Fashion, Portraits, Styled Shoot Danica Carver Fashion, Portraits, Styled Shoot Danica Carver

Elii - Black Boy Joy // Los Angeles, Ca // Styled Shoot

Flowers, suit, chains, VOGUE. One of my favorite and most special shoots to date.

This shoot marks a pivotal milestone for myself and my photography career, because it was my first shoot where MY images were published on Vogue Italia! I legit cried when I found out. After submitting multiple times with other shoots and not getting published, I went into this shoot with Elii ready to make some MAGIC. This was the first shoot, in what felt like forever, where I stepped out of my comfort zone and really saw my vision come to life! When I look at these images I can see the progress of my work and the continuing evolution of who I am as an artist.

Elii and I met via IG almost a year before this shoot took place. When we originally β€œmet,” Elii was living still in High School and lived in Cleveland, Ohio. After he finally made his way to Los Angeles, Ca, we wasted no time planning this shoot. Within a week-and-a-half of him touching down, we got together and took these pics. Scroll down to see my faves!

Check out my Vogue Italia portfolio here: https://www.vogue.it/en/photovogue/portfolio/?id=205493

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