Visual experiments

This page gather a selection of editorial and commissioned photographic projects created over several years, ranging from experimental shoots to university assignments. Each project represents a distinct visual exploration, reflecting my ongoing process of creative experimentation, visual direction, and photographic editing. Below, you can explore the images from each project and see the variety of approaches, concepts, and techniques I’ve been testing.

Good luck, bad timing

Some things are kept close, not for function, but for feeling. Objects that don’t serve a purpose, but a memory.

Good luck, bad timing is a photographic study of these silent companions: the charms we carry, the odd tokens we hold tight when everything else slips. They sit in pockets, hang from necks, hide inside bags - not out of habit, but out of need. Emotional need. These objects aren’t necessities, they’re truths. Emotional extensions of the body, of memory, of self.

All portraits are close-up, unforgiving, intimate by design. Eyes, mouths, gestures captured at their rawest. These talismans don’t just sit still. They interact. They press into skin, interrupt shadows, blend into flesh.

Photographer ED MILES - Art/Creative director, stylist, and post-editor MARIACHIARA DI COSTANZO - Models: Cecilia Lopez Nieto, Giorgia Tramontana, Giulia Rota, Celeste Lee

A PINK STATE OF MIND

This shoot started as a class exercise: create a visual story from a handful of random objects and a single theme - in this case, pink. Working with Aerin Agyei, MA Creative Direction, and photographed by Pelin Temiz, we leaned into the colour’s pop attitude and let it shape the scene from the very first setup. What began as a simple brief grew into something surprisingly fresh and cohesive: a playful arrangement where everyday items fall into place and deliver a bright, clean, quietly striking result with an unexpected sense of character.

Photographer PELIN TEMIZ - Art/Creative directors MARIACHIARA DI COSTANZO and AERIN AGYEI - Post-editor MARIACHIARA DI COSTANZO

The unconventional beauty of PUNK and The Creation of Vivienne Westwood

These two shoots were created during the Vogue Summer Intensive Course in the summer of 2022, in collaboration with four other students.

The first one, The unconventional beauty of PUNK, is a classic shoot assignment inspired by the iconic image of Carrie Bradshaw in Sex and the City wearing a white shirt. We reimagined that simplicity through a punk lens: sharper make-up, safety pins, and the handwritten line “She was a predator of heart” across the shirt, turning a clean staple into something more defiant.

The second shoot, The Creation of Vivienne Westwood, continues the punk thread in a more artistic direction. It takes shape as a still life centred on the defining Westwood’s pearl necklaces, paired with black gloves and tartan backdrops. The composition nods both to the designer’s rebellious roots and to the visual language that has defined the brand since its beginnings.

Photographer ED MILES and DAN WILLIAMS - MUA and hair stylist BETH RICH - Art director and stylist MARIACHIARA DI COSTANZO - Creative directors MARIACHIARA DI COSTANZO, RANA ALSOUFI, ZAMORA BRAHIM, GRACE MACDONALD and OLGA SCHWARZ - Model JESSIE ROBERTS