The Latvian Proposition

Sabine Jemeljanova has the kind of presence that makes you forget what you were originally looking for. The British-Latvian model built her name through the kind of shoots where everyone politely pretends the whole point isn’t the obvious point—and she was always sharper than the magazines that published her, aware of the transaction, playing along without disappearing into it. There’s a self-possession in her best work that elevates it past the genre.