Highlighting a Sensual Greek Harvest
Patrick Michael Hughes Senior Fashion Editor
Photographs by Joey Leo
Celebrating the first week of Summer 2021
IRK re-visits some compelling and timeless images form the exhibition Harvest held at the Eleni Marneii Galerie in Athens, Greece. The work of a young ascending artist capturing the male image he has a unique mix of playful, sensual and fashionable imagry.
Joey Leo
…identifies as a new age, multi-artist with a focus on fashion & art photography.
‘Art is a complex universe’ Mr. Leo has circumvented the label ‘photographer ‘and still evolving to ‘any form artist.’
He describes his work as romantic yet erotic, provocative yet fragile, timeless yet it has a unique approach. Evidence of this is in the way his lens captures capturing people especially male forms. Leo is a lover of subliminal messages, however, key to his photographs are close connections with the ultimate goal of revealing an element that has always been present ‘waiting for the time and place to be captured.’ Further he believes “It’s not about your looks or your fierce jump shot, it’s all about the emotions or even a whole story that you can carry around in a single shot.” These are the signatures not only seen in his work as a photographer but successively as a filmmaker and as a music-composer.
“Harvest” Eleni Marneii GaIerie- Athens, Greece
@elenimarnerigalerie
Photography : Joey Leo / @_joeyleo_
Styling & Hat Curator : Michael Pandos / @2blemp
Hats : SAVAPILE / @savapile
Model : Iasonas Laios / @iasonas_laios
Agency : D Models Athens / @dmodelagency
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Patrick Michael Hughes is a fashion and decorative arts historian. He writes about fashion culture past and present making connections to New York, London and Copenhagen's fashion weeks with an eye toward men's fashion. He joined IRK Magazine as a fashion men's editor during winter of 2017.
He is often cited as a historical source for numerous pieces appearing in the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, CNN, LVMH, Conde Nast, Highsnobiety and others. His fashion career includes years as a fashion reporter/producer of branded content for the New York local news in the hyper digital sector. Patrick's love of travel and terrain enabled him to becoming an experienced cross-country equestrian intensively riding in a number of locations in South America Scandinavia,The United Kingdom and Germany. However, he is not currently riding, but rather speaking internationally to designers, product development teams, marketing teams and ascending designers in the US, Europe and China.
Following his BA in the History of Art from Manhattanville College in Purchase, New York he later completed graduate studios in exhibition design in New York. it was with the nudge and a conversation in regard to a design assignment interviewing Richard Martin curator of the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art he was encouraged to consider shifting his focus to the decorative arts with a concentration in fashion history and curation.
Patrick completed graduate studies 17th and 18th century French Royal interiors and decoration and 18th century French fashion culture at Musée Les Arts Decoratifs-Musée de Louvre in Paris. Upon his return to New York along with other classes and independent studies in American fashion he earned his MA in the History of Decorative Arts and Design from the Parsons/Cooper Hewitt Design Museum program in New York. His final specialist focus was in 19th century English fashion and interiors with distinction in 20th century American fashion history and design.
Currently, he is an Associate Teaching Professor at Parsons School of Design leading fashion history lecture-studios within the School of Art and Design History and Theory,
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