Allure Issue 1 ; Gold Edition
Contents Realm of Fantasy Masquerade Graffiti Windows to the Soul Time Darkness
Dear faithful viewers, I want to take a small snippet of your time to thank you for your continued s upport and backing of Allure as a developing piece of art. I also want to thank all of the artists involved and the people who gave their time to help this magazine come to life.
Ballet Love ~
Realm of Fantasy The Realm of Fantasy is a collection of photographs that aims to stretch and widen your gaze; to ignite the spark of imagination and creativity from within. Question the world around you.
Free Falling
Falling is just another way to fly.
Otherworldly
O’ what may man within him hide, through angel on the outward side.
Portal
If I discover within myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.
Ensnared
Masquerade
Explore the concept of identity and the disguise. We protect ourselves in order to deal with certain situations and adapt to the surrounding environment. The guise, a temporary defence mechanism has its claws, and can seep into your very nature and character, eliminating the very person you once were.
Disguise
Having perfected our disguise, we spend our lives searching for someone we don’t fool.
Golden
Gold is the corpse of value...
Spirited
In the kingdom of glass everything is transparent, and there is no place to hide a dark heart.
Warrior
The things you do for yourself die with you, the things you do for others live forever. A man’s worth should be judged, not when he basks in the sun, but how he faces the storm.
The Unknown
The eye should learn to listen before it looks
The Exception
Graffiti
This collection of images was compiled in order to display the beauty and magnificence of downtrodden places that have been previously overlooked and dismissed, just as many people in our world have been.
Grunge
Polarized
The Following
The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same.
Surrounded
When the world is crashing down around you...
“I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Sleep together in the most innocent sense of the phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating. So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.� ~Looking for Alaska - John Green
Appreciation
Graffiti is not about clean lines, pretty colors and beautiful blends. Graffiti is the realities of life exploded on a wall.
Defenceless
Windows to the Soul Windows to the Soul is a set that illuminates the gateway to an individual’s heart and spirit. Actions and facial expressions can easily be rehearsed but the eyes cannot bury the secrets and pasts of an individual. True emotions and feelings are unveiled and expressed through the gaze of an individual.
Innocence
Depth
The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious but still a faithful interpreter - in the eye.
Abandoned
The eyes reveal the secrets of the soul.
Through the Haze
Beyond
Stereotyped
The eyes see only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
Time Forget yesterday. It has already forgotten you. Don’t sweat tomorrow. You haven’t even met. Instead, open your eyes, And your heart to a truly precious gift; today.
Before Your Eyes
Time has a wonderful way of showing us what really matters.
Love Remains
Things of quality have no fear of time.
Withering
Lost time is never found again.
Darkness
Darkness is a set that seeks to rattle the reader and get them to question the things they hear, say and read.
HEAR
Hear No Evil
SPEAK
Speak No Evil
SEE See No Evil
Ballet
This set of photo seeks to reveal the beauty and splendour of dance and the elegance of the human body.
Ballet Shoes
Expanse
Beauty
All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.
Searching
Rose
Leap of Faith
When you get to the end of all the light you know and it’s time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things shall happen: either you will be given something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly.