Special thanks to model Adrien at Spot6 and Peggi Lepage, stylist Bryanna Brown, stylist’s assistant Chloe Wise, hair and makeup artist Brianna Bission, and Jason for helping out and letting us use his space.
Special thanks to model Adrien at Spot6 and Peggi Lepage, stylist Bryanna Brown, stylist’s assistant Chloe Wise, hair and makeup artist Brianna Bission, and Jason for helping out and letting us use his space.
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oh Petra, your photos are such an inspiration to me. i love every single shoot you do.
this might be my favourite rookie shoot ever oh my godddd it’s amazing
Great photos – I like #11 a lot! :)
Awesome! I love the headband on the last one the most- and the pictures on all of them are fabulous!
love number 9!
When I was 12 I went to youth club in a smoking jacket, platform boots, ripped jeans and dreadlocks and someone said I looked like Bowie and I didn’t have a clue what they meant. Now I get it.
yeah you just like killed off my last fucked up attempts at being normal with 38ish words….thank you man, thank you. i am now who I am.
<3 Flower
Man, I never was into bowie, and then I saw this dude DWAYNE performing in detroit…(a nineteen year old love child of grace jones and david bowie), and along with all yall’s rad post…… I think I finally get it.
this is undoubtedly beautiful and wonderfully shot. but i would have loved to see a bowie with hips and boobs and thighs. though the stick-thin androgynous look obviously works well with the concept, most of us don’t have the bodies of 90s new york models. it might have been cool to show how even more classically feminine-looking girls can take style cues from ziggy stardust.
hey rebecca! thanks for your comment – I totally agree with what you’re saying. my next shoot for this month is all about boobs hips and thighs dressed up in similar 70s glam outfits.
xx
oh this is so great. but i have to disagree with rebecca’s comment. I think that the idea is to BE bowie, and that stick-thin androgyny was part of Ziggy. Also, imagine a bowie with “hips and boobs and thighs” in that jumpsuit. It’s like those girls in crappy dalek outfits holding plungers.
I agree. Hips and boobs and thighs just aren’t androgynous.
i love how often bowie is mentioned/featured on rookie! this shoot is too good!
Praise to the skull crown
Hi, I love your pictures! I was wondering if you did the multiple exposures with your camera, or after with an editing program? Also what camera do you use? Thanks so much!
heyy – thanks! I use old school filters layered infront of my camera – I rarely do anything in photoshop – my work is done in camera. i use a canon ae-1
x
I use a Canon ae-1 too! Thanks so much, I was looking into buying some filters thats why when I saw these pictures I got so excited!
this series is great! the lighting is impeccable-it makes the photos cinematic. much of petra’s work is like this, her photos have the atmosphere of a darkly romantic experimental film. this shoot captures bowie’s spirit well. it’s eclectic, sophisticated, and sumptuously shot. keep on being wonderful, rookie!
@MissKnowItAll
I’m so glad you like it! I made that one from a tiara my parents gave me, twist tied a bib necklace from forever 21 upside down on it, and superglued the dollar store jewels, and then finished it off with some skull beads threaded on, with some jewel eyes of their own!
crafting is too much fun. I was inspired by Rookie and Meadham Kirchoff :)
YOU HAVE SKILL
This was amazing and terrifying. Another beautiful shoot, Petra. You are so talented.
I love the skull crown/headband!!! Totally precious
I neeeeeeeeed that H&M necklace and the tiny pink guitar
omg #11…
Petra- your photos are always so wonderful. They’re reignited my passion for photography, so thank you so much for that. I can’t wait to see what you do next, all your photos keep getting better and better. These in particular are completely beautiful.
I think this might be one of my favorite shoots yet. I am always so excited to see see articles labeled “eye candy” because I can always count on the pictures being interesting, original, and creative, unlike many fashion spreads I have seen recently.
I agree with some of the others about the skinny model. I’m all for more fat-positivity in fashion in general, but being stick-thin is one of Bowie’s defining characteristics. I’m real excited about the upcoming curvy-girl shoot though!
love the fact there is so much Bowie on Rookie!!
…now some Angela Bowie too?
That crown……I want it……
I just died.
The girl in this shoot is so ridiculously beautiful.
petra is my inspiration, i check her tumblr and the ardorous daily! she’s inspired me to go to OCAD and pursue my love of style and photography. i live really near her, and i hope someday i might get to meet her.
divine…
#7!
Check out Behind The Scenes footage here!!
<3 @jesuistv
The last one is my favourite! Especially the headband :)
Where can I get one like it? Or could I make one?x
Petra, amazing.
As a Bowie fan who constantly sees these “Bowie” fashion shoots, (ALL named Rebel Rebel btw), this one does not make me shiver, but is very very wonderfully Bowie!
Keepit up gurrrrl! ;)
I NEED to get a filter for my camera but I don’t know where to look or what to search.