![]() Visitors+ by Piczo is published by Union Magazin e and is out now. The softness and subtlety are taken from the essence of the subjects’ natural beauty, through my eyes.” “With this particular project, I wanted to portray my subject as a painting, almost capturing these moments of stillness like a painter would. Models loll in the grass, timidly tilt their smiles to the pavement or bend and stretch in states of dress, eternally cast in the honey hues that characterise Piczo’s photographs. The beauty of this project was in learning about my subjects in that initial interaction, then documenting those moments that felt more pure, more real. We were able to have a conversation through the lens and the action and reaction was the most interesting aspect. “ I wasn’t particularly picky about who I wished to photograph, I was more into reflecting the communication between myself and the models. “I was purposely trying not to represent ‘photo shooting’, but more just hanging out with friends,” the photographer tells Dazed. The photographer’s unique perspective is what draws this disparate ambit of portraits together, arriving at brooding pauses that dedicate themselves to sincere emotion. His favourite shots speak to this throughline a portrait of Anastasia Enström, who arrived with her father on the day of the shoot, reveals a certain anxiousness that Piczo mobilises with an extreme close-up.Ī simple headshot of the Ethiopian model and 2020 rising star Amar Akway with her tongue between her teeth hinting towards the playfulness of a young woman at the start of her career. The passive and even at times bewildered faces that surface from the pages of Visitors + may be a sure departure from the Tokyo punk kids that Piczo spent his youth snapshotting but a captivation with rawness remains his leitmotif. This series is a collection of those times I saw someone I thought was beautiful, and how I found them beautiful.” ![]() “We were relaxed with one another, and I started to get some good results. “Both the models and I were inexperienced, and there was no one else around so I wasn’t nervous,” recalls Piczo. Through trial and error, he has developed a stripped-back style that shares its hazy ephemerality and diaristic intimacy with Juergen Teller’s breakout shots of 1990s go-sees. “This series is a collection of those times I saw someone I thought was beautiful, and how I found them beautiful” – Piczo It reveals glimpses of the changes in style of each period, and the beauty in the gaps and reverberations between past and present.” Piczo shot extensively over this period, with numerous models, interweaving layers of experience and honing a timeless poise that has since earned him notable commissions for i-D, Jalouse and Numero Homme among others. “This book is a compilation of his past achievements. ![]() “As time passed, I was amazed at how quickly Piczo’s photographs evolved,” writes Kubo in the tome’s foreword. But it wasn’t just the models who were finding their feet. Before he knew it, ten years had flown by, and he had taken portraits of around 500 people.įor his second book, Visitors+, Piczo worked with Union Magazine’s editor-in-chief Hiroyuki Kubo to sift through this vast catalogue, settling on no fewer than 120 portraits that sensitively capture the candid and awkward spontaneity of new models becoming comfortable in front of the camera. And so he started assembling what would become an epic archive, turning his eye to emerging models who were, like him, just beginning to establish themselves. Under the circumstances, all he could do was take pictures at home. In 2013, Japanese photographer Piczo was attending college in London on a student visa that prevented him from working openly as a freelancer.
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