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This is Sara Mally.

I had seen Sara’s photography and was a fan, vaguely aware of her personality. But the Real Love Boat BTS made me genuinely curious who this person was behind the camera. Sara looked so happy—and somehow everyone around her did too.

Then I got lucky.

Sara sat at my table for portfolio reviews at NYCFotoWorks, and we spent twenty minutes talking, trading stories, laughing. She left me with a wooden sketchbook she hand-built, stories about images she’d carefully crafted, and something more valuable than either of those: she left me feeling joy.

Sara really sees people.
She stops and takes the time to truly see who they are, and in that pause if you give yourself the gift to know her in return, you get to have an experience with her-of shared art and laughter. I love the adventure of being her agent, and feel incredibly fortunate to represent artists like Sara. If you aren’t familiar with her work, like her, it’s worth spending time with.
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TIMOTHY ARCHIBALD — Photographer, AI Artist

Timothy is one of the best humans I know, and it’s for all of the reasons that make him a remarkable artist. He’s kind, endlessly curious, always looking for the humor. He’s gentle with pain—never trying to fix it, never looking away—but meeting it with genuine compassion.

If you know Timothy’s photography, you’ll recognize those same qualities in the way he sees people.

I’m obsessed with his Substack. If you haven’t read “The Summer I Thought I Disappeared, 1984”, do yourself a favor. While others are busy debating AI art, Timothy is quietly exploring what it can reveal about memory, identity, and storytelling. Like Timothy, his art is thoughtful, funny, surprising, and completely his own.

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📸 Portraits of Timothy by Richard Kelly


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📸 TIMOTHY ARCHIBALD
MODERN NOSTALGIA design collaboration with Phil Hamlett

“Phil Hamlett approached me about collaborating on a series of images that would be used as interior design for a group of historically aware restaurants opening in Southern California. Over a creative and thought provoking series of calls over Easter weekend, we delivered two portfolios of conceptual interior design imagery.
The best stuff always lands on the cutting room floor ;)
This series I totally enjoyed, proposing it as being “Nostalgic Americana meets the diversity of 2026”.

“ Everyone hates AI. I hate AI. What better time in history to explore this new medium.

It’s so new you can’t really be bad at it. Or good at it.

You can be free. And as a traditional photographer for 40 years now, that freedom has been to seductive to ignore “