Meet the Witches in Harley Weir and Dilara Fındıkoğlu’s New Zine
Photographer Harley Weir and fashion designer Dilara Fındıkoğlu have created a new zine titled Witch, shot over five days in Romania, exploring contemporary witchcraft and female power through portraiture and textile practice. The publication documents women’s relationships with witchcraft—including a practising Roma witch, trans activist, sex worker, journalist, and body-modification artist—challenging historical fears surrounding feminine intuition and natural feminine power. Fındıkoğlu’s intricate corsetry functions as ceremonial armour and adornment in the portraits, lending subjects an otherworldly presence. The project emerges from conversations about redefining witchcraft as natural, universal power rather than evil or danger, emphasising that such capacities exist within all people. Weir’s photographic practice has long focused on documenting the feminine body in transformation with primordial mysticism, while the zine format and thematic focus on female agency and occult aesthetics align with underground and alternative visual publishing traditions.
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