Paolo Roversi

[1] Born in Ravenna in 1947, Paolo Roversi's interest in photography was kindled as a teenager during a family vacation in Spain in 1964.

[2] Back home, he set up a darkroom in a convenient cellar with another keen amateur, the local postman Battista Minguzzi, and began developing and printing his own black & white work.

[2] During the same year, Roversi opened, with his friend Giancarlo Gramantieri his first portrait studio, located in Ravenna, via Cavour, 58, photographing local celebrities and their families.

[2] In 1971, he met by chance in Ravenna, Peter Knapp, the Swiss fashion photography and legendary artistic director of Elle magazine.

In Paris, Roversi started working as a reporter for the Huppert Agency, but little by little, through his friends, he began to approach fashion photography.

But he always used to say 'your tripod and your camera must be well-fixed but your eyes and mind should be free'.Roversi endured Sackmann for nine months before starting on his own with small jobs here and there for magazines like Elle and Depeche Mode until Marie Claire published his first major fashion story.

He has also photographed advertising campaigns for Yohji Yamamoto, Comme des Garçons, Dior, Cerruti, GIADA,[4] Yves Saint Laurent, Valentino and Alberta Ferreti.