Thanks to Nao Koyabu for styling, Chisako Iwanari and Tanya Ling for assisting, and Evangeline Ling at Storm for modeling.
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I immediately thought of Hanna from the first picture. This place looks perfect!
GORGEOUS GORGEOUS GORGEOUS SOOOOO GORGEOUS.
And not to be a butt or anything, but on number 12 the text is messed up… :) haha sorry.
Love it! Especially the tights and the BINOCULARS! *0*
Gwen
Thanks! Fixed.
Love this x
LOVE that shot of her with the blue tongue. Of course, I love all of it :)
Where is this park?! I wanna go!
I loveee the blue outfit (from 14 to 19) :) Beautiful photos.
i love this so much! i love all the colors and the styling is excellent! thanks so much for all the inspiration!
Brilliant snaps,, what more can I say? i especially love pic 12- it’s so cute and innocent with the lunch box:)
i would love to see a little more size diversity. it’s great that y’all have more size/race/sexuality diversity than most teen magazines, but, y’know.
agreed! ! !
Here here! It’s my only sadness/sore spot with this super-awesome, smart, funny and delightful mag. I cringe a little every time it’s *another* skinny white girl… :-(
I agree that there’s a lack of diversity but I think that they’ve mentioned before that since it’s teen photographers they’ve got to work with what they have. It’s mostly kids photographing their friends whoever they can find which just so happens to be thin white ladies!
YES! I agree!!! Get me some curvy girls!!! Also, before anyone says anything, I think ALL women are beautiful, including skinny, curvy, in between, black, white, asian, and purple. But it would be great to see a bigger range! Also, curvy girls look awesome in vintage (PINUP!!!), and I know how much we all love vintage here, so…
I agree with the “more diversity” sentiment!
I agree that there should be more diversity but I also think that it’s great that Rookie doesn’t portray skinny girls like other magazines do. They make the girls look happy and healthy and I for one hate opening up a fashion mag and seeign depressed sickly looking girls on the pages. Kudos to Rookie for doing a good job.
yes, yes, yes. i know it’s difficult because the photographers are just shooting people they know, but i find it hard to believe that their friends are that homogenous. rookie’s subverted pretty much every other teen magazine convention, and i’m surprised to see that this one–one of the most pervasive and harmful–still persists.
Also, I think the “teens photographing their friends” photos have the most diversity of looks etc. (And biggest fun-factors!) These photos (and many others on Rookie) are of models from agencies (see credits)… which Rookie has mentioned before in response to “more diversity” comments… it really does account for the models not reflecting real life… that’s not what modeling agencies do! :-)
They ought to feature some more shoots from Rookie readers! The models they use in shoots like this one are always beautiful, without question, and I do like seeing them – but it would be great to see some more stuff from other gals like myself. I’m no photographer, but I’m sure some of you guys are. Ya’ll should submit!
I have been to this dinosaur park so many times as a child! I recognised the first dinosaur instantly. This has easily therefore become my favourite photo story ever. And that will probably not change. I feel about 5 again, so many amazing memories playing there, and now it’s a fashion hotspot. Awesome. Love you guys!
aaaah…why are rookie shoots always so perfect!
WAIT! Is this in CT?
Dude I have totally been here, it is the bomb!!!
Wow these are so cute, I especially love number 16 – true exploration. Looks like fun.
That last shot is GEORGEOUS! All of them are, of course, but that last one… Wonderful!
Where is this? I need to go see this now!
15 is my favorite – I have a soft spot for old binoculars. Where in the world were these taken?
All of these are amazing but my all time favorite is #11.AWESOME.I really want those shoes.and those tights.then i can pair them up.so CUTE
I lovelovelove that rain jacket in number eight!
Seriously, where is this place!??? Please someone answer!
14+15+16 = Moonrise Kingdom!♥♥♥
great photography & i love the background sedmikrasky~ (:
I love the band DInosaur jr.!!
Very Ghost World-ish, almost like when Enid visits the prehistoric park because it was her “only happy childhood memory.”
WHERE. IS. IT.
THESE ARE FANTASTIC!!! ABSOLUTELY BREATHTAKING.
absolutely love these.
I swear Rookie is stalking me, and/or can read my mind, and/or does indeed stay under my bed each night… I was just this week going to ask my grandma to alter some dresses that my mom wore when she was a teen to fit me, and they look exactly like the first two dresses in this shoot 0_0.
Overall, this is all just perfectly beautiful <3 <3
Eleanor, you are a genius!
This is amazing. I want the outfit from #14. I WANT IT I WANT IT I WANT IT I WANT IT!
well gawsh… if only there was a print version of rookie..
This is amazing! The clothes are so pretty! <3
I love picture #11! I just wish the model had a few more facial expressions :/ she looks way too angry.
