When everything is fine, the need to destroy things creeps up on me every time.

richard kern

love,

^ cole and his girlfriend, for a magazine i forgot. lovely lovely shoot


this is a website by asia, she writes love letters to everyone she knows. i simple love the concept, here are a couple of my favorites:

Viktor Vauthier

My friend Viktor Vauthier from London shoots his friends and some models (who then become friends) with a snap shot analog camera, without after retouching the photos, his work is known for it's pure, innocent and raw character. Viktor is going to contribute a diary in Ilovefake magazine starting with the upcoming "eccentric" issue! Here are some samples

Katja Rahlwes

Now that we are on the subject of Self service, I can also show you the lovely, raw yet romantic work of one of their contributing photographers Katja Rahlwes.

SELF SERVICE / Ezra Petronio

here are some outtakes out of one of of my fashion bibles, Self Service ! upon my image research for self service, I stumbled on of course the editor in chief Ezra Petronio and Petronio associates
Some very interesting facts are that he's behind every campaign I've ever loved. Give it up for Ezra.


















Some more info (source: the imagist):

Ezra Petronio has a dream life. He breaks the rules and ends up reinforcing fashion's status quo. He publishes Self-Service as a hardcover magazine. Which is a very genius conceit if you really think about it. He breaks tons of rules in Self-Service. He covers images with huge blocks of type which for the post-Brodovitch school is absolute sacrilege. He has made a book of his fashion celebrity Polaroids (which ironically enough I just mis-typed as PRO-laroids) . The book is titled "Bold and Beautiful". It is printed by 7L, my favorite publishing imprint in the world. You really should buy it for the reference library. Other than that Petronio plays with clients and collaborators like Miu-Miu, Prada, Chloe, Colette in imaging these very selective brands. This ranges from product packaging to websites to advertising and general creative direction. TI worships this ideal. The altar may be found at Petronio's blog : workinprogressblog.com. It is so bookmarked right this minute!

more eye candy on http://www.petronioassociatesblog.com/

LARA - the one and the only

and here are a couple of my favorite photos, that proves why Lara is one of my favorite dutch girls...

Vulgar