Belle

Bella Ginnasta

2005: based on “La Belle Rafaela” by Tamara Lempicka.

Luisa is a high school gym teacher and she brought with her the whistle, the red exercise weight as well as the red gloves, the red silk cover, the grey satin nightdress and the leather box that had belonged to her grandmother. This image was the preferred photo of the Sunday Times magazine article in July 2005 and was used as the double page spread under the title “The Paintstrippers”.

client:

La Voce di Romagna, also published in The Sunday Times magazine, Vanity Fair, Madison