Elizaveta Porodina for Atmos Volume 12 with Aimee Byrne and Akuol Deng Atem

Elizaveta Porodina for Atmos Volume 12 with Aimee Byrne and Akuol Deng Atem AOC Fashion

The theme and focus of Atmos [IG] Volume 12 is ‘Pollinate’. As if on cue, one of our most talented photographers Elizaveta Porodina [IG] enters the Atmos conversation.

Models Aimee Byrne and Akuol Deng Atem are styled by Charlotte Buchal in this Gaia-sponsored fashion shower of radical beauty./ Hair by Claire Moore; makeup by Porsche Poon

Traveling ancient, global trade routes with her technology-unleashed, creative genius and inner visual anthology of past, present and future wisdoms, Porodina is herself a pollinator of us — her fellow creators.

AOC views her images as visual sparklers and sometimes — Chinese fireworks. As Atmos writes:

In an era defined by urgency and possibility, our planet depends on visions for progress that are actionable, daring and transformative. Because a single idea, like a grain of pollen, can travel great distances — and catalyze new life.