U N R U LY
GIVE SMALL ARTISTS THE RECOGNITION THEY DESERVE ~ FEATURING// LAUREN.TEPFER//ASHLEY. ARMITAGE//JULIA.LING.KELLEHER//FAITH.FRANZONIA
01
01 WORK BY FAITH FRANZONIA//FEATURED ON PAGE 50
CONTENTS// 1
CONTENT// 3
Contributors
6
Editors Letter
7-20
CONTENTS // 2
Ashley Armitage//ladyist
21-32
Lauren Tepfer
33-44
Faith Franzonia
45-50
Julia Ling Kellher
51-52
Thanks for Reading!
A VERY SPECIAL THANK YOU TO//
OUR CONTRIBUTORS Ashley Armitage//@ladyist Lauren Tepfer//@s.ilver Julia Ling Kelleher//@ julialingkelleher Faith Franzonia//@faithfranzonia
UNRULY TEAM Emily Longobardi//@Emilylongobardi Faith Franzonia//@faithfranzonia Connor Berquist//@connorberquist
OH AND FOLLOW US ON IG! @UNRULYMAG
ISSUE 01//GIVING SMALL ARTISTS THE RECOGNITION THEY DESERVE ~
THNK YOU// 3
01 WORK BY LAUREN TEPFER//FEATURED ON PAGE 23
THNK YOU// 4
01 WORK BY ASHLEY ARMITAGE//FEATURED ON PAGE 8
EDITORS NOTE//5
A LETTER FROM THE EDITORS// Our inspirations for this issue arose back in January as we were scrolling through Instagram and noticed how many people our age are doing amazingly creative things (photography, painting, writing, filmmaking, etc.). Inspired by so many talented individuals on Social Media, the Unruly Team was born. We wanted to be able to meet talented young people with fresh ideas and then be able to organize, articulate and share what they live for. Pushing boundaries, being yourself, and staying unapologetically unruly is how confidence is instilled in an individual and how change is catalyzed. All we hope for you, our reader, is to enjoy the first issue of the magazine and get inspired. Let unruly be your new source for underground popculture, and happy reading. You can reach us on Instagram, @unrulymag, or via email, unrulymagazine@gmail.com to get involved with the next issue!
EDITORS NOTE//6
L A D Y I S T.
LADYIST//7
LADYIST//9
LADYIST//10
LADYIST//12
LADYIST//13
LADYIST//14
LADYIST//17
LADYIST//18
LADYIST//19
INTERVIEW//21
LAUREN TEPFER 18 year old visionary and photographer, kindly met with Unruly Mag at a local coffee shop to discuss her personal aesthetic formulation, biggest influences, and future aspirations. Her hard work and dedication to the visual art community at such a young age has led to her acceptance, with scholarship, to Parsons School of Design in NYC in the BFA program with a concentration in photography. Enjoy this interview and follow her on Instagram @s.ilver to send love and get inspired to get out and see your world in a new light as she has.
INTERVIEW//22
INTERVIEW//25
INTERVIEW//30
UM: How did you first get involved with rookie mag? LT: So I submitted a photo diary to their submissions pages in May of my sophomore year, so 2015. I didn’t have a special connection with them, I just submitted like everyone else does and I didn’t get an email back till August of 2015, so there was a good gap between that. I’ve been reading rookie since eighth grade, and I know I say that to everybody who ever asks me about rookie and it sounds so stupid and cliché like I’m making it up but I’ve literally been reading rookie since I was in eighth grade. I remember being in Barnes & Nobles, I didn’t find out about it on the site but I found the book there and I was like oh my god this is incredible. It was very the tumblr aesthetic and everything everybody loved in middle school, so I was like “this is so cool, I’m so into the photography!” and then I started learning about Tavi and everybody so that led to my obsession with it. May of my sophomore year I wanted to take a shot and see what they had to say and then I didn’t hear back from Tavi until august. She was like “we love this we want you to publish this with us”, and then I started making more stuff with them month after month. I think once you have one thing published with them you get on their list and then they send you the monthly themes, and you can pitch ideas to them. I really love it, it’s been the best experience of my life. amazing, I’ve learned so many skills; like how to work under a deadline, how to work with others, and having a boss, its really nice. UM: Off the top of your head, who are your favorite photographers? LT: For photographers definitely Olivia bee (@ oliviabee), she’s my number 1 favorite, and we follow each other mutually on Instagram so its like the best thing in my life. Her book came out on my birthday and I was like this is a sign, I just love her so much… I don’t know any other photographers right now but there are a bunch that have similar aesthetics as me like Todd Hido (@toddhido), he has the same type of vision that I do with the night time and everything and its really cool because when
