t’s time to light the candles on a very chic birthday cake. On Mar. 8 — also known as International Women’s Day — the cool-girl staple & Other Stories turns seven. And to celebrate, the fashion and lifestyle brand has released a project you can hang up on your very own walls: & Other Stories’ International Women’s Day posters.
& Other Stories’ Her Image, Her Story campaign features eight limited-edition posters from nine female photographers: Gia Coppola, Wang Ziqian, Amanda Charchian, Grace Bukunmi, Wai Lin Tse, Laura Kampman, Ewa-Marie Rundquist, Vanessa Fuentes, and Nada Lottermann (the latter of which create as a duo, Lottermann & Fuentes). All proceeds from the $29 posters will be donated to CARE, a global organization dedicated to ending poverty and advocating for equal rights.
“I was approached by the brand but I loved that the collaboration involved a challenge for me while also donating to a greater cause,” director, screenwriter, and artist Gia Coppola tells TZR over email — and you can learn a lot about each photographer by how they approached said challenge. Artist and stylist Grace Bukunmi opted to take her self-portrait in a friend’s living room in Amsterdam, a city she first visited while studying abroad.
After a difficult first encounter with the city, Bukunmi says, “I was determined to revisit with a different lens on a solo take so when I did, I was delighted to discover the rich heritage of the city from the stories of Anne Frank and Van Gogh to the free-spirited swagger of its bike riders. In a self-portrait, you’re typically not privy to all the insights of one’s experience in the city but I tried to provide a taste.”
It goes to show that each photo is inspired by something new — or, as Bukunmi says, the “never-ending importance of offering stories from varied perspectives.”
