Although model Jamie Bochert sits and poses as if she is calm and collected in the the Dazed SS 2014 issue, her facial expressions say otherwise. She dazes at the camera with a confused look. In many photos her head is tilted to the side with a puzzling facial expression and wide eyes as if she has seen something astonishingly peculiar. You will want to continue to look through this editorial in hopes that the object her stare is directed at will be revealed—unfortunately, it never is.
The photos are all grayscale except for one; in it, she is walking away from the camera hunched over, on a gloomy day’s landscape. Her clothes are just as gloomy because in all the pictures she is wearing loose-fitting and floor-draping clothes of only black and white.
Gloomy Grayscale Editorials
The Dazed SS 2014 Issue Features Model Jamie Bochert
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