‘”The science club” is the title of this spread by Ruben Debuck featuring Bram Vercamer, Ran van Ongevalle, Armin and Lessandro, Seppe Raes, Dzhovani Gospodinov and Sverre Dennis groomed by Gino Beckman and shot by Kris de Smedt for TO2W.
Photographer Kris de Smedt and stylist Ruben Debuck researched their own old school photos to find the right ambience for this yearbook-inspired shoot. Unable to find a backdrop ‘ugly’ enough, Kris de Smedt set about making his own, using an arts and crafts spongeing technique he found out about thanks to a weird Internet tutorial.
For the casting, they wanted boys who could be clearly defined in different roles similar to those in ‘The Breakfast Club’. It was important that all models could act a little bit, and understood that it was more about portraying a character and not just a beauty shoot. Hair and makeup artist Gino Beeckman brought along the wigs and ‘staches, and all models were hoping they would get to wear long mullets and bushy moustaches. Only a few of the boys were lucky enough, but much fun was had. Boys, fire up those bunsen burners !’ – morphoman.blogspot.com
