MERDE X
THALITA FARIE
ISSUE X · PRINT · OUT NOW
DOUBLE
They told us to clean it up, we made it worse. Double digits, double the mess you didn't know you needed.
MERDE's tenth print issue lives inside the theme of DOUBLE — where opposites meet, high and low, serious and playful, sincerity and satire. Cover story: Thalita Farie.
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INSIDE ISSUE X
MERDE X: DOUBLE
Cover storyThalita Farie, shot in São Paulo and carried to Rio as a life-size cut-out.
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COVER STORY · ISSUE X
MERDE X: DOUBLE
The concept started with a cut-out. Thalita was shot first in studio in São Paulo, clean, sculptural, graphic enough to be lifted off the page. Those images became her double: life-size cardboard cut-outs carried to Rio and shot again, out in the world. Propped on staircases, wedged into alleyways, planted beside its own original on the beach.
A double is never a neutral. It’s a stand-in and a rival, a flattery and a threat. It makes you do a double take, to take a look twice and decide which version you believe, or prefer. That’s the territory this story moves through: the doubling of a woman into image and body.
PHOTOGRAPHY & POST-PRODUCTION
Director of Photography — João Kirk @joao_kirk
Light Designer — Calebe Fernandes @calebe.fernandes
Photography Assistants — Felippe Costa @felippescosta, Carine Fel @carinefel
Retouch — Daniel Pohl @danielopohl
Video Director — Jader Chahine @jaderchahine
Journalist — Larissa Barreto Gonçalves @larissabarretog
STYLING
Styling Assistants — Luara Maria @luarammaria, Isa Corazza @isa.corazza, Victor Brandolin @victorbrandolin
Wardrobe Dresser — Mazaestyllo @_mazzastillo
PRODUCTION
Brazilian Production — ARUÁ Projects @aruaprojects
Executive Producer — Claudia Steinert @clausteinert
Project Manager — Alessa Oliveira @alessaoliveira42
Communications Coordinator — Giovanna Moore @gioferrarimoore
SET OPERATIONS & LOGISTICS
Set Manager — Renan Ramos @renan_r.33
Prop Master — Josenildo Pereira
Security — Theo
Drivers — Joaquim Gonçalves, Alan Sebastian
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