Gendering by Lewis Brooke and Fernando Miranda

“Gendering” is a portrait of the limiting and arduous BATTLE that social constructs manage to imprison our minds into surrounding gender identity.  Are we really who we turned out to be?  How we identify can be an endless internal bare knuckle fight, either blindly preached about to some, or unnoticeably battled by others to its most extreme consequences. The struggle to break free from the symbolical chains, the right to be our labeless self, against chains that neglect our utmost right to simply, authentically and purely ‘EXIST’.  “Existing” overrules any constructs, period. Authenticity over conformism, openness over blindness.

Creative Direction and Styling: Fernando Miranda

Photographer: Lewis Brooke

Hair: Daniel Cini

Make Up: Melinda Wenig

Models: Anthony Smith and Curtis Hodgson at Five Twenty Management and Pearl Anastasia  at Neue MGMT

Fashion Assistant: Justina Ko

Set Assistant: Joel Combes

Digital Post Production: Fernando Miranda

Fashion: DIOR, Loki Patera, ACNE, Poppy Lissman, Sian Hoffman, Youkhana, Uniqlo and Provocator

Shot at COCKATOO ISLAND SYDNEY/ AUSTRALIA