An up and coming fashion photographer will be taking a swipe at his own industry with his first solo exhibition, featuring “disillusioned teens, doped nymphets and slaughtered pigs”.

Gregory Hili, who calls himself Girgorcisku, feels strongly about the pressure fashion magazines put on today’s young boys and girls, conforming to what he feels are out-dated conceptions.

“Our world has changed but our mindset hasn’t. We end up subjecting ourselves to our own self-made structures, influenced by the conceptions of the past, in the spirit of inner anxiety and hatred. We have become like scarabs, feeding and reproducing in our own dung spheres of perfection.

“As an image-maker, I am in a position of control over the imaginary worlds of consumers. Therefore, I have a moral obligation to question the truth, or illusion, of that control,” he says.

The exhibition, called Scarab, runs from September 15 to 20, between 5 to 8 p.m. and is being held at 43, Lascaris Wharf, Valletta.