Photographer: TOMAAS, Hair & Make up: Susan Donoghue @ Ennis Inc, Model: Itsaso @ Next Models

Francesca Woodman was an American photographer who investigated female subjectivity, identity and performance using blurred, half hidden self-portraiture. With herself often the subject, her ghostly and narrative black and white photographs offer an insight into her unconscious and performative self. Woodman played with a camera’s exposure time and incorporated decrepit locations, using antique props such as mirrors, couches, and wallpaper as her backdrop, thus lending the human form evanescence by presenting mysterious old-fashioned photographic stories. Born into a family of artists in 1958, she began producing self- portraits by the time she was thirteen years old. She studied both abroad in Rome and at RISD before moving to New York where she continued her experimentation with photography, drawing from Surrealist motifs and gothic fiction. In 1981, when only twenty-two, she committed suicide after a long struggle with depression. Woodman is considered one of the most gifted and elusive young artists of our time.
-text by Walker Brockington

Francesca Woodman’s work is currently on view at the Guggenheim Museum through June 13.

SWEATSHOPPE // Bruno Levy and Blake Shaw –style curator Natalie Kates

Bäst & Faile – Deluxx Fluxx Arcade
Style Curator, Natalie Kates
Music “Headhunter” by Front 242

Photography Luca Bellumore, Makeup Elena Pivetta @ Greenapple using MAC Cosmetics, Hair Giovanni Erroi for Piero Bastian @ Greenapple, Model Madalina Staicu @ Brave Models, Assistant Kei.

“Through a self-invented process, I suspend, encase, and permanently preserve animal blood, salvaged from slaughterhouses, in plexiglass and UV resin. This technique is designed to retain the blood’s natural colors and textures…”
Jordan Eagles, NYC September 2011

Photography Roy Rossovich, Fashion Natalie Olenheim, Makeup and Hair Pari Damani, Model Ebba @ Elite Models, Stylist assistant Josefine Erfass, Special thanks to Görvälns