Andrea Rincon in Hombre Magazine

Andrea Rincon is the featured model in a glamour spread for Hombre magazine.

Not every glamour feature that travelled around the web in this era came from the familiar British weeklies. Readers who followed the genre also picked up shoots from titles further afield, and this appearance by Andrea Rincon in Hombre is one of them. It is a reminder of how international the audience for glamour photography had become by the early 2010s, when a single spread could be passed from blog to blog within hours of an issue reaching the shelves.

Anatomy of a spread

Whatever the country or the language, a magazine glamour feature tends to follow the same broad structure. There is an opening image, usually the strongest of the set, chosen to fill a page on its own. Then come a few pages that develop the theme: a change of wardrobe, a different corner of the location, a closer frame. A short block of text introduces the model, and the closing image brings the mood back to where it started.

Behind that sequence sits a day of work by a small team: photographer, stylist, make-up artist and an editor who later chooses the handful of frames that make it into print from the hundreds that were taken.

Why it was noticed

Features from outside the English-language press often found an English-speaking audience precisely because they looked different: a different approach to light, location and styling from what readers saw every week at home. The Andrea Rincon feature in Hombre caught that kind of attention.

The photographs belong to the magazine and are not reproduced here.

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