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I was still naked, and although I did not feel the least bit of shame, I was disturbed to realize that modesty had deserted me. On rounding a corner we came upon a soldier standing idly in the street. He had a towel draped across his shoulder, and I asked if he would give it to me to cover my nakedness. The soldier surrendered the towel quite willingly but said not a word. A little later I lost the towel, and Yaeko-san took off her apron and tied it around my loins.

Our progress towards the hospital was interminably slow, until finally, my legs, stiff from drying blood, refused to carry me farther. The strength, even the will, to go on deserted me, so I told my wife, who was almost as badly hurt as I, to go on alone. This she objected to, but there was no choice. She had to go ahead and try to find some-one to come back for me.

Source www.eyewitnesstohistory.com

D r . M i c h i h i k o H a c h i y a

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V o l u m e 1

What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals

profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so

formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they

sound like beautiful music. Soren Kierkegaard

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Joe Lai

Carolina Grace Mills

Katie McCurdy

Ben Taylor

Marco Van Rijt

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‘Beauty' is so complex, so down to opinion and interpretation that it would be hard to pin down beauty as just one thing; beauty is not so much the visage of being aesthetically pleasing to others around you, nor the common consensus

that our messed up society seems to categorize as being only a thing of the famous, thin and rich.

Beauty as we know it doesn't exist, it's merely a fictitious aspiration to pro-mote consumerism; lets use an example, if somebody thin and glamorous is

wearing an item of clothing in a marketing campaign, you (the consumer) are therefore inclined to buy that piece of clothing, because, after all, if it's per-ceived as 'beautiful' on that body, why shouldn't it make you beautiful too?

Beauty’s a matter of opinion, yet it just so happens that the opinion that peo-ple tend to listen to more than anyone else’s is that of the media and society- if this ‘beauty’ we aspire to really existed, why is it that the image we strive

for is constantly changing? Is what was ‘beautiful’ 50 years ago still what we consider to be beautiful now? Would the women in today’s society be happy with the curvy image that was so sought after in the day of Marilyn Monroe?

Of course not.‘Beauty’ is constantly being redefined; and it’s merely a specification to which the everyday man or woman has to attempt to keep up with- we’re spoon fed what to wear and how to appear on a daily basis; there’s even a list of the ‘top

100 beautiful people’Compiled each year that we are supposedly meant to aspire to.

We can’t help wanting to be beautiful. It’s human nature to want to feel ac-cepted and the fact that we’re repetitively told what is attractive and what is not doesn’t help- it’s a typical example of the domino effect; if everyone else

thinks this or that is beautiful, why shouldn’t you too?

Words by Carolina Grace Mills

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K a t i e M c C u r d y

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Katie McCurdy

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C o l e M o h r

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Y u r i P l e s k u n

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M i c k y A y o u b b y K a t i e M c C u r d y

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How old are you, where do you originate from?

I’m 24, and I am from Philadelphia.

Which Camera do you use for your photography?

I like to use a few cameras. I use a lot of point and

shoots- I like to use my Contax t2 for daylight and

my Nikon One Touch for when I go out at night

because the flash is very bright. The Nikon is great

because it was 20$ and is indestructible - For com-

mercial work I mostly use a Canon 5D Mark II.

Do you enjoy photography more when it’s impul-

sive, rather than staged?

One of the best things about photography is how

impulsive it can be - capturing something when

it is in the moment. Even when there is a lot of

production behind a shoot there is still a moment

of impulse.

Your photos seem to be almost vintage, is there

any particular style or genre you follow?

Color pallets are something that I always take in

to consideration while photographing. William

Eggleston’s work from the late 60’s and early 70s

are some of my favorites. There is a lot of film I

wish was still in production that help with those

specific color pallets. I shoot digital and it’s great

for certain shoots, but the color saturation from

film is always better.

