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fizzy frolicking Climb the rocks of Cape Town's most beautiful beaches, and run through the sea and sand next to Shannon. Watch her jump, laugh, play and hop through the waves. Distinctly joyous, and evidently care-free, she isn't shy to get involved with a fun-filled set of nail-biting niceties. Finding herself in a coca-cola t-shirt, Shannon leans into the side-barring of the beach looking ready to fizz and frolic in the morning air. Day begins to break through clouds, as they open up to allow a blanket of light to illuminate the beach front. She embraces the suns rays as they illuminate her contours and warm her soul. Astoundingly majestic and marvelous. Photographer: Charlemagne Olivier Model: Shannon Lawson MUA: Kathryn Marnewick https://www.rektmag.net/home/2017/1/2/fizzy-frolicking-shannon-lawson

Attitude & Soul Photographer: Uncovered.Films @uncovered.films Model: Sofi Martinez @sofi_martinezb https://www.rektmag.net/home/2026/8/22/attitude-amp-soul

teach me things Knowledge is power. Find yourself reading a book with Luna. Stumbling across the pages as you try keep your cool, she urges you to not be so nervous. You know you shouldn't be, but her eyes catch your eyes and the intensity of two souls meeting is too overwhelming for the moment. She smiles, and walks away. Returning in something a little bit less serious. Lingerie to calm your nerves and excite your cardiovascular system. She murmurs the first chapter into your ear as you find yourself crumbling into the floor. She knows you thirst for knowledge, but are you ready to learn...? Photographer: Lucia Paula Model: Luna Serena https://www.rektmag.net/home/2017/1/2/teach-me-things-luna-serena

Vivi's Summer Garden Photographer: MySensualMeMo @mysensualmemoir Model: Vivi Geller @vivi_geller https://www.rektmag.net/home/2026/8/21/vivis-summer-garden

mood motel Hotel getaways have never been so deliciously decadent with Lennon. Perched neatly on the bed, she arches her back inward and takes a deep breath of the clean linen and open air. Exploring the room, and all its wonders to offer, she finds herself a cashmere curtain that is too comfortable to let go of. Pressing it against herself, she giggles and smiles toward the camera, gripping it tighter in delight. Moving away from all things fabric, she breaks out toward the sun where she finds a tanning bed to climb on to. She permits the suns rays to beam across her body and obscure her vision as Nicholas lets loose. Photographer: Nicholas Padula Model: Lennon Gergen https://www.rektmag.net/home/2016/12/31/mood-motel-lennon-gergen

Angel's Harmony Photographer: Bellezzamodaph @bellezzamodaph Model: Angel @angelpan_ https://www.rektmag.net/home/2026/8/19/angels-harmony

Red Moon A red light streams over Renata to create a vampiric feel - but one does not feel haunted, nor scared; rather compelled and enticed to come closer, and understand a little bit more about what this is really all about. This set feels chillingly intimate, and ferociously sensual. It screams lust, power, and embraces the divinity of the feminine form. Renata glares humbly onward as streams of red drown her skin.  Drown with her. Photographer: Max Kinsky Model: Renata Shulga https://www.rektmag.net/home/2016/12/30/red-moon

Layer by Layer Photographer: Michael Ivnitsky @michaelivnitsky Model: Siia @coutureux https://www.rektmag.net/home/2026/8/18/layer-by-layer

I saw you playing Meandering through the waves and crawling through the dirt in an abandoned beach house, Sophie isn't shy to get her feet a little dirty and her face full of sand. Pressing herself against a rusted door she indulges Glen with a mischievous smile. However, as innocent as one can be Sophie only thinks onward to the wanders of the sea as she lets go of societal constraints and leaves her clothes behind. Splashing about nonchalantly and laughing continually as she enjoys herself on set. Photographer: Glen Krohn Model: Sophie Taylor https://www.rektmag.net/home/2016/12/28/i-saw-you-playing

Midnight Hour Photographer: l0w_sh00ter @l0w_sh00ter Model: noiseskin @noiseskin https://www.rektmag.net/home/2026/8/17/midnight-hour

Eastern Explorer pt.2 Carl Jones, a South African photographer takes us on a journey to the eastern most corners of the world, and shares with us a unique perspective from the rooftops of Seoul. Dimly lit rooms in hidden apartment spaces fuel the artistry presented. Girls weave between UV lights and abstract backdrops to bring you something a little more raw to your naked eye. Find yourself stumbling upon an elegant asian face that meets the hardened Seoul streets.  The city scape curves itself against these beautifully refined women, as Carl captures an urban jungle of fun-filled industria. After digesting this, I'm feeling a trip to Korea... https://www.rektmag.net/home/2016/11/25/eastern-explorer-pt-ii

