Real As It Gets

"say you're looking for the real, hey well it's real as real as it gets,
as real as it gets" Jay Z

I like it when things are rough and gritty: fashion, films, music.


It will always be the Shameless of the time that gets me tuning in. The freestyle grime verse that gets me turning up; no chorus just bars upon bars. Art, in my opinion, is best when drawn from reality.
There's something so refreshing about things not being perfectly polished. My favourite films are the raw, real ones that kind of look a bit homemade but that's what makes them so great. Somehow when all the glamour is sucked out, stripped of pretence, everything just seems to become more appealing.


Not all the time. Yeah I love the glossy pages of Elle, an airbrushed Hollywood chick flick and a catchy pop chorus as much as the next girl but it's the raw stuff, the real stuff that grabs my interest and actually makes me think. Most of all I love real fashion ...

I love looking at people's style in the street, because that's often where you find the most creative ensembles. Sometimes I want to grab randomers and say let me photograph you so I can lust over your outfit forever, but I'd probably get arrested, so I don't. Luckily I have some highly creative friends and family who let me take pictures of them. There is no theme to these pictures, just real people and real places that I happen to think are really cool.

I feel like I know a very eclectic, interesting group of people, I'm no Corrine Day, but these pictures are just the tiniest snippet into all the different types of real styles that inspire me daily.