photoshoot DISTURBIA INSPIRATIONS, LOCATIONS AND FINAL IMAGES. DIRECTED AND STYLED BY BEN CLARK PHOTOGRAPHED BY JEN SELEVITCH
DISTURBIA
DISTURBIA, A PLACE FOR THE REJECTED AND LOST OF WONDERLAND, WHERE NIGHTMARES ARISE AND DREAMS ARE DECIMATED. THIS IS THE STORY THAT YOU NEVER HEAR, THE ONE ABOUT THE OTHER SIDE OF WONDERLAND, THROUGH THE BROKEN GLASS,
INSPIRATIONS FOR THE FLIP SIDE OF
WONDERLAND
Tejal Patni Photography
Photographer Tejal Patni is known for his surrealist art work for which he has shot for SPLASH calender and various high fashion advertising.
SPLASH Calender 2011
SPLASH Calender 2013
Vogue Unique September 2011
Photographer Paolo Roversi is renowned around the world for his use of saturated colors and romantic effects. Roversi’s has shot for publications such as Vogue Italia and its supplemental issue Vogue Unique.
Vogue UK June 2009
Directors such Henry Selick and Tim Burton put a surrealist outlook on their films. Selick’s 2009 film Coraline was a key inspiration for the concept of the other side of WONDERLAND with the use of the “Other Mother” Coraline sees. The Nightmare Before Christmas utilizes this sense of things gone rogue when the toys begin attacking children on Christmas.
Coraline 2009
Coraline 2009
The Nightmare Before Christmas 1993
The Nightmare Before Christmas 1993
America’s Next Top Model Cycle 11
The hair and makeup for the shoot is inspired by the photographers Tejal Patni and Paolo Roversi with the use of tousled and teased hair paired with make-up that is heavily saturated with vibrant colors mixed with charcoal grays and jet blacks.
America’s Next Top Model Cycle 11
Vogue Italia May 2009
DISTURBIA
LOCATION FOR THE FLIP SIDE OF
WONDERLAND
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DISTURBIA
IMAGES OF THE FLIP SIDE OF
WONDERLAND
Utilizing the techniques of shadow and light, an uncertain feeling arises which causes you to think “where am I and what is that coming this way?�
A little lost girl comes walking around and suddenly stops, noticing your presence looks longing into your eyes. You sense something sinister is about to happen and flee through the woods, hoping to get away.
You stop, only to notice that a creature is crouching behind the bush, waiting for the right time to attack until a creature walks up and scares her off.
The Black Queen, ruler of DISTURBIA, arrives and demands to know who you are, you flee in a panic and arrive back into the beautiful world of WONDERLAND, only to know that a more sinister world awaits beyond the colorful and vibrant world, a sinister world known as DISTURBIA
DISTURBIA