Real Live Zebra!
Monday, January 10th, 2011
When Avyn Wornette told me she wanted to do a photo shoot for issue 11 on her friend’s farm with a zebra named Marty, I was skeptical. While Avyn was sketching out looks with Marty lying complacently amid heeled and hair-sprayed models, I cautioned that she should plan for shots with the zebra wandering around somewhere in the background.
The reality of the shoot was somewhere in between. Marty behaved a lot like any horse I’d encountered… friendly and interested, but only on his own terms. He strutted and posed with the best of them, until he got bored and wandered off to hang out with the llamas. This was the most ambitious photo shoot we’d ever planned - the highest number of models we’d ever put in a shoot, the biggest change of looks in a spread, the farthest location (three hours away in Avyn’s hometown of St. Mary’s), the largest crew, extensive props, and, of course, a real live zebra. The day was long and exhausting, but extremely satisfying.
Model Sam using a ladder to get to a location over the electric fence.
Hillary Wornette frolicking through the waist-high brush. We were all soaked and covered in little bits of nature at the end of the day.
Art director and stylist Avyn hopping the fence and lookin’ cute.
Hillary Wornette helping set up the tent scene and also lookin’ cute.
Hair stylist and de-facto make-up artist Jamie Furie leading the models on a trek through the brush.
One of WORN’s favourite photographer’s Alyssa K. Faoro looking though her selects, and Marty hanging out and lookin’ cute.
- Serah-Marie
