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Aug 20Liked by Luka Benegas

Totally dug this...turned me on to Maris...thanks!

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Maris is amazing so my job here is done!

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Aug 17Liked by Luka Benegas

i absolutely loved this! marina & the diamonds and lana del rey are two of my favorite artists! the electra heart persona will always be iconic ♡ and definitely gonna check out cindy sherman’s work!

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Thank you! Yes, I’m such a sucker for Lana and Marina. I’m pretty sure I owe half of my personality to them haha! You should absolutely check out Cindy Sherman’s work! She’s so amazing!

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I’ve enjoyed Sherman’s work ever since I learned about it in college.

I don’t THINK she was a direct influence, but when I was first learning photography, I liked to take these really dramatic self-portraits of myself. While there was plenty of early twenties angst behind them, I also really enjoyed thinking of myself as a character and kind of making the guy in front of the lens look like they were going through it.

In one particularly corny one, I was pretending to light a cigarette from a small blue flame in my hand that was hand sanitizer lit on fire 😂

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