Jewellery and horological photo shoots seem like the bastard children in fashion magazines. Often feeling like a last minute arrangement, they usually involve close-up beauty photos of one of the day’s leading models, parts of her body layered with an uncomfortable quantity of whatever product it is the publisher wants to please their advertisers with highlight to their readers. Time and time again (not a pun, honestly) that’s the extent of it.
Photographer Charles Guo, however, brings something new to the concept of the accessories photo shoot. And at the same time he doesn’t. After all, the commonalities for these kinds of photo shoots are all there: the watches, the model, and the nudity. Yet the overt simplicity that normally plagues such photo shoots is gone, replaced instead with dramatic lighting, heady, and (technically) no jewellery at all.
Feeling like something of a Maurice Binder title for an early James Bond film, you can see the entire Numero China photo shoot by clicking on the thumbnails and browsing through the gallery.
