Ava Van Osdol

Photographer

The biggest motivation in your work?

Finding beauty in whatever I’m looking at. Fast, high-pressure situations can make that feel impossible, but there’s always something to uncover if I really look.

Your first fashion crush?

Definitely Barbie. I watched those movies religiously as a kid — her looks in Swan Lake and The Nutcracker were everything to me.

How much do social and political issues influence your creativity?

My existence shapes my creative eye. As a trans person, the empathy and perspective I bring to the world is inseparable from how I see and frame it.

What title would you give to this chapter of your life?

Magical Thinking