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Ah, fresh new work! Here I present to you Your Magazine Emerson’s March issue. And lucky me, I got to shoot the cover and the 6-page editorial, The Lion and the Lamb! Again, the staff was lovely to work with and the model was one of my favorites Ive shot in a while. She was so easy to communicate with and was such a trooper in the freezing cold, snowing morning on a Boston rooftop on Commonwealth Avenue. Really, I couldnt believe she stuck it out like she did, but she looks amazing!

The concept follows a fashion-forward woman whose contrasting personalities embody both the docile, naive lamb and the fierce, confident and intimidatingly beautiful lion.

Clothes are from Pinkyotto, Bobbles and Lace, and Scoop NYC.

Check out the full editorial, pages 28-32, and this month’s issue here!

I’m actually really in love with this editorial even though oh my GOD EDITING IT WAS A BITCH. Check it out pls? <3

Sorry I just love these two photos so fucking much ok I am so proud of them and in awe of these girls

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I believe in magic II.

Self. July 21 2012.

Unlike normal people who wake up early to take photos, I just don’t sleep. I stayed up past the sunrise to take photos in the water (again). I didnt realize I’d have the first-time pleasure of shooting with mist. Needless to say, I was very excited… until I sliced my foot open in the water in my first location not shown in these photos. After wrapping my foot and cleaning it, I headed back out to do these. I believe in magic is going to be a new conceptual series I will play with for the remainder of my summer in NH. Glitter, bubbles, fire, water, flowers, expect to see more things like that.

Please help me believe slicing my foot  for this was worth it.

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zannie owens. summer 2012.
photo, styling, hair, makeup by chezphoto.

chezphoto-cosplay:

Barret Wallace, cosplayed at Animazement 2012 by Terrance and photographed by ChezPhoto

Happy when fuckyeahfinalfantasycosplay reblogs my photographs, Terrance will be so happy~

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last self-portrait as a nineteen-year-old, summer 2012.

I’m going to do this every year, to mark my progress as both a person and a photographer. Last year was my first one in this soon to be consistent series, found here. Recently, I read the blurb I wrote with it:

“this photo symbolizes what i thought of my life as an 18-year-old. the skull is of a lamb; the death of being naive, the erosion of warmth down to the cold bone. it sounds cliche, it sounds overly-dramatic, but that was my year. i learned that i am a fragile and desperate lover, that i drag things out until they are nothing but dry, barren, and down to the foundation of which it started. i learned that i will not let myself act that way again. i learned that my greatest weakness are memories that made me the happiest. i learned that i am a slow learner. i learned that it is easy to be delusional. i learned to think thoughts to death, to think people to death, to think memories to death. in that light, i see this new year as a chance to rise from these ashes and learn to carry my burdens with me as a lesson. i do not miss being eighteen.”

Reading this a year later, I find myself rather… embarrassed.

I did not rise from these ashes, as I so chose to put it. I waded through them, I watched other people grow apart from me, I stayed where I was, or maybe I got one foot out. The progress I had hoped to make this year did not happen. Yet, I still tried many new things.  I took a chance in a new major at school, had the best suitemates I could’ve ever asked for, and had some new experiences while go-go dancing for a short while (something I truly never thought I’d do), and in the process of that, met some really interesting and talented people.  I lost several very, very close friends this year upon finding out who they really are and what I really need from people in friendships, but I think we’re all better off. I’m left with bitter feelings but that’s life. Just recently I made some new ones, and I really look forward to seeing how they will progress; I’m happy I met these people. I found out I still go to embarrassing lengths to feel wanted by someone romantically, only to have it thrown back in my face. Honestly, this year I feel much harder as a person - I can’t really think of another word to describe it. I’m far less trusting now than I was last year - my first month of turning 19 I had my credit card stolen by my roommate where she fled to India and wiped my account, and I had to file for identity theft. That’s just one of the few instances where people taught me not to trust as easily. This year had a lot of unpleasant revelations, but really—it’s a whole year, and looking back on it for the rest of my life, there will always be those revelations. This year they all came at me at once and I learned a lot from them, hopefully to avoid as many in the future. This time Im not going to throw a little shoutout to being 20, no “cheers to this year, it’s gonna rock, I’m gonna kick ass being 20!” Because those words are hollow; I have never worn optimism well out loud. I will take it one step at a time. I don’t miss being 19, either.hopefully I will do something, somehow, to make this a year I miss one day.

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Sesshomaru at Animazement 2012 by EveilleCosplay, photographed by me. Stay tuned for more pictures of her, she was lovely.

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zannie owens. summer 2012.
photo, styling, hair, makeup by chezphoto.

I will miss this girl. Also, my life is diptychs.

chezphoto-cosplay:

Are you cosplaying at Animazement 2012? Do you want a photoshoot that will give all your hard work that justice it deserves? Do you want awesome photos?

Look no further! I’m coming to Animazement and would love to photograph you and your friends/group! I’m now booking private shoots. Click here for the information on my available slots this year and the booking process. Get ‘em while they’re hot~

I hope to see you soon!

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summer 2012. zannie owens.
wardrobe/hair/makeup/photo by chezphoto.

“Stop and wonder, wonder, wonder,
how you got so buried under
trying to feel the way you felt much younger.

Get out of your head.”

        -Miracle Fortress, “Spectre”

Last shoot with Zannie before she moves off to NYC for a couple months to model professionally. I’ll miss her, she is my favorite to shoot with and has been for the past two years. I hope to visit her in NYC while she’s working to see what it’s like in the real world.

Rishid cosplayed by rishidishtar/Orlando at Anime Boston 2012, photographed by me. Shots of the back of his costume because dat craftsmanship.

Enjoy Rishid pimpin’ in purple because editing photos of my favorite AB shoot is more important than packing up my entire dorm room into three boxes.