This was one of the funnest covers to shoot for Q Mag. We knew we wanted a holiday theme going on, but we didn’t know who would dress up as Santa.  Luckily, my room mate Dylan was around and willing to participate.

As the photoshoot evolved, the idea behind it changed too.  I wanted to poke fun at the image of Santa but I felt like we were also criticizing the materialism of the holiday.  A Santa figure tied down by Christmas lights, beer in hand.  A reveler bound on the floor by wrapping paper, wearing a new years hat.  An elf smoking a cigarette, and lifelessly staring into the television through a pair of aviators.

It was a photo treatise on the strange and vapid joy of a secular tradition, baked into our culture like the eyes of a gingerbread man.

More photos after the jump…

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