BARE Magazine i30, With Love
Creative & Art Direction
(developed shoot concept, managed smooth project operations from start to finish, ensured successful execution of concept in alignment with magazine issue theme)
Production Team:
Christine Haggin
Mila Sutphin
Joshua Jiwanmall
Tovah Popilsky
Photographers:
Tovah Popilsky (Film)
Christine Haggin (Digital)
Poetry:
Christine Haggin
Models:
Riki Bertoldi
Vir Bedi
Chloe Wang
Lingye Wu
Shoot Concept + Process︎︎︎
Issue Theme: Time in Mind
With Love is one of four shoots featured in BARE Magazine’s 30th issue, each falling under the theme of Time in Mind.
Inspired by a quote from Virginia Woolf’s Orlando,
“the extraordinary discrepancy between time on the clock and time in the mind is less well known than it should be and deserves fuller investigation,”
Time in Mind pursues this exploration.
With Love is one of four shoots featured in BARE Magazine’s 30th issue, each falling under the theme of Time in Mind.
Inspired by a quote from Virginia Woolf’s Orlando,
“the extraordinary discrepancy between time on the clock and time in the mind is less well known than it should be and deserves fuller investigation,”
Time in Mind pursues this exploration.
Shoot Planning: Imagining a Memory of Queer Love
Concept: imagine a past in which queer love lived as freely as any other love. We found its scraps and relics.
Concept: imagine a past in which queer love lived as freely as any other love. We found its scraps and relics.
- B&W couples portraits showcasing love, longing, and intimacy paired with short, handwritten poems/love letters
- Emphasis on scanned images and notes, think analogue, vintage, and nostalgia
- Images of youth and innocence
- E.g., you stumbled upon an old shoebox w/ love letters from ur partner
Moodboard︎︎︎
Execution: Building a Queer Past
Ever heard of retrofuturism or anticipatory nostalgia? Well this is the opposite.
Rather than longing for a future that never came to pass, or remembering that anticipatory vision, we produce nostalgia for an undocumented past.
We yearn for a history that we haven’t seen and so we build it.
Ever heard of retrofuturism or anticipatory nostalgia? Well this is the opposite.
Rather than longing for a future that never came to pass, or remembering that anticipatory vision, we produce nostalgia for an undocumented past.
We yearn for a history that we haven’t seen and so we build it.
“Final Relics”
