Mariano Vivanco
Lima-born Mariano Vivanco travelled the World with his family since a very early age, leaving Peru at the age of ten and eventually settling down in New Zealand, where his passion for photography began.
Inspired by the likes of Edward Steichen and Horst P. Horst, Vivanco moved to London in the year 2000 to pursue a career in fashion photography.
Since then, Vivanco has become one of the World’s leading editorial photographers, regularly shooting for Vogue (American, Japanese, Russian, Spanish and Brazilian editions), Harper’s Bazaar (American and Arabian editions), Vanity Fair (American and Spanish editions), GQ (British, Australian, Chinese, Italian and German editions), Dazed & Confused, Numéro (Homme, Tokyo and Korea editions), MUSE, DSECTION, King Kong, H Magazine, Ponystep, amongst others.
Hib subjects have included actors, designers, athletes, singers and other celebrities such as Rihanna, Zayn Malik, Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, Jennifer Lopez, Lana Del Rey, Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford, David Gandy, Penelope Cruz, Emma Watson, Daniel Radcliffe, James Franco, Henry Cavill, Ricky Martin, Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo, Angelina Jolie, Monica Belluci, Liv Tyler, Eva Mendes, Donatella Versace, Domenico Dolce & Stefano Gabbana, amongst others.
Vivanco has published several books, including Ninety Five Chapel Market, which is a great example of his daylight portraiture work shot with film. Three of his portraits, including one from this book, are in the permanent collection at the National Portrait Gallery in London. Vivanco has also published several books including Calcio, Uomini and David Gandy for Dolce & Gabbana, Personal Project, and his most recent Portraits Nudes Flowers, a retrospective of Vivanco’s last fifteen years photographing some of the World’s most fashionable faces, a collection of nudes and a new flower series published by Damiani Publishing.
In 2015, Vivanco was asked to be part of Condé Nast Publications’ Vogue: Like A Painting exhibition, originally exhibited at Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid, has since travelled to the Hangaram Art Museum in Seoul and the GL STRAND Museum in Copenhagen.