This photo shoot ties together three main concepts: sexual identity, restraint, and the idea of performance as identity.

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The handmade costumes made using hot pink bondage rope represent an active reclamation of iconography that was once used to oppress while also bringing into the conversation our own, self-imposed restraints. Inspired by Suspiria (2018), this shoot reframes some of the larger ideas of feminine power in the film into an LGBTQ+ context.

UNBOUND

Creative Direction: Ernest Chan

Costumes: Ernest Chan

Stylist: Susy Seo

Photographer: Ernest Chan

Model: Glenn Bozant, Kyle Hoang,

Christian Kenoly

HMUA: Amanda MacFarlane, Anna Strother

Layout: Ernest Chan

(2019)

Spark Magazine No. 12

450 ft pink bondage rope