![]() ![]() ![]() The idea of retouching has become a sensitive topic, but it’s also an important tool in the photographer’s tool kit. On a sunlit afternoon in Manhattan this week, the photographer sat down to discuss the implications of retouching, the shifting ideals of beauty, and why an inclusive message feels imperative in the present moment. Here, the images are unadulterated but no less luminous, true to the spirit of the subjects and to the Testino touch. ![]() They’re among the 32 women and girls assembled for Dove’s #RealBeauty campaign, which seeks to defy the usual barriers of age, body type, and nationality. There’s Marisa, a financial analyst in Iran Alice, a French med student and Maromi, a full-time mother in Japan. ![]() For his latest portrait series, Testino once again spotlights a group of first-name-only women, who may be unfamiliar to the public now but not for long. Over a career spanning more than three decades, the Peru-born fashion photographer has codified glamour while finding a way to peel back artifice and capture a radiant sense of self-quite the feat when training a camera on paparazzi-weary royals, supermodels, and Hollywood stars. The women most often in front of Mario Testino’s lens usually need little by way of introduction, or last names: Diana, Kate, Gisele. ![]()
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