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