Guests: Caterina Ragg and Adriana Monsalve
Host: Christopher Kardambikis
Recorded on September 18, 2025 in Takoma Park, MD
Caterina Ragg is a photographer, photo editor, designer, and cat lover based in Milan, Italy. Currently, her focus is on curating visual content and strategies, managing archives, and producing impactful editorial designs for diverse clients. She likes the 90s aesthetic, spicy food, and making books with Adriana Monsalve. Together they run Homie House Press.
Adriana Monsalve (she /they) is an artist, educator, cultural worker and collaborative publisher working (mostly) in the photobook medium. Along with Caterina Ragg, Monsalve is co-founder of Homie House Press, a radical cooperative platform that challenges the ever-changing forms of storytelling with image and text.
Within her photographic practice, Monsalve is an archivist and visual communicator who produces in-depth stories on identity through the nuances in between race, gender, and immigrant adjacent experiences.
Within her cultural work as a collaborative publisher, she holds space for and with underrepresented communities through the multidisciplinary platform of Homie House Press (HHP); a cooperative playground where fotos become books, a safe space for secret stories and an open house for honest content that meets at the intersection of personal, political, and poetic. She is rigorously pushing towards finding ways for photographers and publishers to cultivate the capacity for care and tenderness within structures that actively work against their manifestations. She defines intimacy as the experience of being genuinely seen, heard, and held by another person or group of people.
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