Imogene Barron is a photographer and Creative Director based between Los Angeles and Europe. Mesmerized with traveling means you will often find her at any corner of the globe. Imogene grew up in a small town in Australia. Raised on Sydney’s Northern Beaches, heavily influenced by music, art, photography and individuality, she left school at an early age to pursue a career in fashion. By the time she had hit her early 20’s she was Fashion Directing two titles, Dazed + Confused Australia and Yen Magazine. She later moved onto Fashion Director at Oyster Magazine, simultaneously starting to publish her own independent publication; LoveWant Magazine. She worked as a freelance stylist in Sydney and moved to Los Angeles where she founded Junk Magazine. It was in LA that she began to pick up the camera, traveling the world she started to document the places and the people she surrounded herself with. Los Angeles a city obsessed with perfection she found beauty in the imperfections, mirroring her raw and unapologetic approach to styling with her photography. For Imogene it’s all about the connection with the subject, it’s a moment captured in time with an overarching sense of realness. prefers a run and gun style approach keeping things spontaneous and living in the moment and as a result capturing the most authentic imagery.
A photo book by Imogene Barron, published by Friend Editions designed by Brian Roettinger with an introduction by Cat Power.
The freedom we long for deep in our hearts, through our eyes as witnesses; from our minds’ dreams and wishes; our souls commune with the world around us, yet silence. Unspoken equality across oceans and all continental divides...our crown, our private, unseen crown; our feminine, undiscovered multitudes of strength, love, endurance, intuition, ancestries, and faith of our invisible power. From our crown, we have height into our our highest frequency of love; our innate creative being; a Queen. Once a young girl with all the mystery of the universe inside our imagination, now a Queen, a woman on this Earth, choosing our fate in this coming age of Aquarius. Our divine feminine energy, unapologetically, released! A Queen, our very own muse; ourselves, among this Earth, with our very own crown.
Cat Power When I wore the wig, I felt a bit shy but I also felt free, like I could do anything I wanted. In fact, the wig instilled this confidence in me where it almost felt like there were things that only I could do. It gave me a sense of complete anonymity, and I felt like I was in a movie playing an alien girl from space.This alien girl doesn’t know anything about earth, and she doesn’t even know if she likes earth, but she knows she wants to be somewhere other than her home planet, and comfort zone, and Seoul just happens to be where she landed.She was enjoying earth, studying all the differences and similarities in the habits and customs of earth in relation to those of her home, until I came to and realized that she was not real, she was just me.I too, could do anything I wanted, and there are things that only I can do. Nothing had changed—I had just put on a wig.— Yuki Beniya
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