Ink Magazine 2023-2024

Ink Magazine is a student run media and culture publication at VCU. I was accepted into Ink fall of 2023 and have been collaborating and creating for them throughout my junior
and senior year.

Ink Magazine Case Study:

Escaping Normality

Studs BTS

Helmets

Escaping Normality

Transcendence, Volume 13, Issue 1

“Afrofuturism is the combination of black culture and experience redefined through the lense of science fiction. This shoot explores the fantasy and experimental aspects of afrofuturism.

This shoot plays with the juxtaposition of impractical fashion and imagination to “regular society” mixed with tones of black culture; hair, nails, jewelry, style, everything.”

-Amyna Dawson

Creative Director: Amyna Dawson

Photographer: Amyna Dawson

Stylist & Designer: Page Perkins

Makeup Artist: Jhazara Starr

Model: Jhazara Starr


Studs BTS

STUD
Sex, Volume 12, Issue 2

Photographer: Selah Pennington
Creative direction: Caleb Goss
Stylist: Sydney Folsom
Lighting Assistant: Amyna Dawson
& Kobi McCray
Models: Jacob Simons, Ronnie Olugbemi , Ben Clark, Oscar Concia

BTS Photography: Amyna Dawson

Helmets

“HELMETS portrays various styles and enhances the characters who remain the focal point of the setting. Oxford Languages defines a helmet as “a hard or padded protective hat, various types of which are worn by soldiers, police officers, firefighters, motorcyclists, athletes, and others.” These are the “others.”

-Rebecca Hearns

Creative Director: Rebecca Hearns

Photographer: Amyna Dawson

Co-Stylist: Kayana Jacobs

Lighting Assistant: Kobi McCray

Makeup Artist: Cleo Thompson & Destiny White