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

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.

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.

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

Speaking of the photoshoot experience with her two muses, Porodina was watching “them surrender — not in weakness, but in recognition. Of nature’s dominance and rhythm. . . . They dissolved into their surroundings and came back as something wilder, more ancient.”