Morganistik says

Morganistik says: Paris Fashion Week is just over and after sorting out my 8000 pictures, I noticed there is a girl I unconsciously really liked: Simona Andrejic (Elite model).
I saw her at several shows show I went to, and she has a sort of broken nose almost looking like a boxer. And if there is something we learned from models since the 90′s (think of Cindy Crawford’s trademark mole for example) it’s that what we sometimes take for a default, can in fact make us so unique, hence beautiful.
Simona looks good on runways, she looks good backstage and most important for me behind my camera: she always looks amazing on each pictures. I chose this profile photo of her backstage at Arzu Kaprol Spring/Summer 2012 show as she looks like an ancient Greek sculpture. Remember her name as she’s a supermodel of tomorrow.

Morganistik says: Daniel Bamdad from Elite model agency reminds me this sentence from the movie The Pillow Book: “Use my body like the pages of a book” as you can spend some time reading his tattoos.

I really like the tape with wings on his neck. Makes me think how vintage tapes can be as they stopped to be sold in stores when models of today were still little kids.

Also I had long debates with my label partner about what is or what isn’t art. We were pointing at stains on walls or random shapes found in nature or drawn by humans in the streets asking each other is this art? The tattoo over Daniel’s eyebrow answers that question: this is art.

Morganistik says: working at fashion weeks can be a fascinating experience. After one year in this world and 50 shows, I start to get habits, make connections with the photographers, the PR, the journalists, the designers and of course the models. Show after show, I recognize the habits of the models: how they behave, how they walk, how they pose, how they take the light and the relations they build with the photographers. Some models are excellent at it, and some are really bad at it.

This year during the menswear collections at Paris Fashion Week, my camera has been particularly impressed and attracted by a new male model: Timothy Kelleher. He looks like a teen, he wear braces, but I was amazed by how professional he is. He’s from London in D1 Models and Ford Models Europe.

When a model arrives at the end of the runway he has to make a look for the cameras and Timothy does this special thing: he tries to look quick at all the cameras, so that gives you the time in the 3 seconds you have to get a good shot.

You would think that models all know how to pose for the cameras but believe me, it’s not the case. And models who give something special like him make a difference when you get back to your office to sort out your 1200 daily pictures. You know that his pictures will be good and it’s something we really appreciate as photographers. Chemistry is not something granted in advance, but with Timothy in front of your camera on the runway, you know it’s going to happen.

Later in that season, I had to work as backstage photographer, and my camera crossed Timothy’s path again. And there also he was excellently pro. He understands without one word what we want from him. No need to talk to him, just one eye contact and he gets what you expect. He’s very aware of all that is happening around him and pays attention when a photographer targets him with a camera. He will naturally take the time to pose for each photographers.

He is one of the most discreet models backstage. I can’t say if he’s shy, but he’s very low profile and very quiet. You can only tell he loves his job and does it perfectly. I’m sure he’s going to be really big very soon. And the last detail: he’s only 17!

I was so amazed each time I saw him that I wanted to send a word to his agencies to say: he is really good and super pro. So Timothy, if you ever read that, thank you for being as you are. It’s just excellent how the magic natually works with you. Don’t change.

There is a facebook fan page but as he’s new, you’ll see ony 26 fans and 4 pictures. With this article, now you can tell you knew him before everybody: Timothy Kelleher Facebook fan Page

Morganistik says: In June 2006 the huge musician Matthew Herbert was presenting his album “Scale” at Bataclan Paris. During the live I went backstage to take a break and he arrived and showed me his hand in blood…

At this time I didn’t know him at all and I confess I was a bit impressed that he was there. He shows me his hand and tells me “I’ve cut my finger”. On stage he was playing keyboards so I stared and asked him: how did you do that??! And he explained, he tried to open a cola can and the part you pull broke and cut him badly. He couldn’t stop the show so he put a tissue around and kept on playing.

The photographer in me 1st reflex was to ask him to take a picture of his hand. And then the human being in me proposed to look after his hand and clean it.

I wonder what are photographer’s reflex in those little incident cases. Do they shoot 1st or do they help 1st? But I believe we always shoot 1st, whatever happens.

Morganistik says: End of Fashion Week Paris for menswear fall/winter 2011/2012, I was shooting details of the backsatge of Qasimi show when the 1st face of the show, model Takeshi came to change his clothes. I waited till he was done and asked him: is it you on this look board? So he said yes and I asked him if I could take a few pictures of him next to it.
His hair were messy from the looks models had during the show and strangely I managed to make him smile. So in the end this picture represents well the mood of the end of this fashion week: messy and happy.
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