“That’s me. It’s just cool looking…” Lisa Hughes looks back on the very lowkey nature of the iconic image on Deftones’ Around The Fur, taken by photographer Rick Kosick.
With Deftones’ 1997 second album Around The Fur celebrating its 30th anniversary next year (gulp), Jenkem Magazine have just unveiled a new 10-minute documentary about the now-iconic artwork.
Jenkem meet photographer Rick Kosick along with cover star Lisa Hughes to unpack the surprisingly lowkey story of how it came to be, as well as how they both feel about what a beloved image it’s since become (in fact, Lisa says she’s even been signing copies of the record for her daughters’ friends).
Lisa shares that the image happened while she was simply “just having a kick-ass time” with the band in Seattle – though she was initially “oblivious” about who they were – and in the video she even revisits the jacuzzi in the condo that Deftones were renting at the time.
“It’s a pretty cool looking shot, right?” she enthuses of the photo. “Like with the fisheye lens just looking down. You know, it’s kind of risqué a little bit with my breasts, and people have asked, ‘Oh, look, you got a pimple there.’ I’m like, ‘Who gives a shit? What does that really matter?’ I’m a human being. I’m not a model and I could care less, really. That’s me. It’s just cool looking. And if you look at the whole shot and the legs going into the hot tub, it just looks pretty awesome.”
From Rick’s perspective, he explains that he saw Lisa and “just went up and took a couple… two photos. That’s it. Walked away.”
He remembers how, a few weeks later, “I get a call from the label. ‘Hey, come by and check this out. We want to show you something.’ And the art director [Kevin Reagan], he was like, ‘Well, what do you think?’ I was like, ‘Wow.’ I was blown away. I was like, ‘This is so cool looking. I love it’ – of course, I’m going to say I love it. It’s my photo. But looking back, I was just really excited because it felt right after all the mock-ups and everything, this one looks incredible.”
Watch the full video:
Catch the band live soon at the following:
Deftones 2026 tour with Denzel Curry and Drug Church
January
29 Paris, FR – Adidas Arena
30 Brussels, BE – Forest National
February
1 Hamburg, DE – Barclays Arena
3 Munich, DE – Zenith
5 Lodz, PL – Atlas Arena
6 Berlin, DE – Max-Schmeling-Halle
7 Dortmund, DE – Westfalenhalle
9 Stuttgart, DE – Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Halle
10 Amsterdam, NL – AFAS Live
12 Birmingham, UK – BP Pulse Live
13 Glasgow, UK – OVO Hydro
14 Manchester, UK – Co-Op Live
16 Dublin, IE – 3Arena
18 Cardiff, UK – Utilita Arena
20 London, UK – The O2
And then see them headline the London edition of Outbreak Fest on August 23.
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