Photographer
Justin Tsucalas is an award-winning photographer focusing on culinary, lifestyle, and portraiture photography in Baltimore, MD.
As a Baltimore native, he has spent over a decade photographing the people and scenes of his native city. From documenting the quirky life of a city dogwalker to capturing the culinary masterpieces of Baltimore’s celebrated chefs, he enjoys shooting a wide-range of subjects.
Current client list includes: National Geographic Traveler, Food Network, Surface Magazine, McCormick’s & Co., Beer Advocate, Baltimore Magazine, Baltimore STYLE Magazine, B-More Art Magazine, Maryland Film Festival, MICA, Visit Baltimore, Four Seasons, Consumer Reports, MIT, Penn Gazette, Michele’s Granola, Sightline, Peabody, Project Hope, Hopkins Medical Magazine, Aero Service Group, Bagby Restaurant Group (partial list).
On teaching, art-making, acting, and working with young artists on a recent mural in Upton
This summer he wrapped up his fourth mural with students in Baltimore, which prompts him to describe himself as a “painter who makes mixed-media work that often involves community.”
Family secrets, the challenges of being a female business owner, and how knowing chocolate’s history might make you savor it more
She’s had a reverence for the confection since a fateful day in 2012 when, while working an event as a nutrition consultant, she stepped on a postcard advertising chocolate-making classes.
"My work rides a fine line between fine art and craft, if such a line exists."
Rosa Leff's self-taught paper-cutting practice began at her dining room table
For Carroll—a regular contributor to BmoreArt—contemporary writing about Black artists has to move past tokenism
"The canon has purposely left out certain creatives and we’re trying to rectify that. Let’s not see this moment as a trend."
Amber Eve Anderson, Lance Bankerd, Se Jong Cho, Ami Dang, Taha Heydari, Eze Jackson, Leslie King-Hammond, Amanda McCormick, Deyane Moses, and Ernest Shaw
For visual artists, curators, performers, composers, and publishers, the purposeful creation of new archives, as well as the respectful transformation of past collections, is a common threat that unifies us on a quest to tell new stories and to diversity existing archives.
Tiffany Jones talks community art, motherhood, and the honesty of Baltimore's art scene
"I feel like the city wouldn't be what it is without its artists or creative people."
The artist discusses her career so far, doing her sisters’ hair, and the contemporary figure painters who inspire her.
Painter Monica Ikegwu’s goal is to take “ordinary people and make them into art in the ordinary clothes that they're wearing.
A shaman, self-care enthusiast, and performance artist is a master of all things ritual bathing, meditation, and breathing.
A discussion about the power of performance to move people to tears, meditation as a daily practice anyone can do, and the rewards of truly listening to yourself.
