A World of My Own: my fashion editorial for LIAR magazine’s debut issue
For the premiere issue of LIAR magazine, I shot Clara Settje in a series that threads the same city streets as FUCKING NEW YORK — but this time, the heat’s turned inward. The story follows a woman who seems to haunt New York, not live in it.
“Blindness” at Kinfolk Gallery
Blindness opened at Kinfolk Gallery as part of The Classical Elements: A Photographic Interpretation, a group exhibition alongside Spencer Tunick, Erica Simone, and Shae DeTar.
Abby Brothers Against the Wall: fashion film for Live FAST magazine
Shot on the streets of New York City, this short fashion film captures Abby Brothers in motion — raw, radiant, and barely touching the ground.
FUCKING NEW YORK: how my art series became a fashion editorial for Beautiful Savage magazine
What started as a raw, obsessive art project about lust and the city twisted into a full-blown fashion editorial for Beautiful Savage — complete with heels, heat, and high concept. Same hunger, just dressed sharper.
Marina, unretouched and unbothered: two looks, one icon, all fire
Three women. Two looks. Zero mercy. Marina Djordjević stares you down in designs by Marta Miljanić and styling by Elena Nikolaevna — three Furies disguised as a fashion team.
Photobook Recommendations: The Xmas Edition
This holiday season’s hottest photobook lineup is: Nan Goldin, Larry Sultan, Miles Aldridge, and the Surrealists. This list has everything: moody suburban dads, glitter-drenched mannequins, naked people crying, and Salvador Dalí high on absinthe in a silk robe. It’s ike if your seasonal cheer came with a safe word.
Sharp lines, quiet power: my fashion campaign for Tamara Jarić
In early 2012, I collaborated with fashion designer Tamara Jarić on a fashion campaign built around restraint, tension, and precision. Cool, quiet power, sharpened to a point.
Recommended Listening: The Old Men Edition
Three albums for your pleasure. Scott Walker & Sunn O))) drag you into the void. Swans pummel you into the floorboards. And Robert Plant, somehow, walks away with the sexiest, strangest record of the bunch.
Fear & Self-Loathing in Las Vegas: the full story, revisited (again)
Back in 2011, Zach Baron and I retraced the delirious footsteps of Hunter S. Thompson through Las Vegas — he wrote, I shot. This is our dispatch from the desert, where the American Dream once burned bright, then got weird.
Photobook Recommendations: The Uncomfortable Intimacy Edition
Three photobooks that blur the line between intimacy and intrusion, by Antoine d’Agata, Alan Moore & Melinda Gebbie, and Sandra S. Phillips.
Inside Swans: photographing Michael Gira for The New Yorker
Photographing Michael Gira for The New Yorker was an honor, but it was what happened after the shoot that I’ll never forget: a quiet room, an acoustic guitar, and a new Swans song, played just for two.
PDN on FUCKING NEW YORK: Eroticism, architecture, and absurd love
Published yesterday, Photo District News featured FUCKING NEW YORK with a write-up that caught the tone exactly right: surreal, sensual, a little unhinged. Getting this kind of recognition — from a publication I’ve long respected — means a lot, especially for a project this provocative.