Photography Friday: Olivia Bee's Hermes...

Believe it or not, the Hermes catalog/magazine hybrid gets a lot of love in our house. I mean, naturally from me, but weirdly, it also gets a lot of love from our diplo-tot. But hold on - no, I'm not raising an mini Hermes tyrant... This past fall/winter issue is full of birds...horses...girls blowing bubbles..all things high in our diplo-tot's book these days. The "pony-birdie-"ba-bul" combo is a pretty tough trifecta to beat...And the fact that its gorgeous photography that sets up these three loves of hers makes it easy for me to page through it time after time after time (for those of you who have littles, you know that when they get stuck on something, they really get stuck on something).

Front and center in this issue is the work of Olivia Bee, a film photographer not more than 18 years of age. She seems to specialize mostly in taking angsty but magical pictures of her friends, and in this instance, all wearing some bit of Hermes here and there...The pictures themselves are arresting, but the fact that its such a young person with so much vision makes me like it all that much more. And on film to boot (though she mentions that client work is usually digital-  client work...at 18...i love it).  And want more boot? She does video too  - staring herself and her man in a film...If you know me personally, you know I have kind of a thing for teen angst and this is definitely it, just in a much dreamier version.  In an interview with T magazine, Bee mentions that Hermes basically sent her a box of 30 scarves and told her to run with it, providing a few suggestions as starting points but it was Olivia herself that dreamt up the bows and the hats and the scarf tent...So much admiration for this girl I tell you.

So before we see what the spring catalogs will bring (this one will be tough to top), I think I would like to live in Olivia Bee's version of winter a little longer...