Linking to her ongoing work ‘The Cult of Boys’, Toyin's offering for Political Fashion looks at the modern sexualisation of both the pubescent male and violence. Drawing on the political charge of contemporary images of gun culture, her unsettling film questions the moral behind our current ideas of ‘cool’.
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Those skinny kids need a sandwich and a hug!
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Brad Gough
at 03:55 Fri 07 Mar 2008
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Nice shots Toyin... you're so good.
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whitewidow
at 06:18 Fri 07 Mar 2008
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Great black and white SHOTS !
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Galileo's Universe
at 08:02 Fri 07 Mar 2008
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It's all taken from Larry Clark, his work is much better as it features real situations and guns, not fabricated angst with models.
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marko
at 10:00 Fri 07 Mar 2008
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Was you remark intended to enlighten us with you knowledge about photography or do you feel that it is all unfair and/of detrimental to Larry Clark's work ... by Tonyn attempting to put her point of view when using possibly Clark's work as an inspiration ..... regardless how similar her work is or might be to Clark's work ? .... and yet his work is undoubtedly 'inspired' by real life images that we are used to seeing .....
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Galileo's Universe
at 15:11 Fri 07 Mar 2008
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marko- this is fashion, not documentary!!! and thats what it is about- don't you get it? plus- if we always would compare who's been 'first'- whats Larry's influence? anyways- thats not the point. Toyins film is about fashion and it's contraversity within - think about it.
;) !
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lubinus
at 19:19 Fri 07 Mar 2008
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Was you remark intended to enlighten us with you knowledge about photography or do you feel that it is all unfair and/of detrimental to Larry Clark's work ... by Tonyn attempting to put her point of view when using possibly Clark's work as an inspiration ..... regardless how similar her work is or might be to Clark's work ? .... and yet I dare to assume that his work is undoubtedly 'inspired' by real life images that we are used to seeing .....
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Galileo's Universe
at 15:10 Fri 07 Mar 2008
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YOU ARE SO BRILLIANT! xxx thank you for amazing work.
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lubinus
at 18:30 Fri 07 Mar 2008
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AH! SHE IS THE ONE STUCK IN THE 70',
DO NOT BUY AN AGENDA BODY! YOU GONE A HAVE A SURPRISE.
BUT THERE IS A LOT OF WORK, I ADMIT AND I DO NOT TALK ABOUT THE LARRY THINK!
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zedisded
at 14:07 Sat 08 Mar 2008
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The black and white shots were excellent. I'm really loving this project.
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shockhorror
at 11:09 Tue 11 Mar 2008
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Toyin, are you trying to make the point that an element of psychological behaviour of anorexic young white males (plus the occasional anorexic female) is that they spend a lot of time playing with toy guns whilst sat in the bath or leaning against walls. When they pull the trigger does a little white flag with the word "BANG" on it, come out of the barrel?
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Mark Pavey
at 17:39 Mon 24 Mar 2008
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Yes, I thought about Larry Clark's pics too, but no matters to me, it's no a problem. These are good pics!! Congratulations for your work.
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William Cruz Bermeo
at 21:28 Mon 24 Mar 2008
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To find it so unsettling on all levels I think it's brilliant! - For Political Fashion, a fashion shoot extreme - and does the trick on every level.
From fame to a fall, despair and discovery, excitement seekers to show stoppers! Anti-fashion, anti-fame.
and I agree with Lubinus!
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Sam Murray
at 18:06 Thu 24 Apr 2008
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Somebody's been flipping through Larry Clark's Tulsa.
By Vikram Kansara at 03:55 Fri 07 Mar 2008
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