THIS STORY WAS ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN THE BI-ANNUAL PRINT ISSUE OF A BOOK OF (A BOOK OF: NOW, SEPTEMBER 2019)

We gathered some of the upcoming fresh faces in Los Angeles and asked them questions about NOW

PHOTOGRAPHERS: IRVIN RIVERA & VICTORIA INNOCENZI

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If you can change anything NOW, what would it be and why?

“I think I would change the younger generation‘s take on social media and how they use it. It’s way too much nowadays. Especially younger girls who keep comparing themselves to everything that’s fake. Everything’s facetuned.”

- BAILEY HORNACEK @WILHELMINA MODELS

For you, what is NOW?

“NOW for me is dropping everything I have in New York and moving to LA”

-JAKE JAFFE @MERAKI MODELS

If you can change anything about NOW what would it be?

“If I can change anything NOW, it will probably be how we use energy. We use too many gases and oil; and the oil companies control the world right now. It does too much damage to the environment we live in. We can use better power and green energy instead of gasses and it will be way better for the environment. “

- RAFAEL HOFFMAN @MARGAUX THE AGENCY   

If you can change anything about NOW what would it be?

“If I can change anything now, I would change the whole USCIS- the whole immigration office. Because I’ve been through a lot with my VISA application involving a lot of attorneys and it has been a struggle for years. It’s hard and I want to make it easier.”

- ALYSON CAI @NOMAD

If you can change anything now what would it be and why?

“I think I would change the way how homeless people are living. Make more homeless shelters and provide more for them instead of just letting them live in the streets in the cold or in the hot. I’m from Vegas so having them live outside for like about hundred fifteen degree weather is not cool to me. So that’s what I would change.“

-KJAY WOODLAND @WILHELMINA MODELS

If you can change anything now what would it be and why?

“If I can change anything in the world right now, I would choose how the public schools teach about mental illness. I would make it mandatory for schools to teach (in elementary schools or highschools) information about mental illness and how important it is to take care of your mind and your body. “

- KC KELSO @INDUSTRY MANAGEMENT

If you can change anything now what would it be and why?

“I’m a really shy guy so if I can change anything, I want to be more outgoing.”

- KEIGO YABE @MAVRICK AGENCY

If you can change anything now what would it be and why?

“I would probably change the human body. Because I wanna travel to space but I can’t because I will need a space suite. I wanna be able to breathe anywhere; in the ocean, and in space.”

-GABRIEL JAYNE @WILHELMINA

If you can change anything NOW what would it be and why?

“I think the big problem right now in the way society works in America is that nobody really likes to listen to each other. People have very strong opinions. I think one thing that I would change now is to make people to be just open minded and open to new ideas so that people can come together and really make change whether it’s related to environmental issues, to police brutality and basically everything. Because without listening, you can’t really get anywhere.”

- EMIKO HERBERT @NEXT MODELS

For you, what is NOW?

“To me, now is taking every moment and making sure that we don’t take it for granted and knowing that all we have is the present to make our lives everything that we can want them to be.”  

- MICKAYLA KRAUSE @MAVRICK AGENCY

If you can change anything now what would it be and why?

“It will probably be love. Too many people are negative. It takes too much energy for you to be negative. It’s easier to love, be kind, sweet, humble to people so definitely that.” 

- NYJA ABDULLAH @FREEDOM MODELS