A strange being lands on earth, rising up from the smoking crater of where a crashed ship must be. THE LANDING is a fashion film and shoot by Paco Matteo Li Calzi, with avant garde styling by Alexia Mingarelli used to reflect the fact that this girl is not of our world but another. Paco’s choppy editing and jumpy cuts are the kind that hit…

Inspiration can find a photographer in all kinds of places, and often the beauty isn’t just in the fact that it happens but in the way they choose to reinterpret a story or theme. Paco Matteo Li Calzi was inspired by Hermann Hesse’s 1930 novel Narcissus and Goldmund (also published in Italian as Narciso e Boccadoro), and the result was a shoot that plucked elements…

When sleep refuses to enter your body night after night – then bringing restless nightmares when it does – cracks start to appear in your reality. The world around you slows down or speeds up or twists in surreal ways as your sleep deprived mind tries to cope with its sluggish inability to operate. Sleep bleeds into your reality and vice versa, and you lose…

It’s a case of trauma and mental disturbance when you forcefully kill someone or something and then mourn over its death. So much is the pain of the loss that you lose your senses and translate into a living mannequin. In these images from the editorial As A Cold Lily the feeling of numbness and displeasure from witnessing a death is captured in the most…