This photo-narrative explores the concepts of new masculinities and self-love. In the series, we can see the model Joan wearing a wedding veil as a modern groom defying the conventions and rules attached to his identity and claiming love towards every single part of himself, both his body and mind and getting to know and accept that we need to love ourselves first to then be able to love others. This work is part of the conceptual visual artist Seigar on identity in his quest to go deep into the pieces that compose our human puzzle. Team Credits: Creative director and photographer: Seigar @jseigar Model: Joan Exposito Núñez @joancexnu MUA: Elizabeth Izquierdo @98_aries Online Beauty Contest: Mister Canarias Online: @mrcanarion Mister Canarias Online Organizer: Aridani Gil @gilaridani

Photographer: Valeur Imagery ( Muke Gonzaga, Kirby Do ) Model: Diogo Zambon Hair and Makeup: House of No Makeup by Kael Obi Styling by: Ryan S Hinayhinay Designer: Cyrix Myuco and Moses Beramo Studio: Beyond Concepts Studio Ruffled Suit by: Cyrix Muyco Eyewear by Ryan S. Hinayhinay Pants and Corset by: Moses Beramo

Photogrphy: Charly V Real @charlyvreal Styling by Jader @jedjade Hair and Makeup: Solange Perkes @solangeperkes Model: Brenda @brendanerymn Photo Assistant: Emma Joannas @ejoannasph Studio: Vamala @vamala.estudio Camis: Mango Pantalon: Mango Cinturon: Mango Camis: Ralph Lauren Vestido: Bottega Veneta Vestido: DG Falda de Brillos: Celine Cinturon: Mango Corset: Victoria Secret Pantalon: Gucci Chaqueta de cuero: Celine Camisa a rayas: Pepe Jeans Jeans: Calvin Klein Chaqueta: Biblos Falda: Fendi Collar: Tridente Camisa Sin mangas: Zara Pantalon: Zara Cinturon: Zara Vestido Brillante: Antolin

This collage series explores the concepts of cancel culture, censorship, control, propaganda and the manipulation of the media and social networks. The intention is to show, expose and denounce these dangerous issues, and the need to fight for freedom. The inspiration can be found in the situations people are experiencing in their everyday life, and in the vigilant processes of personal data. Pop images of hard repressions and clear statements were used to reinforce the atmosphere of fear. Stop it. The world is in our hands. Together. Seigar is a passionate travel, street, social-documentary, conceptual, and pop visual artist based in Tenerife, Spain. He feels obsessed with the pop culture that he shows in his works. He has explored photography, video art, writing, and collage. He writes for some media. His main inspirations are traveling and people. His aim as an artist is to tell tales with his camera, creating a continuous storyline from his trips and encounters. He is a philologist and works as a secondary school teacher. He is a self-taught visual artist, though he has done a two years course in advanced photography and one in cinema and television. He has participated in several international exhibitions, festivals, and cultural events. His works have been featured in numerous publications worldwide. His last interests are documenting identity and spreading the message of the Latin phrase: Carpe Diem. Recently, he received the Rafael Ramos García International Photography Award. He shares art and culture in his blog: Pop Sonality. Artwork by: SEIGAR

Photographer: Joan Ilejay @joan___of___art Model: Lu Jane Yacoub Styling: Christy Burton Studio: 1910 Studios, Bahrain @1910___studios Fragile things is dedicated to my parents. They were kind, loving and accepting. My name is Joan Ilejay, I’m currently based in Bahrain. I took up Fine Arts back in college. The first time I realized I wanted to take photos was when I found my Dad’s old film camera, a Konica auto-reflex. I fell in love instantly. The sound it made when I turn the lever and the loud clack when you pushed the button. It was a different rush of excitement for me. I loved it, but at the same time I was young and didn’t understand anything. Thinking it was just a passing hobby, I put a pause to that era in my life. That same year, I got into a fashion company as a textile designer. I had the opportunity to learn a lot about fashion. My dormant passion burned once again only for a different thing. I got more involved in the industry and with the photoshoots that needed to be done. It was igniting every cell in my body and pushing me towards what I feel I should be doing. I researched on photos, photographers and what not trying to understand and imitate how and why photos are pleasing, trying to refine taste. I came across Jean-Paul Goude. He is a visionary, a person who really knows what he wants and goes for it. He would draw his visions on paper and recreate them through photography. It blew my mind. For a second, I saw myself in that direction. I told myself I wanted to be Jean Paul Goude. To be a visionary. I still have a long way to go and I doubt I’m even an inch of what he is. But I know I’m working hard to get there. 2013, I decided to go back to the Philippines and my partner became a photographer. Since then we would always work together hand in hand whether he’s shooting or I’m shooting. He would support and push me whenever I go through creative blocks. We were always together. Our friends are amazing too. Something I didn’t think I would make in the industry. It made photography even more special to me. Fast forward to 2021, my partner Kevin, Yohan our friend and I now own a photography studio here in Bahrain. Despite the pandemic we didn’t stop. Whether it was shooting online around the world or shooting with an unbreathable mask under the middle eastern summer heat, we never stopped. I want to be better than I was before. I want to be a great visionary that I saw myself to be. Fragile things is about those breaking and shattering easily. It’s about acceptance and moving forward. It is about letting go. When I asked Lu Jane to do this shoot with me, it wasn’t my intention for it to go into this direction. We had a completely different mood board but as the shoot progressed it felt different. You can find most of my work on instgram at @joan___of___art and @1910___studios

