forbidden fruit in the forest 

model + stylist + Makeup: hope antonelli

creative directed and shot by maia feruzi

Sunday April 14th 2024 2:00pm

📍Garden in the Woods, Framingham, MA

shot on canon eos rebel t3i 18-24mm, 70-300mm

concept

I have wanted to do a dark sultry shoot with fruit for so long, so after an original photoshoot plan with Hope didn’t work out I pitched this one and they loved it. I wanted a little more backstory to the shoot than just sexy fruit, and since fairy in the forest always seems to be the theme when shooting with Hope, I figured why fix what isn’t broken? The twist this time being that it is a dark fairy and they are actively hunting you back as you fall for their seductive trap. Hope sourced their outfit entirely from the Buffalo Exchange they manage and absolutely slayed the dress code, a master of layering as always. We chose darker fruit as well (plums and red grapes) to add to the underlying tone of shadows and danger.

After doing some light research on nature reserves we settled on Garden in the Woods in Framingham post seeing the online photos and falling in love with the lush moss and babbling brooks. Rather than actively search for spots to shoot we just explored the park and went wherever called to us, going so far as to hop in the stream for some shots. The weather was a little tumultuous but it worked in our favor since we were able to capture, sunny, cloudy, and even rainy atmospheres in different sections of the shoot. Spring has just started in New England so we were able to capture the small bit of life sprouting up through the death of winter which worked beautifully with our dark fairy theme.