Kadessi Alassani - Portfolio

Kadessi Alassani INSTA // @byKadessi TEL // 07939647599 EMAIL // kadessi99@gmail.com

PORTFOLIO “My practice aims to highlight the hidden beauty in darkness, and the inherent darkness in beauty”

byKadessi @byKadessi - Portfolio (AUG 2023) - 3 October 2023

BACKYARD SHENANIGANS

byKadessi @byKadessi - Portfolio (AUG 2023) - 3 October 2023

“This series was titled ‘Backyard Shenanigans’ because that’s exactly what this shoot presented. It all started with me looking across to the corner of our backyard, and there it was… a garden umbrella!!! I then called to my brother to model for me, and the rest was history… For the hour it took to shoot this, it almost felt like we were kids again- playing in the backyard, and making up games using nothing but our imagination” MODEL / MASSASSI ALASSANI

@byKadessi - Portfolio (AUG 2023) - 3 October 2023

@byKadessi - Portfolio (AUG 2023) - 3 October 2023

MODEL / AMIRAT // HAIR & HEADPIECE / ANA VERONICA

NAMELESS

ISSEY MIYAKE

@byKadessi - Portfolio (AUG 2023) - 3 October 2023

WIND

MODEL / SUMMER NESBETH // STYLING / ANA VERONICA MODEL / ANDY KAPAGA // HAIR / ANA VERONICA @byKadessi - Portfolio (AUG 2023) - 3 October 2023

IN THE WIND

MODEL / ANDY KAPAGA // HAIR / ANA VERONICA @byKadessi - Portfolio (AUG 2023) - 3 October 2023

PERCEPTIONS OF BEAUTY "As a creative, I’ve always wanted to produce a concept that would put a smile on my mother’s face. Growing up, she’s played such a vital role in my life, and inherently, she has also played a signi cant role in the way that I see the world.

However, being a child of the diaspora, I feel like I am always in contention with the culture I grew up in, and the culture I was born into. So, my reality is that the majority of my art is a constant reminder of how my perception of beauty compared to my mother’s is like night and day.

So for this concept, I wanted to bridge the love she has for the traditional garments of her culturethe culture she left behind after seeking asylum in the West- with the way that I perceive beauty through my lens. The more I think about it, this is all in the hopes of nally seeing the joy in her eyes when she glances upon my art once again…"

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@byKadessi - Portfolio (AUG 2023) - 3 October 2023

ME & MYSELF

MODEL / JADE & NADINE OATES // HAIR / ANA VERONICA // MAKE UP / ZEINAB BUDI @byKadessi - Portfolio (AUG 2023) - 3 October 2023

@byKadessi - Portfolio (AUG 2023) - 3 October 2023

MODEL / SUMMER NESBETH // MAKE UP/ ZEINAB BUDI // HAIR / ANA VERONICA

PROTECT ME FROM MYSELF “I feel like the most formidable opponent I have faced in life is none other than myself. ” MODEL / ANDY KAPAGA // HEADPIECE / ANA VERONICA

@byKadessi - Portfolio (AUG 2023) - 3 October 2023

FLY O ICARUS, FLY

MODEL / HARRY

@byKadessi - Portfolio (AUG 2023) - 3 October 2023

byKadessi @byKadessi - Portfolio (AUG 2023) - 3 October 2023