Laura Gorun & Rachel Joy | Julie Healy | Karen Magazine #11

Laura Gorun and Rachel Joy channel our cultural stereotypes around widows dressed in black. The widow is by definition not chaste but experienced and therefore a woman to be feared.

Widow women have made their pact with the devil in this visually stimulating and provocative Karen Magazine editorial, lensed by Julie Healy and styled by Michael Azzolini.

Not to get psychologically heavy with readers, but Ernest Becker’s treatise about relations between men and women is that in our very nature, women remind men of their mortality and therefore death. The act of orgasm itself is called ‘petit mort’ in French. Death and the Devil walk hand in hand.