The Independent, London Fashion - Girlie shoot
Vanina Sorrenti
"I love finding beauty in the unexpected", says Vanina Sorrenti, a scion of the Sorrenti photography dynasty (her mother is Francesca, her brother Mario).
Central to the 28- year- old Italian's work are her subjects - mostly friends, rarely stick- thin - who exude an individual kind of glamour, whether skinny dipping in granny knickers or reclining in lingerie on shabby sofas.
A former fashion stylist, Sorrenti eschews "hair- dos" and make- up in favour of picturing women in their natural glory - a style that the likes of Vogue, i- D and brands such as Chloé and Ghost have been happy to adopt. This, together with the signature chiaroscuro lightning that sculpts the glorius alabaster flesh of those who pose for her, make for an unsettlingly bold naturalism.
"I want to photograph someone you can aspire to, who is tangible", she says. "Not an illusion that you will never achieve."
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.. Sorrenti takes such pains to be unprovocative that her pictures have a boldness all their own. She is the latest member of the Sorrenti clan to take aim behind the camera; her mother, Francesca, and older brother Mario are both respected photographers; her younger brother Davide, also a photographer, gained a different kind of fame when he died of a heroin overdose a few years back. But she hasn't followed in any of their footsteps, moving toward developing a candid style of working that has more in common with a fine- art paradigm than with fashion. For one thing, she doesn't use any makeup.
"It's obvious that with a woman shooting a woman the dynamic is completely different," says Sorrenti. "It's not as sexual, but it's a lot more intimate. When it's the same sex, women on women or men on men, you're not projecting anything on them but identifying. With women, I try to find something within them that's close to myself and heighten that beauty, glorify it. And it's not like an expected or preconceived beauty."
amazing amazing amazing ed, the colors are inspirational
I love Mario. Been a huge fan of his for long time. There was a time in my life I wanted photography as a chosen profession just to get close to him, if you know what i mean 
. But Kate got in the way so I chose another path. 
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