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A tabby kitten looks down and to the side, its paw extended. It is surrounded by shimmering, iridescent material that reflects splashes of blue, green and red.

A textural high courtesy of some psychedelic kittens from William Selden and Gary Card

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Date
11 July 2012

Fashion and editorial photographer William Selden’s latest collaborative series with set designer Gary Card for Ponystep Magazine turns their combined alien eye for tone and depth on two seemingly random things; a kitten and iridescent plastic.

The combination of the two is a textural high – a study in colour and surface and light, the way the kittens fur absorbs it and the plastic refracts it. The psychedelic over tones and cutesy appeal is disarmingly aesthetic and, even if cats are the techno meme of the millennium, Gary and William’s strange kitten portraits are pretty (in all senses of the word) damn special.

A small tabby kitten with dark stripes looks directly at the camera. It is surrounded by a blurred background of shimmering red, gold and pink lights.
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William Selden and Gary Card

A grey tabby kitten sits looking towards the camera. It is surrounded by shimmering, iridescent foil that reflects bright orange, yellow and pink light.
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William Selden and Gary Card

A small tabby kitten with wide eyes looks towards the camera. It is surrounded by shimmering, colourful tinsel that creates a blurred background of bright bokeh lights.
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William Selden and Gary Card

A small tabby kitten crouches and looks forward with wide eyes. It is set against a blurred, shimmering background of green and blue iridescent foil.
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William Selden and Gary Card

A small tabby kitten peers out from a fold of iridescent, holographic fabric. The shimmering material surrounds the kitten in swirls of pink, blue and green.
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William Selden and Gary Card

A close-up of a tabby cat, seen from behind and slightly out of focus. They are set against a shimmering, iridescent background of blurred purple, pink and green light.
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William Selden and Gary Card

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Bryony Quinn

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Bryony was It’s Nice That’s first ever intern and worked her way up to assistant online editor before moving on to pursue other interests in the summer of 2012.

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