Bebe Rexha Has Written Some Of Pop’s Biggest Hits, But She’s Still Learning To Love the Spotlight

Portraits of South by Southwest

“I feel we live in a time where it’s cooler not to give a fuck. Not to feel. It’s almost like if you’re in a relationship, and you feel something you’re weak,” Raia says, lunging forward to emphasize “weak.” She makes an effort to overcome that impulse in her music. “It takes strength to feel, and to put yourself out there.” 

New Jersey-based photographer Clay Rossner has been capturing the heart of vinyl collecting with his Records series. Whether it’s Mac Demarco’s Salad Days surrounded by greenery and an ashtray full of stubbed-out cigarettes, or trinkets and diary notes dotted around Sufjan Stevens’ Carrie & Lowell, each carefully constructed image translates the often intangible feeling of a particular album into something visual. The 24 year old first got into photography at the age of 12, when his older brother let him get his hands on his Nikon SLR film camera. Around the same time, his family relocated, he tells me over email, and every weekend he would go visit his friends back in his hometown and return with a bunch of film to develop. The rest is learned history.