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Unplanned Iconography II. This time, its personal. Styled by Naomi Cooper

There’s no craft to it. Not really. Just proximity, a reasonably functional camera, and the willingness to be caught off guard. To see the sacred in the incidental. The theatre in the detritus. You don’t capture these moments so much as agree to host them.


Unplanned Iconography II – Cover


No plan. No prep time.

She opened the window and—

the light begged to watch.


They arrive with no warning—these crooked little visual haikus. A half-drunk espresso reflecting a neon cross. A cigarette burning too far down in the fingers of someone who should’ve left already. The symmetry of strangers. The impolite grace of real life refusing to wait for your shot list.

There’s no craft to it. Not really. Just proximity, a reasonably functional camera, and the willingness to be caught off guard. To see the sacred in the incidental. The theatre in the detritus. You don’t capture these moments so much as agree to host them.

Welcome to Unplanned Iconography: a collection of accidents worth framing.


Carter Guthrie – Midnight Teal Look


Carter Guthrie – Color Studio Editorial


She blinked. I missed it.

But the blur said more than she

ever would out loud.


The Collaborators - Keith and Naomi


“BTS fashion shoot with model seated in studio window, photographer visible in glass reflection, analog film frame overlay”

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