Emma & Lily

Harley Weir shot Arvida Emma Byström for Double Magazine, with another model named Lily. Arvida’s been using her Tumblr to push back against beauty industry standards – her work is feminist, pointed, refusing the usual compromises. Weir shoots the same way, so the collaboration made sense. The result is explicit and candid, bodies visible without the cosmetic removals that editing usually performs.

It’s the opposite of the abstracted, seamless aesthetic in most fashion photography. I’ve always found that kind of visual honesty more interesting than the fiction.