Today’s feature is a beautiful series from artist and model Wrené Nova. Here is more from Wrené about creating Shedding Light on the Shadows of Modern Advertising…
Shot on film, this series highlights and celebrates humanity and genuine embodiment. In an age where intimacy, diversity, and the human body itself are increasingly filtered through corporate interest and AI, the work embraces imperfection and tactility, while centering female gaze, the natural world, and the subconscious flow of embodiment. It is an ethical blueprint for commercial media and advertising.
As a model and producer, and artist, I resist the role of my body as an object or ‘blank slate.’ Instead, I reclaim my image as storytelling and as part of the physical environment around me – rejecting AI generated media and pushing back against the erasure of humanity, analog media, and craftsmanship. To me, modeling is not passive: it is self-expression, agency, autonomy, and a declaration that I will never have my essence replaced by a machine.
Analog cameras and films used: Canon AV-1 (Find at KEH Camera or on eBay) | Kodak Portra 400 (Find on Amazon), Kodak Gold 200 (Find on Amazon)
Connect with Wrené: Website | Instagram
Photographer: Charles Blouin
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