I first started shooting that stuff I wasn’t really looking at anyone else’s work I was just doing it, and people would be like this looks like so and so’s work, so I would go look at it and think “oh my god, people see the same stuff that I do!” UM: How did you first get involved with rookie mag? LT: So I submitted a photo diary to their submissions pages in May of my sophomore year, so 2015. I didn’t have a special connection with them, I just submitted like everyone else does and I didn’t get an email back till August of 2015, so there was a good gap between that. I’ve been reading rookie since eighth grade, and I know I say that to everybody who ever asks me about rookie and it sounds so stupid and cliché like I’m making it up but I’ve literally been reading rookie since I was in eighth grade. I remember being in Barnes & Nobles, I didn’t find out about it on the site but I found the book there and I was like oh my god this is incredible. I think once you have one thing published with them you get on their list and then they send you the monthly themes, and you can pitch ideas to them. I really love it, it’s been the best experience of my life. amazing, I’ve learned so many skills; like how to work under a deadline, how to work with others, and having a boss, its really nice. UM: Off the top of your head, who are your favorite photographers? LT: For photographers definitely Olivia bee (@ oliviabee), she’s my number 1 favorite, and we follow each other mutually on Instagram so its like the best thing in my life. Her book came out on my birthday and I was like this is a sign, I just love her so much… I don’t know any other photographers right now but there are a bunch that have similar aesthetics as me like Todd Hido (@toddhido), he has the same type of vision that I do with the night time and everything, when I first started shooting that stuff I wasn’t really looking at anyone else’s work I was just doing it, and people would be like this looks like so and so’s work, so I would go look at it and think “oh my god, people see the same stuff that I do!”
INTERVIEW//31
UM: When did you get into photography, was there a specific moment/person you met or was it gradually something you found through learning more about yourself? LT: Growing up I’ve always been interested in art, I’ve always been an artistic person--really into theater, singing, and just all mediums of art. My aunt would always give me her handme-down cameras when I was younger so I would shoot things like family events, and friends. In the beginning I got into instagram and pure editing –making images look good visually. I was really into photography even before high school, that’s when I started using it and doing it as a hobby. My freshmen year (of high school) I got my first digital camera. My sophomore year I started doing shoots with people and really planning them out -not being very spontaneous with it, which is weird because now I find myself doing things more spontaneously. I don’t do many planned shoots anymore. Recently, I’ve saved enough money to get a DSLR which is the camera I’m currently using. And I guess that’s really when it all got good. I started getting into taking pictures, posting them, and hearing what people have to say. UM: When you get behind the camera what goes through your mind? LT: When I’m shooting it’s never the same, for instance during the summer I’ll go out with my camera and just look for things to shoot but other times I usually just carry my camera around with me especially now, since I’ve been so busy its hard for me to do planned shoots. Recently it’s been me taking my camera in my backpack and whenever I go somewhere and see something I’ll take a picture of it. Usually it’s just me liking things visually and then figuring out how to make it look better. I was talking to my friend last week about my editing process, and it was weird for me to talk about because I feel like I don’t really edit my pictures (but I obviously do), it’s more of me making them look the way I see it when I take the picture, if that makes sense. So I’ll take a picture and see things a certain
INTERVIEW//32
way and when I upload it to my computer I fix it to make it look the way I saw it when I took the picture. So it’s a whole visual process of me changing things. I don’t deep fry my pictures or do anything crazy to them, it’s just me adding the little things that I see and cropping it the way I saw it, adding colors the way I saw it. I feel like I have some type of contact lenses everywhere I go and I see things in a certain way. Taking/doing photography is more me translating what I see and sharing it with others so they can see it too. Sometimes its frustrating when I take a picture and look at my camera and its not anything I wanted it to look like and then ill put it on my computer and I can change it which sounds really bad but it becomes an art form. When I’m taking a picture I will know what I want it to look like when its done, so when I take a picture I’ll be like; I want this to be blue, I want this to be pink, I want this to be purple, I know what I want it to look like when I’m done with it. UM: Are there any photos you’ve taken that were your favorites/evoke the most emotion for you? LT: I really like my self-portraits, they mean a lot to me, and portraits I’ve taken of other people that mean something to me. Especially when I go and take pictures of friends who live far away. I feel like whenever I pick a picture I like it’s usually a picture of someone else. UM: Have you found yourself becoming a more natural observer as a photographer? LT: Yeah for sure, I think that’s what led me to becoming a photographer, I’ve always been extremely observant and I think that’s what made me interested in photography. I don’t think photography has taught me to be an observer because that’s the criteria to become one, you need to be an observer. I’m just so heavily observant of every situation I’m in that it’s natural to just take everything in. Especially observing things visually, but also the dynamics of relationship weather it be a friendship or parent relationship. I’ve definitely always been an observer but photography has helped me enhance those skills.
