Patrick Prudente (Mario's brother) is just back from Guadeloupe. Tonight, we had a conversation about identity (Paris)

Julie home, talking, on a grey and rainy afternoon (Paris)

Selfportrait with a Dogon mask I bought in Dakar (Paris)

Abdel Aït Taouit is a barman at Le Mansart. I like his old school Pigalle style (Paris)

I don't know much about Sixtine Leroy. I just enjoyed shooting her while she was chatting with a friend at a café terrace (Paris)

Julie can't help laughing while watching that hilarious mature age man playing football in a park, wearing a suit and being beaten by a little kid (a friend of his own son) (Paris)

My nephew Elliott Roy drawing in his bedroom (Paris)

I'm not a great fan of Christmas tradition. But my mother loves it. She's a Christian and happy to see her grand-son (Paris)

GUEST: Giasco Bertoli

   Antoine looking out a big window (Photography and text Giasco Bertoli. Locarno Lido, Switzerland)

Last time I saw Juliette Morice, she was just a little girl. Time goes by... (Paris)

Diango (Jonas' friend) in front of the hotel where he and his family have been living for more than one year (Paris)

GUEST: Giasco Bertoli

   Sexy 2012 and gray overall in a body shop (Photography and text Giasco Bertoli. Maggia Valley, Switzerland)

GUEST: Giasco Bertoli

   My sons Primo and Antoine on our way to southern Switzerland (Photography and text Giasco Bertoli)

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PORTRAIT EFFACE A LA DEMANDE DU MODELE

I met Laetitia Barrois at the Edwarda magazine last issue launch (at Ofr bookshop/gallery). I liked her sensuality and simplicity. She told me she was a lawyer and had some Algerian blood (Paris)

GUEST: Giasco Bertoli

Pascal Humbert in his apartment (Photography and text Giasco Bertoli. Paris)

GUEST: Giasco Bertoli

   Me and Marion Park. And actress and film maker Reine Graves (Photography and text Giasco Bertoli. Paris)

Regina Demina is a mysterious and fascinating character. And she's not affraid of cameras. I photographed her this afternoon and asked her to seduce me. The video will be online on Portrait lab soon (Paris)

GUEST: Giasco Bertoli

      Sunday morning with two twins (Photography and text Giasco Bertoli. Paris)

Today, I had lunch with my friend and neighbour, the Creative Director Aldo Buscalferri. We had a talk about how difficult it could be to shoot celebrities. Before we left, his lovely girlfriend Simona Foti joined us (Paris)

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My next guest will be the artist Giasco Bertoli. He will post some of his work daily on Portrait lab from the 18th to the 23th of December.

I know Giasco since 1998, when I started collaborating at Purple magazine. By then, I already liked his work.

Along the following years, we kept each other informed regarding our different publications or exhibitions.

Giasco is a talented photographer and a nice guy, and I'm happy to invite him to give us his own perception of portrait. 

I will, of course, continue to post my own daily portrait.

My baby niece Angela watching a cartoon on my computer screen (Paris)

Just out of a very good Chinese restaurant with Jonas. Is this the beginning of another freezing rainy week-end ? (Paris)

This morning, I visited BORN TO RUN advertising agency office to shoot a portrait series representing the talented Matthieu Chanvrin and his partners (Paris)

After flying above a north African desert, I finally landed at Paris airport. Late in the evening, my London friend, Olu Michael Odukoya (Kilimanjaro publisher), visited me to show me Matter, his amazing new magazine (where I shot a men fashion story). We had a talk about new technologies (France)

Grey and rainy last day in Cape Town. My first assistant, Vincent de La Faille, working in my hotel living room while I'm shooting a bird on the terrace (South Africa)

GUEST: Pablo Guerra

  Carolina Orrico is a charming young fashion stylist who walked me all around the huge neibourghood of Palermo in the search of a picture that we had already taken at her place. Here is that picture (Photography and text Pablo Guerra. Buenos Aires)

Robyn Nissen is a talented South African hair dresser and make up artist with a good energy. This afternoon, we talked about her country after Apartheid. I'm not sure she knows how beautiful she is (Cape Town)

Christof Van der Walt after a all day shooting. He worked for me as a digital assistant for a few days. I really appreciated his kindness and professionalism (Cape Town)

GUEST: Pablo Guerra

  When I came to Buenos Aires, the first thing of which I felt in love was cars, old cars from elder decades that crisscross the city  leaving behind them a trace of rusted glory, of almost childish pride. Beautiful (Photography and text Pablo Guerra. Buenos Aires)

GUEST/ Pablo Guerra

I paid a visit to my friend Barbara Arcuschin. She is an enigmatic woman with a strong and sensual vibrance that you feel from minute one, once in her presence. She is also a photographer and a stylist, and knows how to prepare delicious home made melon smoothies (Photography and text Pablo Guerra. Buenos Aires)

 

When I saw the beautiful smiles of Cleo and Carita, the Dunn sisters, in front of a bar of central Cape Town, I couldn't resist. I had to shoot them (South Africa)

Simon Letellier just arriving at Cape Town airport to model for a photo shoot. And a view from the airport (South Africa)

Man flying from Paris to Cape Town

GUEST: Pablo Guerra

Ato Maglio is a model and an actor with whom I worked once in a commercial film, here in Buenos Aires. He invited me to visit a friend´s antiques´ shop in Palermo, one of the most popular neighbourghoods of the city, where I took this picture. He is a charming young man with an aura of nostalgia that I like (Photography and text Pablo Guerra. Buenos Aires)

 

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Tired (Paris)

GUEST: Pablo Guerra

   Yamila Zarlenga is a make-up artist working in cinema and fashion. She invited me to her place in a steamming hot afternoon that we cooled drinking some mate (the herbal national drink of Argentina). I was introduced to her by a friend that I had photographed last year. 

I like the inquiring yet relaxed expression that she offers in this portrait. (Photography and text Pablo Guerra. Buenos Aires)

GUEST : Pablo Guerra

   This is a portrait of my friend Pía Ponti. I took it at the roof of her parent´s place, in Belgrano, a beautiful neighbourghood of Buenos Aires. She is also a photographer and a sound therapist. We talked about travels and she told me about her coming project of moving to Cordoba (Argentina) to have a country life and enjoy more nature (Photography and text Pablo Guerra. Buenos Aires)

 

I met Marie-Pierre Chevalier on Christophe's shooting for Edwarda. She's his agent. I liked her intensity and decided to do her portrait. We spent a nice moment chatting, drinking detox tea and shooting (Paris)