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Discovery / Fashion / SEEKING QUIET ON A BUSY STREET

SEEKING QUIET ON A BUSY STREET

REELNESS BY BROOKE GARDINER


WED. OCTOBER 12, 2016

Words by Joshua Michael Paulin
Photography by Brooke Gardiner
Styling by Mel Renee

We ask photographer Brooke Gardiner to share a collection of images that captures and catalogs style from distinct individuals.
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Reelness
Adjective. | \ˈrē(-ə)l*ˈnes\
Definition of Reelness
1. Parallels Howard Street itself, tucked away from its hectic brothers and sisters but not without something to say.
 
A reflection of Howard street and its unknowing commitment to originality. Reelness brings you a new series from Opening Ceremony. Exploring young photographers and their take on authentic style. Meet Brooke Gardiner, who seeks to mute the noises of the city and freeze frame an intimate moment. A collection of images that captures and catalogs style from distinct individuals. Style and stories that draw in eyes and foot traffic of the busy streets, instead of walking with it. 

How does one block out the noise? To define themselves? Their style? To find inspiration? Brooke trains her lens on a series of subjects who seem to have figured it out. Hear from them all below.

 

“We see ourselves as butterflies, and authenticity is what style means to us.”

Jessica + Joyce Gayo: @nudeux 

"I find inspiration from old films, and specifically black films of the '80's and'90's—ESPECIALLY She's Gotta Have It. They inspire me because these films were made before anyone really had, or wanted, the title of ‘stylist.’ It was back in a time when fashion was a ‘come as you are’ experience and you could do pretty much whatever your heart desired. It was open and experimental. You weren't trying to follow a trend. Also, at that time, black people REALLY had control over their images and had spaces to express what daily black life really was, in actuality. There's such a sophistication and beauty to that kind of power and my generation even feeds off of it today." 

Yaminah Mayo: @spicy.mayo

"Style can refine itself over time it should always amplify who you are."

Thistle Brown: @thistlebrown

"I like boys clothes, color, and pictures. It kind of sounds like a kid’s book, so maybe that’s my inspiration"


Zoey Radford Scott: @zoeyradfordscott

"I find inspiration in art: the dirty breeze that blows beyond the Impala Fields to stale crust of love. Another key factor of inspiration stems from LIFE, and my self proclaimed musical family. I have inherited the performance of father James Brown, the vulgar mouth of mother Millie Jackson, style from Andre 3000, and my smooth honey voice from John Legend. I'm filled with the energy of funk and soul. It’s the antidote that drives me to bE!”
 
Barrington ELECT: @be_Elect

"To me, style is a projection of my internal state at the moment."

Michel Sayegh: @michelsgh

FILED UNDER: feature, fashion, reelness, style, Barrington ELECT, Jessica Gayo, Joyce Gayo, Michel Sayegh, Yaminah Mayo, Zoey Radford Scott, Mel Leamon, Brooke Gardiner, Joshua Michael Paulin
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