Rawrawawarwaw
GHOST WORLD
yessss I was hoping someone else would think this too
This is totally one of my favorite shoots from rookie. It really reminds me of a shoot that I would do with my friends- now that I think about it, the photo shoot I did on tuesday used binoculars! similar to the ones in the shoot, except we look cross eyed.
I kind of love everything about these pics. #11-13 are my faves. And I NEED that leather backpack!!!
Oh my gosh this is everything I want my style to be. The saddle shoes, the socks, the hair clips. YES YES AND MORE YES.
THIS IS AMAZING SHJFJKDSJK
all of the girl scout/roald dahl (that makes sense in my head) vibes
also the composition of the first one = joe wright’s Hanna SO MUCH
unrelated side note: SEDMIKRASKY STILL FOR TODAY’S BACKGROUND OMG
my one and only grievance is not exclusive to this shoot at all – these pictures are unbelievably beautiful, but they are still of a thin white girl. i understand that photographers who must use their friends/limited models would have a hard time finding diversity, but it’s still a bit bleh. bring on the curvy models of colour, make yourselves known to rookie photographers! we need you! :D
privilege check: I am a white girl, but that doesn’t mean I like white privilege :)
A thing I’ve thought before is, maybe, there could be a readers’ shot. Or readers or the Rookie staff could ask someone they barely know to be models. I don’t know, could be interesting. But isn’t Storm a professional modeling agency? Obviously, there is the question of location.
We are working on exactly all of these things! <3
Evangeline is half Indian… perhaps it’s hard to tell from my pictures…
And I’m working hard on getting future castings more diverse, I promise! xx
this is probably silly to ask, but does rookie have a sort of style when it comes to the kind of photographs that get featured? :S
it sort of feels like there is! even if it might not be intentional. >.>
Well, Tavi picked all our photographers, so I guess you could say our style is “shit Tavi likes.”
good shit..=)
Hahahaha. The secret is out!
ahhh ok :]
Well i loved loved loved loved these. Especially nr. 21! So inspiring!! Thank you!
Great shots and who doesn’t love dinosaurs right?
Awesome photos! So dreamlike……
They reminded me of this place in Ontario that sells gazebos and sheds. For some strange reason, the property is covered with giant dinosaurs. What they have to do with gazebos, I don’t know.
I’ve got a couple pics of them here:
LOVE THIS SO MUCH !
In love with the yellow dress in photo number nine!! I like these photos a lot!!
Oh my GOD I love this shoot!
there’s a dinosaur park like this in norfolk
i don’t mind whoever is in the pix if it’s relevant to the personal story. it wld be great if photo series wld include people whose looks i cld relate to, tho. just makes it harder to imagine what it wld be like to experience the feelings in the series…i’d think that wld be the point.
I loved it! Where is this from?
these are so great! I used to live in Reno, and there was this great park near my house, with big dinosaurs like these! I loved that park so much, I want to go back!
Please, oh please tell us where she got that blue checkered outfit!!!!!!!!!
Such cool photos! I loved the first few!
this photoshoot makes my inner five-year-old very happy. this park looks fabulous and all the vintage dresses are so pretty (especially the polka dot one). my favorite picture is photo 10 because it looks a still from a happy remake of Jurassic Park where the humans and the dinosaurs are friends.
however, I have to admit I was kind of disappointed when I realized this wasn’t actually a post about dinosaur jr. haha
I was at a dinosaurs park with nurseryschool which looked exactly the same – but I guess you didn’t travel to Germany for that photoshooting… Amazing pictures!
I LOVE LOVE LOVE this, so majorly awesome! Hehe and you introduced me to Beyond Retro OmiGod such great cheap clothes for my straving wardrobe and thinning piggy bank :) THere’s even a Beyond Retro on Brick Lane YEEESS xxx LOVE Rookie
this is very adorable.
however, i wonder: when can we get some plus-size models up in here? i really like these photoshoots, but it makes me sad to see that even in such a progressive, body-lovin’, lady-friendly site, we still reinforce the notion that only skinny ladies should be wearing fantastic clothes. it’s so hard to reform the fashion industry, but having plus-size (and by that, i mean anything larger than an 8 — that seems to be the cutoff!) models could be the first step to enacting way overdue change.
i’m not rookie’s target audience — i’m 22 — but i know that when i was a teen, i wanted to see girls my size (my natural size is a 10 or 12) wearing excellent clothes, looking gorgeous and confident. because these models are gorgeous, too, but there are so many kinds of gorgeous.
These are so cool!
Where TF are you guys?! I am so going there. The concept of the shoot is awesome and I love the pairing of the dinosaurs with ruffles.