Still Shooting

Terry Richardson was getting demolished with sexual misconduct accusations from all over the place, but nothing stuck legally, so he just kept shooting. Scandal didn’t slow him down.

He photographed Jessie Andrews. She’d become the biggest porn star in America at that point, basically replacing Sasha Grey. If you knew the internet at all, you knew who she was.

There’s something strange about seeing someone from that world end up in mainstream photo portfolios. Like they’re crossing between two completely different scenes. Richardson and Andrews together—he’s carrying all the scandal and creepiness, she’s got all the notoriety from being the most visible person in an industry that’s basically built on garbage and celebrity. They shot together.

I’ve never understood Richardson’s photographs. Something uncomfortable in all of them.