Responsive Image Making The past year has proved tough for artists. With galleries shut during lockdowns, opportunities for exposure have been scarce. A lack of interaction with the creative community has left many creatives feeling isolated from their networks. And yet, at the same time, experimental, innovative ways of working and exhibiting have sprung up in the virtual realm. Itâs also been a year of reckoning in relation to racial politics, with organisations rethinking who they are and how they operate. Assembly has grown out of this unique cultural and historical moment. A hybrid organisation existing at the intersection between an agency, an online gallery and creative studio, the platform launched in March with eight international, diverse lens-based artists on its books, spanning the fine art and commercial photographic worlds. âAssembly is dedicated to supporting artists who are engaging in some of the most important social and cultural issues of our time,â said Shane Lavalette, Assemblyâs co-founder together with Ashlyn Davis Burns. âWith rich, research-based practices, our roster includes innovative voices who are quickly gaining in international acclaim and whose work is represented in important institutional collections.â