The Tamesis
The panel explores the female body as a symbolic and lived space where myth, ritual, vulnerability, and transformation intersect. Working across fashion photography, documentary practice, staged imagery, and conceptual approaches, the artists approach the body as a site where meaning is continually constructed rather than a fixed symbol.
Through performative gestures, archetypes, and carefully constructed visual worlds, these projects draw on myth, ritual, emotional states, and lived experience. Transformation is an ongoing process shaped by culture, imagination and self-expression, where strength and vulnerability coexist, and the body becomes a vehicle of narrative and symbolic power.
About Elizabeth Host
Elizabeth Haust is a Russian visual artist, photographer and director living between Prague and Moscow. Working in stage photography and fashion film, she blends cinematic composition, symbolism and psychological storytelling, using haunted spaces and theatrical lighting to explore identity, memory and the tension between vulnerability and control. Her work has been exhibited in international solo and group exhibitions, film festivals, and publications including the Taylor Wessing Portrait Photography Award, GUP Magazine, and Dark Beauty Magazine. Horst creates poetic, often disturbing worlds that invite viewers to interpret metaphors and confront intimate emotional states.
About Isabel McCarthy
Isabel McCarthy grew up on the seaside in Norfolk, England. She lives and works in London. She received her BA from Central Saint Martins in 2021. Her analogue photography practice spans portraiture, documentary and staged photography, often dealing with themes of love and loss and the diverse connections between humans and nature.
About Shannon Cavalocchi
Shannon Cavarocchi (b. 1997) is a photographer from Oahu, Hawaii, now based in Australia. Shannon’s personal work deals with human connections to landscape, animals and memory, often drawing on personal experiences in an attempt to explore human preoccupations with emotion, trauma and healing.
About Teresa Scioscia
Teresa Ciocia was born and raised in Puglia in 1993 and currently lives in Paris. She became interested in fashion at an early age by watching fashion shows in movies and television. Teresa liked to emphasize the shapes of the female body and use light to create a mysterious and sensual atmosphere. Photography is a means of combining art, fashion and emotional reality.
About Tukina Faso
Tukina Faso is a London-based visual artist working in photography, text and film. She holds degrees from the Moscow Institute of Contemporary Art, the School of Journalism and Literature, and an MA in Fashion Photography from the London College of Fashion. her projects MEandTHEM: Home with Alice Published and reviewed internationally. She has collaborated with YSL Beauty, Vogue, Dazed and many other media, and was selected into Numero Russia’s “Top 17 of 2017”. Turkina teaches at LCF and is working on her first feature film.
About Vidyana
Viridiana is a photographer and visual storyteller from Mexico City known for the emotional depth and refined aesthetic of her work, crafting intimate and honest visual narratives that deeply connect with her subjects and audiences. Through photography and audiovisual media, she explores themes of identity, self-perception, and relationships.
Moderator
About Marco Pecorari
Marco Pecorari is Associate Professor of Fashion Studies and Associate Dean for Liberal Arts and Research at Parsons New School in Paris, where he directs the MA in Fashion Studies. His research focuses on the politics of archives and museums, exploring the intersections of critical theory, fashion media, performance and heritage. He is the editor of this book Fashion Theory: Historicization, Subjectivity and Practice (Manchester University Press, 2025), Author Fashion remains: Rethinking fashion ephemera in the archives (Bloomsbury, 2021) and co-editor of the volume Fashion, performance and performativity: the complex space of fashion (Bloomsbury, 2021). He recently curated this exhibition An ephemeral affair, enter the fashion archives Held at the National Museum in Oslo (October 2025-March 2025). He is a co-founder of the festival and publication Printed fashion and serves as a member of the editorial board fashion theory, fashion magazineand bloomsbury fashion center. He is also a member of the association’s Scientific Committee european fashion heritage association (European Health Agency).
