BEYOND THE RUNWAY

AT HOME IN THE GARDEN

Beyond the Runway: At Home in the Garden proposes a new way of defining fashion as art by dissolving the boundary between the two disciplines and treating them as a single, unified visual language. The conceptual photo story functions alongside a written research project on the medium of fashion exhibitions and their influence both on the art and fashion industries. It operates as both artistic medium and fashion practice, beginning with an outdoor photographic series shot in the sculpture garden of the Ackland Art Museum and Hanes Art Center, where garments are photographed as sculptural forms within an institutional art space. These images position fashion photography not as documentation of clothing, but as an artistic practice in its own right, using spatial context, composition, and stillness to embed fashion within the visual logic of fine art. Find the full research project and creative direction of the photo story here.

This same photographic language is then extended into the runway through a second transformation in Beyond the Runway: Living Portraits. Find that here.

The first two images in this series won first place in the Portrait category and third place in the Illustration category, respectively, in the 37th Frame Awards from the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media Visual Communications, judged by industry professionals.