Focal Point Photographer: Femsual @femsual_1977 Model: Katerina @katya.feld https://www.rektmag.net/home/2026/8/13/focal-point

Distractions Life can sometimes consume; enter the void, and find your mind engulfed by too much and too many. The overseer of all, your burning brain which refutes rest and runs endlessly.  Meet the cure - Distraction. The beautiful mistress that is Distraction. She comes in the night, wanting no more than your presence. Needing no less than your happiness. Injecting your veins with a blissful euphoria, she curls into your anatomy and warms your finger tips both slowly and sensually.  But Distraction is temporary. She lasts not forever, and gives not always. She comes seldom to the mind. But that is her very power, the limitation, so that you may bestow appreciation. Distraction will fade in and out, like an apparition in the night sky, and when she comes, your teeth will gnaw with excitement and your eyes will widen with glee, but don't commit too much of your self to her, as she will have to leave in the near future,… https://www.rektmag.net/home/2016/12/28/distractions

The Interior Angel Photographer: Jochen @photo_jochen Model: Lina Linn @itslinalinn https://www.rektmag.net/home/2026/8/12/the-interior-angel

drifting on love Lovers find themselves on a quiet night in rested against each others skin. Burning cigarettes one by one and pouring warm coffee for each other as they ponder the meaning of things that matter most to them. Enthralled with each others presence, and mesmerized by each others beauty, they intertwine and embrace with a grasp so strong that problems of the now become irrelevant, and this moment becomes the everything. The journey through the soul of your loved one is the most rewarding path to walk. Photographer: Jerferson Permejo Models: Stephanie Vaz & Gilberto Baccas https://www.rektmag.net/home/2016/12/24/drifting-on-love

Artist Spotlight: Mike T Schmitt Mike T Schmitt is a New York-based photographer and Creative Director working primarily in film. His work centers on women in domestic interior spaces; intimate, unhurried images that document the texture of a particular moment in time without declaring it. The images are quiet but deliberate: locations sourced to feel like they belong to the subject, shoots that unfold without a predetermined final product. "I'm interested in the hour before and the hour after — not the performance, but what surrounds it. Getting ready, coming down, existing without an audience. I build each shoot around the subject's world so that when the camera comes up, nothing changes. Primarily medium format film, because the deliberateness of the process becomes part of the image. What comes back is a document of a specific time and place — and I'm aware enough of the moment we… https://www.rektmag.net/home/2026/8/15/artist-spotlight-mike-t-schmitt

Artist Spotlight: Toma Kezic "I am Toma Kezić, an 18 year old photographer from Croatia. That’s enough about me. There has always been this notion that photography is meant to be seen rather than felt. This persuasion of beauty that grabs our attention by capturing things that are meant to be seen as “beautiful”, rather than creating beauty from it’s core elements (such as the golden ratio, balance etc.), rather enveloping the ideas that make what beautiful is. The ideas that consequently make us feel something, inducing us to do the same. I think photography is about that, about creating art that is meant to be felt, not seen." https://www.rektmag.net/home/2016/12/13/artist-spotlight-toma-kezic

Industrial Photographer: Göktuğ Yağız @g.ygz Model: Lotus @lotussutra https://www.rektmag.net/home/2026/8/12/industrial

rooftop renegade The seering sun saturates the rooftops as Dulphine climbs into something a little more comfortable. Apartments in the distance look ahead as they try to catch a glimpse of this bashful beauty.  Hair turned to the side, as the wind whisks its fingers through her strands, she takes a deep breath as she peers over the edge to see the cityscape mold itself against the sun's stroke.  Find clear skies, tasteful teasers of mischievous rooftop frolicking, and some decisive perspective from Katya Simkin to bring you a late Christmas present. Photographer: Katya Simkin Model: Dulphine https://www.rektmag.net/home/2016/12/19/rooftop-renegade

Morning Tenderness Bathed in the softness of morning light, this series captures the intimate moment between rest and awakening. Through gesture, texture, and movement, it reflects a quiet dialogue with the self—an acceptance of the body, the present moment, and the promise of a new day. Photographer: Layla Eyvazova @sonyageor Model: Sonya Eyvazova @sonyageor https://www.rektmag.net/home/2026/8/14/morning-tenderness