Every creative work exists within a frame: a photograph, a room, a landscape, an idea. In this issue, we look at the people shaping how we see, from artists and filmmakers to architects, editors, gallerists and designers.
Frame also marks one year of Bureau, a year of following curiosity and discovering what this project might become. We’re still figuring it out, and that’s all part of the fun.
image: Vivian Maier, Self-Portrait, 1953. Gelatin silver print. Vivian Maier/Maloof Collection, Courtesy of Howard Greenberg Gallery.
Filmmaker Hadley Austin calls Demon Mineral, her documentary about uranium contamination across Diné Bikeyah, an “anti-Western.” We talk with Austin about land, memory, representation, and the images that have shaped how we see the American West.
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Owner of Chicago art gallery Western Exhibitions talks about why going with his gut has served him well in an industry that often looks only for "what will sell".
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Mexico City-based architects LANZA Atelier talk to Bureau about 10 years of their practice, their 2026 Serpentine Pavilion, and why Mexico City is a constant source of inspiration.
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Kyle Yoshioka, Founder and Editorial Director of Provecho magazine, discusses how food can tell cultural stories and educate readers about marginalized communities.
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Retail and hospitality space designer Chele McKee talks about why thinking creatively about human experience is at the core of what makes for a customer experience.
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Photographer Ivan McClellan’s decade-plus project, Eight Seconds, began with a Black rodeo in Oklahoma and grew into a visual record of a Western culture largely left outside the frame.
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