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Professional Turning Points
The interview that follows is the original extended version of a much reduced printed edition. Bridget Farrands helps executives who find themselves at a turning point. I am not an executive, but I...
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Bald Is Beautiful
A group of American women got together with the idea of redefining the concept of beauty. Men can be blond, brown, red, white and… bald. Why not women? I photographed them in New York as they were...
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Contemporary Art Gallery Directors
Monica De Cardenas in front of a picture of Thomas Struth When I got the assignment to interview and photograph five of the most influential women in the world of contemporary art, I felt very curious...
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Problems Are Creative Opportunities
When I first met design guru Divya Thakur, curious to discover the secret of her huge success, I found out that her recipe was distressingly simple: she sees problems as opportunities. Don’t we all...
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Odo7, The Aroma Jockey
Between a business convention in Hong Kong, Isabella Rossellini’s party and a festival in London, he finds the time to work at a fashion show in France and a party in Shanghai or Moscow. The...
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Choque Cultural
There is a unique gallery in São Paolo specializing in urban art. The artists it represents paint in the sewers, apply stickers and do tattoos. It’s a big hit. Mariana Martins Mariana and Baixo are not...
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Why Certain Ayurvedic Doctors Are Hiding Themselves?
When I went to Kerala to shoot a tourism reportage on Ayurvedic treatments, I found out that there was a hidden reality about which I could only guess. Some of the last keepers of this millenary...
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Future Mentality Mapping
Having worked for many years in the PR industry, I know that companies would do anything to sell the right products at the right moment and also to have a stunning advertising campaign. If this...
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30 Minutes With Donatella Versace
During Milan Fashion Week I got a phone call from New York. They wanted me to meet Donatella Versace the day before her fashion show. I said yes of course. This is how it went. The first time I met...
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The Paris of Amélie Nothomb
She doesn’t have a cell phone and doesn’t know how to use a computer. She reads the works of great novelists sitting on their gravestones. She loves her champagne well chilled and wakes up every day at...
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Did I Say Recycling?
In my second to last post I stated that we need uplifting, encouraging and inspiring news. I also mentioned my Urban Local Heroes series, portraits of ordinary extraordinary people that know how to...
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Conversation With A Shaman
Why would a performing artist decide to become a shaman? What changes in the shift from a life under the spotlight to a simple life honoring nature and mother earth? What changes in one’s life after...
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Swimming 24h Non-Stop
Italian athlete Massimo Voltolina, 48, is getting ready to swim 100 kilometers (over 62 miles) across the Otranto channel with an estimated 100,000 strokes. A while ago, Vogue Sport hired me to do a...
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Terraces In Manhattan #1
Terrace in the Lower Est Side. In the background, the Empire State Building. Having a terrace in Manhattan is a status symbol and for many owners a few ornamental plants are not enough; they absolutely...
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Terraces In Manhattan #2
Landscapes architects in New York City, Jennifer Cooper. Jennifer Cooper You have been the president of the New York chapter of the American Association of Landscape Architects. What do you discuss at...
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Made In Carcere (appetizer)
The girls of the "Made In Carcere" workshops in the Lecce Prison. A few days ago I was finally granted access to the women’s wings of the Lecce prison to shoot my reportage on the “Made In Carcere”...
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Made In Carcere
Five weeks ago I published on this blog a post on the prison reportage that I had just shot. During the shooting I was asked not to photograph the windows, the doors, the locks or police agents. Guess...
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Made In Carcere #2
Made In Carcere, the tailor workshop in the prison of Lecce. Last week I published my interview with Luciana Delle Donne, the woman entrepreneur who created the prison bag factory Made In Carcere....
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Serge Latouche
A while ago, I photographed and interviewed the economist and sociologist Serge Latouche for the pilot episode of a TV program on sustainability. The TV program was never produced or broadcasted, so I...
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Women On Waves
One person, one idea… look at the outcome. Rebecca Gomperts, founder of Women On Waves. Did you know that every six minutes, somewhere in the world, a woman dies as a result of an illegal abortion? I...
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