The Greatest Magazine: The Symmetry Issue

Apr 2025

The Symmetry Issue is a fashion editorial series for The Greatest Magazine that explores the intersection of tailored menswear and rigid urban architecture. Photographer Paul Hempstead and creative director Edward James Lee lean into a highly structured visual language to highlight the interplay between form and setting. The project utilizes a monochrome palette and analogue film techniques to emphasize the raw textures of its environments, from weathered brickwork to Art Deco facades. By combining clean, geometric compositions with high-contrast lighting, the editorial captures a series of portraits that balance deliberate sartorial details with an atmospheric, gritty aesthetic.

Editorial, Vertical, Monochrome

Analogue / film

Editorial