MYKROMAG 's latest pet project wasted no time in paying tribute to the King of Pop. The day of his memorial service in LA, Sonny Groo managed to organize a shoot with Dutch duo Petrovsky and Ramone on location, in amidst the fans, the shrines and chaos. These images are both strictly speaking a fashion shoot and a genuine bit of compelling documentary photography. Entirely void of fashion credits or any notes of styling (though clearly, outfits were pre-considered), this does tip the balance more towards being a documentary portfolio. Exactly how onlookers, fans and police forces took to this seemingly impromptu shoot going on is beyond me. However, judging by sparkly tee dude doing a moonwalk, don't think it caused too much of a kerfuffle and perhaps the fashion tribute was acceptable as part of the mourning/celebratory fanfare. There's something jarring between the posing model and a background situation that is entirely un staged and not set up which surprisingly works for me in a way that models placed in 'exotic' located shoots (Asia/Africa/South America/TakeYourPick) don't.
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