5 BIPOC Creatives To Follow On Instagram
photo: @jocelyntsaih
Being seen is vital for any creative person. Having your work inspire either a few handful of people or the masses is not just influential, but empowering not to the artist but to that person inspired. When we spotlight creative Black, Indigenous, Asians and all people of color in the art world or even social media we know how impactful that is.
We do it for the next generation of BIPOC artists, writers, filmmakers, activists in hopes that they continue being seen and heard.
Photographer Hannah Harris is the hand behind Brown Girl Hands. BGH is an Instagram initiative and inclusive content studio aimed to diversify the beauty industry’s lack of colored women’s hands in product photography.
photo: BrownGirlHands.com
Kim Geronimo is a New York based photographer who is popularly known as the Street Sensei capturing fashion and global street culture. Born in Myanmar, Geronimo has shot in Hong Kong, Cambodia, Japan, Vietnam, Thailand and even at New York Fashion Week.
Kim Saira is a Filipino-American artist and social activist using her Instagram influence to amplify messages relating to her generation and even the ones before her. Through her art she dives into topics of self discovery, mental health, social inequality affecting POC and rising cultural and political issues.
Roza Nozari is an Muslim queer artist and therapist with ancestral roots in Iran. Based in Toronto she is a registered social worker and psychotherapist. As if both of those titles weren’t already impressive, Nozari as an influential queer feminist Muslim artist whose illustrations represent community, mental health and wellness. Shop her prints here.
Born in Taiwan and raised in Shanghai, artist Jocelyn Tsaih lives and works in Oakland, California. The main character in her art is an amorphous, ambiguous figure that reflects the soul and spirit with universal thoughts and emotions that can relate to us all.
*Originally published December 2021, updated October 16, 2022
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MARC JACOBS
