This image, taken from Vogue Magazine, May 2nd, 2002, is supposed to pay homage to the rescue workers saving lives after Hurricane Sandy. At the time the image was seen as disrespectful and received a lot of bad press.
This is one example of how fashion photoshoots can be utterly ridiculous, although the idea was to celebrate the first responders, it just ended up looking like the scenes of destruction and hopelessness were being used to increase the luxuriousness of the clothing and models by using lives that had been destroyed to promote designer clothing.
I like to deconstruct these images that either have a badly judged theme or give themselves far too much importance for what is basically a clothing advert.
Images like these taken from the Little Girl And Little Boy Lost photoshoot, (2009) are fantasy based and although are slightly tongue in cheek, would have still been created with such seriousness, every bit of make up and back combed hair would be arranged and rearrange until perfect and the money spent on creating these images would be an incredible amount after every model, photographer, designer and person involved had been paid.
I take the eyes out of many of the images as so many eyes look at them I want to reflect that.
In many ways these images are a form of art in their own right and can take their source material from scenes of destruction, from fantasy, literacy, music or from historical backgrounds.
