Over the past year, I’ve been diligently building LENS, a self-initiated magazine I launched in 2023 to express my photography through narrative and design. Across four issues, LENS blends editorial portraiture, fashion, graphic design, creative direction, and in-house magazine writing, fully authored, photographed, written, designed, and published by me. The first two issues establish the foundation of my photography through monochrome styling and bold graphic layouts, while the third highlights a portrait series with model Maddie Lopes in Chicago, using fashion and location as tools for visual storytelling. The fourth issue takes LENS global, capturing people and places across Europe and expanding the magazine’s scope into cultural storytelling and travel-inspired design.