photographers, designers, writers, models, artists, stylists, MUAHs, artistic directors and others alike:
there is the challenge described:
CATOPTRIC TRISTESSE
noun. The sadness that you’ll never really know what other people think of you, whether good, bad or if at all—that although we reflect on each other with the sharpness of a mirror, the true picture of how we’re coming off somehow reaches us softened and distorted, as if each mirror was preoccupied with twisting around, desperately trying to look itself in the eye.
The word comes from The Dictionary Of Obscure Sorrows.
Coined in 2012 by John Koenig in The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, a project, to create a compendium of invented words for every emotion we might all experience but don’t yet have a word for. They are beautifully obscure words describing complex emotions you may know. As humans, we experience a vast and intricate emotional array of feelings.
"I don't need a cloak to become invisible.", the mirrors will sense, see and hear me anyway.
ANNOUNCING COMPETITION
on the best concept / style photograph or set of photographs that will fit into the category "CATOPTRIC TRISTESSE" with the focus on "the other side of the mirror".
We publish the best photos in the next 2021 issue of MARQUIS FASHION MAGAZINE
The due date for submission is 15 March 2021 1200pm
The works of art should be sent in the form of a direct dropbox link or direct wetransfer link with the full list of credits and your story of inspiration to accompany it
to [email protected] or in PM.
Your photos should be a highly acclaimed art in fashion - each image should be like a part of a collective story for the magazine pages therefore making it more readable for everyone who opens it.
good luck!