Davide Sorrenti (July 9, 1976 – February 4, 1997) was an Italian-American photographer, born into the prominent fashion photography Sorrenti family. He is best remembered for his involvement in the rise and fall of the Heroin chic fashion trend of the 1990s .

2020年5月18日 · Italian photographer Davide Sorrenti died at the age of 21. He was one of the main fashion photographers of ‘heroin chic’ that praised skin emaciated models. After Davide died those fighting against the fashionable trend made him the poster child against it.

At 17, Sorrenti began documenting his daily life in New York on film, shooting portraits of his family; friends in his graffiti and skate crew, SKE; and his girlfriend, model Jaime King. Sorrenti’s body of work is a strikingly authentic personal account that pulses with boundless love, vitality, and the raw fervor of youth.

1997年5月20日 · After years of denial by the fashion industry that heroin use among its players had any relation to the so-called heroin-chic style of fashion photography that has become so prevalent, the fatal...

2019年7月27日 · Along with the tough posturing of his crew, the exhibition includes the langorous expressions of model and actress Milla Jovovich, reclining on a rooftop in a party dress or peering through a...

2019年5月24日 · Mario Sorrenti is perhaps the most known, an ex-model who found renown for his intimate portraits of a young Kate Moss – his then-girlfriend – on the precipice of stardom, leading him to him shoot her for Calvin Klein’s infamous 1993 Obsession campaign. Both Vanina and Mario continue to shoot for numerous publications and fashion houses ...

2021年11月18日 · Designed and edited by Francesca, it is full of wistful portraits, magazine tear sheets, and drawings scanned from Davide’s notebooks. It’s not a tome of gloomy druggy propaganda. The models express an ethereal Romanticism and youthful aloofness that recall the Victorian cult of the Pre-Raphaelites.

2019年7月18日 · Our Beutyfull Future, a solo exhibition by late photographer Davide Sorrenti displays a range of photographs including self-portraits, photos of youth culture in New York City, and intimate portraits of those who were close with him, all of which act as a visual diary to Davide’s world before his death in 1997.

2009年4月7日 · At 17, Davide met famous model James King, and started a relationship that would last until his death at the age of 20, it was around this time that he started documenting his environment and developed a very dark and sincere style that people would later label as …

2021年11月30日 · The brand-new book MY BEUTYFULL LYFE showcases fashion photographs made by Davide Sorrenti between 1995-1997. Following ArgueSKE (2019) and Polaroids (2020), the third Davide Sorrenti book...