Mario Testino "In Your Face" Exhibition

World Famous fashion photographer Mario Testino's latest exhibition "In Your Face" was held at the Kunstbibliothek museum in Berlin and fortunately whilst visiting the city with the college, I was able to visit this fantastic exhibition. The show featured around a 125 pieces of Mario's work from different points of his photography career, presenting a full range of his photographic portfolio. Following on until July, it has been the first time "In Your Face" has ever been exhibited in Europe. Its success at Boston and Sao Paolo, will definitely follow in Berlin because of the popularity and skill of Testino himself but his work has fascinated people all over the world for many decades. We also had an audio guide when walking round the two floors of Testino's work, with a little screen that showed a video of how Testino works and how he came to produce some of the photographs in the exhibition. This was useful in that it was like a sneak peak in to his life and and insight into how his photographs have been so successful. The photographs in the exhibition celebrate the diversity and contradiction in his work, which celebrates each different image that was used, that include editorial, portraits, fashion and his own private projects. In my opinion the exhibition was very successful in the fact it presented a range of pieces from his career and different photographs I had never seen from his portfolio before, but also projects that that have never been published. I would definitely recommend trying to visit this exhibition for fans of Testino. Below is a quote from Mario Testino talking about this exhibition.

"In Your Face, for me, represents the most free way of expression", says Testino. "As an image-maker people always want to put you in a box. I believe we are made of many different aspects and not always are we allowed to let all these different aspects show, let alone to live next to each other as they do in this exhibition. This particular hanging style for these photographic works allows all of these different aspects of my curiosity to have a conversation; they not only exist on their own but trigger a reaction when being next to each other."

Quote from: http://www.smb.museum/en/exhibitions/detail/mario-testino-in-your-face.html