Georgie Riot’s Backyard

Came across these photos Jase Holzer took of Georgie Riot—model, actress from Manchester, runs her own company. Just her and her dog at home. She’s in the bath, on the grass, standing on a red Supreme carpet so red it feels almost aggressive. The whole shoot has this quality of not trying to convince you of anything.

What I keep coming back to is how comfortable she looks in her own space. Not comfortable in a relaxed way—though that’s part of it—but comfortable like she knows exactly what she’s spending her energy on and what’s not worth it. She’s building things. The modeling, the acting, her own operation. You can tell it’s not happening in spite of her existing, it’s happening because she refuses not to build. That’s a different energy than the kind of people who are always performing their own lives for an audience that may or may not be paying attention.

I don’t mean to make it sound like she’s some kind of inspiration or role model or any of that tired language. It’s simpler than that. She’s just someone who looks like she’s not wasting motion. The photos are good because Holzer knows what he’s doing, but what stays with you is how much of herself is in the frame without any effort to put it there. That’s harder than it looks.