Fashion photographer, working for several magazines including Vogue and Vanity Fair.
His celebrity subjects have included Princess Diana, Prince Charles, Prince Harry Windsor, Gisele Bündchen, Madonna, Gwyneth Paltrow, Ashton Kutcher, Demi Moore,Kirsten Dunst, Jake Gyllenhaal, Kate Moss, Julia Roberts, Richard Gere, Robbie Williams, Beyoncé Knowles, Cameron Diaz, Janet Jackson, Meg Ryan, Naomi Campbell,Claudia Schiffer, Keira Knightley, Hugh Grant, Lindsay Lohan and Elizabeth Hurley.
Resides in London.
Born to an Italian father and an Irish mother, he is the eldest of six children.
Attended the Universidad del Pacifico, the Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru and the University of San Diego.
When moving to London, he took a flat in an abandoned hospital near Trafalgar Square.
Conducted an elaborate photo shoot for the September 2008 issue of Vanity Fair featuring supermodels Cindy Crawford, Stephanie Seymour,Claudia Schiffer, Naomi Campbell, Linda Evangelista and Christy Turlington. The pictorial covered pages 182 through 193.
Career was consolidated when supermodel Linda Evangelista commissioned him to photograph her for the cover of Vogue magazine in Germany.
V Magazine 59 will be released next week and it’s the Summer Swimsuit Issue. When the swimsuit issues from various magazines come out, you know that the hot season of the year is just around the corner. The entire issue was shot by none other than Mario Testino.
Inside the circle: Behind-the-scenes photos of celebrities by the fashion world's favorite photographer
As one of the 21st century's most travelled, acclaimed, and influential fashion photographers, Mario Testino has unsurpassed access to the most magnetic stars of popular culture. For some time now he has been collecting a personal archive of off-screen moments, often snatched spontaneously before, during, and after more official sittings for Vanity Fair, Vogue, and Testino's many clients in the world of fashion. The result is a portrait not just of a generation of the most wanted and talked-about, but an invitation to be part of the backstage parties and unstaged moments of Testino's life. Sometimes offbeat, but always on the pulse, Let me in!, with Testino's eye for a modern kind of elegance liberated from conventional polish, is a new chapter from the photographer who has already made his mark with the books Any Objections, Front Row Backstage, Alive, Portraits, Kids, Diana Princess of Wales, and numerous exhibitions and publications worldwide.
For more information check:
- http://www.mariotestino.com/section/1
- http://www.mariotestino.com/section/28
