None of Your Business

This editorial with Rikki Caite for Elements Magazine is titled “None of Your Business” — a visual exploration of a woman in control, unraveling. We styled it around the idea of a businesswoman in Chanel, but flipped the narrative. The polish is there, but so is the tension. She’s sharp, powerful, and breaking down in style.

Power, Undone

Rikki wears the suit, but nothing’s buttoned up. The styling is classic Chanel reimagined — disheveled, confident, lived-in. There’s mascara under the eyes and grit in the posture. It’s not just about fashion. It’s about the layers underneath the luxury. Sexy, raw, and a little undone, like the end of a long night or the moment before something shifts.

A Filmic Frame

Shot with a filmic sensibility, the images lean into grain, movement, and natural light. Brisbane gave us hard edges and industrial textures. Long shadows, warm concrete, and sharp angles became part of the character. The backdrop feels cold, while she burns through it.

The Story We Don’t Explain

“None of Your Business” isn’t loud. It’s restrained. It’s the kind of editorial that lingers — a portrait of collapse wrapped in elegance. The tension sits in the eyes, the hands, the way the suit no longer fits like armor. It’s a mood you feel more than you see.

Big thanks to Elements Magazine for the space to tell stories that sit between beauty and emotion, surface and subtext.

Eli Samuel

Eli Samuel’s practice is grounded in a sustained curiosity for visual communication, patterns, and color. He moves between photography, design layout, printing and bookbinding, and the moving image. His work often begins with feeling, then a frame, chasing an emotional charge first to drive the viewer’s attention, then building the image around it, using tension to turn something raw into something intentional.

Through handmade books, he slows the viewer down, using sequence to control how meaning unfolds and to make the work physical and permanent. These books rely on raw, charged pairings, placing people living with something beside language used as both messaging and form. Handwritten diary notes and typography operate as image, building rhythm, pressure, and intimacy across the pages.

In commissioned work, he brings the same emotional precision and visual discipline to campaigns and editorial projects, shaping bold, cinematic images that balance authenticity with intention. He works closely with clients and creative teams to build clear visual narratives, creating photography and moving image that feels direct, elevated, and human.

His work extends across multiple ventures, including editorial and commercial photography, fine art bookmaking and printed editions, campaign and brand direction, and moving image projects.

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