Yoanna House Cover Shoot by Daryna Barykina – Published in The Alchemist Magazine “The Fantasy Issue”

Yoanna House Cover Shoot by Daryna Barykina – Published in The Alchemist Magazine “The Fantasy Issue”

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Another publication to share! Yahooooo! I prefer Google, actually.

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The Alchemist Magazine is a new mag with a lot of art and edgy, experimental photography, and their latest cover feature stars our illustrious Yoanna House, winner of ANTM America’s Next Top Model Cycle 2! (That’s right, y’all, two covers with Yoanna last month! POW!) Yoanna has brought her talent, experience, and wealth of knowledge about modeling and the fashion industry back to our good ol’ home town of Jacksonville, FL. In addition to hosting the Beauty Buzz on First Coast Living, she continues to travel for numerous gigs, including an ambassadorship with OPI.

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“Boho Blooms” VIDEO by Argie Mitra and EDITORIAL by Lauren M. Gherardi – Published in LA DE DA Magazine

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Are you tired of floral boho crowns yet? To be honest, I had been for a while but they are back again in full boho swing for the summer and, well, they make me happy! I love the process: selecting flowers, crafting them into a crown, and styling boho looks with them. So when Lauren wanted to shoot a small series with one of our favorite models, Perrin, how could I refuse? 🙂

Lauren let me use her camera to make a little bit of video. I’ve always been intrigued/annoyed/fascinated/dismayed by Andy Warhol’s videos that seemed to be boring, but really had a bit of story about the subject involved. I gave Perrin a character, we shot a few minutes and this video is the result. I hope you enjoy!

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Yoanna House Feature by Daryna Barykina – Published in Elléments Magazine

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Hey everyone! Do you miss my BTS blog posts? 🙂 A late backtrack, but I wanted to share some behind-the-scenes goodies from my shoot with the ever talented Daryna Barykina for our Elléments Magazine cover featuring the illustrious Yoanna House. You may recognize her as the winner of America’s Next Top Model Cycle 2, and she is still SMOKING in this editorial!

Ellements Magazine Daryna Barykina Yoanna House Argie Mitra Alexandria House Shameka Lecounte

What I remember about this shoot is that it was incredibly HOT. It doesn’t matter how long I’ve lived in Florida, I will never get used to how hot it gets. Luckily for Yoanna, I put her in some summery suits and dresses, care of We Are Handsome, and For Love and Lemons. Topped off with unique boho-inspired accessories from my new favorite, Beachbu Jewelry!
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“Dark Shadows” by Lauren Gherardi – Published in EDITORIAL Magazine

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Photo by Josue Orozco

This month one of my favorite teams and I got published in EDITORIAL Magazine. The mag’s tumblr is a free-flowing melange of their current editorials, inspirations, and other posts, and the magazine itself follows suit. Rather than dividing everything into editorial stories, it is all one big story, again free flowing from photographer to photographer and artfully curated by the editor.
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“Beauty in Bloom” by Lauren Gherardi and Argie Mitra – Published in COCO Magazine

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Good morning everyone! Apologies for the lack of posts, but I hope this one will excite you. It is beautiful and colorful, and very special for me to share.

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You are familiar with Lauren Gherardi and her work on the “Carouselle” shoot (and a lot of my portfolio), but “Beauty in Bloom” published in COCO Magazine‘s Issue 18 (July II) will seem a bit different. The reason is because I did the colorful and layered post-work, which was so much fun to do–for the most part.
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“Colorama” by Ed Maximus – Published in Tantalum Magazine

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Isn’t that just WICKED?! I am doing flips, I am so excited to share this shoot by my friend Ed Maximus today. If you’ve recently visited my revamped website, you’ve no doubt seen this shoot, and there are peeks on my Facebook Page as well. However, Tantalum Magazine gave us a shout out on their Facebook today since they published this in the May issue and I wanted to recap the shoot!
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“Carouselle” by Lauren Gherardi – Published Editorial in MODO Magazine

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As of late, Lauren and I have not been focusing too much on shooting specifically for publications. If there is a theme, we’re not going to bend to it. We realized it’s about creating what we want (whether it’s a new twist from us or plain getting inspired by the greats!) while building our books and developing our style. It was also a matter of learning from experience: thinking a publication gets more circulation than it really does, and being disappointed in the platform and style our work was presented.

That said, if a publication wants to feature our work, we definitely won’t get huffy and puffy about it! I helped Lauren research different magazines. There are a ton of them out there now with digital publishing being so easy! I found MODO Magazine and was ecstatic to see a diamond in the rough. Every online exclusive they publish is absolutely FLAWLESS, so to be included in that is an honor. Thank you MODO!

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A big thanks also to our hair stylist, Kanya Gallagher, for bringing us together for this shoot. She was on holiday visiting Florida, and contacted yours truly to shoot. I loved the mood board she put together, and so did Lauren. We all collaborated on shoot details, like the model, location, and whatnot, and with the help of Erin Foster we completed our team with Kendra Chaney coming on as a makeup artist!
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