Not necessarily in this order.
On a shoot for Style in Berlin, the photographer Jason McGlade told me he was launching a round magazine. As the zeitgeist would have it, this was pre Florence days, i’d been looking again at Kate Bush, particularly the video for Breathing had a grip on me – the idea of the plastic womb – i’d seen huge plastic balls with people in at Bestival and quite some time before Julie Atlas Muz performing in/with a huge bubble and had lodged into my visual storage file of things to try.
So a year or so later Freestyle magazine starts flying into stores in it’s befrizbee’ed madness and Jason hits me up to do the womb shoot. I knew i needed a woman to shoot it to get the womb thing in a modern way and Julia Kennedy had just sent me some of her new work which was quite something. Julia was also six months pregnant.
i kept the colour palette to nude tones and red which im glad to also see Riccardo Tisci at Givenchy did for A/W 2010 .
Instincts, maternal or otherwise