Adut Akech
Meet Adut Akech, former refugee, model and one of Vogue’s 15 Forces For Change. “What changes do you want to see in the world? That’s the question HRH The Duchess of Sussex and Vogue posed to 15 women with 15 unique causes – and it seems their ambitions for the planet and its people know no bounds. Photographed by Peter Lindbergh, and styled by editor-in-chief Edward Enninful and contributing fashion editor Grace Coddington, meet the extraordinary women on the cover of British Vogue’s Forces For Change issue, and read all about their work in the September 2019 issue…”
-British Vogue
“I want to help people to understand that refugees are normal people, just like everybody else.” -A. Akech
“My models are my muses. I like to capture people that I find interesting in life. Though they do not always have ‘the perfect feature’, they fascinate me – they are normal people yet whimsical” Xiangyu Liu says. The Chinese photographer moved to Russia to study fine arts before turning to photography. There, he discovered another…
‘René Magritte’s cerebral, enigmatic paintings and prints helped define the imagery and philosophy of the Surrealist movement. His most famous works, including The Treachery of Images (1929) and The Son of Man (1946), explore the illusory power of art and juxtapose mundane and fantastical iconography. Magritte was born in Belgium. After a stint at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels…
“I never saw anyone that looked like me in movies or on the covers of fashion magazines. I also didn’t see Asian photographers shooting for the magazines I looked at, which made me question if I could even make it as a photographer” – Peter Ash Lee. Xiao Wen Ju graces the pages of Vogue…
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