Sasha Pivovarova by Steven Meisel 2006

"One day at IMG I am interviewing Sasha. She is 22. Grew up in Moscow. One gets the sense that, more than others’, her life has been utterly transformed by modeling. She is so nervous about being interviewed-partly, I think, because her English is not so good- that she has printed out a list of questions that I sent her agent so that she could be prepared. She wrote her answers out on the paper, and now she is reading them aloud to me, her hands trembling. I have to fight the urge to hug her. But all of the nerves disappear in an instant when I throw her a question that isn’t on the printout. Do you want to be a supermodel? I ask. She looks at me with that face and stares out from those Prada ads and says in her thick accent, “In Rrrussia, vee have proverb: Only bad soldiers don’t vant to be general.”

Caroline Manya for Flanelle Magazine

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"Kimonie in Miami Carnival Glamour"

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2/13/26 shot on cinestill50d

This photoshoot kicks off the first collection of photos that'll be starting a photo series l've been holding dear to my heart, finally getting to pay repects to the South Florida I grew up in and loved. The South Florida that was once unapologetically loud, full of immigrants proudly uniting vibrant cultures together, and that had raised me riding in the back of my dad's broken down 2000s Nissan Altima with it's speakers blasting songs containing the most explicit lyrics l've ever heard. That's the South Florida I want the world to see. I let my love-hate relationship with this state take what it's given to me for granted, capturing that fleeing essence and keeping it alive is all I can do to show this piece of my world the appreciation it desperately deserves.