contributor since 1995) and persuading them to trust him, surrender to his lens, and shed all inhibitions-not to mention, on occasion, their clothes. Today he travels first-class, photographically speaking, routinely shooting the best-known women in the world (he has been a V.F. In photographing celebrities, your mind is made to travel-through their films, their roles, their music, their worlds.” Then, through the years, when I began taking portraits such as Diana and Madonna, stand by what I believe. “I used to go to those shoots freaking out,” he says, “because I wasn’t as successful as those subjects. Art requires depth.” And soon, encouraged by a young British Vogue editor named Patrick Kinmonth, now a designer and curator, he began to turn his lens on the souls inside the clothes, expanding his vision and gaining the trust of his ever more celebrated subjects. I grew up in a society where beauty plays a big role-South America is about beauty, sensuality, sexuality.” As his reputation grew in fashion circles, however, he began to feel that “mere beauty was not enough. “I was obsessed by beauty, fashion, clothes.
“At first, I completely dismissed portraiture,” says the Peruvian-born Testino, now 53. Instead, he was enamored of the accoutrements, the surfaces, the luscious ambience of objects and light and environment. When he started in fashion photography, in the early 1980s, Mario Testino had an aversion to shooting the famous.
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