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Amanda Adrienne Smith Model Photography | Donari Braxton

How to Be Alone is a Los Angeles model photography editorial featuring Amanda Adrienne Smith, photographed by filmmaker and photographer Donari Braxton. The series belongs to a larger project credited in the original publication.

Original Editorial Notes

Artist biography as provided at the time of the original feature.

Donari Braxton (b.1982) is Brooklyn-based filmmaker and photographer. He’s received support and awards from NPR, SFFS, IFP, Film Independent, and Berlinale Talents, and has directed commercially for such companies as Mercedes Benz, GQ and HBO. In 2015, the narrative feature he wrote and produced, “Out of My Hand,” premiered at the 2015 Berlin International Film Festival and was theatrically released by Ava Duvernay’s ARRAY pictures in November 2015. He was later nominated for the John Cassavetes Film Independent Spirit Award for his work on this project. Most recently, he was awarded San Fransisco Film Society’s 2016 KRF Screenwriting Grant & Fellowship for his narrative feature film debut in development, “Above.” His images and editorials have appeared in such places as GQ, Details, Surface, BPM, Anthem magazines amongst others. He lives with his wife in Brooklyn.

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Amanda Adrienne Smith by Donari Braxton

Donari Braxton’s photographs of Amanda Adrienne Smith are arranged as a continuous visual study. The full seventeen-image sequence gives the viewer space to follow the series from beginning to end.