Ecstatic Elevation
Nick Alvino by Studio9NYC & AJ Stetson
KALTBLUT Magazine
Broadway dancer, actor, and singer Nick Alvino teams with photographer Studio9NYC, aka AJ Stetson, to create moments of quiet yet ecstatic elevation and transcendence in the studio.
Employing facile technique with coiled power and lithe grace, Nick moves, plays, and leaps with a Peter Pan-like vitality, summoning Olympian flights as well as more subdued introspection. Under AJ’s direction, he inhabits both jubilant, puckish playfulness and more sombre, smouldering, suspended moments, infused with sculptural, haunting beauty.
Denim Clad Lad
Ashton Smith of State Management
Photography by Studio9NYC & AJ Stetson
Styling by Mike Stallings
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A Corporeal Dream
Andriel by Studio9NYC
KALTBLUT Magazine
Studio9NYC, aka AJ Stetson, directs model and actor Andriel on a quiet journey, channeling muses from centuries past.
Andriel inhabits waking dreams in the studio, breathing and caressing life into sculptural forms, sometimes draped, other times unfettered, in quiet repose, or coiled and charged. His honed physique and subtle yet powerful gestures and expressions provide the corporeal portal for moments of resonance within this time-suspended dreamscape. Andriel becomes a gentle yet masculine manifestation between consciousness and dreaming, in which the light and shadow, reflected off his form, shape an ecstatic sculptural moment.
Balance — Mind, Body, and Soul in Palm Springs
Joe D. Martinez by Studio9NYC
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AJ Stetson of Studio9NYC frames and captures the limber, long lines, and supple and defined physique of Joe Martinez in the desert heat, then moves underwater for the flow of Joe’s lionlike mane, and his tiger-like balance of vigor and grace, both in moments of quiet repose and striking action.
With power and poise, both on land and underwater, Joe finds and sustains equilibrium through stretching, strengthening, meditation.
