George Downing & Isabella Venutti

Photographer - George Downing (he/him) @georgedowning_

Art Direction & Words - Isabella Venutti (she/her) @buon_issimo

Hair & Makeup - Kara Iacobellis (she/her) @kitsch.makeup.world

Model - Natalia Quesnel (she/her) @natalialala__

Wurundjeri Country

k this is the end.

What started out as a vague yearbook concept between friends quickly devolved into some sort

of apocalyptic prom night. Because what screams apocalypse more than the end of high school?

These are the best days of our lives, right? Thankfully not.

Isabella, Natalia and I wanted to create a world inspired by our own nostalgia. One that celebrates

the outcasts but also doesn’t diminish the importance of the hot girl. We all have our place in the

world, we just need to find it!

Our images and accompanying prose occupy the deliciously muddy territory between the hyper

feminine and the playfully demonic. It is our hope that our homage to abject girlhood through early

web aesthetics conjures the bizarre negotiation of identity experienced by our teenage selves,

who grew up on the cusp of immense technological innovation.