In his series, Girls, Henry Gorse experiments with props like rubber gloves, flaming hair spray, and daffodils to create a surreal series of portraits of, you know, girls.
The minimalism and strange ornamentations betray his fashion photography roots but Gorse is committed to incorporating a dose of reality into his portraits. He is a commissioning editor of Pylot, a fashion publication which is dedicated to analog photography without photo retouching. Pylot defines this by explaining to submitting artists that “you cannot administer any changes to the condition of the skin (spots, blemishes), eyes (brightening), teeth (whitening) or body (liquifying).” The result is a publication filled with portraits of beautiful-but-not-perfect people, far more interesting than the high-fashion standard of excessive photo editing and retouching.
