The Warrior

 I'm featured on the cover of HUF magazine! This is my very first cover and I cannot hide my excitement! 

Thank you very much to all amazing people who worked very hard with me to make it happen and to my dear husband who believes in me and supports me along the way. X

Photography: Karolina Amberville

MUA: Magdalena Skoczylas

MUA Assistant: Agata Guilherme

Stylist: Yzabelle Mitsu

Model: Latesha from First Model Management

Model: Sam from Model Union

Model/Dancer: Kage Douglas

Model/Actor: Damola Onadeko

Behind the Scenes of the Warrior Photoshoot published in HUF Magazine

Headpiece: Miss G Designs /Horns: Faust & Company
Dresses, Belt & Cuffs: Mitsu- Mitsu

**You can check out the complete editorial here:

http://www.magcloud.com/browse/issue/560171?__r=161831

Not-the-kinda-girl

Once upon a time there was Bambi...

Actually it's a different kind of story. It goes like this:

I'll tell your mama

I'll tell your friends

I'll tell anyone whose heart can comprehend

Send it in a letter baby

Tell you on the phone

I'm-not-the-kinda-girl

Who likes to be alone

This story was shot in London College of Fashion, Oct 2012.

Model: Bambi Blue
Make-up: Rashida Blair
Styling: Raphaelle Marshall

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The Abbie Road Sessions

And here we go, after approx. 5 months (!) I have finally found some time to edit the photos taken during the London College of Fashion course I took last year (Sept-Dec 2013).

Abbie stepped in for another model's absence and rightly so - she was like a breath of fresh air. I had more or less 15 minutes to work with Abbie and here are the images from that shoot.

I really like attending workshops as this usually is the kind of space, a safe environment where I can literally do a 'testing test' and not to worry if I get any images out of the session. 
If they do come out nicely that's a plus but that attitude gives me a freedom to experiment and a feeling that it's okay to make mistakes. And believe it or not, only by making mistakes one can learn anything. Learn about the equipment, working with models, different lighting set ups and all the other variable that are there in photography (there are plenty!) that could go wrong. 
During that workshop day I was told not to use the typical lighting setup and go a bit crazy. 
And below you see the result. 

Hope you like them! 

You and I, blurred lines,
We come together every time
Two wrongs, no rights,
We lose ourselves at night

Baby in our wildest moments,
We could be the greatest, we could be the greatest,
Baby in our wildest moments,
We could be the worst of all...

The lyrics are by Jessie Ware who I've been listening to a lot recently and since my model looks a little bit like her, I decided to quote Jessie here.

Karolina xx

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A-Team!

Two weeks ago I had the pleasure to photograph an amazing team from RBS who had requested their business portraits to be taken. 

Of course, there was a bit of "I'm not good at posing", "I don't look good on photos", "I'm not good with a camera" etc etc  

but this was quickly overcome and I do believe that apart from some cool pictures as an outcome, the whole posing experience wasn't too bad, gentlemen? 

And me with the A-Team! 

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The Vampire Chronicles

Only God knows how many times I was thinking of cancelling this shoot! It was super cold (5-6C at most) and raining hard with strong winds. Having modelling experience I know that being cold is literally part of the job and you just need to suck it up, but then again we were shooting with a 7-year old model so I had to keep that in mind to be really quick, have hot drinks in thermoses on the set, blankets etc. It was challenging, to say the least.

The idea came from the film "Interview with the Vampire' with Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, Antonio Banderas and Kirsten Dunst. So in my interpretation I had one main vampire and the little girl played Claudia, played in the film by Kirsten Dunst.

I had a brilliant crew on the set:

Hair&Makeup: Magdalena Skoczylas
Stylist: Yzabelle Mitsu

MUA Assistant: Agata Guilherme
Model: Ras & Eva

The wardrobe comes from the amazing designer Mitsu | Mitsu and is complemented with goodies found in Beyond Retro.

I had to work really fast and in fact I took less then 120 frames which is really not a lot for  an editorial.  

This book on the photos above was given to me by my dear husband 10 years ago, one of my fist English Classics read by me in it's original language. I love the vintage cover and in fact, if you look carefully, you'll see that this book features in a few of my editorials... 

Both of my models worked so well together! Ras is an experienced model so I didn't really have to give too much direction apart from the initial mood-board and setting the scenes. But Eva, on the other hand, was modelling for the first time. After a few giggles at the beginning, she was brilliant with this extremely dark look. 

Below Ras is wearing Freddy - a fox skin that I got from the vintage shop in Shoreditch Paper Dress.

And, if you'd like to see how it was done, please follow the link below to our behind-the-scenes video.

Out of body experience interferes
And dreams of flying I fit nearly
Surrounds me 

Though I get lonely
Slowly

Moving up slowly
Inertia creeps
She's moving up slowly
Slowly

- Del Naja, Marshall, Vowles

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