Luctor et Emergo
To struggle and emerge. This shoot aims to capture how shape, form, and motion interact and showcase the beauty of human suffering and through it, perseverance over turmoil.
Art Direction & Photo: Lauren Lee Styling: Tauri Partin Lighting: Jose Narvaez Set & Styling Assistant: Josh Rudisel
The cycle of recovery ebbs and flows. Healing from grief, anger, depression, addiction, and pain is not such a simple step-by-step process. The struggle can feel constricting and suffocating; anxiety-inducing on its best days and world-ending on its worst. When the only person you come to blows with is yourself, who is left to blame?
LUCTOR is the embodiment of the phase right on the precipice of breaking through.
Triumph over toil. Peace over pain. Strength over weakness. Emergence and ascension.
EMERGO is the embodiment of joy and freedom of mind, heart, body, and spirit.
IGNITE
Think dreamy, nostalgic, moody. Think unexpected ignition. Faces lit by glowing embers. Ashes falling like rain. Something's on fire... but it isn't usually.
Marriage of the Unsettling
A series on disconcerting duality.
Alegria
Based off of Cirque Du Soleil's 1994 show Alegria.
Perspicere
A study on perspective. Latin for "to see through."
Macbeth
Based on William Shakespeare's Macbeth.
The Gods and Goddesses
Genderbent Greek gods and goddesses.
Apollo
Aphrodite
Artemis
Hephaestus
Ares
Sugar Rush
A shoot inspired by songs with sweets in the titles.
Sugar, Sugar by the Archies
Cotton Candy by Yungblud
I Want Candy by Bow Wow Wow
Bubblegum Bitch by MARINA
Sucker by the Jonas Brothers
Cake by the Ocean by DNCE
Lux
A study on light.
Miscellaneous Portraiture
