Photography, JC Verona Styling, Victoria Fiorina Hairstyling, Lewis Stanford Make up Artist, Aimee Joyce Model, Ella from PRM AGENCY
Blouse and scarf Scotch and soda
Black tulle dress and red ruffled jacket: Ana Sekularac.
Yellow dress: Geyeon Lee ruffled yellow dress Naya Rea
Jean jacket Lee Jeans
Halloween beauty inspired by the poetry of my personal favourite Edgar Allan Poe and newly discovered Sayat Nova, where heartache becomes art and nature and fruit have symbolic meaning. We explore themes of melancholy, disgust, decay, entrapment, and emotional fragility from poetry, film, and folklore.
In National Character, photographer John Sanderson travels across the American landscape in search of a country increasingly hidden in plain sight. Working with a 4×5 film camera, he takes the long way around – leaving major highways for small roads and carrying a demanding piece of photographic history into places shaped by industry, decline and change. His commitment to the journey is reflected in the photographs: patient, precise and quietly melancholic, they find a strange beauty in the overlooked corners of America.
Over a year, Leicester-based artist and educator Clair Robins turned her camera toward her teenage daughter. 52 Weeks – Stolen and Preserved traces a quiet negotiation between mother and child: some moments offered, others withheld. Moving between spontaneous portraiture, still life and tactile process, it is a tender record of becoming, and of letting go.
New Delhi-based visual artist Noor Kaur Randhawa explores the experience of growing up as a young woman in a world shaped by the threat of male violence and control. Photographing herself and her friends, she captures the ways they navigate fear, resistance, intimacy and freedom — from learning to call out the men around them to reclaiming their bodies, clothes and spaces. A portrait of coming of age, on their own terms.
In My Mother Speaks of Land as Memory, Ariana Gomez explores grief, identity and the landscapes that shape us. Born from the loss of her father, the project moves between the arid terrain of Texas and her mother’s Puerto Rican heritage, constructing a shared mythology from fragments of memory and archive – and bringing three generations together in a space between what was, what remains, and what might have been.
Marcus DeSieno photographs the exact sites along the US–Mexico border where migrants have disappeared, died or their bodies were recovered, reconstructing these locations through autopsy reports and humanitarian records. The project began after DeSieno encountered a dying migrant in an Arizona gas station. Made in the Sonoran Desert using laborious darkroom processes, his landscapes become haunting records of absence, death and remembrance.
Shot along the wild coastline of Scotland – ‘Between the light’ is a visual study on the space between bond and bounded. The series explores the strain of being tethered and what ties two people together. The points of tension and ease. A world between light and dark, where we are torn by those closest to us.
Photographer Emily Chalk spent two weeks in Marrakesh photographing the Sadik family, one of only five families still practising the 500-year-old tradition of snake charming in Jemaa el-Fna. What begins with fear and assumptions about the practice develops into an intimate encounter with trust, inheritance and disappearing traditions – revealing the lives, rituals and relationships that exist beyond the spectacle.
In Movement, Ukrainian photographer Roman Butym reflects on the relentless pace of contemporary life. His ongoing series portrays people lying in public spaces, appearing almost like exhausted objects suspended between movement and stillness. Against a world of constant mobility and information overload, Butym’s images explore anxiety, isolation and the quiet vulnerability hidden beneath the illusion of always being ‘in the flow’.
Photographer Eleonora Laufer explores the quiet spaces where presence lingers beneath the surface of everyday life. Shaped by her background in dance, yoga and meditation, her images embrace stillness as a way of seeing rather than an absence of activity. Through minimal compositions and subtle traces of the human, Laufer invites us to slow down and discover moments of connection, attention and reflection that often go unnoticed.
