The Iconic First Lady of NYC


I love these photos of Rama Duwaji by Szilveszter Mako โ a perfect combination of photographer and subject. Duwaji is an artist, illustrator, New Yorker, and second-generation Syrian-American. She is also married to Zohran Mamdani, who is the mayor-elect of NYC.




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This shoot has me gagged. In a year of AI slop and blandness this stood out in the way I would have torn it out of a print mag and kept as a physical reference.
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