Studio Rik Versteeg

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This issue features a special, and I shot the cover story for this issue.
Full of q***r stories about love, family, identity, and community.

Photography:
Mua;
Models and ambassadors;
Guest editor; .is.iconicc

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Espanja Part 2 🇪🇸
David Sadi

🏆BECOMING AS LEGACY 🏆⁠
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Cabaret, activism, the stage — all rehearsals for different ways of being.⁠
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“Q***r excellence is not a trophy. It’s a state of being.”⁠
describes becoming itself as their legacy — not something left behind, complete and immovable, but something that keeps resonating. They speak of wearing the body like a costume even when n**e, because normal is a performance so familiar it learned to hide its own tricks.⁠
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The measure is not what you achieve but how little of yourself you agree to filter.⁠
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Human: Amber Vineyard ⁠
Story: Levi Rodriguez ⁠
Photo & Concept: Studio Rik Versteeg ⁠
Makeup & Hair: Afif Shafit ⁠
Photo Assistant: Luca van Ruiten ⁠
Photo Assistant: Roxstar Vineyard ⁠
Nails: Elejandro Martinez ⁠
Body Double & Hand Model: Monika Vineyard ⁠
Dutch Translation: Rik Versteeg ⁠
Suit;
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MOVEMENT AS SURVIVAL⁠
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Born stateless in Yarmouk, a Palestinian refugee camp in Damascus. He danced anyway.⁠
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“Dance saved my life, but now it also gives my life meaning.”⁠
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From a war zone to the world’s stages, Ahmad Joudeh turned movement into refusal — of erasure, of fear, of the idea that some bodies are not allowed to take up space. He tattooed DANCE OR DIE across his back before he ever left Syria. It was not a slogan. It was a decision.⁠
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On q***r excellence, he says it plainly: the courage to exist fully in a world that asks you to shrink. Survival with dignity.⁠
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Read the full story on our website⁠
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ICONIQA Mag 2 is available for purchase, shipping globally from Barcelona.⁠
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📍 Damascus, Syria⁠
Human: Ahmad Joudeh ⁠
Story: Levi Rodriguez ⁠
Photo & Concept: Studio Rik Versteeg ⁠
Styling: Pythia Chiara ⁠
Hair: Afif Shafit ⁠
Photography Assistant: Luca van Ruiten ⁠
Styling Assistant: Joost Gimbel ⁠
Arabic Translation: Ray Seferian ⁠
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🏆BECOMING AS LEGACY 🏆⁠
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Cabaret, activism, the stage — all rehearsals for different ways of being.⁠
⁠
“Q***r excellence is not a trophy. It’s a state of being.”⁠
describes becoming itself as their legacy — not something left behind, complete and immovable, but something that keeps resonating. They speak of wearing the body like a costume even when n**e, because normal is a performance so familiar it learned to hide its own tricks.⁠
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The measure is not what you achieve but how little of yourself you agree to filter.⁠
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Human: Amber Vineyard ⁠
Story: Levi Rodriguez ⁠
Photo & Concept: Studio Rik Versteeg ⁠
Makeup & Hair: Afif Shafit ⁠
Photo Assistant: Luca van Ruiten ⁠
Photo Assistant: Roxstar Vineyard ⁠
Nails: Elejandro Martinez ⁠
Body Double & Hand Model: Monika Vineyard ⁠
Dutch Translation: Rik Versteeg ⁠
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🏆BECOMING AS LEGACY 🏆⁠
⁠
Cabaret, activism, the stage — all rehearsals for different ways of being.⁠
⁠
“Q***r excellence is not a trophy. It’s a state of being.”⁠
describes becoming itself as their legacy — not something left behind, complete and immovable, but something that keeps resonating. They speak of wearing the body like a costume even when n**e, because normal is a performance so familiar it learned to hide its own tricks.⁠
⁠
The measure is not what you achieve but how little of yourself you agree to filter.⁠
⁠
Human: Amber Vineyard ⁠
Story: Levi Rodriguez ⁠
Photo & Concept: Studio Rik Versteeg ⁠
Makeup & Hair: Afif Shafit ⁠
Photo Assistant: Luca van Ruiten ⁠
Photo Assistant: Roxstar Vineyard ⁠
Nails: Elejandro Martinez ⁠
Body Double & Hand Model: Monika Vineyard ⁠
Dutch Translation: Rik Versteeg ⁠
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