Followers Are Going Wild Over Taylor Swift’s New Album Cowl Photograph

Global celebrity Taylor Swift unveiled her extremely anticipated twelfth studio album this week, The Life of a Showgirl, and the duvet photograph was captured by celebrated trend and portrait photographers Mert Alas and Marcus Piggot, who go by simply Mert and Marcus.

There have been so many iconic album covers through the years, and Mert and Marcus, each born in 1971, have shot round 20 of them.

Beyond capturing the album cowl for The Life of a Showgirl, the pictures duo additionally labored with Swift on her sixth album, Reputation, in 2017. Mert and Marcus, whose work has been featured in Vogue and utilized by big manufacturers like Louis Vuitton, Giorgio Armani, Gucci, Dior, and extra, additionally shot album covers for different big musical artists like Kylie Minogue, Madonna, Jennifer Lopez, Cher, Shania Twain, and Nicki Minaj.

As reported by The Line of Best Fit, Swift unveiled her album final night time, August 13, on the New Heights podcast that stars her well-known boyfriend, Travis Kelce of the Kansas City Chiefs, and his brother, former NFL heart Jason Kelce. When asserting the album, Swift confirmed off the duvet, which exhibits the singer-songwriter submerged virtually totally underwater in a shower and carrying a small bejeweled gown.

“There are a lot more photos in this,” Swift says, referring to the internal jacket of the file. “I love the photography so much that I don’t want to show it right now because I want to keep some mystery going.”

“But the photos are done by Mert and Marcus, who are two of my favorite photographers. The last time, the only time, I’ve worked with them for an album cover shoot was with Reputation, for that album,” Swift continues. “And I loved what they did with those photos, so I called them up for this one, and I’m so happy with the way that the photos came out for this one.”

Although Reputation is the one different album cowl Swift labored with Mert and Marcus on, she has labored with them on different issues, together with for a Vogue cover story in 2016.

After working with Swift on the Vogue story and Reputations, Mert and Marcus chatted with Time for an interview about their illustrious careers. During the dialog, the pictures duo dished on working with Swift, describing her as having “the most incredible photographic eye.” Swift’s penchant for pictures is well-known, and she or he has routinely been noticed out and about with an interchangeable lens digicam in hand, together with an Olympus E-M10 IV in late 2024.

“I like when someone has an opinion and a point of view and Taylor had an incredible point of view,” Mert informed Time in 2017.

Swift’s upcoming album, The Life of a Showgirl, arrives on October 3, 2025.

Image credit: Header photograph by Mert and Marcus.