He is acknowledged as one of the world’s most accomplished photographers, best known for his pictures of Kate Middleton and Prince William when they announced their engagement to the world. But MARIO TESTINO has also photographed many other luminaries of the stage and screen. Today he lives the gilded life, but is much involved in charitable works. KEE HUA CHEE brings us his conversation with the man himself.


MARIO TESTINO TESTS NEW TERRITORIES


International Celebrated Photographer M


ario Testino is also famous for having taken some spectacular black and white pictures of Princess Diana’s


five months before her death in 1997 and like many of his other works, these pictures became larger than life mementoes of the beloved Princess. He too is larger than life with a personality to match. Towering around 6 ft 4 inches, Mario Testino looms over the celebrities he photographs,


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unless they wear 6-inch stilettos and have had their hair blown and piled up high. We met in the heart of the


artistic quarter of Paris. Tere was no mistaking the arrival of the de facto Royal Photographer of the British Royal Family – remember he was also granted to do the honours at the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton. Imposing and impressive, Mario


Testino has a wonderful sense of humour. Genial, patrician and


charming, he always looks like he is about to smile or has just heard some nice joke. He displays a distinct lack of arrogance. I, like many, am impressed by his genuinely nice personality despite hobnobbing with royalty, the real kind as well as pop royalty and other super hot celebrities such as Madonna, Keira Knightley, Janet Jackson, Cameron Diaz, Meg Ryan, Julia Roberts, Kate Moss, Giselle Bunchen, Catherine Zeta- Jones, Elizabeth Hurley, Gwyneth Paltrow and Kim Basinger. He knows


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