Can you talk about your approach to casting?
I wanted to bring together a bunch of people for this project who I cared about or wanted to get to know better. I didn’t base it on their look, but I wanted it to feel like a really good shoot. I wanted it to feel more special. And so the people I chose, they had either reached out to me at some point wanting to connect, So Ladybug [Mecca] is an artist, a musician that I have always looked up to and admired. She was part of a group called Digable Planets. When that album came out in the ‘90s it was the first time I actually felt seen in an artist at the time. She had a tomboy look and she was the one girl amongst these male identifying people, and she didn’t feel like the girl in the group.
Nia Andrews, she’s a singer. I’ve known her for many years, she’s super talented and I feel like people don’t really know how special and amazing she is. Her voice is incredible, her music is incredible. Her style, her aurora.
And then Camille, who has recently transitioned and now identities as they/them. I had met her once or twice, but we follow each other on Instagram and their whole transition was so beautiful and it taught me a lot about them and transitioning and I related to that on another level. Their aura kind of bleeds through the screen, even through social media. Right now there are a lot of performative people who claim to be spiritual or woke. And Camille is very authentic and then when we met in person it was like wow, it was amazing if not even more amazing. Camille has always taken on adornment, even before transitioning they always had tattoos and piercings and coloring their hair and now they have no hair. It’s special to have them be a part of this.
Ryan, who was the only male identifying/presenting as he,/him, is the brother of the photographer, but is also another beautiful person and initially I was wanting to work with a male identifying person with long hair. We alway talk about beauty and hair around female identifying people and we don’t do it enough around male identifying people. We think of hair being this super feminine thing but it’s a very masculine thing. In the past, the coolest dude was the most feminine, male identifying person. They had the long hair, the jewelry, nails, manicures and pedicures for sure. I wanted to bring that back into the fold.
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