andrea

#thelightwithin

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Being with Andrea makes you feel like the sun is shining on you for the very first time. 

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There is an angelic quality to this man, his turquoise blue eyes, his smile, his intentional way of seeing that goes beyond just looking, as if driven by a poetic fascination for the invisible.

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His campaigns for Celine, Rabanne, and Isabel Marant have already placed him at the forefront of a new wave in French fashion photography. Andrea is the definitive antidote to the current scroll-fast aesthetic. In an era of visual overstimulation, his work offers a rare, deliberate silence, breathing a quiet, modern elegance into his subjects.

 

You see this same distinct eye in Heat, a recent book collaboration with his partner, Caroline Corbasson, where raw scientific images of planets and stars are re-seen as high art.

 

Creative genius runs in Andrea’s veins. His father is a world-famous designer, his grandfather a pillar of 90s French fashion; but spending time with Andrea makes me think his talent flows from a much higher source. I think Andrea looks at the world the way Leonard Cohen sang it: "There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in." Andrea doesn't just find those cracks through his lens; he steps into them with his smile, gently guiding the light out from the quiet spaces within.