I had a trip planned to Madrid and Yarden (the stylist) is also from Israel so we knew each other before and shes studies Fashion creative in Madrid. So we thought it would be cool to create something spontaneously and fun while I'm there. Yarden sent me some options of models and we both loved George from first sight so I reached to him and he agreed! The three of us met on a sunny beautiful day in a neighborhood called Lavapies and just roamed around and try to capture the clothing of the local brand Boltad with George (who happened to be the funniest guy ever) and that's how it was created. Im Ariel Pedatzur, 26, from Tel Aviv, Israel based now in Vienna, Austria. I studied photography for two years in Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem, Israel and then I dropped out and continued doing my photography, exhibitions and projects independently. My interest in photography started at a very young age, I think I was 10 when I started playing around with my parents camera and take photos of my beautiful neighbor Tamar while dressing her up with her moms clothes (her mom used to be a famous fashion journalist in Israel) and asking her to pose in certain ways. From there on I was always so into capturing moments with friends and in my surroundings. Although from that moment I was always taking photos it was only years later when I was 18 when I started taking photography seriously. I bought a digital camera and started charging for my work and a year later I started taking analog photos and since then I never looked back to the digital camera I have spent all my savings on back then. When I was 19.5 I went to study photography in the Art Uni and I stayed there for two years and understood it wasn't for me so I just left and continued doing it on my own. What is so memorable from this shooting is the fact that in life you have to flow, reach out and not be afraid of stuff not working out exactly as you planned. Sometimes the most spontaneous events will turn out to be the most memorable. That's also the thing with analog photography, you never know exactly how it will turn out until you get the photos back from the lab. I would say that at the moment my greatest achievement as a photographer is being so blessed to be able to do something I'm so passionate about and excites me so much and make a living from it. I have been working on a project that I'm very excited about although it takes forever, so hopefully this will move on. Also I'm so keen to do another exhibition for so long, so who knows? Maybe that's what's next! Featuring the collection of BOLTAD https://www.instagram.com/boltadbrand/ Model: George Steane https://www.instagram.com/george_steane/ Styling: Yarden Karlinsky https://www.instagram.com/yardenkarlinsky/ Photography: Ariel Pedatzur https://www.instagram.com/arielpedatzur/

Images from my first solitary trip to Italy, on the coast of La Compagnie. In these photos, young people and old people rub shoulders, all letting their bodies go, shamelessly, under the Italian sun. My name is Léna Mezlef, I am 22 years old and I am based in Paris, France. I learned and I still learn photography by working as a set assistant in a Parisian fashion photo studio (Studio Zéro), then by being a light assistant for freelance fashion photographers. These are great schools! I recommend. I have been published in different magazines for editorials: Sicky Magazine 2022, MetalHead Magazine 2021, A Part Publications Magazine 2021, Pap Magazine 2020, Keyi Magazine 2020, Gmaro Magazine 2020. In 2020 I had the pleasure of making the cover album cover of STAV from the Excuse My French label. I received honorable mention in the Monochrome Photography Awards 2021 competition. I started photography no doubt thanks to people sensitive to photography who gravitated around me from childhood: I think of my mother who always took pictures of us with my brothers and sisters (I remember recovering the films in the laboratory with her) and taught me some basics of framing, my aunt Armelle, friends of my father photographers... It's very cliché, the photographer who nostalgically evokes her first camera obtained as a child, but I remember very clearly when I received this little blue compact at Christmas from my father's work trustee; I believe that this moment was decisive. Then I took photos throughout my childhood and adolescence, making all my friends muses for a day. Looking back on it, it was very beautiful and intimate moments: they allowed me to see deep within themselves, me evolving in my practice. Then, being deeply bored during my business studies, I really felt this force that pushed me to make photography my life. To tell you the truth, a very positive card draw gave me the strength to abandon my life of that time and go to Paris with my backpack ready to lead the life of an artist like a mountebank. I met an art buyer there who told me about photo studios and photographic assistantship. I opened this door and today I have the chance to assist fashion photographers that I admire, to learn alongside them (I am thinking of Gilad Sasporta and Virgile Guinard for example). My view of photography has taken a giant leap since then. Life has led me to be an unqualified person with a job that fulfills me every day. Recently, a curator told me that, in her opinion, I was in an embryonic phase in my photographic work. I really liked this metaphor: that despite all the work already accomplished and the path traveled, I am only at the beginning, that I still have everything to see, do and live. In a contemporary style, my images represent our time, the new generation, while mixing a strong obsession with the past. The relationship to the body, youth, old age and love are recurring subjects in my work. I want to crown everyday life, the energy of life, seeing beauty everywhere, all the time, even at the bottom of an ashtray. Every moment has its magic and we often forget it. Freezing these moments for eternity reassures me a lot. I master a little more the past, the present and the future. I believe this practice helps me survive the anxiety of today's world. Art is therapy: it's boats, I didn't invent it, but I realized how true it was! I made this photo series very spontaneously during my trip to Italy. I had not planned to take photos on a particular theme. I appreciated the fact of only taking pictures of life on the coast of Naples, not looking for a subject in advance. Just click at the right time. Capturing the intimacy of the beaches, between these foreign and naked bodies that cross each other without necessarily looking at each other, simply letting their bodies go without shame under the Italian sun. This is my first “street photo” series, and it gives me a lot of heat when I look at it. L’argent, le sexe et le pouvoir. Money, sex and power. Je suis active sur Instagram : @lena.mezlef Voici le lien vers mon site : https://lenamezlef.squarespace.com/

"A ray of Sunlight" Photographed by David Rodríguez