Featured Artist

Lily Storelli, a graduate of SCI-Arc, is a practicing architect in Switzerland. Lily has graciously allowed UFM to present her Rip • A • Zine photos. ©lilypenelope. All rights reserved.

“Sometimes I wish I was a writer living in Paris. Or a photographer in NYC!
I graduated from SCI-Arc (Los Angeles) and moved back in this tiny medieval town close to the alps…I take pictures of the everyday and I write. I still wish I was in Paris or NYC!”

You can find her online work here:

• Lily Penelope Blog

“There is always something else hidden behind a surface. Behind a mask, a painting, a mountain or an image/photography. Metaphorically and literally. You never stop to learn. even by turning a page, by reading beyond exterior features, by scrapping the ground a look what’s beneath it.
Then I started shooting pictures right away. Pages of magazines I previously trashed (during my clean up week!!) turned out to be showing something else, behind, below, beneath. New forms/shapes, new contents that quickly detached from its original meanings, from its original physical layout.” – Lily Storelli

The full set is viewable here: Rip • A • Zine

Seena courageously composed images of the weathered, the un-used, the in-between, the un-intended in an uncompromising celebratory way that reflects the french concept of “the gilding of decay.” However, the images are cleverly layered when considering the natural theme- a comparison/contrast of how  nature utilizes interstitial spaces and disregards her own materials.

As well, the images provide evidence that we tend to use spaces in ways that were “un-intended.” How can designers design for the unintended?

UFM Featured Artist

Seena Hassouna is a practicing architect and photographer currently residing in Los Angeles, CA. You can find his online work here:

• Designzx.com

• Seenha.com

The Latent Didactics series was an original collaboration between Seena + UFM and began with the Latent Didactics: Mobile Uploads project. He also collaborated on the Latent Didactics within Urban Edges video. ©seenahassouna. All rights reserved.

• Latent Didactics: Mobile Uploads

• Latent Didactics within Urban Edges

This video continues the “Latent Didactic” series and represents an additional cinematography video with an out-of-the-box Lumix GH1 with kit lens. The footage was taken at Eaton Canyon, Los Angeles, CA by Shane D Rymer with an 8ft. Dolly and a Merlin SteadiCam.

This brief video is a collaboration between Seena Hassouna and myself. We used a Lumix GH1 right out of the box with the kit lens. The footage is from a waterway located in Highland Park, CA. We began our dialogue by understanding that urban sprawl eventually ripples back on itself and creates new pockets of urban edges along the built and natural environments. We used a dolly to take 8 ft. video samples to discover the latent didactics of these hybrid spaces.

If you would like to view this video, please send an email to: info@ultrafinemedia.com

This video is @1.5 mins. long, and is the red carpet intro to the 1 hour film screening premiere event video I shot and edited for the filmmakers of 27 Down. It shows the first few interviews of about 20 that follow.