The portraits were taken between 2016 and 2018, either at hotels in cities where the sitters, models on the books of a Düsseldorf agency, were scheduled to walk in fashion shows, or at their homes in various European centres — Paris, London, Berlin, Helsinki. They are pictures taken at stolen moments along the urban circuit of a restless, globalised industry. But even though these men might be walking for a major label the next morning, there isn't much to indicate privilege or decadence in their surroundings.

Are they boys or are they men? They are caught between worlds: between adolescence and adulthood, the ordinary and the luxurious, the known and the new; some of them were travelling out of their home towns for the first time for their assignments. And it is during this in-between moment that identities are formed. — Lucy Kumara Moore