What I like in fashion pictures is the possibility given to you to tell stories. I mean pictures where you can write a whole book about. For my point of view, the limited field of the straight fashion picture showing a beautiful girl, with glamorous light, in a sexy attitude, has its value of course, showing dresses, jewels, shoes, bags, but I always felt culturally limited by this use of space given to you, and in a way, kind of disrespect towards readers, offering them nothing that goes beyond the fashion universe. So I have never been attracted by the commercial vocation of fashion photography. Anyway, I dropped stunning and striking Valentina, my tonight heroine, somewhere in Hollywood Boulevard at 1a.m. Kind of escaping from a very hip party where everything went wrong. This is what I had in mind more or less. Well, here we are, late at night, and I think all the homeless people, dropouts, trumps, tourists, Hollywood warriors and fancy truth seekers, were standing behind me while shooting. I don't know why but they were so respectfully silent and so quiet. Lovely LA people! Cool dudes! Love you guys!

47"x38" inches, Edition of 10,
60"x47", edition of 7,
67"x53.5", edition of 3,
79"x63", edition of 3.

Asphalt jungle, Valentina, Los Angeles 2005

Asphalt jungle, Valentina, Los Angeles 2005