LAWRENCE OLUYEDE

life in slow motion

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Published on Ywyw Magazine

Photography: Lawrence Oluyede Styling: Giulia Sanna Make Up & Hair: Sara Busan  Assistant Photographer: Laura Imperato Models: Victoria @ Crew Model Management and Karina @ Independent

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RED #OBSESSION for SoapOpera Issue 5

See the full editorial here: http://www.soapoperafanzine.com/opera_quinta/lawrence_oluyede.html

Photography by Lawrence Oluyede Styling by Lucrezia Cuccagna Hair & Make-Up by Ginevra Calie Photo assistant Gaia Bonanomi Model Kasia Aberbuch at MPManagement Milan

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Starfish on Contributor Magazine

Photography: Lawrence Oluyede Styling: Giulia Caratti Make Up: Tonia Calzerano Hair: Latoya Amsdorf Model: Rookie @ Brave Model Management Milan

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Photography: Lawrence Oluyede Styling: Agos Zwiener Make-Up & Hair: Raffaella Pischedda Model: Valentina Pegorer Photo assistant: Giulia Pittioni

Special thanks to Fantabody, Showroom LA.TE and Adidas Originals

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Rebecca Larsson by Lawrence Oluyede for Grazia.it

You can find the rest here: http://www.grazia.it/moda/tendenze-moda/rebecca-larsson-it-girl-grazia-it

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This exploration of the possibilities of dark gray would be interesting in any photographer, but DeCarava did it time and again specifically as a photographer of black skin. Instead of trying to brighten blackness, he went against expectation and darkened it further. What is dark is neither blank nor empty. It is in fact full of wise light which, with patient seeing, can open out into glories.

A True Picture of Black Skin - NYTimes.com

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The most defeatist thing I hear is, "I’m going to give it a couple of years." You can’t set a clock for yourself. If you do, you are not a writer. You should want it so badly that you don’t have a choice. You have to commit for the long haul. There’s no shame in being a starving artist. Get a day job, but don’t get too good at it. It will take you away from your writing. The greatest regret I have is that, early in my career, I showed myself such cruelty for not having accomplished anything significant. I spent so much time trying to write, but was paralyzed by how behind I felt. Many years later I realized that if I had written only a couple of pages a day, I would’ve written 500 pages at the end of a year (and that’s not even working weekends). Any contribution you make on a daily basis is fantastic. I still happen to write almost everything at once, but I now cut myself slack on all of the thinking and procrastination time I use. I know that it’s all part of my creative process.

"Mad Men" Creator Matthew Weiner's Reassuring Life Advice For Struggling Artists | Fast Company | Business + Innovation

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We are possibly not far away from eradicating a major cultural force, a serious inspiration to invention, the muse behind much art and poetry and music. We are wantonly hankering to rid the world of numerous ideas and visions, multitudinous innovations and meditations. We are right at this moment annihilating melancholia. [...] Without the agitations of the soul, would all of our magnificently yearning towers topple? Would our heart-torn symphonies cease?

Eric G. Wilson - http://www.brainpickings.org/2014/11/28/against-happiness-melancholy-wilson/

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David Bailey exhibition at PAC Milano

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That day hiking in Oregon with Samina, Haven and Aaron. I have the most beautiful memories of my time in Portland.

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California, 2013

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To express yourself as you are, without any intentional, fancy way of adjusting yourself, is the most important thing.

Shunryu Suzuki

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Viva l’Italia

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California, 2013

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Start where you are, use what you have, do what you can.

Arthur Ashe

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Ambra

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It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.

Rainer Maria Rilke