Marcel Winatschek

Weightless

Sports Illustrated put Kate Upton in a zero-gravity plane and shot her floating around. Gravity does constant work holding bodies down, and the moment it stops, everything you never see becomes visible. That’s the entire point.

The photos are obviously horny—they were made to be. Breasts without gravity’s pull is the straightforward premise, and something about that actually works: the looseness, the floating, the strangeness of a body moving that way. The marketing machinery is transparent, but you barely notice it. You’re looking at something genuinely weird, and the rest just disappears.

I’m not above it. The images work because they’re ridiculous and real at the same time, and that gap is exactly what pulls you into a photograph.