“Fitting Inside A Box Would Be Real Nice” focuses on the contemporary young man, and notions of what the modern poster boy is. An accumulative of 10 boys, each portrait adopts a scenario from 2015 internet trends and the “social media generation”, cultivating our obsessions and need to be constantly tuned in into a series of eye-catching portraits.

Recently I was chatting to a friend about if young people nowadays still have posters on their walls from their pop star crush, or if it is all just lived through our smartphones and laptops. Photographer Sophie Mayanne must have had a similar thought and devoted herself to this topic, dedicating a whole photo series to this. Wouldn´t be too bad to have something like that hanging on the wall again…

“Inspired by the posters that were lovingly strewn across our once bare walls in youth, “Fitting Inside A Box Would be Real Nice” explores the notions and perception of a modern poster boy. These boys are no longer on our walls, they are now in our feeds, each image breath and pose instantly accessible. Watching the trends of the “Scroll, click and save” generation, we began to see experiments of self expression, the creative undercurrent of what we see and access everyday. Adopting and noting these trends, we cast a series of 10 boys, each indifferent to the next. Boys you’d turn around to look at again, perhaps because of a quirk, or a story you think you haven’t heard yet. Each portrait cultivates our need to be constantly tuned in, our obsessions with self taken back to the “Poster boy era” – taking the social feeds of now back to the posters that once hung, and fell from the walls. As each boy embodies a motion, a piece of their top is cut away. A sense of unity amongst the channels we so distinctly try to define as our own.” The Fashion worn in each photo is by Dasha Kova.

Photography – Sophie Mayanne (@sophiemayanne)
Fashion- Dasha Kova (@dasha__kova)