A KALTBLUT exclusive. Mortimer Dyster’s “A Lily of the Night Valley” examines the human relationship with nature through a queer gaze. The work creates a reparative dialogue between queer culture and Finnish landscape imagery, while also opening new perspectives on how to see oneself as part of the Landscape.
Dyster’s gaze carries melancholy, mysticism, and poetic realism. His inspiration rises from the night and from the esoteric imagery of the collective queer unconscious. These photographs imagine a liminal space where the natural world becomes a site of freedom, softness and self-recognition.
Photography by Mortimer Dyster / www.mortimerdyster.com
Styling by Mortimer Dyster
Model is Henna Lampinen / Instagram: @henna_lampinen
Model is Juha Vehmaanperä / Instagram: @juhavehmaanpera
Model is Autuas Ukkonen / Instagram: @autuasukkonen
Model is Tomi Saikanmäki / Instagram: @diskopoika
Model is Antrea Kantakoski / Instagram: @antreakantakoski
Model is Timjami Varamäki / Instagram: @varamaki
Model is Werneri Pihlajamäki / Instagram: @werkku.p
Model is Miina Puolitaival / Instagram: @miinapuolitaival
Model is Jukka / Instagram: @jukse75
Model is Jerker Ramberg / Instagram: @jerkerramberg
Model is Cristoffer
Brands used are henna, Juha Vehmaanperä, Autuas Ukkonen, Timjami Varamäki
@henna_lampinen @juhavehmaanpera @autuasukkonen @varamaki
Assistant is Taru Närkki / Instagram: @tarustyles
Assistant is Taimi Nevaluoma / Instagram: @nevskinen
Assistant is Jere O
