Justin Alexander Bartels 📷 California 📍 The IMPRESSION series came about from my dating experiences in college, noticing the different trends and styles that women wore to ‘impress’ or gain attraction. It interested me that so many women would wear binding or uncomfortable clothing, to either impress or attract others, or for their own self-esteem. Having degrees in both Sociology and Photography + Imaging, they definitely combined in this project to show my interest in how society functions, but to also show it in a visually compelling way. I hoped this series would reach women, and inspire them to question what they wear, and why they wear it. 2010 October

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Patience was never a virtue you chose; it was a cage built from the shortages of your life. When your hands are empty and the things you desperately want remain just out of reach, waiting becomes the only currency you have left to spend. You had to be patient because there was no other move to make, forced to stand on the shoreline of your own desires, watching what you couldn't grasp drift further away. You quieted your hunger simply to survive the drought, turning your restraint into a shield against the heavy, hollow spaces where your life should have been full. But that forced waiting is a slow-acting poison, and it killed you over and over. Every time you stood perfectly still, waiting for the world to catch up to your needs or for the barren soil to finally bloom, you were slowly suffocating under the weight of a hope you couldn't afford to lose. You didn't just wait; you withered in place.

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Fishing, Undate 📷 Hans Mauli

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Boy on bike, below Brooklyn bridge, 1922 📷 Ralph Steiner

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Roelof Hartplein, Amsterdam, 1969 📷 Rob Mieremet (1947 - 2015) Dutch

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Model Vicki Hodge with her Borzoi Kika ... both wearing maxi coats, 1970 📷 Doreen Spooner (1928 - 2019)

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Mylène Farmer, 1999 📷 Peter Lindbergh

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Parade, 1941-45 📷 Robert Frank

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"Silence" by @farzanzare.eth on Fotocaster

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The Bozo fisherman, Timbuktu, Mali, 1988 📷 Françoise Huguier 1942

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Skulls discarded after research at Hamida Hospital, Bhopal gas tragedy, India, 1984 📷 Raghu Rai (1942 - 2026)

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68 DJ-35, Early Philadelphia, 1968 📷 Ray K. Metzker

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GM 💎 Untitled / undated 📷 Václav Ryčl (1966 - 1994) Czech

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