I guess I got tired of seeing fashion or beauty Magazines and their Covers. I tried to understand the fascination with being featured in a magazine. I loved the visual art part of it but I couldn’t find the actual content. I realized that I wasn’t the only one when I saw a video (here) where the ads were removed from a 160-page magazine and were left were 40 pieces of content.

But what about the people that were being glorified? Who were they? And what do they have to offer? Through my work, I meet a lot of regular people and a few celebrities from time to time. I try to get to know everyone on a slightly deeper level before we shoot so I can incorporate their personality and story into the image. But there’s always this one segment of the population, the one that you see regularly on our magazine that I couldn’t get any content out of in real life.

So here’s a little set incorporating the magazine aesthetic that I love but with content that you might have been thinking yourself.

Magazine Cover X Editions

Our bodies are our only true home.
We hope that one day we’ll embrace every part of it.
What we wear and how we wear it brings us closer to that hope.
The hope that takes away your lust to rape us and shame us.
The lust that moves you to label and divide us.
We lust for a world free from your eyes.
The eyes that hope to get a peek up our skirt

Lust | Hope

What is the value?

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