Michael Donovan is too young and inexperienced to be called ‘the incomparable Michael Donovan’. Still, we have no doubt that this photographer is going places, showing a range of pre and post-production imagination and lens techniques that is downright inspiring.

Donovan shoots Sheila Marquez in New Jersey for the latest issue of Vision China. Katie Burnett dresses Marquez in ‘Forever Dark’ with sexy styles from Dior, Louis Vuitton, Giorgio Armani and Hermes. As for the special effects, they’re all Michael Donovan — but it’s clear this was a high-energy, creative collaboration firing on all cylinders. / Hair by Dakota Herman; makeup Georgi Sandev.

Not knowing we’d be posting this Vision China editorial later, we gave MD an earlier cheer this morning. See HUSK Magazine Fall 2011 ‘New Contexts’ | Hanna Putz and Michael Donovan AOC Apple Valley.