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Vantage Quarterly2023Studio, Minneapolis

A menswear story on painted canvas

Man in black posed against a hand-painted brown canvas backdrop in dramatic light
The canvas frame

Brief

The magazine wanted a menswear feature that felt painted, not catalogued — old-master texture with a modern subject.

Black-and-white studio set with octabox, tripods, and a tethered laptop on a white cyc
The set, tethered

Approach

A hand-painted brown canvas backdrop, one dramatic key from the side, and a tethered set so the fashion editor could call frames live.

Result

The canvas frames ran across a six-page feature, opening on a full-bleed spread.

6 pages opening on a full-bleed spread

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