Flora. Featured story for this months issue of Hollyway Magazine.
Flora is a multidisciplinary visual project that reclaims and reframes the long-standing metaphor
of women as flowers. Historically, this comparison has reduced women to fragile, ornamental figures admired through the male gaze. In Flora, the flower
becomes a site of resistance, authorship, and re-birth. Each woman is both the subject and the sto-ryteller, embodying a beauty rooted not in delica-cy, but in resilience, memory, and self-possession.
Growing up, I rarely saw women who looked like me portrayed as beautiful. Through this work, I create the images I once searched for: women of color not as muses, but as mirrors; not as decoration, but as presence. Flora becomes a garden of reclamation, where femininity is power, softness is defiance, and beauty is redefined from within.
- Isabella Maldonado
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DIRECTOR: ISABELLA MALDONADO -
@isa.maldo
PHOTOGRAPHER: CAMILO LUNA -
@caloid
VIDEOGRAPHER: ALVARO GOMEZ -
@unoaluno
1st AD: SOFIA BETANCOURT AMOR -
@sba_tales
BTS VIDEO: ELLIE CHARETTE -
@ellie.chrtt
BTS PHOTOGRAPHY: LAURENCE DYOTTE -
@photopium_
BTS SOCIAL MEDIA; MARTINA VELEZ PEREZ -
@martina_ypp
GAFFER: MATHILE GIRARD -
@math_girard12
PROD DESIGNER: JULIE KRITER -
@juliekriter
SET DESIGNER: HANA CHIPMAN -
@_hanaaa
ART ASSISTANT: MURAM IDRIS -
@muram.i
STYLIST: JULIE KRITER -
@juliekriter
MUA: ANDREA MINA -
@andreaisamua
HAIR: KATINA SOFIA DALEY -
@k.s.dhair
PA: JOSHUA J. FREDERIC-
@joshuajfrederic
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: BASTIAN ORELLANA-LAURI -
@bastian_orl
MODELS:
SHINA NOVA -
@shinanova
AMALIA NARANJO -
@naranjaaass
SIGNOLINE NIYONKURU -
@signoline_niyonkuru
DRESS SUPPLIED BY: LEON -
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