Timothy Latim
Honourable Mention, People
The High Priestess
This is our forest, this is our mountain, and this is me. This is Suzan Kitts, she’s an entrepreneur, an avid fashion designer and a mountaineer at heart. With fashion there’s always a balance between aesthetic and utility. The mantra ‘fashion knows no weather’ is not applicable in the mountains, where clothing’s protection is more important than its style. In Suzan’s case, her love of the outdoors is always in conflict with her fashion sense, which forms a great part of her identity. Hiking clothes are designed to fight the elements and keep you safe, and flattering, stylish clothes seldom stand up to the elements you find on most mountains. On this lucky day we found good weather and she was able to embrace her fantasy of being a forest priestess, in tune with her inner mountaineer. She lived as a keeper of the forest, a person in symbiosis with the mountains who herds the forest and hunts its excess animals, who knows all the secrets of the tree beards and speaks the whispers of the Mountain languages.