Fall / Winter 2019
Creative + Photography
Rebel Girl (2024)
Samantha Sutcliffe is a New York–based photographer, director, and writer who was shortlisted for the 2021 Hopper Prize. Destiny Strudwick is a model who will be walking the runways this fall.
The pair, who have been friends since 2019, made a series of portraits with little more than a humble mullet wig as inspiration and Sutcliffe’s suburban New Jersey hometown as their setting. In these images, Sutcliffe’s camera pictures Strudwick as a woman on the verge—alternately tough, vulnerable, and out of reach. She then turns the lens on herself, exposing similar mysteries.
Interviewing each other for the Portrait Issue of Gigantic, the two touch on everything from style icons and go-to songs to the appeal of anonymity.
1 minute, 03 Seconds
I’m walking in the rain alone at last.
I’m more human than human.
Allstate 718-392-9400, Forever Young, Pussy Boy, looking left and right this is what I see.
I get rid of my family because they make me feel nauseous
and now my only close friends are Jody and Jackie who I met in the lockeroom after realizing our matching Mickey Mouse tattoos.
The bathroom we share is dirty and beautiful with a poster pinned to the wall that says Love is Poison.
for Paper Magazine
Directing, Videography, Production, Editing
Rachel Rabbit White alongside her husband Nico Walker and close friends Rachel Oyster Kim and Joshua Atwood are hustlers, carrying a sentiment of New York City that will never die. The video is shot on location in the working class neighborhood of Bay Ridge, a time capsule that represents old school New York City. Rachel walks through the streets of Bay Ridge encountering pickpocketing mischief; a hallucination brings her into a nightmare of being trapped alone in a cellar searching for her husband Nico. The jewelry is highlighted on a variety of characters to show the versatility of the pieces. The collection is called Anachrome- based on the word anachronism.... an act of attributing a custom, event, or object to a period to which it does not belong. An ode to both the old and the new.