Staring at beauty through a Russian lens, the Helios 44. VIDEO PORTRAIT · a7S III · HELIOS 44 Miami Design District · Jan 2022

Starting the new year with a bang. This quick video portrait I figured would be easy, we’d have the whole rooftop parking lot to ourselves. Of course it’d be empty on a Wednesday afternoon in Miami, right? Wrong. Deadass packed to the top. But we made the best of it, and Lerys is awesome to work with under time constraints.

Shot on a Helios 44, that swirly old Russian glass, in the Miami Design District. The jeans were authentic Cuban vintage (thank you, Lerys’ mom), the soundtrack was MOZART via blkmrktrecordings, and El Zambo kept the crew fed.

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