A Tangle of Skin

London photographer Harley Weir shot Arvida Byström alongside a redhead named Lily for Double Magazine, and the results are exactly what Weir does best: bodies that look inhabited rather than displayed. Arvida—a Swedish model and feminist blogger whose work I’ve admired for years—ends up in something that reads less like a fashion story and more like an inventory of everything editorial photography usually smooths away. Nipples, pubic hair, birthmarks. The whole unretouched human surface, deliberately and unapologetically present.

There’s something quietly defiant about Arvida in front of any camera. She doesn’t pose so much as occupy. Weir clearly understands that, and the pictures are better for it.