Looking back to ’70s performance art, from the Viennese Actionists to French and American Body Art, the fashion photographer MARIO SORRENTI flooded his studio with an explosion of paint, creating a backdrop in which he and model ATAUI DENG were nearly swallowed whole.

photography by MARIO SORRENTI

Bob Recine @ THE WALL GROUP, hair

Yadim @ TIM HOWARD MANAGEMENT, make-up

Yuna Park @ STREETERS, manicure

Lars Beaulieu, lighting technician

Xanny Handfield, digital technician

Philipp Haemmerle @ NEX9, set designer

Katie Fash, producer

Steve Sutton, onsite producer

Caterina Alfieri, production coordinator

David Shechter and Johnny Vicari, photographer’s assistants

Mel Page, hair assistant

Kanako, make-up assistant

Gaz Leah, set designer’s assistant

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