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A bag of swimsuits
a bag of cameras
meet
cool rain falling gray seasoned skies bodies wet
They grew side by side the village hums
the sea tells us to visit to play the
The sea watches us Closeup and far Beautiful are the moments laughter
primitive of children are the moments
the Italian spirit hangs on

One of the great fashion magazines of the 90's was Mirabella under the iconic creative direction of Sam Shahid with fashion director Polly Hamilton. Polly had such innate taste and was very giving to work with. We created some wonderful stories for Mirabella and for The Fashion of the Times. For this story, Polly chose the model Lorraine Pascale to be in all white fashion. My objective was to pair beautiful architectural locations with elements of strong graphic lines, with Lorraine being equal to the power of the space. The choice of the potent yellow color of the night light and the use of black and white imagery created an interesting juxtaposition.

Luca Cardelli was the stylist at Uomo Harper's Bazaar that I worked with and this is a tribute to him since he is now gone. We would come up with story ideas and drive for hours to scout for the right locations, cast for days and it always seemed to produce something magical. Years later the “Institute" image from this this story was in a group show at The Serge Sorroko gallery in Soho, and a collector loved the image and asked me about my use of light. "We had no budget and we had no money to pay for all of what we needed, like actual lights. We were shooting in the legendary nightclub "Hollywood", in Milan, and it was dark inside, but they had these lamps around, with 200W bulbs, so I had my assistant take off the shades and use them to light the picture. The collector he bought the picture.