A Supreme supplement

Cristina Jurach, Daiane Conterato, Katriina Okane, Iris Strubegger, Sofi Berelidze and Meghan Collison

You all know this issue of V mag, numer 53, current one. Currently in stores and featuring the "powerhouses". Nudity at IMG and Chadwick Tyler at Supreme. And people started discussing it a lot. And people started arguing a bit. And it's the same story as always, going on forever. We're more interested in Chadwick's own vision, which is prominent on every single piece of his work. Like it is in V and beyond these pages. Here is a quick pick from the whole story, which you could check on his website.
We often think about Chadwick as the photographer who can "picture the shadows". Don't know if it really makes sense or if it's some obviously odd chorus ringing in our heads but if we had to describe his work, we'll start there. Shadows not only because of the delightfully dark atmospheres and lightings. Shadows as the grey no man's land, the hidden part of the world you can imagine rather than you can actually see it. That's the strength of his work, the way he captures the invisible parts of the models. Their hidden side(s). Even more interesting is that you also get the feeling that's how they really. Just in the very same time as you're thinking it's exactly the way you've never seen them before. That's why we love his work so much and why we cherish it for test shots so much. As tests are made to reveal a model's potential and Chadwick is just one of the best specialist when it comes to reveal it.
Just an off-topic thing to finish. Would love to see what he would shoot with Kinga Luk. Day dreaming.

Comments

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I think you have got this one SO wrong. If you didn't look at the entire series and think to yourself that some of these girls are TOO thin, then something is wrong. My first thought when viewing the series was that they reminded me of the images that were made at the end of the second world war of civilians and soldiers returning from the concentration camps - bones visible through the skin, clothes that once fitted. I mean this to be no disrespect to anyone who had to suffer the horrors of these camps but the similarity to those images is quite eery. I think the industry as a whole needs to open their eyes and see that this is wrong on so many levels.
I noticed that you were very selective (deliberately so, I would guess) about the images from the series that you posted here because you KNOW that some of those girls look emaciated. If any readers haven't seen the entire series, please follow this link... http://community.livejournal.com/foto_decadent/1784723.html?style=min
It amazes me that you can then post such gushing admiration of his work - it almost seems like you are desperately trying to justify the dark nature of these images. Don't bother. Just because a photographer is the industry darling, it does not automatically mean that the work is good.
I ask you - do you think that these images (the whole series) are a good advert for the girls at Supreme? Please be honest with your reply and add your reasons.
Please don't dismiss me as one of those hysterical people who are trying to lynch the industry - I am in fact a fashion photographer - but I am starting to get really concerned with the state of our industry and these images sum up everything that I have been fearing.
PS Dudblankpathetic, Sensational may be the correct word - wrong context though (producing or designed to produce a startling effect, strong reaction, intense interest, etc).

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sensational work as always!!