Equator

by Gian Paolo Barbieri

Oversize book contains photographs of the Seychelles beaches and sea life by world famous fashion photographer Gian Paolo Barbieri.

Genres: Photography, Art

166 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1999

About the author

Gian Paolo Barbieri or Giampaolo Barbieri was an Italian fashion photographer.

Reviews

[Gabe Hendry]

Add Seychelles to the long list of places I’d love to visit.

Barbieri’s work here seems an exotic extension of Edward Weston’s images of shells and peppers. Sensuality seeps from this rich visual feast. Black and white images mix with vibrant color creating a rhythmic thrust and draw as tension builds. Human forms meld with other natural and beautiful sights, cropped and presented in intriguing and arresting ways that feel like the preface to Ren Hang’s work still to come at the time of publishing.

This isn’t journalism, nor is it eroticism, and still it could be argued to be either or both. What an amazing world we live in, especially when we abandon the “civilized" lenses of chastity and shame. Revel in the natural wonders that we are as well as those that surround and sustain us. Five stars!

[Juan Gonzalez]

Pescaos, culos, frutas y poyas