Elias Rønnenfelt For Issue 9

In Issue 9 "Growing Sideways", we will tell you the little things we have learnt about Elias. The little aspects that drew Linda Brownlee's lens to this boy. Frontman of Danish band Iceage, Elias Bender Rønnenfelt drew our attention with nothing more than his honesty. Bringing up the clichés that many boys with guitars can fall into, he made us question these tropes, and gave answer to the question: once you are given the chance to live out those clichés - do you create anything with "emotional gravity"?

That is just the thing about gravity. It brings you down to earth, down where everyone else lives. This gravity gives his words weight and consideration. In this 10-page print feature, he reveals that his first priority is not what the audience takes out, but what he, as an artist, puts in that matters. And what he pours into his art is thought and sincerity - far from the recycled clichés of a boy with a guitar.

Photographer Linda delivers a colourful series of authentic and beautiful images that reflect the words Elias has spoken to us: mirroring the sullen, the vulnerable, the slow pace he assumed with these poses, as if in reality he'd been sitting that way the entire time waiting for an image to be taken.

To look further into Elias' words and Linda Brownlee's images, you can pick up your very own copy of Issue 9 either in a stockist near you or from our website.