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Our generation seems to have this obsessive desire to categorise everyone and everything until nothing is

perceived as original anymore. You walk down the street these days and don’t see somebody for their individual style; rather more a stereotype that they fall under- ‘indie’, ‘hipster’, ‘goth’. The cultures that originally made people ‘different’ are now the ones that make everyone the same as each other, due to them being repetitively thrown in our faces by the narrative of ‘the movies’ and everybody wearing the same thing. Have you ever put any thought into the reasons behind these different dress senses or why everybody seems to aspire to dress like them? The reason why we have these different sub-groups of fashion is because they’re the example set by previous genera-tions, but it seems to have all become about wearing granny jumpers and ‘nerd glasses’ rather than the original message that our elders set out to make; which was an attempt to go away from the mainstream rather than create a style intended for it- for example, teddy boys: Teddy boys wore the style of clothes they did to satire England and it’s monarchy ruling, but it’s now been taken and used as ‘fashion’. Morrisey and The Smiths set off the ‘indie’ trend just by creating a band image, yet now you can’t seem to go past a shop window without seeing their style plastered all over the material stupidity we create these days.

Our generation seems to have this habit of taking something good and exploiting it to the extent where everyone is sick of the sight of it, take Dubstep; dubstep origi-nated as dank, dark music created in the suburbs of England, yet over time every-body hyped it up so much that you turn on the radio and hear it used within a Britney Spears or Pixie Lott song- hardly the way its original creators would have wanted it. Nothing seems to be done for the simple reason of making a point anymore; our society is a corporate monopoly controlled by industries, using ‘mainstream’ pup-pets like LMFAO or Nicki Minaj to make money in the music industry and using teenagers as puppets to sport the trends that make money within the fashion industry. It seems ironic that people in the 80’s wore clothes that would now fit as ‘punk’ or ‘mods’ to make a point against these corporations and rebel against the culture that everybody else was fitting into, whereas now everybody wears these trends in an attempt to fit into the mainstream.

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' B e at n i k 'A piece by Carolina Grace Mills.

Nobody can even wear what they want to anymore without being pigeon holed and pinpointed into a trend that we have all decided ourselves. England seems to have lost the intelligence and thought that was put into our culture back in the 1960’s, 70’s, 80’s and has just started to repeat the trends that previous generations used, los-ing the thought and meaning behind them. I suppose it means that, what was a di-verse culture and made us so interesting in the past, has now been lost in translation from generation to generation, through everyone’s attempt to copy one another to fit in. Oscar Wilde said that “A work of art is the unique result of a temperament” but it seems to me that the ‘art’ we wear is just a mimic of what it used to be, simply just media and industry induced copies that are worn over and over until the dignity that was in the message that people set out to exploit is completely undermined.

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Marco Van Rijt

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A soldier on my own

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Marco Van Rijt

A soldier on my own

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“I'm 19 and currently attending the Fashion Institute of Technology. This is my second year at FIT and I will be receiving my associates degree in the spring.

At which point i'm not certain where I will go with my education, maybe take a year off and return for my bachelor's a little later. I’m from New Jersey 10 minutes outside of Philadelphia. I spent a lot of time in the city during high

school. I just moved to Brooklyn this July after a year of dorming in midtown Manhattan.

How far I am traveling for a location depends on what shoot I am doing. I would never base all my shoots in one area because that would be plain bor-ing! When putting together ideas for a shoot I feel location is very important.

I prefer shooting on location to shooting in studio because the scenes tell more of a story. I would love to travel to Sweden or Greece one day with a muse and

just photograph our time together, in a less formulated way than the way I shoot now.

Getting a well posed shot is a combination of instruction and impulse. At the beginning of each shoot when I’ve just met the model i’ll instruct them a bit. As the shoot progresses and we get to know each other better, the model will

loosen up and I can capture candid moments. When me and my team are vib-ing with the model and having a good time, I try to keep direction to a mini-

mum. I feel that subtracting instruction from a shoot results in a more accurate capture of a person’s personality.

I shoot with a Nikon D90 which i’ve had for a couple years now. Prior to that I shot mostly film in high school using my aunt’s old camera. I was put onto

photography by her when I was young and have been taking photos ever since. I took my first formal photography class at Moore College of Art when I was in middle school. I continued to take classes all throughout high school eventually majoring in it at FIT. My inspirations come from my own head which is why I love fashion photography. Through photography I am able to make my fanta-

sies a reality and tell stories. I use image making as an escape into a world of my imagination”

“My inspirations come from my own head which is why i love fashion photography.

I use image making as an escape into a world of my imagination”

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