Carolyn Murphy in 'Room 40' by Buck Ellison for Vogue Italia October 2020

Supermodel Carolyn Murphy is styled by George Cortina in ‘Room 40” wearing Alberta Ferretti, Balenciaga, Miu Miu, Saint Laurent and more. Murphy is lensed by Buck Ellison at the Chateau Marmont in Los Angeles for Vogue Italia October 2020./ Hair by Teddy Charles; makeup by Sam Visser

In 2020, Oxfam estimated that collectively the world’s 2,153 billionaires have more wealth than 60 percent of planet Earth’s population, wrote the British Journal of Photography in discussing the photography of Buck Ellison. Speaking about the visual imagery in his monography ‘Living Trust’, Ellison explained his photographic reality-check on the uber-wealthy.  “The rest of their lives are completely opaque to us”. 

“We live in this over-photographed world, yet there is a whole class of people, the ultra-wealthy, who, for the most part, disclose only what they want” ~ Buck Ellison

Exploring visually the foundations of white privilege is the focus on Buck Ellison’s photography.