#caroline van doering

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Valentine’s Day EGL Meet, 2023

In case you didn’t know, EGL stands for Elegant Gothic Lolita and has been an easy way to group the subculture fashions. The South Florida Lolitas do require wearing lolita style at formal meets which entails a certain modesty, color/accessory coordination, and dress shape. 

We went to Vienna café in the Davie area, a place we have held meets twice before. It is unassumingly located in a Publix plaza with décor completely contrary to its name: that of the British monarchy, complete with cardboard cut-outs of the Queen (RIP).

It was a great turnout with a few new faces and members we hadn’t seen in a while, including a new gothic lolita! (I have a long fascination with Gothic subculture, long before I got into EGL. Plus, I’m selling a sweet style dress so I can buy a Baby gothic JSK or OP soon...).

I opted to take only a few photos as the cafe is small (I need a wider lens) and I wanted to enjoy our high tea and conversation! I edited these photos a tad to give them a dreamier look while sticking with a journalistic style of documentation. 

Photographs feature: ~ Brittany, our Queen (Moderator & Community Mom) ~ Sasha, social media savant and fashion student ~ Rebecca, art history and thrifting consultant ~ Mary’s phone case, cute but uncomfortable!

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Tem que ser imenso pra saber ser sozinho tentei pintar um quadro do tamanho da tristeza, em meio a tantas pinceladas e tanta cor, a dor que fez Van Gogh cortar a própria orelha; nem sempre a noite é estrelada. desculpe-me Atlas mas o peso do céu não é nada perto do peso da solidão. e se comer tinta amarela não faz nascer um sol no peito, nem toda tinta azul me faria mar por inteiro: “comigo a anatomia ficou louca sou todo coração” se eu pudesse juntaria mil girassóis para pôr no cabelo e giraria até esquecer quem sou. vou fechar os olhos: não vai doer se eu não me ver cair but the sun will raise and we will try again.

Caroline Barbosa.

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Les fays du Vert Mont, 2023 C V Doering

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The old farmhouse we stayed in for Kaddy's weekend in Stowe, VT.

The heating hadn't been turned on since the end of the previous Winter so the first night we froze at 40 degrees. A single heater in the bathroom and our cooking heated the house up a tad, but thankfully, a maintenance man came the next day to fix the boiler asap!

Nevertheless, the house was wonderfully old wood with creaky floors and low ceilings: a well-worn and story-filled place (not to mention the occasional "this could be haunted" feeling).

More to come! I am enjoying sharing some photography I have neglected; so I will be working on getting more things out from the past year and finishing those unfinished projects!

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I am slowly editing photos, trying a new style of editing, taking my time rather than doing batch marathons. I also experimented with the "new" select and mask tool in photoshop on this image, yet I went with the old-fashioned selection and layering edit in the end! But at least I learned something new, definitely helpful in creating more "surreal" photoshop images. Anyways, this was taken in Vermont after a downpour. Another magically misty evening...it seems to be a reoccurring theme in my work. The mysteries of a fog...calming the world, an ephemeral pause.

(It seems tumblr de-sharpens images a hair.)

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We came across this windmill by the side of the road on the way to the tip of Rhode Island, hoping we could sneak a glimpse from behind the hedge. To our delight, we found the windmill was a public historic place in which we were encouraged to walk around and explore the kitchen gardens and footpaths. I "pastel-lized" this photo as pastel is persistently my favorite way of looking at life (yet it does not work with every image...Florida images seem to have a harsher light difficult for me to "pastel," perhaps I will eventually figure out the perfect chemistry!)

x Caroline Doering 2022

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A Neverending Story with Ellie x caro van doering

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A neverending story with Ellie today

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feelings in maine and vermont, august 2017 x caro

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Ellie in Maine, August 2017 x caro van doering

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Getting reacquainted with landscapes in Maine, August 2017 x caro

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Ellie, outtake for fake i-D x caro van doering

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reframing the paradigm of relationships within western society where are we right now? x caro van doering

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around town montreal, 2017 x caro van doering

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Ellie in Maine, 2017

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Nadia’s routines, 2017