Directed by : Claudio Giambusso
Photography : Corinna Luce
Hair and Makeup : Kat Krupa-Ringuet
Model : Mila Melnik

Shot at LUCERNE STUDIO ( lucernestudio.com )

Jessan Macatangay, a print student from the Philippines, coined a phrase for that experience: “Finding beauty and power through struggle.” It might have been controversial, to put it mildly, for the college to platform a white British student first, but Gus Langford’s contribution acted as a symbol of the great reckoning that is taking fire within university education: an English flag emblazoned with the word shame. “I looked at my identity, and concluded that I feel no pride, but shame to be a white English male. All around me, I see people overflowing with pride for their identity, whereas I feel a distaste and disconnect from mine, especially in the current climate,” he says. “I was working on this before the BLM movement, but I’d have to admit it took a few selective people to question me. I can’t stress enough how important it was to have people of color at the center of my working environment, whether my acting head of course, David Kappo, or my classmates.”