after prufrock

Backstage at fashion week is always a much anticipated highlight. It’s a chance to indulge in the details and nuances of the garments, observe the styling unique to each season and see the event of a fashion show unfold through all of its glorious and intricate stages. It’s also an unequivocal glimmer into the lives of the models themselves, who appear impossibly perfect and possibly imperfect, hungry for apples and usually serene with exhaustion. & whilst this is all fun and well, my entire reception of the backstage experience was tipped on it’s head when I discovered the wonderful work of one certain photographer. Schohaja uses a camera the way a camera ought to be used when it finds itself in the midst of a Christian Lacroix soiree, as an eye capturing wonder, recording the rustles behind the dresses and calibrating the filaments of light. The ambience becomes art, resonating with the hues and movement of each and every visual echo. Which kind of makes you think perhaps the others in the room are looking in all the wrong places.