Ruby Aldridge As Star Of The Nomadic By David Mushegain For Vogue Russia April 2013

Ruby Aldridge gives boho hipster in the rock-inspired outfitting of Olga Dunina. Cast as the arm candy of a mustached musician, Ruby wears lots of leather and Midwestern flair for the lens of David Mushegain in his Vogue Russia April 2013 spread. 

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Pouty Lily McMenamy By Jean-Baptiste Mondino For Jalouse April 2013 The Strange

Lily McMenamy wears the same pouty expression as her toddler days in Jean-Baptiste’s April 2013 shoot for Jalouse. Taking after quirky mother model Kristen McMenamy, Lily embraces her odd appearance in the whimsical stylings of Jennifer Eymere. 

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Takahiro Ogawa Snaps Amanda Nimmo and Jake Shortall Grazia March 2013 'Riot Girls'

Models Amanda Nimmo and Jake Shortall wear an explosion of color, print and texture courtesy of Andrew Holden for the March 2013 edition of Grazia are. Alternating between studio and scenic shots is photographer Takahiro Ogawa. 

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Xavi Gordo Snaps Blonde Socialite Poppy Delevingne For Elle Spain April 2013

Xavi Gordo focuses in on blonde bombshell Poppy Delevingne in an upbeat shoot for Elle Spain. The funky outfitting of Immaculada Jiménez blends with kitchy decór to deliver a spring shoot that’s fun and fresh. 

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Maja Striem, Karin S, Linda A, Lovisa W, Miranda N And Julia Greslingaas By Andreas Sjodin For Elle Sweden April 2013 'Nyskapande'

Elle Sweden’s April 2013 spread features models Maja Striem, Karin S, Linda A, Lovisa W, Miranda N and Julia Greslingaas in the double exposed shots of Andreas Sjodin. Beneath the smears of paint and clay are the style selects of Robert Rydberg.  

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Marthe Wiggers By Stefan Zschernitz For L'officiel Paris April 2013 'Le Grand Mix'

Alexandra Elbim throws it all in the mix in a pattern-clashing shoot for L’officiel Paris. Running in the April edition, the shots of Stefan Zschernitz feature loose layers and a hybrid of textures worn to effortless effect by Marthe Wiggers.  

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PLASTIC PACIFIC: An Interview with Kim Preston for GUP Magazine

Photographer Kim Preston (b. 1979, Australia) produced a series of photographs to express her concern about the ‘trash vortex’ of the North Pacific Ocean as part of a school assignment, and was immediately picked up by several online publications, both of photographic and environmental interest.  We found them on GUP Magazine. 

Preston is interviewd about the project and also her approach of making the plastic beautiful and rather artistically alluring. 

What prompted you to create this series? It wasn’t originally part of a commercial assignment, correct?

The series was actually a school assignment, where we had to create a pretend client (in this case Greenpeace) and a pretend brief, in the type of industry we’d like to work in. I call it commercial, because it’s Commercial-ish work, but there is no actual client. Just to be clear though, the concept is mine. 

I only heard about the trash vortex a few years ago, and was both shocked by the scale of the issue, and saddened by how seemingly little is being done to help fix the problem. I wanted to create images that would make people think about the issue more deeply than they might have done had I used more shocking scare tactic type images. In some ways, I think we will have to start seeing beauty within the environmental destruction of our planet, because we certainly seem to be hell bent on making sure there is no natural beauty left untouched by our wastefulness.

More reading: Researchers a Welcome Crowd in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch

Lifeforms Fighting To Breathe In the World’s Greatest Rubbish Dump

Europe Bids Adieu to Bubbly Water in Plastic Bottles

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