# Project Description Butterfly Eagle Luce Martini Summary Final work Luce Martini is an Italian photographer based in London. Since the age of 14, she has been photographing the world around her. Through the streets of Fashion Week her work has grown and evolved. Blending autobiography and fiction, her photography draws on cinema, street culture and fashion to create carefully constructed imaginary worlds. Influenced by her experience as Miles Aldridge's assistant, she approaches photography as a tool to tell stories. Luce Martini is an Italian photographer based in London. Since the age of 14, she has been photog... College London College of Fashion Course MA Fashion Photography Graduation year 2025 Butterfly Eagle originates from a personal need to represent adolescence and its problems, while deliberately altering the filter through which these issues are usually observed. Rather than reproducing narratives of pathology, delinquency, or deficit, the work positions itself as a dedication to all the young people labeled as “difficult” or “problematic”. The title, borrowed from Muhammad Ali’scelebrated phrase “Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee” , is deliberately reimagined. The butterfly symbolizes fragility, metamorphosis, and beauty; the eagle, strength, dominance, and adulthood. In this sense, the title signals the central theme of the work: growth as a process of doubleness, where contradictory qualities coexist and transformation is born from tension. This tension captures the psychological reality of adolescence as a phase marked by instability but also by potential transformation. Adolescence, often stigmatized as crisis, is reimagined here as a fertile, turbulent space of becoming. Final work Research and process "Ultimately, the meaning of the title Butterfly Eagle is not only tied to the photographic project itself, but also carries an autobiographical resonance: it speaks to my journey as both a person and a photographer, teaching me that my fragilities can also become my strengths, and that true harmony often resides in the coexistence of opposites." Share this project Butterfly Eagle originates from a personal need to represent adolescence and its problems, while deliberately altering the filter through which these issues are usually observed. Rather than reproducing narratives of pathology, delinquency, or deficit, th... A link to this page has been added to your clipboard Browse related work Cinema Fashion Film