portraiture

Sadiq Khan - cover story for Total Politics

The new Total Politics magazine is out now with my photograph on the cover and more inside alongside the interview.
We shot last month in London - my first time back 'home' - in Sadiq Khan's office in Tooting.
While Total Politics editor Ben Duckworth carried out the interview, we set up a photographic set in a basement room. We shot a eyes-only-in-focus portrait for the cover at f2.2 and then something more playful for the inside spread.
Antonello Sticca art directed the set with found objects with a slight country but solid feeling: a beautiful old wooden table, a chair, few stands and even an old fashion a teapot ... but you need to grab a copy of the magazine to see more.
Sadiq Khan was very relaxed and happy to be photographed, given us more than the usual 5 minutes, what a relief!

Mirror Mirror on the Wall, the book available on Blurb



Mirror Mirror on the wall is now available on Blurb Bookstore.
Text is both in Italian and English, and the amazing graphic design is by Karen Oetling.



Open smiles, ill-concealed smiles, untied shoes, asymmetric postures, conscious or puzzled expressions... What does the mirror reflect? 
350 children and adolescents were to step inside an empty photographic set and to produce self portraits in front of a mirror, creating a collective portrait of the new generation of kids and adolescents that is growing up in Florence. 
From an idea of Emma Innocenti, a surreptitious look into the private space of the New Millennium youngsters, that reveals how they see themselves.