I feel so damn Lucky
Thank you for having me @jackdaniels_us@luckreunion and helping me keep analog photography & physical media alive. This means so much to me.
I loved making pictures of all your beautiful faces
I’ll remember this day forever ⭐️ saved all my favs in this handmade photo album from 1803 🕊️
Assistant @braxtonberry
Art assistant @irisssteele
I was so excited to execute this beautiful vision by Jackson on film ⭐️ and just generally obsessed with this neo 80s vibe 🕊️
model, wardrobe, creative direction @jacksonbanfield_
makeup up @dreaukyo
headpiece @solaced_umbra
nails @irisssteele
#shotonfilm
I was inspired by 70s glam and Solagne when this started but it quickly became Iris themed. Full embodiment. She is so special and everything I want to have in a model. Immediately committed to the fantasy of the world we built, channeling so much genuine energy into the shoot. Working on this together felt like entering a portal.
makeup by @hardtyoumore
Shoes designed and created by @irisssteele
Headpiece designed by me but created by many
lights provided by @captainlearyo
BTS by @kronkware
creative and photography by me
I left the audio on for the videos because I feel like it memorialized some of the joy we all felt shooting together.
shot on #fujifilm of course
and kentmere #pan400
I didn’t even know this video existed until today
the only video I must have taken that whole day as I was there to shoot stills on film. this was my first show on film and a special day for everyone in many different ways
kessler theatre (2023)
ANGEL WHITE - RUNNING IN PLACE
paracosm (2026)
Last time I was home, my little niece asked me if I missed being a kid and I wanted to tell her hell fuck nah. But she’s only 7 so I told her I missed not having to do the dishes but being an adult is better lol.
Being a child was an uncomfortable internal experience for me, I don’t think I could ever put into words the full body rage I felt at all times. I felt completely and hopelessly powerless, misunderstood and ignored. The only emotion I knew was rage and I acted on it almost every time. That only made everything so much worse and I was labeled as a bad kid. I wore that label the fuck out and spent a lot of time locked in my room on punishment. I would be completely exhausted from my emotions and just lay on the carpet imagining a world where I was free from this feeling. When I got older I joked with my coworkers about how living in delululand is the only way for me to survive. My imagination has provided me with life long comfort and safety when reality simply could not.
I (along with some friends) spent 3 days cutting the absolute shit out of my hands with chicken wire to create a real life version of my paracosm. A place I could float into like a burdenless feather when the real world got too scary or hard.
There’s so much more I could say that simply won’t fit in an Instagram caption but thank you for viewing this, my healing on film.
Thank you to this wonderful group of creatives for helping bring this to life.
muse: @hannahhemphill
mua: @dreaukyo
bts/set help: @kronkers
styling, set design, lighting and photography by me
also I still am not understanding how I got such tight grain. this was #fuji400 + 2 stops and #kentmerepan400
#surrealism #art2heal #shotonfilm