MODE by Flickr

Supply Media took the stage at MODE by Flickr, the world's photography festival, moderating two panels and co-curating a gallery of contemporary street photography across three days in downtown Minneapolis.

The festival put the studio on a bill with Chris Burkard, Matthew Rolston, Sandro Miller and Jonathan Mannion. Both panels were built around questions the industry tends to talk around. The Architecture of the Creative Nomad went past the laptop-on-the-beach version of the job to the parts that actually decide whether the career holds: income architecture, layering revenue streams, choosing base cities on purpose, and designing mobility without giving up stability or creative depth. It convened Chris Hau, James Broadbent and Andy Best. The New Golden Era of NYC Street Photography looked at how today's photographers are documenting the city while honoring its cultural memory, from the pull of nineties film aesthetics to street photography as a cultural archive and the work of turning a personal practice into a living. It convened Steve Irby, Nico Froehlich, Chris McDuffie, Raheim Simon and YK.

Alongside the panels, Street Photography at MODE was co-curated with Steve Irby as a group show running throughout the festival. The brief was not a survey of the genre but a room: a space where attendees felt seen, found new voices, and saw the range of perspectives working in street photography today. Programming and curation are the same discipline as brand work here, which is deciding who is in the room, what gets said, and what an audience carries out with them.