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Vogue Italia (September 2000) ph. Mario Sorrenti

Sasha Pivovarova Vogue Italia (April 2010) ph. Mario Sorrenti

Gemma Ward & Bartek Borowiec Vogue Italia (2005) ph. Mario Sorrenti

Shalom Harlow Vogue Italia (April 1995) ph. Mario Sorrenti

Rosemary Ferguson Elle UK (1993) ph. Mario Sorrenti magazine fan scan/tfs

Kate & I were young. She was living in Croydon with her mom & I was mostly sleeping on my agent's couch. Neither of us had any money & we were crashing wherever we could just to be together. Kate & I would hang out & take pictures all the time. Being broke made printing a luxury that I could rarely afford, so I would make contact sheets, cut out the images I liked & tape them into a diary to keep track of what I was shooting. She was a big part of my life & inevitably became a part of my diaries.

After constantly moving around, we settled into a sweet place on Kensal Road. We both started to get noticed - she began to appear on magazine covers & I was beginning to get work as a photographer. We spent the next two years traveling & working together.

In 1993, I was asked to show my diaries to Calvin Klein, which became the inspiration for the Obsession campaign that Kate & I shot together.

- Mario Sorrenti

Suvi Koponen V #51 (2008) ph. Mario Sorrenti

Keren Ben-Dov, 1997 | © Mario Sorrenti

Milla Jovovich, 1995 ph. Mario Sorrenti

Milla Jovovich & Mario Sorrenti (mid-90s) © Drew Jarrett

Happy Birthday Mario!

Devon Aoki | Margiela A/W 1996 THE FACE (October 1996) ph. Mario Sorrenti