Modeling

PEDERNALES.

We wanted to capture the experience of discovering something stunning that was always in front of us, but our eyes had forgotten how to see.

THE WHITE DRESS.

Don’t hate me if I wear this to your wedding.

CALL THE DOCTOR.

Take care to look your best when you’re doing your best to take care.

BLAZING TRAILS.

Every day is Casual Friday.

REPLENISH.

You can always replenish what the world takes away, you just have to find your way.

SO WHAT?

Miles and John only wish that they hit this kind of blue.

UNSTRAPPED.

It’s staying up by sheer force of will.

AMBER.

Amber is made when a tree shares its life with the world. We took the gift from the trees to the world and then back to them.

A SHADY LANE.

Everybody wants one, everybody needs one. The trick is learning that we bring our own shade to make our peace.

GREYSCALE.

Chiaroscuro.

BRAIDS.

Textures and silhouettes create interplays. In this shoot, we worked with a provocative silhouette in the dress, which had a ruffle detail on the strap, which we duplicated in my hair, then bridged with earrings that marched the colors of the dress and my complexion.

RADIANCE.

One way to consider tradition is as ideas radiating through time. In this shoot, we took modern variations on traditional Indian clothing and brought them to both urban and natural environments in an interpretation of portrait shoots from the old world as done in the new.

SHAKING THE FOUNDATION.

Makeup can serve many purposes, one of which is play. But there is something about the artifice that reveals deeper truths. In this shoot, we took a foundation for a very different complexion to explore what could be shown by putting me not only in someone else’s clothes, but someone else’s skin.

HOPE I DIE BEFORE I GET OLD.

Put me on a Lambretta and let’s go go go. The mod era is interesting because the clothes aren’t just tied to a time, but a vision of what the world should be, a modernist approach to life. Clean lines and luxurious hair.

Everything’s a signifier, everything’s signified. The message is the messenger, the messenger is the message. Some people would call this a statement necklace, making a work outfit playful. There’s no such thing as a statement piece, though, only statements. The woman wearing it is saying everything about herself, she’s the statement.

HYDRATION TECHNOLOGY.

This was a catalog shoot I did for Water.io, an Israeli technology company. As a country defined by its hot climate and water crises, Israel has spent decades working on making water accessible through desalinization and purification. Now, they make consumer technology to remind you to drink frequently and periodically.

OLD WAYS, NEW VISION.

We don’t just model for the camera, we model for sculptors, painters and other artists. Modeling for the camera is about motion, creating micro-moments for capture as we move, everything is in flux, the camera gives the illusion of stability. Modeling for a painter is about stability, holding an emotion and position to allow her to understand it and conceive it, reproduce it on canvas. The camera shows you things about yourself you often don’t see, paint on canvas shows you even more.

CALLING MR. RIGHT.

The semiotics of personal ads have always been intriguing. You have to provoke, but not tease. You have to inspire, but leave something to the imagination. You have to say what you want, but not be demanding. You have to show off your accomplishments without seeming like you’re doing so or that you care. Navigating those constraints can create difficulties that are hard to express. In this shoot, we tried to reproduce the difficulty of creating a personal ad in global diaspora community, where every country and local community has their own design language. What’s universal, what’s local? The camera explores.