CHROMA magazine
HOLLOW october 2018
CHROMA magazine
A publication celebrating young & talented creatives from the VSAA photography community & beyond. Volume 4 Issue 1 October 2018 Based in Vancouver, Washington Editor: Ben Kautz Advisor: Abby Harris Staff: 11 issu.com/chromamagazine chromamag2015@gmail.com All photographs belong to the artists and have been published with their permission. DO NOT copy or share any images without explicit permissiom from Chroma Magazine. Thank you for respecting the photographers featured and the integrity of their work.
EDITORS LETTER Dear Readers, Hollow (Adj): Without significance. From a young age, the gore and glamour of Halloween has always pulled me in. Whether it’s Frankenstein crashing through a door with his arms thrown up in the air, or a mummy unraveling at the seems, I couldn’t get enough. As we grow up, we begin to move away from the classic cliches we see on the big screen, and begin to see the little bits of horror that exist in our everyday life. Because true horror isn’t the Boogeyman reaching up from under your bed. It’s much sneakier than that. Terror is that deep, hollow feeling we get in the pit of our stomach when we know something is about to take a very dark turn. There’s no turning back now. Ben Kautz , Editor
ONTENT
STAFF GALLERY marley fouts-carrico // 06 jane greene // 11 maeve gribble // 18 annabel koral // 23 madisen liljedal // 30 jacob reppeto // 35 nadia stupski // 40 alex wheatley // 46 ben kautz // 50 olivia vanis // 56 mami silva // 62 reyli quinonez // 66
ON THE COVER: Nadia Stupski // 42
GLISTEN MARLEY FOUTS-CARRICO The light in these photos is something i really tried to focus on. I used a colored round light and that made the photos look like they sort of glisten in the accents and highlights. These photos remind me of a sort of ‘edgy disco creepy lady that is probably going to say something strange an existential too you’ kind of vibe.
LUCENT
Jane Greene
ALTARS OF LIGHT PIERRE JORIS, 1946 If the light is the soul then soul is what’s all around me. It is you, it is around you too, it is you. The darkness is inside me, the opaqueness of organs folded upon organs— to make light in the house of the body— thus to bring the outside in, the impossible job.
CREPUSCULA MAEVE GRIBBLE
“Darkness comes from outside. I feel no light inside me strong enough to resist it.� - Christopher Pike Model: Mireyli Quinonez
SPECTRAL
Annabel Koral
Model: Hannah Wang
Location: Kiggins Basement
ARTIST RESPONSE For this series, I was really inspired by the feeling of older horror movies like Psycho and The Haunting. I wanted them to feel chilling and look a little dream-like. I wanted my model (Hannah) to seem like a ghostly and harmful presence. Model: Hannah Wang
SPECTRAL
MADISEN LILJEDAL
Models: Nadia Stupski, James Allen
RED JACOB REPPETO
You are the color of everything powerful, blood, hell & anger.
HAUNTED
NADIA STUPSKI
“You’re walking in the woods There’s no one around And your phone is dead Out of the corner of your eye you spot him” Model: Madisen Liljedahl
tueur psychopathe ALEX WHEATLEY
I can’t seem to face up to the facts I’m tense and nervous and I can’t relax I can’t sleep ‘cause my bed’s on fire Don’t touch me I’m a real live wire Psycho Killer Qu’est-ce que c’est?
HELTER SKELTER BE N KA UTZ
ARTIST STATEMENT U-ni-fy: “make or become united, uniform, or whole. For my series, I wanted to focus on a less conventional kind of evil. The horror that comes along with unification. As something unifies, becoming one, it begins to grow and fester. On one hand, this can lead to incredible things where we push our society forward and pave a new road. On the other hand however, what if that growth is used for something much more sinister. I think of things such as the Manson family murders, where a unification of people became deadly. Once rage and anger finds a way into a group, be in the form of a person, thought or process, it will not let go until it is destroyed from the inside out, and isn’t that true horror?
Models: Ashley Pitts, Sydney Hale, Emma Garrow
DEUS Olivia Vanis “And when we look in through the windows, all we see are shadows. And when we try and listen, all we hear is a whispering. And we cannot understand the whispering, because our minds have been invaded by a war. A war that we have both won and lost. The very worst sort of war. A war that captures dreams and re-dreams them. A war that has made us adore our conquerors and despise ourselves. It really began in the days when the Love Laws were made. The laws that lay down who should be loved, and how. And how much.� - Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
BREATHIN Mami Silva
WHAT DID I DO? I took self portraits in my dads garage with a green neon light on WHY DID I DO IT? This school year I’ve been struggling a lot with anxiety and depression. I’ve been feeling almost like I can’t breathe at times. I just wanted to express what that felt like.
SECRET
Reyli Q uio n o n ez
Model: Jacob Reppeto, Mami Silva
“I want you to be entirely distracted by my surface the sunlight above me I want you I want you content with my forecast of calm waves
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