Research assignment 2

PAOLO ROVERSI

Paolo Roversi is an Italian fashion photographer who takes his fashion portraits through mirrors. the technique he uses in his photography is more subtraction than addition. Paolo uses long exposures when taking portraits believing we get a deeper exchange in the eyes. He is known for using a polaroid film 8x10 cameras for his work. As Paolo states, "I always try to take off things. We all have a sort of mask of expression. You say goodbye, you smile, you are scared. I try to take all these masks away and little by little subtract until you have something pure left. A kind of abandon, a kind of absence. It looks like an absence, but in fact, when there is this emptiness I think the interior beauty comes out. This is my technique."