Bare

A beauty story for Fold with nothing on the skin and nothing done to the pictures afterward.

Look 07 Beauty

For
Fold Beauty
Photography
Jonah Adeyemi
Styling
None
Season
Fall 2026
City
New York
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Fold Beauty ran this as the opener of their skin issue. One light, white paper, a cotton tank, and a photographer who refuses to retouch. Every frame is the file as it came out of the camera.

The close crop of the closed eyes went across two pages.

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Straight into the lens for the opener.
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Cheekbones and the light the editor asked for.
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The hand is mine. The nails are not painted.
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Head back, eyes closed, breathing.
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Hands at the collarbone, face cropped away.
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Profile, the light raking across.
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Both hands on the face, which took forty frames to get right.
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Looking down, the last frame of the day.
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The close crop they ran across two pages.

The whole book: The book