FAITH.
FAITH//33
FAITH//37
FAITH//38
FAITH//41
FAITH//42
INTERVIEW//45
Julia Ling Kelleher Julia Ling Kelleher, 18 year old sweetheart, is currently residing in LA. We discovered her work when she started making Youtube videos back in 2014 and have watched her develop into the artist she is today. The following photos were developed and submitted by Julia, capturing some of her more candid moments.
INTERVIEW//46
INTERVIEW//47
INTERVIEW//48
INTERVIEW//49
UM: Who/what do you think has most influenced your personal style? At what age did you start playing around with your fashion sense? JLK: I started experimenting with clothes when I was in the 5th grade. I’m not exactly sure what inspired it...but I remember always waking up with a desire to wear something ridiculous to school. A big influence of my style was the Internet, specifically blogging, YouTube, and Instagram. It’s like having a mood board always at your hands.
UM: Any style phases you went through that make you laugh/cringe looking back on them now? JLK: Everyone does, I think haha, I used to wear floral print leggings and arm warmers... it’s so funny to look back on but without all the in between stages I would be so different.
UM: Do you feel you’ve learned more about yourself through playing around with photography, video, making sets, etc. ? JLK: Yes, in the past few months I’ve tried exploring all different types of mediums, and in parallel with this I’ve also grown immensely. Trial and error is the only way...it’s the quickest way to learn what you love and hate. I’m learning about myself and the things that matter to me the most.
UM: What did it feel like filming, editing, and posting your first few videos? Was this something you just did for fun or did someone/ something inspire you to do so? JLK: The first videos I ever posted were usually lookbooks or vlogs, something I really have no interest in anymore. I had no idea what I was doing, I just saw other girls on YouTube make these videos and thought I could take a stab at it. It was mainly just for fun; it felt like a safe space to me so I had free realm.
UM: Have you always had an eye for video and aesthetics or is this something that developed as you got older? How has it evolved?
INTERVIEW//50
JLK: As I experience more of the world my eyes grow bigger and I develop a better understanding of myself. To be honest, I think it only just started evolving. Right now I’m really attracted to saturated color, tacky props, and anything 60s. Ever since I moved to LA about four months ago, I finally could see my vision clearly. Of course there’s so much more execution to be done, but at least I can see it in my head.
UM: You often write about strength through softness and embracing one’s weaknesses, is this something you’ve gotten to learn about yourself? JLK: For the longest time I was so embarrassed about how sensitive I am, the simplest things make me cry. I thought sensitive was a synonym for “bad.” Someone recently told me it made me weak, and that was the breaking point for me. If people really can’t see that softness and sensitivity is a product of immense care for something, then things really need to change. People are so scared of vulnerability and their emotions. I’m working on a film right now on this topic. 1. listen to 50s love songs 2. buy myself a 7/11 slushie 3. write in my diary 4. take the subway somewhere
UM: What are you top three favorite films? JLK: My answer is different every time but currently Palo Alto, Where the Wild Things Are, and Somewhere.
UM: What friends have you made through the internet? I know you and Rachel are close, that video from the summer in NYC was so sweet! JLK: Rachel Cobb is such an amazing girl and especially an amazing friend. Besides my high school friends, all my friends are from the internet. It’s weird because I feel like now I can learn so much about someone before I meet them. Almost too much. I want to meet more people outside of the internet, but it’s so hard. I can’t remember the last time friends complete stranger.
THANKS FOR READING//51
THANKS FOR READING//52
T h a n k Yo u C o m e A g a i n .