A Story Told in Layers

“For this AW 25/26 editorial, I wanted to blur the lines between photography, collage, and paint, between past techniques and new tools. Each image was first photographed, then layered with textures and brushstrokes through a mix of AI and Photoshop, evoking the language of old collages and painted memories.

The result isn’t about hiding AI, nor about making it futuristic or surreal for the sake of it. It’s about showing how, once mastered, these tools can become extensions of an artist’s own aesthetic, carrying with them cultural references, art history, and personal vision.

In this series, freedom comes from merging tradition and innovation. It’s a reminder that education and exploration matter more than polemics, because when we take the time to learn, these tools don’t replace us. They allow us to create differently, more deeply, and sometimes even more truthfully.

This editorial unfolds like autumn itself: a season of transitions, of skies shifting between sun and clouds, of landscapes where the sea meets fields of wheat. The children move through these spaces wrapped in layers, of clothes, of textures, of imagination. Each look becomes part of a layered story, somewhere between reality and reverie, nature and artifice, play and poetry.”