![]() ![]() Everything is in its ordained place, order has prevailed over life's confusions but light is used to heighten the reality as numerous individual sources play over the subjects. Complete with surreal presences, grotesques, beauties, sexual disorientations, unconscious quotations of Bosch and Breughel yet untouched by the easy surrealism of computer manipulation, the photographs have a bold sense of design and pattern. Assembling his cast from the streets of the city, Testino made tableaux viants, brightly coloured and swarming with life, which take us on a journey through a modern garden of earthly delights. Amsterdam is a symbol for Testino as much as a place and spells freedom - the freedom to be, to love, to live as a complete individual. ![]() From time to time in a photographer's work time, place and subject, core ideas, instincts and influences come together to produce a definitive statement which happened on this occasion. Earlier this year, over several days of intense activity, Mario Testino went to Amsterdam and returned having made twelve photographs. ![]()
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