Gigantic Magazine: Portrait Issue
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.