ADC Awards
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Category
Music / Entertainment
Annual ID
ADC104_PHO017B
Iconic photographer David LaChapelle has spent much of his career photographing pop icons. For the cover of New York Magazine's 2024 “Fall Preview” issue, he added Charli XCX to that list for her sixth studio album Brat, creating a photo portfolio that captures the fever-dream quality of Charli’s rise to superstardom. “She’s stuck in a dreamscape, but in the end, she frees herself," LaChapelle said. "The underwater shot — that’s the water birth of Charli into the bratosphere. On the cover, she’s escaping the paparazzi and running from the downside of fame, the tabloid side of it. And she’s broken free, but she’s still got handcuffs on. It could be a B-movie poster, right? I didn’t put any context behind what she was being arrested for. She was just breaking the rules. Being brat and breaking the rules."
2025 Awards
Total Points: 9
Bronze Cube
Credits
Publisher
New York Magazine
Director of Photography
Jody Quon
Artist
David LaChapelle
Photo Editor
Jacob Moscovitch
Photographer
David LaChapelle
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