Mario Testino
Mario Testino
Mario Testino OBEis a Peruvian fashion and portrait photographer. His work has featured internationally in magazines such as Vogue, V Magazine, Vanity Fair and GQ. He has also created images for brands such as Gucci, Burberry, Versace, Michael Kors, Chanel, Estée Lauder and Lancôme...
NationalityPeruvian
ProfessionPhotographer
Date of Birth30 October 1954
CityLima, Peru
CountryPeru
reality men years
A man today has to live with the reality of today. He can no longer live with the reality of 100 years ago. The world's changing so fast. Unless you are prepared to adapt every day, then you have a problem, because the world's not stopping.
effort trying looks
I usually try to make my images look like they just exist, like no effort was put into it.
two long perfect
I waited a long time, an hour or two, to make that picture perfect. But I wasn't totally satisfied. Then, when I'd finished the shoot, they were about to leave and they suddenly hugged in front of a radiator. I took my camera and that was the picture that ran everywhere - it was spontaneous emotion you could see they were completely in love.
chic
Chic is nothing but the right nothing.
two choices different
It's a choice - there are two different sorts of photographer: those obsessed with the technicalities and those obsessed by the subject.
beautiful matter transformation
The more I photograph women, the less it is about transformation. Women are beautiful. All that really matters is enhancing that
emotional magic noses
No! Beauty is emotional! That's why plastic surgery never works. Women who want to change their nose, lips, they don't understand that they are doing nothing except erasing their magic.
opportunity thinking doors
My favourite words are possibilities, opportunities and curiosity. I think if you are curious, you create opportunities, and then if you open the doors, you create possibilities.
eye want photograph
My pictures are my eyes. I photograph what I see - and what I want to see.
girl photography fashion
Most photographers go and photograph something that they see, that exists, and that somebody else has created - they document it. But fashion photographers have to create what they're going to photograph. We have to go into the thought and build it up, get a girl, get a guy, get a situation, get the house, get the decor. It's the meaning of the word photography: "writing with light."
people perfection boring
Some people strive for perfection, but I often find perfection boring
best people
I am obsessed with people and how to make them look their best.
girl instead model obsessed
I am obsessed by people. Usually I try to get the girl out of the model instead of the model out of the girl.
attraction attracts pot tormented
I don't like a tormented photograph. Something attracts you in them, but the attraction isn't because she has a pot on her head or tonnes of make-up and weird clothes and weird everything.