PHOTOGRAPHY
GETTING WILDER NOW, GETTING STRONGER NOW.
Photography: Marc Merchant
Creative Direction: Marc Merchant
Styling: Java, Amya Powell, Erik Dietz
Lighting: Marc Merchant
2024
Part of a larger procject, American Odyssey, Getting Wilder Now, Getting Stronger Now is a project centered around rage, uncertainty and seeking understanding. This is a dilemma most men deal with. Without a place in the world to call their own, these misfits have found solitude in each other.
We find our subjects in the midst of a “fight”. These fights, although violent, are meant to be more of a ritual. It is a call back to our roots of conquest and barbarism. It is through this primitive means of communication that our subjects have been able to find solace.
ARE WE ALL ALIVE?
Photography: Marc Merchant
Creative Direction: Marc Merchant
Styling: Campbell Brown
2024
An expression of youth, vitality, friends, being free. There’s a war raging outside so at least for now, why don't we dance?
A vision of the times! Wild outrageous shenanigans, Hope our parents don’t see this!! Various scenarios showing what it means to be youthful, punk, and free.
Are we really free if we’re doing things that we know are bad for us?
LOVE IS AN ILLUSION CREATED BY GRIEF.
Photography: Marc Merchant
Creative Direction: Marc Merchant
2024
Strong, Mysterious, confident, sexy, are all words people, (men), have used to describe her before. None of that matters to her.
She is above the societal rat race of having to attain beauty standards and cultivate relationships. She exists within a state of melancholy and serenity but is also slightly detached. Seeking solace from the drab occurrences of the day she retreats to her home, her cave, where she feels most safe and free to be herself.
EVER PORTRAIT SESSION
Styling: Maginaat Gabrielle, Marc Merchant
Lighting: Marc Merchant2024
RUTH TEST SHOOT2024
ASSORTED WORK