This book is a collaborative celebration of outsiders, which uses the circus, and specifically the ‘freak show’, to satirise our strait-laced fashion-driven society.
Fashion photography is rarely allowed to be truly radical, and remains restricted by a pre-agreed set of rules. The freak show, by contrast, uses the unique poetics of the ambivalence between monstrosity and bliss, dream and nightmare. Beautiful People became a useful metaphor for contemporary celebrity culture, revealing our fascination with fantastical and bizarre characters.
Clothes: ScumSport, Assal Iza Bekov, Cult11AD / Make-up: Nicolas Konopaka / Accessories: Marion Saurel, Benoit Aveline / Graphic design (book): Aurélien Barrelet, Marion Saurel / 2017.