Candy and Poison – The New Yorker

Candy and Poison

For her portrait series “Icons,” Parker Day photographed New York d.j.s, models, and club kids from social media.

via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/portfolio/candy-and-poison

Parker Day grew up hanging around her father’s comic-book shop, in San Jose. There were certain shelves, the ones with explicit comics by the likes of R. Crumb, that she was not allowed to browse, so she would dream up her own stories inspired by the covers of the forbidden works