" M I L A N " ESTATE 1997
is where i learned to use the Daylights indoors!! This 60´s styled residence room at the Clotilde is really where it all begun! Prada even caught onto what i was doing with all the models that they rented a room after i left that season and shot one of their campaigns that october just directly 1 floor under my residence! A Miami based photographer named Sixto (very talented) even moved next door to me as well and was trying to detour my models to his residence while on arrival to shoot with me!! Ha Ha what a business we are in!! Have to always watch your back in whatever you do!!! That season i bought all the clothes from Dollar Bill in NYC (The best place for all European labels at half price) before departing for Milan. (55 portrait and body shoots and 28 body shoots total 83 shoots) from may 24th - july 7 1997 this for sure was a way to hone in on my signature style! Also fell ill with a bit of bronchitis after the agencies wore me out as it was show season coming right up. Thanks also to my mentors The Late Herb Ritts and still going strong Bruce Weber. Maurizio Montani and Marco Marezza were the two main shooting kings in Milan during this time and i was very happy to be a part of this group of Talent. It´s such a craft building up this black and white career! After all these years i am still shooting film in daylight and i love it. Just shot a catlogue on Digital in Portugal and had fun with the crew! Am shooting for the same catalogue in august in Greece so let´s see what happens!
Without Salvador (march-april 96), Milan ( may- july) 96, 97, 98 and Miami (march 97, march-may 98)
I would never have become the Black and White photographer i am today!! And thanks to a man named Jos borsboom in Amsterdam where it all began!
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