Arantxa Barcia
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AFTERIMAGE

Fashion editorial · Ten looks, ten treatments

Afterimage is what stays in your eye after you look away from a bright light. Ten looks built around the photo that comes a second after the one you were supposed to take.

Media:
Image
Type:
Commercial
Published:
NOV 2026

Credits

Photography, styling and direction by Arantxa Barcia. Clothing by Lemaire, Phoebe Philo, Paloma Wool and Maison Margiela.

Ten looks

Afterimage

Afterimage is what stays in your eye after you look away from a bright light. I've always liked the photo that comes a second after the one you were supposed to take, when someone's already turning and it's blurred, so I built a whole editorial around that.

Ten looks, ten people, and each one gets something different done to the picture: a negative, a photocopy, burnt edges, night vision green, a red that floods the whole figure. Every photo is here whole, nothing cropped.

Five photographs of a young woman with slicked red hair in an off-the-shoulder black knit and a printed skirt, burnt edges and an inverted print
01 Blanc. Sweater and skirt, Lemaire.
Seven photographs of a woman with a shaved head in a navy puffer jacket, a fringed knit skirt and pointed pumps, motion blur and a colour negative
02 Bleu. Puffer jacket, belt and skirt, Paloma Wool.
Four black and white photographs of a man with wet copper hair and water running off him, in a black off-the-shoulder knit, one as a negative
03 Eau. Sweater, Lemaire.
Five photographs of a woman in shield sunglasses and an ivory T-shirt, wind in her hair, one lying on white sheets and one as a photocopy
04 Peau. T-shirt, Phoebe Philo.
Five photographs of a man with slicked grey hair in a hairy dark green pinched wool coat, one with the tones inverted
05 Laine. Pinched coat, Phoebe Philo.
Eight photographs of an older man with white hair in a cocoa-brown suit against a glowing red backdrop
06 Rouge. Suit and shirt, Lemaire.
Four black and white photographs of a young man with a buzz cut and bare chest in an oversized brown suit, standing in a corner and lying on the floor
07 Sol. Suit, Lemaire.
Six photographs of a young man with long black hair in a scratched brown velvet trucker jacket, blurred and repeated across a white room
08 Velours. Flocked denim trucker jacket, Maison Margiela.
Five photographs of a man in a black suit and dotted shirt, his face sharp in some frames and smeared by movement in others
09 Noir. Suit and shirt, Lemaire.
Four photographs of a woman with a wet black fringe in a brown jacket, lit in night-vision green
10 Vert. Jacket, Lemaire.

From Pontevedra, Galicia. Based in San Francisco,
where the camera and the terminal share a desk.

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