Erich Valo Photography
“Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits and Are melted into air, into thin air”

The Tempest

Shakespeare's The Tempest styled as if it was an Rock and Roll editorial photo shoot. The Tempest is a play that leans heavily on music and sound to tell it's story. The themes of power and colonization have a corollary to be shown with hints and nods towards music's own problematic history of appropriation, and whose art is lauded and whose is ignored.

Stylist: Nichole Kreglow

Hair and Makeup: Veronia Sjoen

“Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits and Are melted into air, into thin air”

“Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
As I foretold you, were all spirits and
Are melted into air, into thin air”

“We are such stuff as dreams are made on…”

“We are such stuff as dreams are made on…”

“To cry to the sea that roar'd to us, to sigh To the winds whose pity, sighing back again, Did us but loving wrong.”

“To cry to the sea that roar'd to us, to sigh To the winds whose pity, sighing back again, Did us but loving wrong.”

“I come To answer thy best pleasure; be't to fly, To swim, to dive into the fire, to ride  On the curl'd clouds, to thy strong bidding task Ariel and all his quality.”

“I come To answer thy best pleasure; be't to fly, To swim, to dive into the fire, to ride  On the curl'd clouds, to thy strong bidding task Ariel and all his quality.”

“The isle is full of noises, Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.”

“The isle is full of noises, Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.”

“O brave new world, That has such people in’t!”

“O brave new world, That has such people in’t!”

“The King’s son have I landed by himself, Whom I left cooling of the air with sighs, In an odd angle of the isle, and sitting, His arms in this sad knot.”

“The King’s son have I landed by himself, Whom I left cooling of the air with sighs, In an odd angle of the isle, and sitting, His arms in this sad knot.”

"Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows."

"Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows."

“He that dies pays all debts.”

“He that dies pays all debts.”

“I am your wife, if you will marry me. If not, I’ll die your maid."

“I am your wife, if you will marry me. If not, I’ll die your maid."

“Now my charms are all o'erthrown,  And what strength I have's mine own,”

“Now my charms are all o'erthrown,  And what strength I have's mine own,”