Le Destroy doesn't make background music, and these images weren't made to blend in. This collection of promotional portraits for Austin cyberpunk artist Kristina Olson — performing as Le Destroy — was built to match the intensity of her releases: bold, confrontational, and visually unmistakable.

Captured across multiple shoots and thematically tied to her music, the work moves through silhouettes in fog, high-octane studio rain drenching her in streaking light, and colorfully lit portraits that echo the industrial and punk influences running through her sound.

A recent series steps into unexpected territory; Maternity portraits that carry the same defiant energy as the rest of the work, reframing pregnancy through Le Destroy's unmistakable lens: raw, powerful, and anything but conventional.

Her looks across every shoot were crafted in collaboration with the genius that is Meredith Johns of Hawgfly Creative . She is an Emmy-nominated makeup, hair, and special FX artist whose work gave every frame its sharp, otherworldly edge.

HAIR/MAKE-UP/STYLING: MeredithJohns - Hawgfly