These alluring and provocative fashion photos will stop you in your tracks

For Brazilian photographer Rafael Pavarotti, Fashion photography goes beyond the beautiful people in expensive clothes at extravagant locations. He wants to redefine how you see. His photographs aren’t subtle. They explode like a firework display. The images are theatrically constructed. Models dressed as goddesses, queens and warriors occupy the frame with authority, personality and sense of purpose.

More than 130 prints are brought together in the show, Rafael Pavarotti, Photographer, at Paris’s Musée des Arts Décoratifs. In the mix are personal projects, editorial commissions, acclaimed magazine covers and some of the most renowned names in popular culture. One of fashion photography’s most exciting contemporary talents is finally getting a major exhibition of their own.

Some photographers succeed because of who they photograph. Yes Rihanna, Beyoncé, Harry Styles, Madonna and Kate Moss all feature in spectacular styling and saturated colour but Pavarotti photographs them with ambition. He aims to challenge who gets to occupy the pages of the fashion bibles and the way they are represented.

From the Amazon to fashion capitals

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