Mario Testino

Mario Testino ( born October 30, 1954 in Lima, Peru ) is a London-based portrait and fashion photographer. Outside the fashion scene, his name is little known to many of his works are still among the most famous photographs.

Life

Testino was born in 1954 in Lima, mainly for all the major fashion magazines such as Vogue and Vanity Fair. He has also photographed campaigns already for almost all the major fashion labels. This includes, for example, the label Versace. Here Testino recorded, inter alia, to responsible for a campaign with pop singer Madonna. Another well-known photo gallery of Testino was published in 1997 by the magazine Vanity Fair. These were a cover story about Princess Diana. The recordings were later published as a book.

Campari committed Mario Testino to photograph for the company calendar 2009, Hollywood star Jessica Alba in 12 different designs. For Testino is the second work for Campari: 2007 was Salma Hayek as a calendar design for the photographer in front of the lens.

Opened in 2012, Testino in his hometown of Lima, the non-profit cultural organization Mate that promotes works of Peruvian artists. A year earlier, he was awarded by the Royal Photographic Society with an honorary membership.