Hari NefWalter Pearce is a photographer who flits around the periphery of high-fashion events, but rarely chooses to take pictures of the fashions on display. At Paris Fashion Week, for example, he took photos of broken ceiling tiles and abandoned champagne bottles with straws in them, and at New York Fashion Week he photographed dirty socks and a footstool. We figured he should catalog his whole life this way, so we asked him to submit a monthly photo collection, which we are calling Walter Pearce Photo Diary, or WPPD (not to be confused with World Peace and Prayer Day).This column will include some fashion content, because the kid hangs around fashionable people. But it will also include a lot of pictures of ladders, walls, shoes, and construction sites. Think of this column as a look into the private life of the average American 19-year-old, if the average American 19-year-old lived in New York, hung out almost exclusively with models, and had a dry, constructivist aesthetic to his photography that whiffs of Moholy-Nagy.Ishmel BrownDavid Moses (below)Spencer CherasiaIshmel Brown (below)Heron PrestonFor the next installment of this column, Walter will be traveling to Salem, Massachusetts to shoot photos on Halloween night. SpoOOoooOOoky.Follow Walter on Instagram for more dry moments from exciting places, and plenty of selfies.
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