The Originals: Irving Penn

A study in precision, patience, and quiet drama

Welcome to The Originals, a series dedicated to the icons who shaped the visual world as we know it. Not just the names you’ve heard, but the ones you should study. The ones whose work still lingers in campaigns, compositions, and concepts today. This series is about going back to the source. Because if you want to build visual language, you have to understand the dialects that came before you.

And for me, it starts with Irving Penn.