All the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of changing leaves. Irina in a fashion story shot by Donovan Gerald and styled by Jai Lescieur.
Female characters in literature and film are predominantly written in a stereotypical way, with little agency or depth. These patterns don't just reflect a sexist culture, instead they reinforce it.
It matters for women and girls to see complex characters that represent them, not just recycled archetypes built around a patriarchal gaze. This gets worse when you consider how few women and queer voices are actually behind the camera or on the page.
This project maps a selection of character tropes onto specific figures from film and literature, and the images are deliberately cold and still, figures that feel closer to empty shells than real people, because that's exactly what they are.