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320 pages / numerous images

The prelude to a convulsion of love

Mayflies Empowerment stuffed half of them withMayflies celebrates radical self expression in a collection of studio portraits. For seven years, Amsterdam based photographer Darren Smith traveled across three continents, capturing moments of radical self expression and human connection at festivals, spectacles, and cultural gatherings. His work, Mayflies, presents 122 studio portraits of real people in moments of vivid transformation, stripped of background to focus purely on their presence and