A huge thank you to the team at Rivet Presse Édition in Limoges, France for welcoming us into the factory today.
Excited to be building this partnership and bringing Volume 1 — Artistic Imperfection — to life. 20-06-2026
Every project begins with a sound — a song, an album. I listen before I see: my goal is to translate music into imagery, to give it rhythm, texture, and emotion. For now, as I do not compose music myself, the image is my instrument. I oversee the full artistic direction of my projects, from concept to shoot, to ensure both visual and emotional coherence. My photographs are visual poems, sitting at the crossroads of retro aesthetics, elegance, and theatricality. My work is rooted in storytelling — sometimes through a clear narrative, sometimes through a subtle detail that evolves from one image to the next. Each series tells a story, like a song whose lyrics unfold through photographs. They are crafted to connect souls through passion, color, sensuality, and beauty. My projects are parallel worlds, escapes from reality. Like the music that accompanies me daily, photography offers me another space — one where I can live with more romance, laughter, and sincere tears. For me, a photoshoot is an immersive experience. The playlist sets the rhythm and unites the team. I’m drawn to continuous light for its fluidity, though I sometimes introduce flash for its pulse. Working digitally allows me to stay free — to compose my visual worlds the way one might improvise a melody. My series are invitations to dream, to drift elsewhere. I don’t aim to explain everything — I create above all for the dream, leaving room for the viewer to project their own emotion into it.
Collaborator Credits: Lucie Kavyrchine (my model) + @luciekav
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS — ARTISTIC IMPERFECTION
UNDERWALL magazine invites emerging creatives to submit editorial work that explores the beauty of imperfection.
We are seeking fashion photographers, stylists, MUA’s, Designers… that embraces rawness, vulnerability, distortion, and human nuance - where flaws become narrative and imperfection becomes intention.
Contributors will be published in print and receive an exclusive invitation to the official UNDERWALL launch event in Paris on 20 June 2026.
Submit via underwall.co/contact
[email protected]
“These images represents an inner conflict, a psychological struggle with oneself. A conflict we all carry within us, whether religious, mental, or tied to identity. The subject appears to be fighting against themselves, even inflicting blows upon their own body. The wounds are clearly visible, yet deliberately beautified, colorful, glittered as if the pain were being aestheticized, kept on the surface in front of the camera. This wound, deeply rooted in the subject’s body, also speaks to human imperfection in its rawest form: a mark that might originally be perceived as unattractive or even as a form of disability. Here, however, it is transformed into strength, a visual and symbolic asset, embraced rather than hidden. Despite this attempt to embellish and control the image, the gaze reveals a very real suffering. The subject poses almost mechanically, striving to appear editorially correct, while the pain remains deep, permanent, and profoundly human.”
Collaborator Credits:
Photographer : Tom Carras Model : Fabien Fisher Make-up : Eva Carras Assistant : Romane Huber Light: Titouan Le Peutrec
“Since the very beginning of my career, I always wanted to show something raw in my work. Because the majority of what you can learn about editing skills of human beings, portraits, fashion and so on, is drive by making everyone look different. Flawless skin that no one has, skinnier arms or legs, nose, you name it. But what hit me as a photographer and as a humain being, is everything I could see with my eyes in the details. Heterochromia in the eyes, little scars on the skin, freckles before it became cool and desirable. Anyway, you have now the opportunity to explore some of my work as the reality I like to capture, far away from the trends of making everyone looks anything else but themselves. I wish you will like some and I invite you to discover more when we met.”
Collaborator Credits: Ludovic Da Silva / @ludovic.das
“My photographs focus on feminism and the female gaze. I like to bring light to the things us women go through, our struggles but also show how strong we are!
When Cristal came to me for this project I knew we would work well together. Her designs draws on the legacy of witches as symbols of female autonomy, strength and defiance against patriarchal control. With this project we aimed to show strong, women and the confidence they have to be themselves.
The power of women have always been feared, exploited but never fully extinguished. The fight for women autonomy is ongoing and we will never give in.”
Brookelynn Bliss - Photographer - @BrookelynnBliss Cristal Isabel - Fashion Designer - @crisabelle1 Selena Saulnier - Makeup Artist - @_celena_mua_ Klára Charvátová - Model - @Charvatovaklara Patrycja Szczypczk - Model - @patisooonka
“Born from LA’s laid back yet bold artistic touches come designs that merge futurism, nature, and ritual. They carry echoes of tradition and transformation, organic textures, sartorial reinterpreted through modern tailoring, and avant-garde like silhouettes blending past roots with forward looking vision.” - Christian McDermott
Christian DeValoré - @maisondevalore
