BELLA FREUD & DAISY WALKER FOR WOMEN
DENIZ AKKAYA
Photographer Daisy Walker and fashion designer Bella Freud collaborated and presented a portrait series in support of Solace Women’s Aid.
Celebrating all forms of love, photographer Daisy Walker and fashion designer Bella Freud came together to create a new series of portraits for charity Solace Women’s Aid. The images Walker shot offer a sensitive look at self-love as well as togetherness, regardless of gender or appearance.
Walker is known for photographing the nude female form, often integrated with nature. The frames she captures celebrate not only the female form, but also by empowering the woman being photographed. Walker, a survivor of sexual harassment, says photographing a naked body helped her in her recovery from her own trauma.
This joint project of Freud and Walker serves as a fundraising project for Solace Women’s Aid, which offers free support to survivors of rape and domestic abuse through treatment services, accommodation, educational programs, and more. Prints of the photos will go on sale alongside a scented candle with Freud’s “Love is the Drug,” with 25 percent of the proceeds going directly to charity.
Walker said of their collaboration, ” it felt so right for Bella and I to come together with Solace Women’s Aid to celebrate self-love, love and body love with a new candle for Valentine’s day. Bella is a master of reference images in photography and film, and instinctively we cling to a shared love of visual artists and projects that aim to support women in their darkest times,” she said.
