SUMMER RAYNE OAKES

This upcoming week I’ll be shooting the new zoe&zac campaign for Payless with Todd Norwood, whom is most known for his campaigns with Michael Kors, Nina Shoes, Bloomingdales, Neiman Marcus, Macy’s, Lord & Taylor, and Bergdorf Goodman. His collection of personal work, however, is most captivating. His straightforward shots of commonplace, everyday objects in cold urban environments leave viewers with an unsettling feeling of isolation and abandonment. Perhaps to Norwood this is what it looks like when we have reached the end of our useful lives. All photos: Todd Norwood.

We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders. – Maya Angelou (African American poet, writer and performer)

hard at work

forgotten soul

eyes peeled

take a seat

tea time

clean sweep

splat

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it. – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist)