Katherine: Painted

Some shoots need a concept, a crew, and a forecast. This one needed a white wall, a pixie cut, and Katherine. That's it. Painted is our stripped-all-the-way-down studio set — no location, no props, no place to hide — and somehow it's one of the most arresting things in the archive.

Shot in stark high-key black and white, every frame is built from the things people usually airbrush away: the freckle, the collarbone, the exact line of a jaw caught half-turning toward the lens. Katherine doesn't perform for the camera. She just exists, correctly, in a way that makes "flattering angles" sound like an insult.

The "painted" of it all reveals itself across the set — skin as canvas, light as the only wardrobe she needed. It's intimate without being coy, bare without being a stunt. Fine-art nude the way it's supposed to feel: more honest than naked.

No gimmick. No filter. Just the most beautiful thing in an empty room being unbothered about it.