He hopes to tell stories that help people feel empowered to follow their dreams.
Aaron Bernstein
2018 Resident
New York City, New York, US
As “Hungry Boy,” Aaron creates photographs, animations, and short-form videos in the food and lifestyle spaces. Coming from a fashion background, he seeks to create work that lives beyond genre in the grey areas of art and style. His clients include Adobe, Afterpay, Disney, Ferrero North America, Goldbelly, The Not Company, Smirnoff, Spotify, and Under Armour.
Laura Zalenga
2018 Resident
Rotterdam, Netherlands
Based in Rotterdam, Laura is a conceptual portrait photographer from Germany. During their residency, they created the documentary project “Beauty of Age.” They interviewed and took portraits of 35 elderly people to show that there is so much more to age than what society sees, including beauty, life wisdom, and first-hand knowledge of our history.
Aundre Larrow
2017 Resident
Brooklyn, New York, US
A photographer based in Brooklyn, New York, Aundre spent his residency exploring the daily lives, challenges, and perspectives of a diverse range of people throughout the US. In his project “Stories from Here,” a snapshot of America through the eyes of its residents, he captured photographs, made video content for the first time, and shared his process.
Julia Nimke
2017 Resident
Berlin, Germany
A German photographer based in Berlin, Julia is passionate about nature, traveling, and unique types of cultural storytelling. She spent her residency exploring and documenting places and cultures in Europe that are tied to folktales. She tried different photography styles, combined photos and videos into compelling stories, and shared what she learned with the community.
Sara Dietschy
2016 Resident
Dallas, Texas, US
With over 900,000 subscribers on her self-titled channel, Sara creates and uploads docuseries, tech reviews, and vlogs. Through her work, she explores the intersection of technology and creativity. During her residency, Sara made “Creative Spaces TV” to explore the creative spaces of artists, discover the tools they create with, and find inspiration in their creative journeys.